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by euix 6y ago
I think we are already passed the point of any of this mattering. Increasingly the rhetoric seems to me to just be: what matters isn't who is in the right or what is just or fair. Increasingly the only thing that matters is which side
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by euix 6y ago
This. It was Cisco that originally helped build the GFW in China, this is like ironies to the power of ironies, exponential levels of irony.
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by euix 6y ago
Didn't Pompeo say something this week along the lines of banning China Mobile servicing telephone calls to the U.S.? That means if you carry a cell phone from China to the U.S. you can't get roaming service anymore? I am surprised
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by euix 6y ago
How do the pensions work at Microsoft or IBM? I was under the impression once you vest into a pension you get it come retirement age regardless if at the time you are still working at the company. Otherwise that seems ridiculous, couldn&#x2
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by euix 6y ago
I find good friends often share similar technological viewpoints right down to the basic level. The people I have on signal are pretty much all cut from the same cloth in that regard. I.E. they tend to avoid big internet corps whenever poss
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by euix 6y ago
I find myself never actually using social media. Good friends belong to the same Signal group chats. I have several of these which consists of cliques I have built up over the years in school and at work and that's how I stay in touch.
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by euix 6y ago
This. You see this behavior in gamblers who make it big and then lose it big, or in revenge trading. Make a lot of money then lose a lot of money. If you are even luckier you might even be net positive at the end. People who know when to q
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by euix 6y ago
If the U.S. was on top of things and firing on all cylinders I don't think countries like China would even have the leverage it has today. The reason China is "hacking your government databases", "cruising over the south
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by euix 6y ago
Put your own house order. Invest in you national infrastructure and education. Level off ridiculous tuition and gate keeping of professions that essentially forms an aristocratic class. Introduce reasonable regulation of big tech and corpor
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by euix 6y ago
''' Still, U.S. lawmakers and administration officials have favored shutting down the application altogether to send a message to China after Beijing restricted American companies like Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet
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by euix 6y ago
I read this just now. Just last week in the tiktok thread I was saying wechat would be next. People said since only Chinese use wechat to communicate with China it isn't the same thing. Maybe zoom after? I have some far out of the mone
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by euix 6y ago
Could be, but we will all be old men by then, and given our profession, probably have a sizable chunk of change in the bank. Those that are vulnerable will be able to vote with their feet and enjoy comfortable retirement in South American o
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by euix 6y ago
A lot of Chinese people do use twitter and youtube, the reason you don't see them is because its all in Chinese characters so unless you deliberately type it in the search bar you would very rarely see recommendations from say the yout
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by euix 6y ago
Shows how far the balance of power has shifted in the last 20 years back when the Chinese government was banning western products to prevent "spiritual pollution" and "western influence". Now we got the reverse and it&#x
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by euix 6y ago
Man I used to burn so many cds back in the day. I remember when I was kid and the first cd-recorders came out, they cost something like 2000 dollars and burnt cds at 1x speed. It would take hours to burn a cd and sometimes they would turn o
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by euix 6y ago
Doesn't the latest version of Mate 30 come on stock android since Google products cannot be factory installed due the export laws? In which case if you still don't feel safe you can wipe the device and install Lineage.
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by euix 6y ago
That's funny, maybe Huawei phones are going to have a market niche in the west!
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by euix 6y ago
If you have google maps installed on your phone and location turned on, every time you visit a restaurant you already get the message of "how did you like xyz, please rate and help other visitors" You are already living in a surve
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by euix 6y ago
A PhD is a monastic experience, I remember reading that on a blog somewhere. Couldn't agree more. It comes with all the same features (it's even baked into the history of education being baked in to the Church).
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by euix 6y ago
Wow, I didn't expect this to get such a huge thread. Just wanted to add a few comments. Yes, I realized after I wrote it, the chief economist guy definitely didn't swim across the entire straits. He deliberately asked to be posted
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by euix 6y ago
The founder of SMIC on the mainland is actually Taiwanese and a former TSMC executive. Loyalties cut across the strait both ways, westerners overemphasis attachment to values and ideology over bloodlines and ancestry. It's true for som
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by euix 6y ago
I went through the same thing for my Facebook interview. How do you do this if you have a day job or even worse, a day job and a family?
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by euix 6y ago
Remind me not to interview for that (those) team(s). I am really the type of person that dislike drinking corporate koolaid, or any type of slogans or political line that government or media otherwise pushes. That basically sounds like half
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by euix 6y ago
It's like in any competitive exam where there are too many candidates and not enough positions. If you ever look at the type of math and science problems on Chinese university exams they are not necessarily advance in terms of the topi
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by euix 6y ago
Here is a meta comment: having read this entire thread, it's pretty obvious that if even reasonably educated and intelligent people on a technical forum like this descend into complete disagreement then one can think what happens among
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by euix 6y ago
In the last century the prevailing line the U.S. was that the U.S. would change China through economic engagement, I think what is really going to happen is China is going to change the U.S. Mainly in the sense that in order to adapt to the
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by euix 6y ago
That's how it works in China and other East Asian countries, if you ever read the history of Korea, government offices were essentially monopolized by Yangban in the late Joseon dynasty. Which was basically an aristocratic class of tes
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by euix 6y ago
I don't frame it ideally as "work". I'd move to somewhere warm with good food and sit on a beach and just sell put options out of a big margin account to generate income. I would then spend the rest of my time attending
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by euix 6y ago
Yes I just realized that, I never knew the formal name of it.
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by euix 6y ago
Some interesting stuff there. I think you could also frame it as a explore vs exploit problem. If we assume there is a successive series of partners you could meet but only in sequence and you choose whether to "attempt to exploit, i.e

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