foodislove

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by foodislove 8y ago
In the board game Warhammer there is the tale of the Dwarves strongholds. They forever remembered grudges. Even over the course of time, when the nature of the grudge was forgotten, they still held on to the ill will. This article is well r
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by foodislove 8y ago
This proves the point. I added the "bimbo of a wife" comment as an example. If you look on web forums, there are unmitigated attacks of similar calibre towards Tsai (President of Taiwan) calling her a "old whore", "
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by foodislove 8y ago
I'm sorry. Where were you when your counterparts kept calling Michelle Obama a "monkey" or Tsai, the President of Taiwan a "old maid", "japanese collaborator" and other things?
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by foodislove 8y ago
The Chinese global trollism is getting worse. From Airlines who don't label Taiwan under China to kids in primary school in Australia who paint a Taiwanese flag on a bull, the Chinese are really becoming more and more belligerent. The
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by foodislove 8y ago
Yes. Most of the time, all you need is a basic computer and internet to SSH into a more powerful VM in the cloud. I don't host my dev stack on my computer so local computing power is mute. It's strange but a celeron chromebook is
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by foodislove 8y ago
Or they throw money into sectors that they can't win thereby depleting resources away from areas they can. It can seem the Chinese are advancing in every field, but their unfavorable demographics and inability to attract overseas talen
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by foodislove 8y ago
This reads like an investment bank's disclaimer that's 5 pages long in tiny print at the back when they sell you questionable risky investments. It's designed to make it look like there is a full vetted and functioning proces
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by foodislove 9y ago
I've been making my own movements for fun for a while. Most of the parts you can print/order, but for accuracy purposes I tend to use an existing balance spring (generally sourced from any old Seiko movement). I recommend 2 books
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by foodislove 9y ago
Exactly. That's how we prepped for Putnam That writing programs to solve problems that someone else has solved elsewhere? That's called IBM Watson and Jeopardy.
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by foodislove 9y ago
Agreed The Gaokao reference you make is interesting. One of the biggest complains about standardized testing in the States is that it pushes teachers to "teach to the test". The Gaokao takes that to the extreme. It's much har
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by foodislove 9y ago
Your last paragraph "blocking tech will prompt China to intensify their efforts to develop their own technologies" is exactly my point. It's much easier and less time consuming to have someone give it to you than to develop i
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by foodislove 9y ago
Historically speaking, the only significant peaceful comparison would be the British -> US circa 1950s. To be fair, people asked the same question in the 1900s. With the world getting so interconnected thanks to steamships and telegraphs
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by foodislove 9y ago
It's not. It's the zero-sum thinking of a totalitarian dictatorship that's a problem. For example, simply letting the Taiwanese live their own free and happy lives is too much of "a problem" to let go without threat
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by foodislove 9y ago
People see a cold war as a rivalry between equals. That's not the case. The Chinese are more adept at adopting existing tech and adding scale than creating it. This cold war is mostly one way. Their tech champions' strengths come
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by foodislove 9y ago
That is simply not true. Maybe your friend lived in a different Hukou area. Either way, just because your friend can, does not mean every can. This is the problem with China. Just because the system works for Jack Ma, and Xi Jinping's
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by foodislove 9y ago
The fact that you think you need to create a throwaway account speaks to how much the climate has changed for us. There is a real fear considering how totalitarian and intrusive the government has become, that they will target anyone who di
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by foodislove 9y ago
Most "Chinese" online seem to be paid trolls who deliberately feed misleading and false information. Either that or they have a switch in the brain where any critisism of China leads to a nationalistic brain freeze where they regu
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by foodislove 9y ago
I had similar experiences with my Noodler ink. They have a blue that is imo the nicest dark Prussian blue on the market. Unfortunately, it gave my Water Kultur, then Lamy 2000 endless clogging problems. The Pilot Ishigaki line of inks is pr
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by foodislove 9y ago
I once lost bitcoins in my Mt Gox account when I clicked on a dodgy popup while logged into my account. This specific problem is easily mitigated. However, for most people who dabble in cryptocurrencies, they don't realize relying on s
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by foodislove 9y ago
This makes sense. With average enrollment going up at the top, with the market growth in applicants less than that, eventually the bottom will lose out. Maybe there is nostalgia for some colleges be it history, alums, or what not. At the en
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by foodislove 9y ago
He is not in bio and he has personal reasons to do what he does, but hey, don't let that stop you and your recently created throwaway account from throwing unfounded and wrong accusations around just like the paid pro china trolls.
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by foodislove 9y ago
I wonder if the title is intentional. The "great leap forward" was a failed economic and social policy where the communists decided to fast forward development by skipping directly to industrialization. It didn't quite work a
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by foodislove 9y ago
Completely agree. It's a Nash equilibrium. If nobody visits, the destination stays the same. If only I visit, then the destination stays the same yet I derive immense enjoyment. If everyone visits, the place goes down the drain and ev
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by foodislove 9y ago
The first time my mother took me to Beijing, it was a mess. There were few streetlights, few shops that sold western amenities, yet I loved it. It was different. There was no Starbucks, yet every little alleyway there were stalls that sold
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by foodislove 9y ago
Most commenters seem not to have read the actual case. This is not about Steam "preventing abuse". The case here is purely about Steam MISLEADING buyers about what their rights are. The law is very specific here. For example, if y
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by foodislove 9y ago
Even if you know your startup isn't the right fit or you and team are not the YC type, the application is hugely valuable because it makes you think long and hard about what you are doing. We never got into YC, but we did end up with a
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by foodislove 9y ago
This is why I don't want Mark Zuckerberg in any public office. I really think the guy has no moral compass because all his actions point to a very sinister "money is everything" attitude and that everything has a price.
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by foodislove 9y ago
Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics It's a pretty common tactic. Cite "national security" or any other vaguely plausible reason to deny access to non-favored firms (foreign companies, and local companies who don't
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by foodislove 9y ago
So a foreigner who talks to some people while doing remote work is presenting himself as an authority on the views of people of said country. Well then, I've visited Cancun on a number of occasions. I can say for a fact, that all Mexic