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A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace(nytimes.com)
67 points by fspeech 9y ago|17 comments
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by fspeech 9y ago
Should I read "mostly the US" as hyperbole as well? I would not hold the exactitude of 99% against the original poster but what is the non-hyperbole number I should be taking home from the quoted comment? Or is it your opinion tha
903.
by fspeech 9y ago
There are many great children's books written over the centuries by authors around the world so it is great that Chinese children read them. Also stories from a foreign land are particularly stimulating to children's imaginations.
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by fspeech 9y ago
"it would be quite easy to note suicide is almost twice as common in china vs the united states" What is your source? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_su... has US at 12.6 per 100000
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by fspeech 9y ago
Have you considered how the weather condition differs in the cities you mentioned?
906.
by fspeech 9y ago
"Weak" here does not mean numerical approximations. These are mathematicians so any quantitative approximation would be bounded o(1) otherwise the work would be meaningless. One should think of "weak" as in constraints,
907.
by fspeech 9y ago
Baidu and Alibaba are both listed in the U.S. I am not aware of Baidu but Softbank and Yahoo used to own the majority economic stake in Alibaba. Tencent is listed in Hongkong but a large stake is owned by a South African investor.
908.
by fspeech 9y ago
Just one person's idle speculation. It is not clear why the person has particular insight into Tencent's intentions.
909.
by fspeech 9y ago
Yahoo owned (before the spin off) a much larger stake in Alibaba both on a relative and an absolute basis than Tencent in Snapchat. And Alibaba is a much larger business with a dominant position. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are all largely o
910.
by fspeech 9y ago
I think his point was that Tencent makes half of its revenue off games (which is a global business), even though people primarily associate it with WeChat (and social networking).
911.
by fspeech 9y ago
For those interested the preprint is at https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.10981.pdf The satellite carries a very large BGO calorimeter https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3886
912.
by fspeech 9y ago
An increase in sales tax or more likely VAT in the UK will immediately show up in prices as inflation. You may be thinking of income tax which may indeed have a different effect depending on the circumstances.
913.
by fspeech 9y ago
'The big danger is "owning" some domain that falls out of fashion' That is part of the reason for the high pay. There is always risk associated with specialization. You can't become an expert without specializing in
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by fspeech 9y ago
On closer inspection I have to say that I am a bit confused by these rankings. It appears that Inspur (a Chinese HPC company listed as the vendor for Alibaba's systems) lists its product as rack scale servers. By that standard what is
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by fspeech 9y ago
China's increase of 42 systems on Top500 is largely attributable to a single company. Chinese "internet company A" (as labelled by Top500 https://www.top500.org/site/50596 ) is presumably Alibaba, judging
916.
by fspeech 9y ago
If you go down the list https://www.top500.org/list/2017/11/?page=2 , after about 100th place, many are listed as "web service providers" or "service providers" or "internet companies&
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China suddenly has way more of the world’s most powerful computers than the US(qz.com)
48 points by fspeech 9y ago|48 comments
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China’s Technology Ambitions Could Upset the Global Trade Order(nytimes.com)
2 points by fspeech 9y ago|0 comments
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by fspeech 9y ago
The url in the title is incorrect - I grabbed the next video recommended by YouTube. The correct one is: https://youtu.be/cazVrq9v1mE I have submitted a new thread with the corrected url.
920.
by fspeech 9y ago
Here are some technical details: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309745628_Desert_So... They do require underground water, so the concern is vegetation could cause loss of underground aquifer.
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Plant fiber turning desert to oasis(youtube.com)
1 points by fspeech 9y ago|2 comments
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by fspeech 9y ago
Given that AlphaGo Zero was trained on several million games of self plays, each game involving hundreds of steps, each step with 1600 MCTS simulations, the total number of board positions it has considered is on the order of trillions. Whi
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by fspeech 9y ago
Institutionals use futures to hedge their other positions. What will they use bitcoin futures to hedge for? An unhedged future position is not an investment. It is a gamble.
924.
by fspeech 9y ago
The column heading says the 1.8 million number is for over a 5 year period. The same table on net migration shows China has -1.3 net migration per 1000 (over 5 years), not particularly high compared to other countries. Considering there are
925.
by fspeech 9y ago
"Obviously the smart and qualified ones are going to move abroad to get a good qualify of life" Chinese emigration into the US is about 75 thousand a year https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_Uni
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by fspeech 9y ago
"Beyond Xinjiang" was meant to be looking into China from outside. Xinjiang is the border province.
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by fspeech 9y ago
Chongqing has access to large ships: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Chongqing The advantage of rail for Chongqing is mainly shipping time, which is important for higher value electronics.
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by fspeech 9y ago
You are right that they need to find more goods to ship on the return trip. The current route actually runs on existing tracks so didn't require a lot of investment. For cities like Lanzhou, Xining, Urumqi etc it makes sense to develop
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by fspeech 9y ago
I don't know how much culture China exported along the ancient silk road but I do know that China imported a lot of culture along it (e.g. Buddhism and other religions), so its importance on the Chinese culture can hardly be over-empha
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by fspeech 9y ago
If you read the article, OP was obviously responding to the silly claim that "More likely, however, China’s dependence on trade, and particularly its interest in Middle East oil, may fall almost as fast as it has risen over the past th

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