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by fspeech 9y ago
Unfortunately the author's analogy with the ancient silk road rings as false as the Chinese government's. For example in discussing the rail link, the author failed to note that beyond Xinjiang there lie Shaanxi and Sichuan, two o
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As GP said it is easy to underestimate the Middle East because of all the oil. Israel is obviously a high tech powerhouse. Iran alone has over 80 million people. Despite the tense relationship with the US, there are close to 10 thousand pos
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The ruling was about anti-dumping taxes that China imposed as a retaliation for US imposing anti-dumping tax on Chinese tires. Anti-dumping tax is in addition to regular tariffs. Since China lost the case I assume these anti-dumping taxes w
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by fspeech 9y ago
When I said "no other way around it" I meant trade surplus must be balanced by outward investment, an arithmetic fact. I didn't mean they can't run a trade deficit. As for why they don't have a trade deficit: to run
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Yes the hukou system is a shame, but even with the hukou system check out the population growth in Beijing: http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/beijing-popula... China has done some work to soften the system
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"most of its largesse comes as loans" These investments are not really Chinese government's money to give unless it wants to tax its people more. What Chinese government has is a very large sway over where Chinese external in
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"secure the natural resources it needs to grow" This gets repeated a lot. Maybe Chinese propaganda make this point to justify its outward investments to the Chinese people. Statements like this then take on a sinister sheen when d
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Nim Community Survey 2017 Results(nim-lang.org)
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Agreed. If we announce that A* search is superhuman in finding best routes, most technorati would't bat an eye. Technically it is probably accurate to say that the results here show that neural networks can find good heuristics for MCT
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Yes automation is the necessary condition for real wage growth. The only way for real wages to grow is for productivity to grow, which means more automation assuming work force skill level is stable. Is it also sufficient? I think there is
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I don't think there's such a thing as impassable moat other than a monopoly. And monopolies eventually get busted by governments.
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China is investing in automation at a faster pace than anyone else.
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I don't know "Chinese culture is very competitive" compared to others. It may be the long tail you are seeing from the large population. As I mentioned earlier, China is very relation based and Chinese themselves know that. T
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Paper on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03646
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NMRCloudQ: A Quantum Cloud Experience on a NMR Quantum Computer(nmrcloudq.com)
2 points by fspeech 9y ago|1 comments
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More thoughts on doctors buying papers: Giving heavy weight to publishing is actually a good thing in the Chinese context. I hope they can fix the process instead of throwing out the baby with the bath water. In China medical education for
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by fspeech 9y ago
DWIM (Do What I Mean) at the UI level seems a good feature to aspire to. The sanity check could (and should) be done using an independent method (say manually check a couple of things, or is that too out-of-dated?).
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With your 8 months experience you are making quite broad claims. Let's take the example used in the NYT report: doctors buying reviews to get their papers published. It has a clear root that is actually mentioned in the article: "
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"How critical is good information about the world?" Of course it is critical but the access to good information is not entirely dependent on whether there is censorship: For long form reporting a lot is dependent on budget resourc
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This does not seem like a viable scheme in typical multiple choice tests. In a typical test question, there are often (almost always?) obvious non-answers, so it is significantly easier to guess what is wrong than to guess what is right. Wh
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by fspeech 9y ago
People can feel aversion to the idea out of love or respect for their parents instead of pure legalism.
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I agree with your sentiment. As reported people who lose their faculties do not control their assets. The appointed guardians are supposed to jealously protect the assets from the family because this is supposedly in the best interests of t
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That does sound sad. It could happen when your love becomes a profession and you are pressured to do things that keep you the job rather than make you happy. This is what I warn my son about. It may be a happier outcome if one just focuses
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This is how I think about this: I want my children to benefit from the fruit of my labor. I would like to help them enjoy their lives even after they become adults, so long as my help does not impact their sense of independence. I will enjo
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Maybe academia shouldn't be considered a normal career. Rather it is a reward for pursuing something you are passionate about. You are willing to do it for free so anything you get is a bonus -- perhaps not literally, but that is the y
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"River crab" is homophone with "harmony", an euphemism for censorship. As for why people accept the situation, one can probably start with "Nash equilibrium" (I chose not to use the term "prisoners' d
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The federal government can forbid any of its employees from using the said service out of security concerns, a la Kaspersky. With network effect this can be an insurmountable challenge. Why should anyone try?
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Just for context, Chinese made 122 millon overseas trips last year https://www.travelchinaguide.com/tourism/2016statistics/outb... The censorship of social media is mainly to prevent collective action: "The s
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I agree it is not a good investment based on the cap rate, unless the rent will be rising quickly to much higher levels. But as Keynes has pointed out long ago, investment for most people is like the beauty pageant. "It is not a case o
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I wouldn't say that it is impossible. The tendency is though to double or triple count negative things. Chinese economy has lots of inefficiencies. Very true. That is reflected in the low per capita income. People could live a higher s

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