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by garply 17y ago
The bakeries here usually blend their cheesecakes (which are sold by weight) with flour to boost their margins. This sounds like exactly the same sort of process. I wonder how frequent this is in the food industry.
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by garply 17y ago
I had no idea about plumping. Do you know what percent of the revenue her supermarkets take?
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by garply 17y ago
What good does local sourcing do? Is it freshness? I'm not a meat expert, but I would guess that a big company with an economy of scale would be able to produce higher quality meat for a lower cost. Also, if you're sourcing locally from non
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by garply 17y ago
I keep finding that these new features by various internet companies are pushing me towards becoming a more social person. I'm not sure whether or not I'm comfortable with that, but suddenly things like my email are pushing me much more int
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by garply 17y ago
Re: Most of the sounds can already be found in English 8 years into the language, I still have real difficulties with some of the r's at the end of words, "有空儿吗?" (you kongr ma?)
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by garply 17y ago
Nokia, as far as I'm aware, is the biggest cell phone company in the world. Here in China, when I see someone pull out a cell phone, it's a decent bet that it will be a Nokia.
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by garply 17y ago
I want to make many cheap bucks and I hope people here will continue to teach us how to think of ideas that will generate these cheap bucks.
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by garply 17y ago
10.6
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by garply 17y ago
This is the same project discussed in the wiki.
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by garply 17y ago
I'm trying to do it right now, I'll let you know when I've succeeded. Unfortunately, the packaging is in rpm format and my distro doesn't support it (well, I can install rpm, but it appears to be broken, so I have to hack around).
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by garply 17y ago
Really? Chrome didn't tell me it was malware. But, as far as I can tell, it's not - it's just a wiki page.
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Howto: Mac OSX on KVM(d4wiki.goddamm.it)
25 points by garply 17y ago|13 comments
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by garply 17y ago
That wasn't my point, but here's an example anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reunion_(Dallas)
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by garply 17y ago
Foreign businesses won't necessarily fail - I think what is primarily necessary for a foreign company to be successful in China is for it to cede a significant portion of control and operation to Chinese co-owners / managers of the company.
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by garply 17y ago
One seeming inconsistency that stuck out at me is how he criticizes China's lack of free market behavior - he uses the pegging of the RMB to demonstrate this, which is definitely valid support for his argument - and simultaneously decries t
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by garply 17y ago
"At a time when the world thinks the communist model has been proved obsolete, China remains a communist country. In fact, under the current leader, Hu Jintao, human rights in China have recently suffered and are now in serious decline, acc
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by garply 17y ago
While we're talking about the voting system - could you please specify more clearly in the guidelines in what circumstances downmodding is appropriate?
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by garply 17y ago
I think you should also consider the possibility that the Chinese entrepreneurs are speaking sincerely - while I know many natives (particularly among the white collar workers) here in China who find the gov't obnoxious, I also know many ed
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by garply 17y ago
Why did this get downvoted? I didn't say anything incendiary and I don't think my statement was factually incorrect. The truth is, the Chinese government doesn't stand to lose much at all by blocking Google. Politics trumps business here -
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by garply 17y ago
Google is not very big in China anyway, the Chinese gov't doesn't stand to lose much.
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by garply 17y ago
Actually, I've hated all the smart phones I've used. Typing on a cell phone is, to me, a really inefficient time suck that people don't notice because they're used to it. Fundamentally, I just want to make phone calls on my cell phone - for
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by garply 17y ago
Instead of shorting FXI, you can buy FXP, which will have a similar effect.
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by garply 17y ago
You make the Communist party sound as if it's some super-elite club. It's not. My girlfriend's a member and, while she's intelligent and well-educated, she didn't have to do a whole lot to get in. I suspect a decent education is enough. Nor
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by garply 17y ago
It's OK to say the word 'fuck' here. But I liked your series. It's inspirational to those of us who haven't made the slam dunk yet, even if you've traded in your entrepreneurial risk profile for that of a more conservative investor (a reaso
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by garply 17y ago
Have you worked in the porn industry? Edit: This was a sincere question, not sure why it was voted down.
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by garply 17y ago
Are those red box areas auto-classified as potentially dangerous? I wonder what kind of algorithms they're using to do that.
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Police Track Down Drug-dealer via WoW(kokomoperspective.com)
16 points by garply 17y ago|22 comments
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by garply 17y ago
I don't have the data to respond to this entire paper, especially on big stuff like GDP ratios, etc, but an important part of their argument stuck out as shaky to me. The paper argues that China's urbanization rate is already much higher th
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by garply 17y ago
I sympathize. I run a wholesale / delivery bakery in Beijing. I've been looking for a storefront for over a year, but am convinced that most people who've signed rental contracts to do retail within the past year or so are currently losing
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by garply 17y ago
Nothing about China, other than price, works well with YC. For one thing, there is an endless supply of obnoxious and moderately expensive government obstacles (I just paid the Beijing tax bureau ~5000 RMB for a receipt-printing machine). F

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