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by headsupftw 6y ago
Wait a sec. When the products are sold by IKEA, they are cheap but they are "products that people actually need". But when they are from China, they are "cheap crap from china"?
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by headsupftw 6y ago
$850MM relative to $2.85B is still a lot of money.
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by headsupftw 6y ago
Because it's good for you? Even if it does absolutely nothing to help you defend against COVID-19.
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by headsupftw 6y ago
Crime or not, NYC seems to be doing pretty well. Top dog in the entire country for the past decades and the foreseeable future.
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by headsupftw 6y ago
I lived in Atlanta (starting from my GA Tech days) for over a decade and I've been in the South Bay for a few years. As much as I love Atlanta and the gigantic house I was able to afford, landscape-wise it doesn't even come close
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by headsupftw 6y ago
The most important thing is not the airports. All metros have them. The differentiator is the vast number of asian grocery stores, restaurants and other stores/businesses. In America the Bay Area is only behind Los Angeles in that rega
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by headsupftw 6y ago
"nature": beaches, mountains, ski resorts, redwood forests... Seattle is like that or even better but 9 months out of a year the weather is just a big no no.
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by headsupftw 6y ago
Don't know about peninsula but in south bay tons of old homes have AC. And more importantly, dry hot feels very comfortable to me personally.
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by headsupftw 6y ago
An A/B test requires all other factors to be the same. Can you imagine a bunch of Harvard kids quit school, rent a house in Cambridge and code/party all year round?
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by headsupftw 6y ago
Maybe he meant to say micro-operations.
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by headsupftw 6y ago
Then what's the point of hiring her and people like her to work for Google in the first place? So that Google could claim that they have Ethical AI researchers and Google's AI research is indeed ethical?
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by headsupftw 6y ago
"stock valuation notwithstanding" Perhaps you were thinking of Samsung Electronics, not Samsung Group.
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Which nobody does if she's not a healthcare worker.
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by headsupftw 7y ago
One of my coworkers, who is a staunch supporter for wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, wears an N95 the entire time he's in the office. Yesterday he claimed he's having chest discomfort (which is what some people w
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by headsupftw 7y ago
And Sony Walkman/Discman! To me Sony in the 80s/90s was like today's Apple. In 2000s I bought a small Sony box that could stream Comcast cable TV from my house to my PSP when I was out and about so that I could watch my own T
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Oh please do. Why don't you start from the laptop or cell phone that you used to post this knee-jerk piece of gibberish?
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Of course it's different but I fail to see how it is "completely" different given that the UK Royal family did actively loot ancient Britain. Tomeito tomato if you ask me.
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Do you even know TikTok is not available in China? The brand was specifically created for western countries. In China the same company (ByteDance) owns a hugely popular short-video app called Douyin. These two apps do not share content for
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Oh please.
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by headsupftw 7y ago
So are you saying that currently American companies are NOT allowed to acquire Chinese companies or operate in China? There are a few instances where that's true (there are also a few instances where Chinese companies are not allowed t
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by headsupftw 7y ago
"plus more in stock options/RSUs (which despite the negative reaction to them here on HN, actually do often turn into real money at least at unicorns or public companies)" I find that (the negative reaction to them here on HN
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by headsupftw 7y ago
The United States doesn't officially recognize Taiwan as a country. Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations. Apple's revenue in Taiwan is peanuts compared to that of mainland China. The list goes on.
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Please go to China and talk to people with no rights but lots and lots of dough because their land/houses got confiscated by the commies in order to build high rises, freeways, high-speed train tracks or whatever the Nazi government ha
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by headsupftw 7y ago
"If it had been the other way around, the US would have done the same, no doubt." No, the US would have bombed the shit out of the Chinese cruiser.
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by headsupftw 7y ago
"HK only amounts to a small percentage of China's GDP now" Echoing this statement, HK accounted for 18% of China's GDP when it became part of China in 1997. Today its neighboring city Shenzhen alone generates more GDP th
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by headsupftw 7y ago
"In America ... I find it a drag that almost none are open past 10 or 11pm" I used to live in Atlanta and there was a 24-hour Kroger right across the street from my townhome. One night at 2am, I bought a gas grill at that Kroger o
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by headsupftw 7y ago
It's not too hard but in the meantime it's not trivial, either. I worked for a multinational corporation in Beijing so in the office (or outside the office via corp vpn) we were allowed to access sites such as google.com. I paid f
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by headsupftw 7y ago
Not really a good counter example as "Jack Ma" is his English name (i.e. not his legal name, not the one printed on his passport. more like a nickname that can be easily remembered by westerners). If you google his legal Chinese n
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by headsupftw 7y ago
In terms of Chinese names, my observation is that in English media, if your name is printed as "first_name last_name" then you haven't made it yet. But if you are somebody, your name will appear as "last_name first_name&
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by headsupftw 7y ago
"I thought the given name in Chinese was almost always two characters. Is this not the case?" Not at all. Nowadays there are hundreds of millions of people in Mainland China with a single-character given name. Case in point: forme

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