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by intro-b 6y ago
I think Twitch could be a valid comparison to TikTok. Both are content-focused platforms that draw in audiences from a variety of somewhat non-overlapping demographics, but exist in the same space. They've already branched out into liv
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by intro-b 6y ago
This parroted advice is unhelpful and almost always incorrect - simple caricatures of the "travel the world" and "you don't have it so bad" and "just follow your dream" are just empty platitudes. Depressio
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by intro-b 6y ago
I feel like the bevy of comments changing the topic to American tech/media companies every time the main parent post is China-centric is predictable and exhausting. It's rarely a new or interesting take, and mostly just derails th
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by intro-b 6y ago
Considering how banned Google and Facebook products are in China, I'm not sure what you're getting at with this comment.
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by intro-b 6y ago
similarly, I've found TripAdvisor pretty useful for travels around Taiwan, HK, China, and Japan - the quality of reviews and recommendations written by Chinese/Japanese tourists is quite high, and helped me discover some interesti
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by intro-b 8y ago
I'm sure you understand that there's a difference between normal, personal human interactions, as you've just described, and a complex technological system designed and implemented for use in a business setting?
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by intro-b 8y ago
My reasoning is that it's similar to student suicides that occur on university campuses - although the overall suicide rate by percentage is often much lower than the regional/national average, the topic of conversation is situate
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by intro-b 8y ago
It's mostly just a social politeness/cultural thing, especially since most people wouldn't really want to engage in a long/complicated conversation with someone who probably isn't that great or fluent in Chinese Eve
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by intro-b 8y ago
Part of the One Belt One Road initiative is not only the development of economic and trade ties, but the projection of the idea that more authoritarian, centrally-governed forms of government that de-emphasize tenets like freedom of politic
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by intro-b 8y ago
at the same time, every article remotely critical of China in HN always has a squadron of comments employing whataboutism and deflection and unsubstantiated accusations of anti-China propaganda.
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by intro-b 8y ago
colloquially, most english speakers would recognize "Taiwanese" and "Traditional Chinese/Traditional Mandarin" as interchangeable
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by intro-b 8y ago
there are plenty of regional and area-specific dialects of traditional chinese that would require different glyphs
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by intro-b 9y ago
to be fair, the bimodality in the population of lawyers/doctors is an "are you in or out" system that comes from the generally outdated and arduous graduate credentials for these careers administered by bureaucratic boards. m
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by intro-b 9y ago
taking a course of antidepressants and making some lifestyle changes during university for depression had the side effect of almost completely clearing up my acne that normal dermatological treatments were unable to deal with. given that th
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by intro-b 9y ago
yep - anecdotally, my family members living in both China and Japan experienced some bad bouts of acne during their adolescence and up through young adulthood. given that the paper's study population were hunter-gatherers and islanders
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by intro-b 9y ago
Altman, Zuckerburg, et al appear to be happy to kowtow a lot in hopes of a little glimpse of that fabled market penetration.
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by intro-b 9y ago
"Stop buying things from [x]" probably hasn't been an effective mantra for several decades. The U.S., E.U., China, Japan, and other nations are all intractably linked in the global supply chain economy.
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by intro-b 9y ago
Exactly - part of America's heritage of a free, unusually aggressive, and intellectually combative free press (on both sides of the political spectrum) is that criticism of our government, history, and society is widely studied and dis
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by intro-b 9y ago
I honestly wonder what will become of historical archive records of events that happened in the 2010's and beyond - where the reach of the internet facilitates for the massive diffusion and storage of recorded information while, at the
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by intro-b 9y ago
I'm not sure if a few journalistic op-eds and moderate pieces of international condemnation count as "messy fallout." It seems like it was a successful, measured attempt at probing the limits of what they could get away with.
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by intro-b 9y ago
what a bizarre, disproportionate response over an article that's basically a lighthearted character-sketch i can't imagine what the relationship between Scott and the startup founders is like right now
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by intro-b 9y ago
same as me, in addition to daily aerobic exercise, a lot of walking, and trying to maintain a strong social circle
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by intro-b 9y ago
for me, using 23andme and other components of genetic testing related to health risk factors (all four of my grandparents passed away from or are currently battling cancer) helped me make some long-term decisions regarding my habits and lif
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by intro-b 9y ago
i mean, from my understanding of the english language, these kinds of things are usually contextual based on the medium, not the content of the message. i suppose everyone has their different interpretations, though
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by intro-b 9y ago
it's fun for text-based debate, but aren't you just ignoring the greater contextual situation for the sake of argument? the distance between anonymous internet comments and professional discourse is wider than what you're imp
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by intro-b 9y ago
the overall affect that Laufer strikes throughout the interview and article gives me a strange impression - it's like a kind of self-parody
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by intro-b 9y ago
I can't imagine the size of the overlap between people savvy/interested/experimental enough to attempt this sort of remedy and those desperately poor AND ill enough to do so. While the idea of bio-hacking as a hobbyist or pro
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by intro-b 9y ago
having lived in japan, the amount and quality of food/snacks/drinks/alcohol at convenience stores makes them a pretty attractive option something as simple as coffee and a sandwich in the morning and some beers and snack food
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by intro-b 9y ago
There are honestly a lot of similar patterns of argumentation, attack, deflection, and amplification that I've noticed across these platforms whenever China is mentioned; as a native Chinese speaker, vast populations of Chinese interne
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by intro-b 9y ago
You'll notice the same usernames and patterns of argumentation every time there is an article with comments remotely criticizing (or even questioning) China.

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