jdtang13

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by jdtang13 9y ago
I don't think you deserve to get downvoted for this. You're speaking very honestly about your own motivations.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Very well articulated.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Wow, really? I had no idea that there are more parents willing to adopt young orphans than there are young orphans.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Your notes on "trust" and "support network" are very, very interesting and good points. I can imagine in smaller towns or old villages, you would be more or less okay with your children playing by themselves. Maybe you c
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by jdtang13 9y ago
> I feel like I do not exist anymore, but that everything I do is for him. Wow, this is a very strong point. It made me appreciate my parents very much, the way you worded this type of love. It is like the outpouring of love from one lif
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I wish that meditative practices like this were more common in modern-day Western Christianity! You can still see a lot of this type of contemplation in Eastern Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, but not so much in Western Catholicism. Also
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I think the author, who admittedly sweeps through a lot of strange generalizations on classical history in this article, is just using the idea of Aristotle and Plato "not being enough" to illustrate the delusions of consumer cult
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by jdtang13 9y ago
This doesn't seem super true in my opinion, but I could be wrong. I think that a lot of native Chinese actually lower their expectations around ABCs and are pretty interested in asking questions about American culture.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Do you have any enlightening stories to share?
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Sounds like you've already come to your own conclusion, then. How can you collect data when you've already named the result of the experiment?
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I think it's much better to just ask a few 14-19 year olds how they use Snapchat, and what kind of messages they like to send and receive, rather than idly speculate.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
You really think that the many people who use Snapchat are all using it exactly the way you do?
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by jdtang13 9y ago
So good. We need more silence and less distraction. It's not like it's a bad thing to have an empty wall here and there.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Oh, I see, thanks for the clarification.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Wow, this looks really nice, actually. Hard to believe the creator is simply an "amateur coder".
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Exactly. Technology makes the highs higher and the lows lower. It's just an amplifier for human nature.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I used Apple Pay for the first time recently and it felt like magic. Just hover it near, choose your credit card (which had a full sized image), and then it instantly pays using Touch ID. I think some of the issues you listed with Google Pa
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Yep, it's really annoying how Google forces all their services to be completely integrated together, and not even integrated well. Lots of issues with glitchy account switching.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
This is not true at all. This is just a pessimistic exaggeration.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I agree, this is a misleading use of the word "true". It's more like "relatively true RNG" than "true".
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Nice intuition. Too bad intuition has nothing to do with quantifiable numbers. "Extremely remote probability" is a human idea that you have in your head. It has nothing remotely scientific in it. There's an extremely remote p
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by jdtang13 9y ago
I'm tired of hearing these types of extremely confident lay-assertions about life beyond earth. It's true that the number of planets is incomprehensibly large, but it could also be true that the probability of a particular planet
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Makes sense. The ugly and skeptical philosophy of Socrates was very controversial compared to the beautiful words of the Sophists, but now we all consider the disciples of Socrates to be the best philosophers. Maybe we should start having m
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by jdtang13 9y ago
From the headline, I thought that the article would be some materialist Sam Harris fanboy talking about how analytic philosophy is the only real philosophy and how science can tell us objective truths about morality. Count me surprised! Thi
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Cursory Google search seems to indicate that some fruits, as well as potatoes (!), dairy products, fish, and eggs contain iodine. Even if you were a very poor European peasant in the middle ages, you would still get to eat potatoes, milk, a
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Yes. You can talk to people in Beijing, especially college students, about these issues and more. One of my friends is an ethnic minority in China and talked about these issues with Han Chinese folk with no negative consequences. Many young
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by jdtang13 9y ago
If you really feel this strongly, then I would suggest you raise your kids in Hong Kong or Singapore -- any sort of Anglophonic East Asian city would be good. The situation of Asian-Americans will likely not get better in the future.
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by jdtang13 9y ago
No, not true. The Bay Area is ideologically safer in only two regards: you can criticize the city, and you can criticize the government. If you have personal beliefs that are even a tiny bit different from orthodoxy, Beijing is a far safer
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by jdtang13 9y ago
In America, you can criticize the government but cannot talk at all about controversial social issues. Many Americans abide by the rule: "do not talk about politics and religion among polite company." I've known people who ha
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by jdtang13 9y ago
Thanks and I agree. We've got a lot of very naive people in the comments section here, it seems.

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