jimmydef

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by jimmydef 8y ago
I doubt that most people are able to lead exceedingly satisfying lives. And I don't know about celebrity but wealth is something that has always been fixated on. Not just today, but since a long long time ago. In fact, I think it'
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Actually, I would think everyone travelling during one period of the year is better for the climate than the alternative which is people going back to their hometowns uniformly throughout the year. Going back together would mean that trains
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by jimmydef 8y ago
I think many non-Chinese sensationalize this problem. Yes, forgetting certain characters is common but not too an overwhelming or overproblematic extent. What many people like to do is to confuse word difficulty with the difficult of the co
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Highly likely to be unrelated. This is just one American company against another.
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by jimmydef 8y ago
What's bad about sharing IP with China? That's the companies' choice. They must have done a cost benefit analysis and deemed it positive to share their IP. Did China force them to make that decision? There is nothing immoral
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by jimmydef 8y ago
I'm no patent lawyer, but from a layman perspective, how is this reasonable at all? This seems equivalent to buyers of second hand books being forced to pay royalties to the original author.
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by jimmydef 8y ago
For a moment I thought the title was talking about my line of work in trading. 100ms would cost more than 100% of revenue.
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Fta with US. FTA with China. FTA with EU.FtA with Japan and Korea. Pretty much almost every developed nation has an fta with Singapore.
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Journalistic freedom in the US has allowed American journalists and news organisations to publish a lot of untruths. The hurdle to prosecute for slander and libel is much much higher in the US than many other European countries. We can deba
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by jimmydef 8y ago
I don't see any reason why the Trump administration and the intelligence community would ever want Apple to deny the reports. On the contrary, I think they would love it if Apple/Amazon came out and said that they were hacked so i
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by jimmydef 8y ago
A hardware hack like this is extremely easy to verify. If it is indeed true, just produce the hard evidence and be done with it. The fact that they have not been able to do so makes the story just unbelievable.
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Exactly, I'm a citizen of one of the countries in southeast Asia not involved with the whole south China sea tussle and it's amazing how skewed the reporting has been regarding the issue in the English language media. Going by th
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by jimmydef 8y ago
> The logical next question in this context is, are the labels "developing" and "developed" good enough to determine which countries should get preferential treatment in international trade? Many economists would thin
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by jimmydef 8y ago
This article doesn't quite make sense to me. It keeps confusing per capita with overall size. Like the old joke goes, America has more people per capita. Going by the same logic, can we say that India is more developed than Singapore?
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by jimmydef 8y ago
This doesn't make sense at all. So are you saying that India or China is more developed than Singapore because their aggregate "strength" whatever that means is greater than Singapore?