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by jtzhou 12y ago
According to QS World University Rankings, countries such as UK, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Singapore, which do offer parental benefits and are a fraction of the population of the United States, all place well in the rankings. Also, the USA
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> Yes, but who's leading the world in technological growth? Actually, China, Mongolia and India are leading the world in GDP per capita growth. If by "technological growth" you mean labor productivity growth, other countr
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Perhaps, but China has also made great strides in the preservation of animal species, like the giant panda and golden monkey. True, there are still some small segment of the population, mostly in villages, which desire rare animal parts.
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by jtzhou 12y ago
If Japan accumulated a sovereign wealth fund during the "boom" times, they could draw upon this fund during the absence of exports due to aging workers. The problem is in the current pay-as-you-go social security system.
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by jtzhou 12y ago
If Japan and other aging countries created a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxes during "boom" times, like Norway has done, then it wouldn't be as dependent on a pay-as-you-go system. This fund would be held in other curre
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by jtzhou 12y ago
For public high schools with a GreatSchools' score of 9 or 10, there are $1.5m 3BR home in places like in Fremont, Dublin or Campbell, but would be a bit of a commute to places like SF, Palo Alto or Mountain View where a high concentra
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by jtzhou 12y ago
A decent home in a good school district is around $2.5m in the Bay Area, so $250k before taxes might get you qualified for a mortgage (provided you saved $500k for a down payment). $100k, while above U.S. median household income, would not
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Indeed, and posting to web forums, especially with connections to mainland China, can be risky due to the traceback of IP addresses, collected or "procured" by Chinese authorities. This happened even through the cooperation of Yah
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How the rich are grabbing an even bigger slice of the income pie(washingtonpost.com)
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by jtzhou 12y ago
This is very unclear: "Once the album has been removed from your account, it will no longer be available for you to redownload as a previous purchase. If you later decide you want the album, you will need to get it again." Huh, so
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by jtzhou 12y ago
These too are changing. In China, the highly educated are becoming involved in social advocacy for the environment and starting to avoid smoking. Smoking is still very common in Europe and increasing in France, despite the public health i
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by jtzhou 12y ago
She writes for anyone who is willing to pay her $400 per essay. It is not just for the children of wealthy Chinese, and many Chinese people choose to write their own. The system is broken if it cannot distinguish between a fraudulent essay
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Apple to Store Personal User Data in China(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Many affluent Asian countries (Japan, South Korea, etc) still do not allow any immigrants to settle. Those that do are often the "well-cultured" Southeast Asian brides from Vietnam and Thailand.
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by jtzhou 12y ago
There are two big trends: - External immigration to large population centers in New York, California, Washington state, the Washington DC area and Illinois. - Inward migration of Americans leaving those denser areas to states such as TX, Or
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by jtzhou 12y ago
There are plenty more hard-working, tax-paying Chinese engineers and high skilled workers making up for the occasional spying incident. And the high-earning engineers pay much more in taxes to help fund the American counterespionage progra
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Primary sources are always useful, but so is some context from the writer. Reading the patent and the recent SCOTUS opinion, Alice v Cls Bank, it definitely looks to be invalid in the context of software implementation. I wouldn't ca
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Actually, American Indian culture had developed a way of life that preserved a beautiful land in a sustainable manner, while much of the world was embroiled in war, feudalism and disease. True, there were inter-tribe rivalries as well, but
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Immigration is very important for all countries, but assimilation takes time. (If you believe in the country enough to want to immigrate there, then the existing culture must have some value.) Ask Syria, Iraq or South Sudan, how they are e
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Great idea but hard to enforce, unless the country is Israel or an island. It's amazing how many migrants are trying to get illegally across the English Channel from France to the UK because of better benefits and jobs. Meanwhile, Yazi
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by jtzhou 12y ago
> until very recently, San Francisco had a policy of randomized school assignments San Francisco still does and middle class families continue to move away (not just due to public schools but housing prices) -- the others spend $25k-40k
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Beautifully done. Thanks for selflessly putting all the code online as an excellent use of RoR.
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World's second-richest man calls for 3-day work week(ft.com)
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Perhaps in the Bay Area, but California-wide most of the newcomers are not highly paid skilled workers from China. California is a wonderful state, but mostly for the rich or early arrivals.
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by jtzhou 12y ago
Actually net migration is negative for California within the United States -- 93,915 more people are leaving California for other US states than arriving there. Now, immigration, generally from poor countries, is still flowing through Cali