matchsetpoint

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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
Thought exercise: China's been open for 40 years. Think of all the inventions from China in the last 40 years. Contrast that with Japan in 1990.
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
Actually you have proven the OP's point - There have been many knife attacks in China that injured and killed. Some reported, some aren't. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/10/china-knife-a
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
> The Chinese Communist party has ordered foreign-funded universities to install party units and grant decision-making powers to a party official, reversing an earlier promise to guarantee academic freedom as President Xi Jinping strengt
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
Try using craigslist; there are many many rooms in SV for $1k/month. and many standalone house for $3k/month.
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
I don't understand this argument. Let's put some numbers up: Single: income starting at $130k a year. That's 7k/month after tax. Rent a room in SV for $1000 (or Berkeley), and spends $1000/month. That's sti
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
This article reads like a self-promotional, self-important fluff piece. Leaving all the congratulatory of her own career aside, she decides on blockchain and decides on LA.....not New York or Singapore or places that actually have alot of
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
I've made friends with many local Chinese workers; I speak Mandarin as well. The (very few) workers that are intelligent and knows about foreign things, usually tends to be very pessimistic about China. Most of the workers that only
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
Disagree there. I didn't even mention China's middle income trap, 300% gdp to debt, pollution crisis, demographics crisis, gender crisis, censorship impact on innovation and research, wage inflation impact on factories leaving, e
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
> If you aren’t buying a house, you wouldn’t even notice. I can't think of anyone I know that did not want to buy a house. It's a prerequisite for getting married. It's a prerequisite for having your kids get married. I
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
I agree that there's a ton of progress in conjunction with troubles of growth. However, I think they're past the point of no return with the reform; if they did the reforms when the stock market crashed a few years ago, that coul
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by matchsetpoint 9y ago
I have lived in Shenzhen for many years, traveled to tons of cities in China, and recently am back to silicon valley. From what I can tell on the ground, China is going to be in decline for the next 10-20 years. (I have a good hunch most