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by muddyrivers 9y ago
Very helpful for people who study English as a second language. I really like the examples on Arabic, Spanish, and the woman from Nigeria.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Totally agree. There is another barrier, the technical terms. Even if you know every character used to compose terms like linked list, stack, etc. when they are put together, you will have a hard time to figure them out, unless you have som
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Empirical observation: I find women who love spicy food usually have better, smoother skins.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
So hilarious! Got to build up the tolerance so as to enjoy spicy food more and spend less in the bathroom :)
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
I have different interpretation of being a genius. Being a genius doesn't mean she or he can solve really hard problems easily. One is a genius if he or she does solve really hard problems, especially in the fields like math, physics,
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
I understand the cruelty and inhuman treatment sides of child labor. But it is not black and white. Context is important, if not crucial. Use my own case as example. My family suffered financial hardship due to some misfortune when I was 15
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
It is a very cynical view that it seems more like propaganda. In principle, the text of history is never the same as what really happened. What a historian can do is to do his best to write down what he verifies, the different accounts that
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
<i> The US, for the most part, doesn't have these problems (lots of roads, parking, and fairly well behaved drivers)...self driving cars are seen as more of a convenience than a necessity. </i> The same problems exist
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Considering Baidu's scale, it would be tens of thousands. There are several other discrepancies in the doc between the Chinese version and the English one. Some technical proofreading is needed.
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The Fake Laugh(nytimes.com)
2 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
They say "my kid goes to college in Boston". :)
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
It happened to us a few times. We are asians. Interestingly, one time we got the disgusted look from an Asian waiter in an Italian restaurant. Also we started to bring our children to good restaurants of different cuisines when they could s
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Chocolate Can Boost Your Workout. Really(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
The mindset still stuck in the cold war era. As another comment in this thread, there has been "a huge spike of anti-China news sourced from USA" in the last several years. These news are quoted in China, and in many cases, withou
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
I am East Asian and came to America in my 20's. I love pastries and deserts, always looking for local pastries to try whenever I travel, to the point to book hotels that are close to famous pastry shops. Sorry for any misunderstanding
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
I wonder if the tolerance, and then the love, of highly sweet things is acquired. And mostly probably, it is acquired when one is a child. I have met and worked with many East Asians and Europeans who came to American in their 20's or
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My Parents’ Mixed Messages on the Holocaust(nytimes.com)
1 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|0 comments
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Thank you very much for the explanation. That clears my confusion.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
As an immigrant who come to America in my 20's, I never fully understand this. I saw people who asked a person who just experienced extreme difficult situations, "are you ok?". Apparently she was not ok. Her husband just pass
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
"As a result Japanese people (probably Chinese too) have a hard time processing some of the English syllables. This creates difficulty in learning English for Japanese and Chinese." We can also say that American/English have
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
I would argue 事儿, the combination of two characters, are pronounced like "sure", in most Northern dialects. (Speaking strictly, some are dialects and some are accents. Let's skip this difference here since it doesn't mat
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
A technical correction. In Mandarin, shí is pronounced very close to the sound of "shi" in ship and "shee" in sheep. You are right that it sounds close to "sure" when it is pronounced by people with strong Beij
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According to Marissa Mayer, long hours and weekend work will lead to success(m.signalvnoise.com)
23 points by muddyrivers 10y ago|12 comments
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
If an American company failed in China, it must be because it is treated unfairly. Wait, Walmart, MacDonald's, Procter & Gamble, etc are hugely successful in China. Nah, they are not tech companies. Wait, Apple is successful in Chi
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Uber and Google are very different cases. They, as tech companies, are also different cases from consumer companies. Detailed analysis are required to gain insights on why they succeed or failed. In short, Google posed a thread to the gover
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
My understanding is that it is very diversified in terms of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality identification, etc. Make no mistake, they are all great mathematicians and deserve a place in math pantheon.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
It caught my eyes as well. Like it very much.
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
One possibility is that the digital copyright of the second volume you are interested in was not granted in your country. The person you talked to might not know the details. I disagree to this statement, though. "A downloaded copy doe
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
I have family members who are writers. By association, we know many writers. They are in a dilemma. From talking to them, I think they agree, in principle, that books ought to be "distributed, [...], spread abroad, given to all, given
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by muddyrivers 10y ago
Similar things happened in China. I was the last generation that grew up in poor China, in the sense that we were malnourished without sufficient intake of animal proteins when growing up (to be accurate, it is before we were 13~14 years ol

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