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by nexus2045 6y ago
I can confirm that I was in Zhongshan last year and saw a very big screen in the middle of a crosswalk island, it "named and shamed" jaywalkers, with pictures of the jaywalking and the face on their Chinese ID as well, although ey
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Yes, same with China. Tier 1 = Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou. Tier 2 is debatable but also cities have lot of economic activity / people that you would have heard of.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
For me (in BC), around 25-30% and I'm slightly below 100k. The deduction is usually a little more than if you use those online tax calculators.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
I had the same problem when it came to “getting a girlfriend” (quoted because it might sound too trivial compared to this current issue, and also because I wanted one for the wrong reasons, which was to seem “normal” to others and stop bein
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by nexus2045 6y ago
This is one of the most validating discussions I've read in a while. I think of myself as shy, lonely, maybe a little autistic. I grew up very alone as an only child, and would make up games or role play with myself to pass time in the
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by nexus2045 6y ago
This is very much a description of the modes I operate in! And I get very high levels of engagement with myself. My thoughts actually distract me a lot from real life verbal conversations as well. People think I'm not all there and I d
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by nexus2045 6y ago
I noticed that even if I cared or judged someone, the one who's wasting time and energy is actually me, and there are no actual effects on the target.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
> Suffice it to say that the reality was...significantly poorer than advertised. So like, the Fyre of coding bootcamps. But still better than Siraj Raval?
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by nexus2045 6y ago
I've noticed my friends who are less comfortable with English don't bother with Reddit but they were all on Facebook at some point.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
I'm biased as heck because I'm a westernized Chinese, and I am impressed with the rapid development everytime I visit China. In my mind, being pragmatic wins. When I visited SF recently, I was constantly wary of dangers and mental
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by nexus2045 6y ago
A case could be made if you consider that the first part of the word is masculine and inappropriate.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
I have a phobia of cockroaches, having grown up in a place where they would appear here and there. I am grossed out by their body's front side especially. I've avoided opening their site in case they put up an actual picture of a
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by nexus2045 6y ago
I answered yes, even though I suspect I am not clinically depressed and nowhere near the levels of some posters on here. But compared to the average person, I definitely appear depressed/emo/sad/tired. And if you were to talk
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Man that is a crazy story. Congratulations on the English, wouldn't second-guess your fluency one bit. But I don't understand how you went through some social catastrophes and still manage to level-up in the rest of your life so w
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by nexus2045 6y ago
This is a pretty interesting comment section to read. I went from Node.js to .NET Core development for about a year, and got the impression that Microsoft had already figured out all the best practices, and shoving it down my throat was for
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by nexus2045 6y ago
One of the most famous Onryos: Sugawara no Michizane. From the Wikipedia article: > Within the abdication of Emperor Uda, Michizane's position became increasingly vulnerable. In 901, through the political maneuverings of his rival,
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by nexus2045 6y ago
But the Han Chinese are the overwhelming majority (92%). They pay lip service to the 56 ethnic minorities but for the most part they are expected to act Chinese or are just tourist attractions. China is not going to have or allow problems l
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by nexus2045 6y ago
This is reality... so why is this being downvoted? Too much clashes with the morals of the privileged audience here who mostly grew up in an environment where no cutting corners was needed?
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by nexus2045 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better, getting into FAANG is my life goal. Getting in even just once is enough. I'd finally win my own respect, that of my parents, and everyone else (though I'm sure no one really cares). I'm also j
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's any correlation between how technically smart someone is versus how immune they are to this over the top woke activism/virtue signalling. Works at a different part of the brain I gue
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by nexus2045 6y ago
That's the point of this whole thread.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. Programming is a vague term anyway. Speaking from experience, I could only code basic JavaScript with almost 0 understanding of the more complex fundamentals, but actually build functional SPAs. Repeat that a few years
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Pomp Podcast has had some phenomenal guests lately including Chamath Palihapitiya and Mark Cuban. Worth checking out.
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Most people are just following orders at their job, where they've got bills to pay. Morals are not so important on the hierarchy of needs. It might not even be something that crosses those worker's minds because of a much differen
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by nexus2045 6y ago
Nah you're just on the wrong side of the internet, and formed an opinion based on a misguided recommendation algorithm.
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by nexus2045 7y ago
My very elementary (just skimmed some blog posts about it for a few hours this morning [1]) understanding of why Zettelkasten is a game-changer is that: its a system of organizing notes in a bottom-up, atomic fashion, instead of the usual t
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by nexus2045 7y ago
This is a joy-sparking product, as I've been turned off by Anki's UI/UX especially when it comes to code snippets, and I'm very accustomed to Markdown.
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Born and raised in HK but don't live/work there, and obviously I can't speak for everyone, but we get brought up in a pretty top-down authoritarian system, with parents/teachers being very stern and unforgiving, so we en
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Reminds me of a website called All Japanese All The Time, where a guy from America made his environment all Japanese while still in college in Utah (?). TV, kanji posters, Windows language settings, friends,...
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by nexus2045 7y ago
As a native Cantonese speaker learning Mandarin since I was 5, you think I'd have some advantage (which I do - vocabulary is largely similar), but I still struggle greatly with communication the more informal it is. Learning from langu

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