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The Chinese Lingerie Venders of Egypt(newyorker.com)
46 points by nichtich 11y ago|25 comments
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by nichtich 11y ago
Being a fundamental right doesn't mean limitless. Free speech is a fundamental right, yet you will get into trouble when you yell fire in a theater. And of course property right is a fundamental right, we just sacrifice some the of the
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by nichtich 11y ago
The express lines are a known problem and Beijing is starting to build them (the first two will be line 17 and 19). The difference is in NYC the express lines and the regular lines run side by side, while the future express lines in Beijing
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by nichtich 11y ago
I think the parent means something else. You can find people predicting all kinds of disasters for the next 5 years and maybe some of them are right. But it's very hard for governments to know which one are right. Especially considerin
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by nichtich 11y ago
As someone involved in this I feel obligated to explain some basic mechanics in Chinese IPO. 1. Unlike in US. The underwriter/issuer doesn't decide who get the allocation. Instead it's a 2 tier lottery which is purely based
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by nichtich 11y ago
It's not capital control in this case, it's the different shares. The shares you bought in HK can not be sold in SH, and vice versa. When the company does an IPO, it will assign a percentage of the shares to SH and the other to HK
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by nichtich 11y ago
you obviously didn't read the article. They are using embryoes to be diacarded with defects that would never be able to develop into human beings.
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by nichtich 12y ago
I would recommend you to follow Michael Pettis[1]. He used to focus on China but recently also wrote about Europe. I find his explanation convincing but by no means is his view the consensus amount economists. I think much of your question
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by nichtich 12y ago
Location is the key. The places listed in the article are all "new districts" of growing major cities, so they will be filled as planed. But not all major cities are actually growing, or growing as fast as planners hoped. And no o
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by nichtich 12y ago
So bundling should be one of the options instead of the only option. With bundling they are locking up the tech stack for the manufactures.
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by nichtich 12y ago
This is how a lot of Chinese and Korean streaming services operate. And integrated donation system can allow for more interactive options between streamer and audiences, or even between audiences. (Like streamer present the audiences with t
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by nichtich 12y ago
Can I use other applications besides WhatsApp? No, WhatSim works only with WhatsApp. If this is the trend, then those quad-sim crappy phones I got from China will finally be useful! One for WhatsApp, one for netflix, one for phone, one for
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by nichtich 12y ago
It's boring because it's not a "pure" color, as it must be a mix of different wavelengths that is weighted similar to what get to the surface of earth from sun. So it's boring in the same sense a white noise is bori
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by nichtich 12y ago
I think this is relevant. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8114547 As opposed to some other commentator, I don't think the shut-ins are actually content with being isolated. It's more like a trap that you fell
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by nichtich 12y ago
You have to realize even if your "natural" food is free of toxins, the traditional cooking methods are likely to produce them, especially in grilling, frying and baking. And the worse part is the chemistry there is complex and may
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by nichtich 12y ago
You don't need to. I remember when I was a child, our family have this tradition of walking around the park after dinner. My parents would talk about work and ask about my day. And sometimes my father would throw questions like "w
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by nichtich 12y ago
I like this one. Normalized data, with all changes timestamped, realtime pushed directly to my own server where I can use along with my own internal datasets. It'll be very labor intensive though.
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by nichtich 12y ago
What's wrong with 14th century then?
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by nichtich 12y ago
Here's Matt Levine's take: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-20/the-goldman... I partially agree with him. It's a bizarre situation and created distortion in the market, but it doesn&#x2
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by nichtich 12y ago
I'm not sure either. My understanding is that they let you compile (part of) your program to a middle layer, a more abstract version of X86/64 instructions. And the binary then can be generated based on the actual machine using th
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by nichtich 12y ago
Before Abe, Japan is in a trap: 1. It has 200% debt-to GDP ratio 2. It has near zero interest rate and negative to zero inflation 3. It has near zero growth rate. It's important to understand how this trap works: Japan simply can'
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by nichtich 12y ago
I'm not a historian, but the bottom class seems toke a lot of debt. That's a common way for a free man to become a slave. Also, debt relieve (or the lack of) was always a big reason for mass movements or riots. As for peasants, I
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by nichtich 12y ago
The problem is we (actually you, since I'm not a US citizen) elect one set of people to vote on our behaves for everything. If we can delegate to different people on different issues, then it'll be very different. The whole notion
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by nichtich 12y ago
These argument must be taken with a grain of salt. The truth is you don't know how many independent random investing they actually make. The classic argument is that given more than 1000 people there will be someone with a perfect scor
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by nichtich 12y ago
Causation vs. Correlation doesn't matter that much in most cases, if your goal is a investment strategy. Most of the research is like "if the ROE in the quarterly report is like this, then the return of the stock will be like that
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by nichtich 12y ago
This. Most of my current favorite show aren't new, some goes back to pre-2006 era. For me the game changer is the Podcast Addict[1] app, but it mostly just allows me to have a bunch of "listen sometimes" shows. For the good o
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by nichtich 12y ago
The reason sounds interesting... But there is a startup culture in China.
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by nichtich 12y ago
Over the years I've read a lot of arguments from both sides: China's growth will continue for a quite long time vs. it'll end soon. Both have some valid and interesting points and I'm still not convinced either way. But
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by nichtich 12y ago
Like lkrubner already points out, the cause and effect is probably the opposite of what a lot of people think. We may think apprenticeship means business is treating its worker well, "investing" in them. But what did the workers r
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by nichtich 12y ago
The evil of collective farming is the "collective" part, not the large scale part. Optimal scale of operation changes along with the price of labor and other inputs, as well as technology. But collective "ownership" wher

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