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by poutine 18y ago
Because of the ignorance of the police you need to be nuts to run a Tor exit node. I don't much see the point in Tor anyhow, you want to be anonymous for some reason just use an unsecured WIFI AP or a proxy in another country, easy enough
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by poutine 18y ago
Who doesn't like poutine??
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by poutine 18y ago
It's a list of twitter users sorted by follower count. Therefore it just reinforces the existing popular users and doesn't expose you to interesting and new people. Stupid-wank-fest.
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by poutine 18y ago
Beijing has gotten quite a bit more expensive in the couple years that I've been there. On top of that the currency exchange rate has gotten considerably worse. Probably in total a 25% difference since I arrived in 2006. Most people readi
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by poutine 18y ago
The bigger problem with the Chinese Internet is that it's just slow. Foreign links to the Internet are often congested and will slow down incredibly at times. It sucks. The Great firewall is mostly just a pain in the ass. However, it's e
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by poutine 18y ago
Worst case scenario? Your numbers seem a bit wrong. $60/hr is incredibly optimistic as is $400/mo in expenses. Think more like $10-15/hr as an english teacher and $700-$1200/mo in expenses as a base. You will not be able to support you
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by poutine 18y ago
Beijing is not just polluted, it's absurdly polluted. Think taking on a pack a day habit and that's nearly the long term impact on your health. Not good. $60/hr seems quite optimistic to me. I have never taught english but the teachers
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by poutine 18y ago
In China without some Chinese the basics such as transportation, food and shelter are a real pain. If you're going to spend any great amount of time in China you must learn Chinese, especially if you live outside of Shanghai and Beijing.
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by poutine 18y ago
This is indeed true. There's nothing to fear in China, unless you're a total idiot. You're probably safer here than in the US.
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by poutine 18y ago
I've been living in China for years, have Chinese friends and employ Chinese people.
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by poutine 18y ago
I'm a westerner working in China for years and hiring computer science graduates from the top tier universities. The quality of their education is shockingly poor. The Chinese education system is destructive and collectivist, promoting co
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by poutine 18y ago
You really have no clue. This poor kid probably doesn't have the money for a train trip to Shanghai much less to explore the world. He has no ability to work other places inside China and nobody would hire him where he'd make any money
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by poutine 18y ago
The World is not the United States. Thank God.
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by poutine 18y ago
Can't send SMS with the iPhone SDK, so his auto-detection and fallback to use SMS will not work.
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by poutine 18y ago
China doesn't do this. In a dozen times crossing the Chinese border the guards have never even spoken to me. You also have a cool button system at the stand which you can rate your experience with the border guard.
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by poutine 18y ago
China has some of the best party spots on the planet. Especially if you have a little Mandarin you can have one _hell_ of a time and as much XYZ* as you could possibly want. * Where XYZ includes women, liquor, food, music but not high spee
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by poutine 18y ago
Shanghai is not Beijing, it's reasonably clean. Beijing takes pollution to a whole new level and then once more. /lives in Beijing //hack, cough, sputter
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by poutine 18y ago
Really stupid article. Facebook Chat on the iPhone will kill SMS? What's the iPhone global penetration rate? 1%? So I'll be able to chat with 1% of my friends assuming they all arrange to run the iPhone Facebook app at the same time a
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by poutine 18y ago
They're also being quite generous when they say that 300M Chinese read and write English. In my experience (Canadian living in China) it's got to be way less than that who are actually capable in some rudimentary way. I wouldn't expect a
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by poutine 18y ago
Your pinyin is correct: zhen de! (Really! 真的!) Chinese does indeed give you a new view of the superfluous nature of many English words. Chinese is like caveman English: "I want beer. Bring more." type stuff. Fun. Still, English is a mor
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by poutine 18y ago
China is undergoing incredible growth mainly due to urbanization. It is moving towards 60-70% of the people living in cities from around 40-50% now. It's about half way along the process right now and will complete in ~15 years bringing