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by qiqing 6y ago
Relevant: egg laying mammals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme?wprov=sfla1
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Singapore is first country in the world to approve lab-grown chicken products(vox.com)
2 points by qiqing 6y ago|0 comments
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by qiqing 6y ago
Not a Japanese speaker, but I'm a native Chinese speaker. I know that Bingfa (The Art of War) could also be translated as The Practice of War or Methods of War. Translations are always interpretations because phrases aren't exact.
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by qiqing 6y ago
I'm not drawing an equivalence. I'm talking about opening up a dialogue by finding common ground first.
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by qiqing 6y ago
Let me contrast that with something: opening a dialogue outside of an echo chamber. For example, a woman of Han descent who had her purse snatched by a Uighur kid talked about feeling nervous and clutching her bag when she passed someone on
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by qiqing 6y ago
Hypothetically, let's say you're a regular Chinese citizen concerned about human rights abuses and police brutality in the US. Can you roughly estimate the impact of your forum posts, boycotts, and all that on US government policy
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Photosynthesis in Animals (2014)(jcs.biologists.org)
3 points by qiqing 6y ago|0 comments
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by qiqing 6y ago
That's the thing right there: I go to the news for news, and when I need a break to look at cats, I go to TikTok.
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Amazon invested in startups, gained proprietary info, then launched competitors(businessinsider.com)
3 points by qiqing 6y ago|1 comments
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by qiqing 6y ago
Excerpt: "After the new measures were announced late on Monday, Facebook, Microsoft, WhatsApp, Google, Twitter, Telegram and others said they would not process information requests from the government until they had reviewed the law. T
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by qiqing 6y ago
Some sources of excess deaths: 1) In Wuhan, when the primary care taker(s) of a child or a disabled or elderly person suddenly become hospitalized and there's no opportunity to arrange backup care, there were many stories of when depen
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by qiqing 7y ago
Any plans for a behind-the-app / how-it-works sort of blog post?
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by qiqing 8y ago
A few choice excerpts: "Sometimes they hear recordings they find upsetting, or possibly criminal. Two of the workers said they picked up what they believe was a sexual assault. When something like that happens, they may share the exper
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by qiqing 8y ago
Agreed. Especially this excerpt: > Per above, I didn't want to code tone of messages to avoid bias, so this table only indicates the rate at which people told me I was playing incorrectly or asked that I switch to a different charac
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by qiqing 8y ago
Excerpt: "Some are asking for cash tips outside the app, while others are encouraging customers to leave 22-cent tips — a nominal amount meant to show solidarity with workers — through the app and then adjust the tips higher after a de
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Your Company Needs a Better Retention Plan for Working Parents(hbr.org)
1 points by qiqing 8y ago|0 comments
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by qiqing 8y ago
It seems the key problem that incites controversy is that when geneticists say "heritability," it doesn't mean what lay-persons think it means, and sometimes, even professionals in the field get caught up in defending the wro
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Four Key Product Principles from WeChat’s Creator(a16z.com)
1 points by qiqing 8y ago|0 comments
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by qiqing 8y ago
他 vs. 她 was invented in order to maintain compatibility with Western languages, and using 他 in place of 她 is not considered grammatically incorrect, and you don't learn to write both of them until you start to read and write in school,
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by qiqing 8y ago
Thank you for being the voice of reason by pointing out the obvious that others seem to miss.
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by qiqing 8y ago
People make those broad claims because they never been colonized themselves, and it may not be worth your time educating them on the difference since they haven't experienced anything else. In my humble experience, they are disproporti
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by qiqing 8y ago
To this day, English is difficult for my parents, who have a hard time keeping gendered pronouns straight. But at least the irregularity of the numerical system isn't as weird as French. Chinese is considerably easier and English consi
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America can't fix big problems like climate change(theatlantic.com)
3 points by qiqing 8y ago|0 comments
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by qiqing 8y ago
On whether they "know" better -- the first time someone who looked like that intruder showed up, it was a British guy in 1880 who kidnapped 6 people, only 4 of whom came back alive. Not exactly a great first impression of the outs
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by qiqing 8y ago
In this case, a living person would also pose a risk. These islanders don't have the same immune system that the population the health professionals are looking after have, just like Native Americans didn't have the same immune sy
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Why are Silicon Valley execs banning their kids from using social media?(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by qiqing 8y ago|0 comments
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by qiqing 8y ago
Why is a Snopes link being downvoted?
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by qiqing 8y ago
Excerpt from the end of the article: > For his part, Gilmore said he “would have preferred that this stay off the radar.” But he decided to speak to BuzzFeed News because “once this comes out there’s no way that I’m going to stay out of
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by qiqing 8y ago
Western manufacturers have a tendency to buy from the cheapest supplier, even if it isn't physically possible to manufacture at that price point without cutting massive corners or making profit off of some externality. However, when Ch
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by qiqing 8y ago
Could I email you a Vendor Security Questionnaire to see if we can try it out?

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