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by qiqing 9y ago
I can imagine this causing our family to need more than one Switch. And it's totally ok if kids play rough with it and break it because you can build another one. And building it is half the fun.
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The village and the girl: economic development of rural China (2015)(bbc.co.uk)
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by qiqing 9y ago
Not an academic source, but... my parents came to the U.S. for graduate school in the late 80's (physics + computer science) and decided to stay and develop their careers here. Literally every one of their classmates (my "aunties&
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Surgical Patients May Be Feeling Pain–and (Mostly) Forgetting It(theatlantic.com)
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Can you tell me which part of what he said (as opposed to what other people said he said) is what you consider hypocritical? “I gave advice to Jeff Bezos 10 years ago,” Mr. Ma said, referring to Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive. “I said: ‘
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by qiqing 9y ago
A few excerpts re: what Jack Ma actually said (although "whining" is in the title of the article, it's not even one of the words he actually said): “I gave advice to Jeff Bezos 10 years ago,” Mr. Ma said, referring to Amazon.
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What technologies are adopted by Mongolian Nomads(wired.com)
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The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana(theguardian.com)
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Deep Neural Network Predicts When Patients Will Die(technologyreview.com)
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Venmo scammer walks away with 125K of Yeezys, iPhones, and more(theverge.com)
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As Earth's rotation slows, 2018 could see a spike in large earthquakes(qz.com)
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Chinese Phone Maker Bets Big with a Premium Price(nytimes.com)
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Used-car marketplace Beepi shuts down outside of CA, merges with stealth Fair.com(techcrunch.com)
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by qiqing 9y ago
In light of the commentary on Naomi Wu's choice of clothing in her content, I wanted to share an excerpt from an interview in another article to give a sense of cultural perspective here: http://www.makery.info/en/
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Excerpt from a different article: Why and how did you create this “Sexy Cyborg” character? Is it all persona or is it also the real you? Basically, when you are not being a maker, do you still dress just as sexy? It’s the other way around,
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> it seems that a bit of push-back is expected (and potentially warranted). It is generally useful to use a reversal thought experiment to check for logical consistency. Would a photogenic young man who wore tight clothes while presentin
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by qiqing 9y ago
Wouldn't this library be useful for rendering graphs or diagrams in a braille embosser / printer? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_embosser Not sure if that's what Sir_Cmpwn meant, but that was my
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Doctor Diagnosed His Own Cancer with an iPhone Ultrasound(technologyreview.com)
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> It is like worrying about an asteroid hitting the planet, there is nothing we can do about it so why worry? It is very much like an asteroid in that there are lots of things we can do. Excerpt from the article: “When people first consi
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What technologies are adopted by Mongolian Nomads(wired.com)
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Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold in Colliding Neutron Stars(npr.org)
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Actually, I think you misunderstand how the Hukou system works. You're allowed to physically go anywhere and visit as a tourist. It's just that if you want to to permanently move to another city, you have to do a bunch of bureaucr
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by qiqing 9y ago
Annoying quibble about the author's carelessness: there's an article from the Economist that this sentence is linked to. "Scholars who looked at Chinese investment in Africa from 1991 to 2010 found that Chinese assistance doe
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Alphabet’s Project Wing now delivers burritos by drone in southeastern Australia(techcrunch.com)
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Actually, the "leftover women" phrase refers to the relationship / marital status of some women, not their job status. Many of these women (including people I know personally) have reclaimed the term as a compliment -- there&
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What the elite expect and receive from an Ivy League education(washingtonpost.com)
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Hey Zack, two questions: 1) What were the interesting technical challenges of evolving the Eager codebase and integrating with Cloudflare since the acquisition? 2) What has surprised you so far in the feedback about developer experience?
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Security researcher found ~0.2% of npm users re-used leaked passwords for npm(blog.npmjs.org)
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Rewind to Tang Dynasty China, and sushi would be very commonplace.
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What do you think of the U.S.'s record for human rights? To be fair, the U.S. has done a much better job of keeping many of those incidents (Gitmo or elsewhere) secret until fairly recently.

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