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by schuke 8y ago
The property is yours but the land on which the property is built is leased for 70 years. After 70 years according to exiting Chinese law the lease is automatically renewed. There’s no limit on the total number of renewals.
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by schuke 8y ago
Another thought: I'm not familiar with the typical demography of Hondas and Yamahas, but in China the typical scooter user seems very different from a stereotypical motorcycle rider. The former would be a female, aged 35-50, lives with
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by schuke 8y ago
They make great engines but do they make great battery and motors too? What other parts are sophisticated on a scooter? How would they compete with Chinese rivals? I live in China but have never seen anything from any manufacturer other tha
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by schuke 8y ago
The Party won't let anything that will lead to (10) happen. Growth=staying in power, this is the fundamental belief from which all their actions are derived. Facing a bad deal and losing face, they'll certainly choose a bad deal--
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by schuke 8y ago
But the Soviet Union and other dictatorships had similar institutions yet they all mess up somehow...
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by schuke 8y ago
Xiao Jianhua, Wang Jian (HNA) are recent examples. When Bo Xilai was purged, Xu Ming, a businessman with very close ties to him, were arrested for bribery, and later died mysteriously in prison. Given the turbulent political scene it could
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by schuke 8y ago
Thank God please bring it back. Some Google is better than no Google at all. Freedom of speech sounds and looks aloft but in reality Google’s absence does far more harm to Chinese customers and citizens than a censored version.
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by schuke 8y ago
How can a socially dead guy be healthy and wealthy though?
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by schuke 8y ago
A personal experience: when I have to remember or tell numbers in English, they always come into my mind first as Chinese, making it harder to use numbers in English. When I just started living in England, every time I have to tell someone
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by schuke 8y ago
Interesting story. But it seems to me they're just substituting addiction with distraction. The Apple watch ad always made me cringe: they basically listed how the wonderful moments of our life are distracted by digital devices. These
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by schuke 9y ago
You forgot to mention they can use facial recognition to ID and publicize pedestrians who don't wait for green light. The sheer amount of resource and power they can wield against an individual citizen is unparalleled in the entire hum
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by schuke 9y ago
I like all of them, but I always had problems with fountain pens: -Ink not coming out for the few centimetres of writing. -Ink not coming out if I leave the pen for a few days without using. -Having to refill if left unused for even longer.
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by schuke 9y ago
Everytime I take a plane somewhere I would have huge acnes in the two , three hour duration of the flight. I always suspected it’s the stress of having to be on time and everthing that flying involves.
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by schuke 9y ago
text.npr.org is a good example.
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by schuke 9y ago
Let's not forget the Air kept a non-IPS screen for ten years, too.
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by schuke 9y ago
I'm not defending surveillance in the US, but given the very different institutions and political systems involved, maybe different conclusions can be consistent? Snowden is a hero by the way.
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China to block SD-WAN and VPN traffic by Jan. 11(networkworld.com)
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by schuke 9y ago
This is not exactly correct. HK has pretty solid rule of law and has a Basic Law that guarantees freedom of speech. Beijing cannot interfere directly and activists face completely different consequences after speaking out. That's why B
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by schuke 9y ago
Sadly this is not. I'm surprised people don't get the basic economics at work here. More market=more freedom. That's why we're freer than the Mao-era without having the right to vote for anybody. It's the same logic
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by schuke 9y ago
It's basic economics. Baidu is a monopoly in China's poorly regulated search market. Google before quitting had a market share of 33%. People would at least have had different results to check against Baidu's had Google staye
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by schuke 9y ago
It's natural that older people tend to need less sleep though.
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by schuke 9y ago
I really appreciate Tim Cook being very pragmatic and non-confrontational in China. We have great products and fierce competition. This in itself gives us much more freedom. The last time a company did the opposite it literally caused death
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by schuke 9y ago
I second this. The only feature that I can immediately think of that locks me in the mac eco-system is the convenience of airdropping files with my wife. Apart from this, with most of my stuff on the cloud, there won't even be a migrat
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by schuke 9y ago
When I first went to the UK in 2004 as a student they had the same regulation. Register with local police within something like 7 days. Though this later turned out to be not very strictly enforced.
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by schuke 9y ago
I guess physiological variations are inevitable but for me I have to be a newly showered Labrador to shake it off my head.
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by schuke 9y ago
This is exactly what I feel: music coming from inside my head. The AirPod is a very under-hyped product. Its beauty is that you can wear it and completely forget about it and focus on whatever the hell you want to do. You actually feel that
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by schuke 9y ago
It's interesting that I have to very consciously and deliberately tell my mind that this page is very new, the stories are very new. Somehow my mind just very strongly believes this is a legacy site.
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by schuke 9y ago
I actually like the Macbook keys more than the Pro's. The new ones lost the firmness of the Macbook's--more wobbly under light touch, without much more travel than the Macbook's.
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by schuke 9y ago
Agreed. It's the opposite of the fashionable mechanical keys--tactile yet requires minimal muscle contraction. It's almost a breeze to type on. I find my Macbook's keyboard very satisfying to use, with only one caveat: the up
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by schuke 9y ago
I loved Paul Tomassi's Logic . If like me you find all the symbols intimidating and fear that you're not mathematically-minded, try it. It's like the iPhone for learning logic. Everything is clearly explained and explained t

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