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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
There are still way too many hompohones which can introduce a lot of amibiguity. Even Korean still includes Hanja to clarify technical terms in law/medicine. Modern Standard Mandarin has way fewer syllables than Middle Chinese and Sout
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Danish children acquire language skills at slower pace than six other languages (including Swedish which is in the same language sub-family): http://cphpost.dk/life-in-denmark/the-danish-languages-irrit... Is there als
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
This ain't the 1800s. The vast majority of Chinese citizens who have finished elementary school are able to recognize at least 2000 characters. Knowing how to read and write Hanzi is no longer an indication of "intelligence"
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
40% is just ridiculous. As we've seen in past US presidential elections, the vast majority of Americans who claim they want to move out of the country will not actually do it. Moving to a major metropolitan area within the US that alig
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Content arbitrage has been a thing inside China for a few years, particularly due to the Great Fire Wall blocking a great deal of websites. Quite a few accounts exist on Wechat and Weibo that aggregate memes and viral videos from Youtube an
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
It has sort of happened already: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-identify-a...
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
>most people will forget the important news, no matter how it is essential to their life. Are you sure you are just talking about China? You are intentionally misinterpreting apathy as "brainwashed".
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
More like those two did not possess enough skills to qualify for a better visa. No country inherently needs immigrants who can't contribute anything. Zero sympathy for them. laowhy86 and serpentza subsisted off a horde of uninformed pe
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
What's lacking in a lot of people's views about China is objectivity. China is not just an "failing authoritarian shithole" or a tech-utopia filled with megaprojects. It's a bit of both, plus a plethora of descripto
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Unironic exceptionalism at display right here. Colonialism is only bad if it's not Europe/US doing it. /s
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Maybe KJU, Khamenei, and Raul Castro has a secret slack group for plotting USA's downfall. You never know! /s I'm betting that Slack only had to do this to comply with some dumb laws regarding sanctions because I am unable to
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
I remember my Chinese english teachers in middle school (in early/mid 2000's) complained to us students how they had to regularly stay up until midnight to grade assignments/exams and prepare teaching materials, while foreign
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Taiwan's relative economic and cultural power has declined significantly due to the PRC's growth. The ROC acted as an ideological counterweight to the PRC for many years but now the Taiwanese are too busy arguing with each other w
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Agreed that 2008-2012 was relatively much more liberal. Hosting the Olympics boosted China's confidence as a prosperous and prominent nation on the world stage. There were growing grass root movements against corruption and restrictive
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
I miss the Internet in early-2000's China. Not as many sites were blocked and everyone was much more open-minded as the undereducated chauvinists did not yet acquire reliable Internet access. Nowadays everyone has a smartphone and it h
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/business/23proto.html 48% of dot-com companies founded after 1996 survived until at least 2004. My own incomplete knowledge of these companies include Amazon and Ebay,
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
TIL that WSJ, Bloomberg, BAML, and a plethora of financial institutions are all "Russian agents attempting to attack the US economy". Reading the comments was clearly a mistake as the paranoia has gotten completely out of control.
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Lots of newly IPO'd tech companies during the last Dotcom bubble survived through it and eventually grew to be prominent companies today. Many of their share prices were down >80% in the years afterwards, but the cash raised through
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Basically any time someone who has more money than you do purchases something you can't afford, it's automatically assumed that they are laundering their money? It's difficult to take housing issues in Vancouver seriously bec
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Only a person standing on the far right spectrum would see everything left of them as "left of Lenin".
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Some of the credentials used by SciHub may have been donated. So at least some academic researchers are supporting open access.
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Yeah how dare people point out that some articles about China might have been biased! Isn't it interesting that every time someone presents countering viewpoints (not even necessarily defending the Chinese gov), they are almost immedia
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
Zhihu (Chinese offshoot of Quora) does the exact same shit on mobile as a way to force users to download their app (which pushes a ton of ads plus other frills). Looks like they got their full playbook from Quora.
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by ssnistfajen 8y ago
IC fabrication and packaged component assembly are very different things. China doesn't have anything near this level of sophistication, at least not without any outside help.