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Didi Chuxing: China carpool service suspended indefinitely(bbc.com)
2 points by theseadroid 8y ago|0 comments
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Scientists edit a disease mutation in human embryos(sciencemag.org)
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by theseadroid 8y ago
>a lot more electric buses on the road in the USA The sources you provided didn't say anything about that. In the meantime: https://qz.com/1169690/shenzhen-in-china-has-16359-electric-...
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by theseadroid 9y ago
Here's one suggestion from a Chinese perspective: Can you guys fix your democracy first? If you can't set a good example on how good democracy can be, then there's no incentives for any other countries to follow. You realize
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by theseadroid 9y ago
Protip, look at per capita. Or accumulative. How is it fair that u blame others after u done tons of pollution in the past?
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Google plans to 'fix' Toronto by building smart city(cbc.ca)
1 points by theseadroid 9y ago|0 comments
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by theseadroid 9y ago
You think your job is making the world a little better place isn't it? Do you think all or most people can think the same way? That everyday the 8 hours of their lives are making the world better/not wasted? The comment you replie
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Ask HN: How to fast iterate on political science?
1 points by theseadroid 10y ago|1 comments
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by theseadroid 10y ago
Source of the image https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6034
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by theseadroid 10y ago
https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/ >The intensity, frequency and duration of North Atlantic hurricanes, as well as the frequency of the strongest (Category 4 and 5) hurricanes, have all increased since the early 1980
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by theseadroid 10y ago
This lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Basically it says that the metabolic mechanism of fructose is different from other forms of nutrition. Our bodies have no good ways to break it down without harming
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by theseadroid 10y ago
This is a large topic and I've been thinking for a while. In essence, there are 2 major things we need to educate more. 1. Science. To the point that average joe understands that the prediction of climate change is concluded from the s
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by theseadroid 10y ago
What about educating the whole population to the point that the average joe can think logically, critically, and independently so that the society as a whole can adapt change better? And it's not like we haven't seen that the aver
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by theseadroid 10y ago
As someone from mainland China and learned pinyin in grade 1 of primary school, which happened in early 90s, in Beijing, I use pinyin daily, for inputting Chinese into electronic devices. >All my Chinese teachers explained that young sch
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by theseadroid 10y ago
A related study on human retinal pigment epithelial cells https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Chamorro/publicatio...
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by theseadroid 10y ago
No, this is an example of why government regulation and free market economic are important. In places where there's fierce competition, a scandal like this will cost the player to lost the battle against other competitors, so deregulat
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by theseadroid 10y ago
The sooner some of you guys get the idea that you own nothing, the sooner NA will become a better society. Living inside a society means your rights are not granted by the god or by nature, it is granted by other people around you, by the s
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by theseadroid 10y ago
Every time someone makes the comment "oh if China was just like Western countries and had X etc", I feel obliged to point out that there's a large majority of people in this country who A) Do not like being told we should be
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by theseadroid 10y ago
I've been lucky to have a nice landlord for a while until he sold the rental unit, then the new landlord started charging more for laundry/parking/anything the law allows. He also tried his best to increase rent. You must hav
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by theseadroid 10y ago
For sure. If they've been living here for some years. The housing crisis wasn't this bad until maybe last 5 years. But it has prevented not only young talents coming to the city, but also small-middle businesses flourishing. As th
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by theseadroid 10y ago
Can't say for other cities, but Vancouver is quite liveable if you gathered your wealth elsewhere. The median household salary is 22nd Canada wide in 2010[1]. The housing price is world renowned. I wonder if there's a list for wor
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by theseadroid 10y ago
Lived in Beijing for 2 decades. I think in Beijing and Shanghai, a private car is almost always slower than their subway systems. Beijing subway network has 18 lines, 334 stations and 554 km (344 mi) of track in operation and is the second
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by theseadroid 10y ago
And doctors are never ever wrong in their diagnosis. Or don't they? But you still go to doctors instead of diagnose yourself?