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Has anyone heard of Jike.com, a Chinese state sponsored one that failed after hiring a former world champion of table tennis as CEO and burning out 2 billion RMB?
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How could this result be reproduced in an independent repetition, then?
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Total Perspective Vortex told me that I was important.
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`To drink tea` as a slang in Chinese means to be asked to talk with authority, especially the police, etc., which is generally not regarded as a good thing. Similarly, `to check the water meter` and `to receive a post package` mean the poli
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TIL, diaeresis is not umlaut.
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Apple gets map data for users in China from contractors who have been approved to run GIS businesses, e.g. AutoNavi Software Co., Ltd. BTW, they do not seem to provide world maps so you can only browse and search locations in China wh
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the legacy runtime before the `non-fragile` one?
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Twitter tried once upon a time: https://github.com/twitter/twui
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yeah, to believe or not, 'user generated content'
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I have trouble learning Python for the past decade, after I learned Perl in order to deal with DNA sequences and BLAST APIs in college. Although its syntax is straight forward, I failed to find any inner feeling to comprehend it.
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But why all those emojis after all?
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It was that George Lucas tried to protest against Vietnam war. http://nypost.com/2014/09/21/how-star-wars-was-secretly-geor...
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There must be some subtle differences in the definition of China's first fully autonomous self-driving car: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http...
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Rumors say that Dalai Lama has been bargaining with Beijing for his returning home, but has not reached a deal yet, apparently.
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Not only Roman empire level culture but also elves，wizards and dragons.
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And it was generalised in category theory: > The use of both terms in the modern context of multilinear algebra is a specific example of corresponding notions in category theory.
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But "(a)ll reactor systems are single threaded by definition"...
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By 'government', does Apple mean the government of the U.S. or any governments of nations Apple exports its goods and services to? I am still skeptical about any company in a hypothetical case where private information of its cust
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Xi is trying to save the system by eradicating corrupt parts of the bureaucracy and suppressing his enemies in the party, however, the cost of these actions are not cheap. The bureaucracy once took the responsibility of helping finance and
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FYI, Wikipedia for Chinese languages has been inaccessible for months in China.
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video footage after explosion: http://us.sinaimg.cn/001ZEXa6jx06UCsnbb15050401049TNs0k03.mp...
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10049192
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For stock markets in the two countries, no, they are different. The stock market in China was remarked as 'worse than a casino' by a Chinese economist, Wu Jinglian.
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I cannot wait to see the future in Birth and Death of JavaScript become true, except for the parts of nuclear war.
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> it contributes to people making stupider decisions and believing dumb stuff In the cell phone of a Chinese, such messages are ubiquitous. Taking the WeChat app by Tencent Inc. for example, I constantly read messages from my parents sha
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IMHO, what Confucius meant was that parental authority should be respected on condition that elders behaved like role models. In his ideal, the kings, officials and subordinates should all follow their ethics, like atoms in regular expressi
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Back in 1995, Internet Explorer then was licensed after Mosaic, and for Mozilla the name was coined as 'Mosaic Killer'.
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I had done the opposite for a hobby scheme-like interpreter found in github from Java into ObjC, but finding various difficulties doing the same into Swift at the early days of it. Converting that piece of Java codes into ObjC was easy and
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FYI, this paper has been accepted to Nature Photonics: http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nph...
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Macroscopic and Direct Light Propulsion of Bulk Graphene Material [pdf](arxiv.org)
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