whoevercares

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by whoevercares 7y ago
I doubt Mainland government will allow a “eventually” Taiwan independence because it hurts the legitimacy of CCP(on the MAINLAND!), which will have a cascading effect.
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by whoevercares 7y ago
> healthcare Forget about Haven already?
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by whoevercares 7y ago
Pretty much as dx87 said. Honestly I know it’s not racism, but it feels so close for some reason and it might just because China is 99% single race and has been invaded and discriminated against so many times. The devil is in the subtleties
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by whoevercares 7y ago
I mostly agree, I do think the limit is higher for Chinese, but it’s not infinite
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by whoevercares 7y ago
That’s true. I heard Chinese internet CTOs saying this about a feature that took a year to launch in NA when they do recruiting in CA: “We can deliver this in two weeks with the same team size”
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by whoevercares 7y ago
Not a direct answer, but most Chinese had undergone tougher hours and more dreadful win-or-your-life-is-screwed college examination pressure during high school. I was in a class where the morning session started from 5:30am and the day ends
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by whoevercares 7y ago
Metaflow looks like a superhero solution for ML/DL. Hope they open source it one day
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by whoevercares 8y ago
That’s what happens When Google hired Wall Street executives to manage their actual business: all sort of politics and purging. Reducing cost by most primitive capitalism means(just look at the quality downturn of google cafeteria)
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by whoevercares 8y ago
>>Meanwhile, China's hierarchical system remains fragmented and autonomous below the top levels of power. exponential decay wrt distance to Beijing
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by whoevercares 8y ago
We make fun of the leaders and the systems all the times. Most private comments in my close circle are pretty critical(“wtf is this brainwashing Xuexiqiangguo app”). And I think overseas Chineses could show up as more patriotic than they we
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by whoevercares 8y ago
TIP: find a student born and raised in Beijing/Tianjing, they are much more likely to talk about politics. My father’s favorite story was about drinking with the student leader at the night before 89’s event happened.
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by whoevercares 8y ago
Hangzhou is tier-1, for sure.
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by whoevercares 8y ago
Many lines are invisible to westerners because it’s built-in the culture, e.g. ever wonder why they do 90 degree bows?
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by whoevercares 8y ago
They are evil but sadly they do deliver results and are right a lot so far. (Sorry to quote amazon LP) On the other hand, for some reason democratic negotiations become harder with no parties willing to make trade-offs