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Reports Show That the World’s Healthiest Countries Eat the Most McDonald’s(vagabondjourney.com)
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Surely you wouldn't support working slaves to death just to make a profit? Or murdering people to sell their organs? You wouldn't do either of those things even if there were no law stopping you, right? Of course social responsi
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by xiaoma 10y ago
You may have a point about facebook, but I have to disagree about McDonald's. Many, many people eat tons of McDonald's and live to a ripe old age, including Warren Buffet, my great aunt (now 103), and countless others. Yes, you
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Agreed. If it had generics or something else noteworthy, it would be news. Simply having released an 1.X.X version is not.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
iPhones weigh too much and are too big for running, anyway. I just use an iPod nano clone.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It took me several seconds to load (compared to about 1-1.5 for HN)... this page needs better hosting for Asian users.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Humor is possibly the most egregiously self over-estimated skill.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "Part of doing a startup is about sacrificing bits of your life for your business." But not his baby. Some things are non-negotiable.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Political correctness is actually pretty horrible. Try living in a communist country for a few years and you may start valuing tolerance of "incorrect" views more than you currently do. For the most part, the US isn't too bad
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by xiaoma 10y ago
If you want to truly understand political correctness, try living in a communist country for a few years. The media is maddening. So is the word-policing.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Outrage porn does better on social media. "Anger is a high-arousal emotion, which drives people to take action...It makes you feel fired up, which makes you more likely to pass things on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by xiaoma 10y ago
That's close to my perception. If you gave one of Python's stars to Ruby and RoR, gave two of Go's to Elixir and created an entry for Lisp with six stars, it would be pretty much exactly what I'd estimated from this site
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by xiaoma 10y ago
By that logic, Elixir is not even two years old! Edit: karma_vaccum123 has greatly edited the gp comment but for the record, Google has been using golang since 2007.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Go has been around nearly a decade with the backing of none less than Google and yet it remains a fairly fringe language. Elixir is on a much steeper adoption curve. So is Swift, but Elixir doesn't even have a tech heavyweight behind
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by xiaoma 10y ago
> "in these countries children in the 5th grade can't properly read a newspaper because they need to already know 2000 characters and many more combinations of characters by rote." This is completely false. I spent seven
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The article clearly talked of how they aren't. Though motorbike taxis are illegal, they are ubiquitous except for temporary crackdowns. Though the raves were against the rules, they were advertised publicly for four years before any ac
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by xiaoma 10y ago
...yet.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Characters do give a lot of semantic information than an alphabet and it's definitely easier to learn new words through context if you can see the characters vs just hearing them. Knowing Chinese characters is closer to knowing not onl
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by xiaoma 10y ago
What traditional character using place are you speaking of? In Taiwan, programmer is 程式設計師 and in Hong Kong, it's 程式設計員. I had thought 程序 was basically a mainland-only variant. Also, FWIW, I couldn't read a paper at 3k characters
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The "weak man" argument: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The question I wonder is this: Of the first 10 non-founding engineers—i.e. those who almost certainly took a salary cut in exchange for equity—how many will be able to retire off of an upcoming multi-billion dollar IPO? Retirement is a very
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by xiaoma 10y ago
It's probably due to location. LINE is absolutely dominant in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and a few other Asian markets. None of my friends in America use it really. Facebook messenger is clearly watching LINE closely though.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Looks like https://google.com/finance didn't get the memo. "Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts."
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Don't they have bar-raisers in the interviewing process anymore?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Sell them what they want and give what they need.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
This March, I got a 30 day tourist 3G SIM card in Taiwan and used 304GB of data. It cost under $30 CAD.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
The math doesn't look reasonable in this post. The "okay" startups only return 25% growth over ten years. Even hundred year-old blue chips grow faster than that. Of course a 50M exit isn't good enough if it takes ten yea
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by xiaoma 10y ago
China is also ahead in terms of academic output, biotechnology, software and aerospace technology. Of course it hasn't been put to the test, but China's military has also likely pulled ahead of Europe.
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by xiaoma 10y ago
China's outperformance of Europe is undeniable. In the chart you shared China was at barely 1/20 of Europe's level a generation ago and now is over 1/3. What will the comparison be in one more generation?
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by xiaoma 10y ago
Notice a common thread between those companies? It's not tech and it's not IP. It's brand.

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