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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's not a coincidence that work is done by Foxconn and not a local partner. China has fantastic human capital. The problem is usually incentives and culture, especially for blue collar work.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Unless by "political orthodoxy", you mean the KMT military dictatorship in power before Taiwan became a democracy, your comment is simply false. You will not find any elected politician on the island claiming that Taiwan is a part
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "the web's access pattern would be exponential and overwhelming." It might well be overwhelming, but it wouldn't be exponential. There are a maximum of N choose 2 connections between N nodes. That number only grows
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I wouldn't say it's about Asia so much as Anglophones are notable for not taking siestas. Aside from China, it's pretty common in much of southern Europe, the Mediterranean, and Latin America.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I'm not sure that is better. Human circadian rhythms are naturally biphasic. Even if you went on a complete water fast, it's doubtful you'd completely eliminate the secondary one.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Japan is the #3 economy in the world, the #2 cultural exporter after Hollywood thanks to cartoons and video games and most Japanese people don't learn English very well. In fact, Japanese interest in learning English peaked nearly 20 y
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Check out LingQ. It's pretty much exactly what you've described wanting.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It really depends on how you define social mobility. Immigrants in the US often jump from the bottom to top income quartiles within a single generation. For those born in the US, there's less movement and that's exactly what would
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, they did experiment with various attempts to highlight their own video offerings beyond what popularity dictated before finally giving in and buying YouTube. And we all remember the kinds of crap Google did to tr
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Here's the wall: could any competitor to Google itself ever be on AMP? (E.g., a competitor to search, Gmail, YouTube, or adsense/adwords.) Or would it have to be something on the open web? And if only AMP pages get ranked well on
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by xiaoma 9y ago
When's the last time you used a travel agent? How about a stock broker? Both were ubiquitous 20 years ago and not uncommon 10 years ago. Both have now been nearly automated away.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
For a investor who funds many businesses, EV matters much more than hit rate. TBH, for an early investor, a success rate of over 20% is possibly a sign of being too risk-adverse.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
For founders who are fundraising, it's even more extreme. Job applications generally don't and possibly can't ask about age, but it's a required field on applications for YC or other incubators.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I can say from first-hand experience a few years ago that your assumption—which you presented as fact—is false.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's mildly concerning considering that Europe, Japan and especially China will be facing a more extreme inverted age pyramid than the US 20 years from now. India won't, but it's already straining under the weight of its co
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Since you seem knowledgeable about this, what is the amount of credit card debt available to the median American above what they already carry?
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by xiaoma 9y ago
They're bureaucrats. Restricting things is their job.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The Qing Dynasty ended over 130 years ago.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
If you're speaking of China as in the PRC, the history goes back less than a century and its territory has only expanded. If you're speaking of the region, then in reality Europe has a history of being even more divided. Nobody wa
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by xiaoma 9y ago
HoFs are not array comprehensions and array comprehensions aren't supported in ES6. https://gist.github.com/sleepyfox/1879845 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript&
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's a bit presumptuous to tell me what bits to look at and then tell me about FP improvements when I just recommended Elm :D
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I see ES6 or especially Typescript as essentially a recreation of ES4/Flash AS3, with some renaissance-era Javascript footguns attached. You've got classes, various class based OO features, optional typing major industry support,
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I'd take Sweden over Singapore anytime. I mean, I like Singapore, but I'm not a fan of having one party that runs everything, the draconian drug laws and wide application of the death penalty. It's also worth pointing out tha
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Police states are pretty bad, too. Consider this: Would you rather live in a European country where terrorist attacks happen on a semi-regular basis and are in the news, or would you prefer North Korea where the state is very strong and ter
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Skype has been going strong for 14 years. It's not impossible of course, but I have my doubts Slack will endure that long in its current form.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I had a somewhat similar situation at a similar age though the industry and specifics were different. I moved to Yunnan province in China, taught myself to draw with a pencil and paper. Then bought a Wacom Bamboo tablet and a copy of Adobe
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's a situation where what's best for one person isn't always the same as what's good for everyone. If they weren't required, there would have been more cyclists, possibly a better separated lane for you and the dr
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by xiaoma 9y ago
This is completely true. Here's a study from Brisbane on the effects on public bicycle share: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369847812... In contrast the youbike program in Taipei and
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Helmets actually have two effects that increase fatalities: 1) Psychological: motorists give less safety margin to helmeted cyclists. 2) Cyclist reduction: locales which require helmets have sharply fewer cyclists on the road, which is is s
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Time to switch to Vectr? It's free, great for students and works on chromebooks. Autodesk sketchbook is a good quality freemium tool to, though a bit crippled and the lowest tiers are still too much for schools.

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