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by yuy910616 5y ago
I don't think your ability to learn decreases (that much) with age. However, being older also means more responsibility, which takes time. It also probably means whomever you're talking to already has a mean to earn a living, so t
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by yuy910616 5y ago
It's almost taboo to feel bad for her! I think she committed a crime - but compare to the coverage to, for example, Madoff, it certainly seems rather different. I guess it cuts both ways - she certainly garnered more attention than you
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Progress != destruction of jobs. Farming, auto, journalism, and marketing fits your model. But medicine, finance, and tech would suggest otherwise. I've been getting advice about how there is no money in software and I should study har
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by yuy910616 5y ago
python actually has a build-in `breakpoint()` function. I think it brings up a repl at the line. I've been using that instead of print debug, it's been great.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
It seems to me, from reading the charts, that it still follows power law distribution, just with different cities. In other words, the labor dynamic that creates super star cities are still very much in place, just with new cities. Is that
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I think any argument that tries to boil down success into either nature or nurture is a bit of a futile exercise - the boring and non-controversial answer is always that it is a combination of both. No need to get all riled up about fairnes
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I think this is a question of what your definition of "a lot" is. If you use percentage - for example, 1% of parents, of maybe even less - 0.01%, 0.01%*7.7 billion = about a million people. Does percentage make more sense here or
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Man...I don't know how good the argument is because it's not a field I'm familiar with. But the charts and arguments are so well done. Each chart is simple yet very illustrative. Moments like this where I'm reminded that
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I have a few - Bill Bishop's Sinocism is probably the first that comes to mind - https://sinocism.com/about More cynical towards China - Sinocism is a word-play. (But I think he is mostly fair in his critique) https
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by yuy910616 5y ago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1285077091/ You might find this book helpful - it is a textbook, but approachable, albeit a bit expensive. I pick up this book off recommendation from Hackernews, and it has
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by yuy910616 5y ago
That's why I said "superpower" - it's pretty rare to find someone reliably supportive.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Having a supportive spouse is basically a superpower.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
haha, by his attitude, I'm assuming that people have abuse this policy before. I'm thinking if you return the empty bottle, they'll still take it, albeit a bit gruntled. Mine was about 2/3 gone. Definitely beyond of the
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by yuy910616 5y ago
One thing that really stood out to me was how "okay" infinity war and end game was. Big franchise like this rarely ends well, especially if you're juggling so many different characters. It is shocking how well they delivered.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
And their employee actually gets treated pretty well - when I go to Sam's club, I always feel bad; maybe I'm projecting.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I had a funny one - I was returning a bunch of unopened wine and I told the guy, there is one that was opened, indicating that when you see the open one please give it back to me. He was kinda rude and I was like wtf. And then he proceeds t
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by yuy910616 5y ago
If you're worried about quality, you should really look into Costco. Their business model incentivize them to have top notch quality. I've also worked with some of their buyers / purchasers - best in the business for sure. Ve
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by yuy910616 5y ago
QQ is actually just pronounced like QQ in English. If I remember correctly, it was first popularized by a type of candy - call QQ candy, which I think is where the soft and squishy meaning the OP referred to came from. Next was QQ the softw
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by yuy910616 5y ago
There are scalable bits of Education - courses, books, practice questions (look at leetcode), and lectures. I think that is why a lot of ed-tech fails. Information really does want to be free, and anything that can be broadcast is usually b
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Funny - I read it for a history class. The book Banana was also quite interesting.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Yep, this is exactly it. It's not that networking is unique, is that such connection is often used to replace things like law, justice, or a simple queue. In my own experience, where I went to kindergarten was an outcome of who my gra
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Well, at least you wouldn't get shot for saying Snowden.
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I also want to add the book is currently has 20 ratings on Amazon and 4.9 stars - I'm curious if a large flood of of negative reviews quickly get posted haha, since it is now on both the Economist and Hackernews, which I think China cl
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by yuy910616 5y ago
It sounds like an incredible book. I will certainly check it out. It fits well with my experience of China well - a place where Guanxi (關係）trumps all else. People fear it, hate it, but also aspire it. It's also interesting that how unl
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Really reminds me of the Taiwan election commercial that compares Taiwan and Hong Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykcVIQMrc4A
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by yuy910616 5y ago
Can anyone comment on Cowen's economic/political view? Last I've heard he's kind of a dying breed of Hayek supporter, but looking at his wikipedia page - it seems like even he has adopted a much more sympathetic view tow
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by yuy910616 5y ago
I've heard there is a book about this why we don't have such a thing - the book largely blames it on the green movement I think... Where is my flying car I believe is the title. Earlier this year I saw a book review from the star
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Minxin Pei on why China will not surpass the United States(economist.com)
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by yuy910616 5y ago
These are minor details - US probably should pay for it. But directionally, if you're a developing country, you can't afford it. The best way to progress has been GDP growth - modern medicine is not driven by good-will, kindness,
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by yuy910616 5y ago
And if you look at the past 200 years that we've made large progress towards all the things you mentioned, with each of those accomplishments have been enabled by...GDP growth

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