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by z2 5y ago
Looks like this one, at least this could be their official storefront: https://www.lishigongju.com/ The inventor is Li ZhiQin and the brand is now called Li shi (meaning Mr. Li)
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by z2 5y ago
This is a guess based on anecdotes on recent volatile periods, the general scenario could be this: 1. Market falls sharply. 2. General public panic and sell, while market timers double down. 3. Market falls further, market timers panic and
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by z2 5y ago
Ultimately it's about risk (permanent loss) control, and if you've done the research into those couple of companies, have high confidence in their continued success, and are diligent in continuing to update your views, then it sou
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by z2 6y ago
China is mostly just a buyer of their products. Not buying from them just gives power to the remaining handful of competitors in these oligopolies. It's not like they can threaten to disrupt their production--I recall that the 787 has
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by z2 6y ago
Less on machines on more on basic concepts, may I recommend a physics site that is spiritually related to this website, in that it is also clear, simple, and in many ways a work of passion for teaching? http://hyperphysics.phy-as
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by z2 6y ago
And what are individual humans but groups of cells trying to stave off entropy and survive just a bit longer?
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by z2 6y ago
With some luck, people have been posting books that they find online in a rather scattershot manner on forums and blogs, usually surname and location. What is digitized may not represent the majority, but I was able to find a match on my gr
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by z2 6y ago
I was similarly amazed to learn that a couple of years ago, after borrowing a concert recording CD from a library marked "Recorded in West Germany ©1983." One that the disc was in such great condition after 3 decades, and two that
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by z2 6y ago
After an 8% decline last year, I sure hope it bounces back this year... A more useful click-bait headline would be compounding 2020 and 2021, then seeing which country has the most growth.
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by z2 6y ago
I'm right on the border of "younger generation" but I got my start when I discovered my parents' computer had Visual Basic 6 and found a bunch of tutorials online from making simple games like tic-tac-toe, progressing to
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by z2 6y ago
I guess it depends on what you want to use the data for. There are plenty reasonably priced APIs for streaming the latest closing price once a second for, say, up to 5 stocks at a time. That's much more manageable than, say, streaming
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by z2 6y ago
US and Canadian equities, anyway, and while certainly important, leaves out half the world's market capitalization. Not bad for free! But Bloomberg's value proposition and justification for the insane price is that they are a maxi
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by z2 6y ago
Interestingly enough, as someone with both Bloomberg terminal and FactSet subscriptions, I still don't have real-time market data for most asset classes and securities. Those are actually add-on costs that I don't need for my rese
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by z2 6y ago
Watching him use ED on the teletype, the lack of ED's interactivity and terseness suddenly makes sense! Though obvious now, it never occurred to me that the tool was designed around physical printing interfaces.
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by z2 6y ago
Indeed. > You need special rolling stock, they only make one journey per day, and can't carry intermediate passengers -- nobody would board at 2 a.m." This was not the case on almost every overnight train I've taken (not i
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by z2 6y ago
There are arguably three to six types, depending on how deep one wants to get into the etymology of it! On the higher count, two categories missing are (1) phonetic (false) loans where another character was arbitrarily adopted for a differe
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by z2 6y ago
They probably asked (conceptually) for a "fapiao", which is a very formal invoice in China but required for reimbursement [0] and is a government-acknowledged piece of paper declaring that a sales transaction really happened. Aski
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by z2 6y ago
Not to defend incompetence, but could the design have made it a bit unwieldy with the 900 (US) ton receiver housing the array of focusing lenses/mirrors? Is it common enough to suspend something that massive from so few points? The onl
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by z2 6y ago
I've never seen one of these in person or in emulation, but on seeing the terminal font, I was immediately and subliminally motivated to type: PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU "; GOTO 10
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by z2 6y ago
Charts on China's historical relative share of GDP and other measures beg to differ. Or at least they suggest that the first derivative matters a lot more than snapshot numbers. Nobody's defending that repression and misguided aut
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by z2 6y ago
Kind of, in the sense that yes, growth was stunted and even reversed for decades. But the starting point was low. The war with Japan and earlier revolutions to overthrow the Qing government weren't kind to economic activity, and the po
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by z2 6y ago
Sadly, the primary way that the abstract concept of sovereignty is expressed concretely is by erecting and enforcing borders, thus defining who is in (citizen) or out (alien). This power is established, even reinforced, by the arbitrariness
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by z2 6y ago
It's an interesting point--I underestimated the difficulty of learning to handwrite characters. Knowing simplified I can read traditional pretty effortlessly and even communicate with a relative in HK typing in traditional, but cannot
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by z2 6y ago
Doesn't the order matter only if it's harder to do this the other way around? Anecdotally for me, learning Chinese first with simplified characters was totally fine, and without formal study, I can read traditional characters fine
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by z2 6y ago
I totally agree with this analogy, though maybe to add some nuance (or pedantry), I'd claim that to start learning Chinese, you need to pick a modern dialect (probably Mandarin), which is like choosing Spanish over Portuguese or Catala
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by z2 6y ago
That cost per GB chart is interesting--how can Portugal be 5x more expensive than Spain, or Japan be (what looks like) 30x more expensive than Korea? Are there hidden subsidies or costs driving this or is it from infrastructure, policy, or
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DOL’s H-1B Wage Rule Understates Wage Increases by up to 26 Percent(cato.org)
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by z2 6y ago
I always felt that these things tend to get blurred together especially when tensions flare. The ideal situation for a downvote may be something that doesn't add much to the discussion, whatever that means, be it somewhat off-topic, re
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by z2 6y ago
I actually looked into this after writing the parent post, which was more of a frustrated quip and not grounded in data... Per this 6-years outdated page, in addition to Hong Kong, it seems Mainland China actually overtook Taiwan for edits
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by z2 6y ago
There probably is a pro Taiwan bias in Wikipedia, but ironically a big part of that is from China blocking access to the Chinese Wikipedia for most of its existence. Who else is left to create the Chinese content?

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