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by zhemao 11y ago
This assumes that China has a strong legal system and that government officials won't abuse the system to meet arbitrary quotas. Neither of which are true. http://www.pri.org/stories/2013-04-15/china-past-due-
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by zhemao 11y ago
Respected? I don't think being an artist is "respected" even in the West, much less so in China, where everybody is focused on highly lucrative professions like business, finance, and ahem government service.
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by zhemao 11y ago
Also, the benchmarks we did a while ago on a taped-out chip with our in-order RV64 core, Rocket, showed that it compared quite favorably to an ARM Cortex A5. http://riscv.org/download.html#tab_rocket_core Unfortunately, it
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by zhemao 11y ago
In the original blog post for the project, they explicitly anticipated this complaint and stated that this simply wasn't their goal. Novena is not intended to be a mass market Thinkpad clone, it is a laptop made by OSHW hackers for OSH
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by zhemao 11y ago
(Disclaimer: I am a PhD student in the Berkeley computer architecture group, which designs RISC-V) An ISA can't be "fast" or "slow". It's just a specification. There's no reason you can't build a RISC
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by zhemao 11y ago
That really sucks, dude. I'm sorry your coworkers are such assholes. My situation was similar. I came to the US in '94 when I was 3 years old. Being one of very few Asian kids in mostly White schools was not fun. But thankfully, I
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by zhemao 11y ago
Not really surprising since all of those languages (except maybe Vietnamese) derive the pronunciation of both words from Middle Chinese.
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by zhemao 11y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who was momentarily confused by the fact that Charles Town, WV and Charleston, WV are two different municipalities.
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by zhemao 11y ago
Well, it apparently can't even depict terrorists correctly, because suggesting that Al Qaeda and Hezbollah would ever work together is just ludicrous. And I can totally see why Lebanese would be pissed off at seeing Hamra street comple
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by zhemao 11y ago
Nothing too surprising here. The more urbanized coastal provinces and cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong) have much better GDP per capita than the more rural inland provinces. It would be interesting to see a simila
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by zhemao 11y ago
This may be the case in CS, but for EE and other engineering fields, a master's degree is definitely worth it. The expanded job opportunities and differences in starting pay are worth the tuition most of the time.
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by zhemao 11y ago
There's a vast spectrum between bloody revolution and glacial change. You only need to go across the strait to see an example of quick but bloodless regime change. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Taiwan was an authoritarian one-party stat
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by zhemao 11y ago
Something similar happened with Shanghai. A lot of deceased Shanghai residents are buried in the nearby city of Suzhou. I visited my grandparents' graves there once and there were these massive graveyards covering entire hillsides.
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by zhemao 11y ago
In Standard Mandarin pronunciation, er is definitely pronounced like "arr". If you don't believe me, listen to the pronunciation given by Google Translate. https://translate.google.com/#zh-CN/en/%E4%
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by zhemao 11y ago
Here at Berkeley, we've successfully run our RV32I processor, Zscale, on an $89 lx9 microboard. But this took some hacking of the FPGA support repo, so it isn't officially supported.
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by zhemao 11y ago
A lot of it has to do with whether local ISPs and utility companies are reliable enough to get satisfactory availability. I once worked at a company that operated a few Indian PoPs and we always had trouble with them. Sometimes we would sim
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by zhemao 11y ago
I'm guessing that since he was a) Chinese-American and b) working on a high-tech research project involving classified information, the FBI was already suspicious of him and monitored his email and other communications.
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by zhemao 11y ago
Assistant professor is the entry-level academic position in the US. Many people do a postdoc first, but it's not uncommon to go straight to assistant professor right after getting your Ph.D., especially if you came out of a renowned sc
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by zhemao 11y ago
> This should answer the question of whether it's the genetics at play or the diet itself How exactly? Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese have both similar diets and similar genetics.
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by zhemao 11y ago
I'll be honest, I don't see these products as all that compelling. They all seem kind of gimmicky to me. Who exactly is the target market for the sandwich-making machine or bicycle cafe? Is it for restaurants? If I owned a deli, f
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by zhemao 11y ago
Well, if you subscribe to the theory that The Prince was actually a piece of satire. It's not surprising that Machiavelli would write comedies.
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by zhemao 12y ago
It takes some effort to hang goat heads from a telephone pole. You wouldn't do that if all you wanted to do was throw them away.
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by zhemao 12y ago
And besides, the argument isn't "Why aren't all Bengali characters represented when all English characters are?" The argument is "Why aren't all Bengali characters represented when a pile of poo is?"
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by zhemao 12y ago
Except that the whole purpose of Unicode is to create a character encoding that "enables people around the world to use computers in any language" - taken from the Unicode Consortium website. Bengali is also not an obscure languag
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by zhemao 12y ago
Yes, but other characters that also look different are merged. Here's an example: http://www.tofugu.com/2012/04/04/the-sorry-state-of-japanese... That's the character for "cold". If you sh
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by zhemao 12y ago
> Talking about Bengali being the seventh largest native language, then saying that US$18k is too expensive for a stake in solving this problem? West Bengal and Bangladesh aren't exactly the richest places in the world. > Emojis
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by zhemao 12y ago
But ò has it's own codepoint, whereas the ending character in the Aditya's name does not.
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by zhemao 12y ago
Except you can still recognize the 'a' as 'a' no matter which way it is rendered. Not so with Chinese characters. For instance, the character for "fly" in simplified (飞) and traditional (飛) look very different.
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by zhemao 12y ago
> Their children animation series were western looking characters. It's because Osamu Tezuka, widely considered the father of modern anime and manga, was heavily inspired by Disney's animation style. He drew his characters with
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by zhemao 12y ago
Given the number of Indians working in the software field, I think it's safe to say that there are quite a few Bengali speakers "doing the work" to keep the internet running. Actually, I'd posit that the majority of prog

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