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by contravert 2y ago
Watching the video, it's not really clear how this game is substantially different than a normal mobile game. What is the actual mechanism here for treating ADHD?
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by contravert 3y ago
You definitely won't see anything like this in the US: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-tells-evergrande-found... Like in 2008, bankers made a killing selling toxic products and socialized all the losses when ever
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by contravert 3y ago
There is clear intellectual interest in comparing and contrasting why certain events receive outsized attention compared to objective outcomes (e.g. number of casualties).
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by contravert 3y ago
I just want to add my $0.02 currently working at a games studio that is integrating AI generated art into our art pipelines. Midjourney definitely generates really high quality art based on simple prompts, but the inability to really custom
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by contravert 5y ago
Although smart contract audits are pretty much security theatre where the auditor charges $10k-$30k to run your code through a program, rug pulls are way more common just through simple methods. A few common ways: 1. Use your admin privileg
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by contravert 5y ago
Although a flashloan was used in this exploit, that's just a tool to leverage a fundamental flaw in the protocol. Flash loans clearly do more harm than good, so it's completely irresponsible for major DeFi platforms to still have
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by contravert 5y ago
How many PMs does Core have compared to other PAs? The problem isn’t really with SWEs but with the entire incentive structure of PMs and the product management chain. They in turn are able to get more SWE headcount for these unfruitful vent
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by contravert 6y ago
It's interesting how one can simultaneously think China is "war mongering" while at the same time see nothing wrong with advocating starting a war immediately.
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by contravert 6y ago
This racist superiority complex is the pride before the fall. What exactly is TikTok's recommendation algorithms or Huawei's 5G technology cloning?
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by contravert 6y ago
If the US didn't pay 3-4x the salary for software engineers compared to Canada, I wouldn't be here either. If China paid me more, I'd move in a heartbeat.
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by contravert 6y ago
It's unbelievable how effective the west's disinformation, FUD and propaganda, lead by the US, against China has been. It's pretty much on par with the narrative leading up the the Iraq war. There's even documents descri
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by contravert 9y ago
Even in this thread, you can see more of the same insecurities. I personally think the Kübler-Ross model of grief is a surprisingly accurate model of this phenomenon. In general, I think we're still in the denial/anger phase, with
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by contravert 9y ago
Even based on such a short comment, you seem to have some serious problems with internalized racism. You clearly seem to think that being westernized is somehow better, and it's a "disappointment" that others have pride in th
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by contravert 9y ago
I don't say this often, but this is straight up racism. You're painting an enormous group of people with a lazy and ignorant stereotype.
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by contravert 9y ago
It's actually extremely easy to create new words using Chinese characters. You simply put existing characters together. To use some computing related terms for example: mobile phone: 手机（hand machine) programming: 编程（compose orders) Q
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by contravert 9y ago
I agree with you. The author even admits right off the bad that he failed to learn the language. I don't understand the mindset of someone who would write an article critiquing Chinese characters, knowing so little about them. If the a
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by contravert 10y ago
Lower-priced but "lower-quality" is one of the quintessential properties of a disruptive technology. You can probably apply this to all electronics manufacturing, from smart phones to consumer drones. Could smart phones have becom
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by contravert 10y ago
China doesn't want to end up like Europe, which has no major Internet companies of its own on the same level as Google or Facebook. There has been immense political consequences and soul searching in the EU, and they are trying to push
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by contravert 11y ago
Yeah, just look at the trade deficit: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html Unless China is just giving the US manufactured goods for free, that money has to be buying something.
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by contravert 11y ago
There are even more American kids with the same amount of money. You just don't notice the international students who come from modest means.
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by contravert 11y ago
There is diversity and then there's "diversity". This is ultimately a Americentric political movement. You only see American demographics as targets, ignoring the vast number of immigrants and foreign students that enter the
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by contravert 11y ago
How sure are you about that? Most "white" people don't actually fully integrate to the culture, despite marrying and raising kids. Take a look at this video about a Chinese villager with Russian ancestry: https://w
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by contravert 11y ago
You missed a word! It's actually Alphabet's Google's Google PLAY Music All Access
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by contravert 11y ago
You can literally apply this same logic to any form of discrimination: Paid less because of your gender? What good does complaining do? I suggest you work harder. Injustly stripped of your property? What good does complaining do? I suggest
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by contravert 11y ago
Okay, I briefly scanned through your comments as you suggested, and you have nothing to support your claims except stereotypes. You even admit you don't speak Chinese, so how exactly can you properly evaluate the "ability to think
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by contravert 11y ago
How is this stereotype-laden rant the top comment? Your racist assertions addresses nothing to do with the article, and only sate the wishful thinking of those insecure about this piece of news.
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by contravert 11y ago
Fantasy has disturbingly racist undertones if you examine it closely. For example, why is it "authentic" that all humans in Warcraft are lily-white Europeans, and all other ethnic counterparts are fantasy humanoid races.
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by contravert 11y ago
I always found the free market argument hard to believe. Why is it you can hire a world-class nuclear physicist or neurosurgeon for less than a percent of what a CEO is paid?
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by contravert 11y ago
Harvard's endownment earned over 12% annually averaged over 40 years ( http://www.hmc.harvard.edu/investment-management/performance... ). I bet the government would love to tax some of that money.
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by contravert 11y ago
The less measurable your admissions criteria, the more subconscious bias seeps into your decision making process. You can not extricate the perverse stereotypes that exist in society when making a decision whether a candidate is "diver

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