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Think Cheating in Baseball Is Bad? Try Chess(nytimes.com)
2 points by gentro 7y ago|0 comments
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by gentro 7y ago
To get people eating more healthily you have to get them accustomed to eating healthy dishes. In India a go-to meal might be various curries with legumes and vegetables. In Japan an everyday meal might include grilled fish and tofu soup. In
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by gentro 7y ago
Also if you ask regular Chinese people if they want a censored version of google, most of them would probably say hell yea, when does it launch? What’s the alternative? Only other censored search engines. And Chinese people know baidu searc
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by gentro 9y ago
Sure, the man himself seems beyond reproach, and I admire his courage. But in another sense that's just what I mean, that we can sit here, read this news, and nod approvingly at this man's actions. But beyond our own consumption o
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by gentro 9y ago
You ever get the feeling this Nobel Prize and the western media's fawning coverage of Liu Xiaobo is really just about westerners making themselves feel better? China will get democracy one day. It will be because a large swath of Chine
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by gentro 9y ago
I would not recommend using any of the Chinese cloud services unless you need to reach the Chinese market. And yes, there are all sorts of bureaucratic surprises that will make your blood boil.
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by gentro 9y ago
The argument for trade hinges on competitive advantage. Each country should produce what it is most efficient at producing based on its resources. In this way China has indeed rode the wave of globalization because its bountiful cheap labor
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by gentro 9y ago
They have a certificate management system where you can register for a free one from TrustAsia, or buy an expensive one from another authority like Symantec. I just got a free one. You could just as easily bring your own or deploy a LetsEnc
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by gentro 9y ago
My service is not subscription oriented, but I take Alipay and WeChat pay, which together probably account for >80% of potential customers. But you need a registered Chinese business entity.
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by gentro 9y ago
Don't forget there's also: Tencent Cloud: https://www.qcloud.com/?lang=en Baidu Cloud (Chinese only): https://cloud.baidu.com/ Netease/163 Cloud (Chinese only): https://www.163yun.
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by gentro 9y ago
By far the biggest reason why Chinese tourists act the way they do is because most of them are not even one generation removed from the villages. Most have not gone to university, maybe not even high school. Westerners can look down their n
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Long shot horse Cloud Computing wins Preakness(nytimes.com)
1 points by gentro 9y ago|0 comments
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by gentro 10y ago
The amount of information available to westerners about the Chinese economy is pretty pitiful. Here in the U.S. there's like four or five talking points that echo around the media about the Chinese economy and those are the only tidbit
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by gentro 10y ago
The documentary is about fintech innovation driving funds to SMEs. Their examples are a kiwi producer, a fish farm, and and a steel welding company. What they probably mean is that 12,000 businesses are started in China every day, not neces