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by handle584 5d ago
Overworked Chinese workers have been making western consumers better off for more than two decades now. Chinese domestic consumption is very low even among developing countries, negligible compared to its gigantic export. Upon joining WTO o
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by handle584 22d ago
> It was the most sold during March, but that's it. Also June, and a better link for monthly sales by model from your source is https://www.autohome.com.cn/rank/1 . Basically Model Y has been consistently in top
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by handle584 23d ago
> 5000 meters in Sichuan Pretty sure you were in Tibetan areas at those altitudes, a large part of Sichuan is actually Tibetan.
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by handle584 23d ago
Communists have been executing bankers since day one so not just recent decades, if anyone finds that impressive.
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by handle584 24d ago
They don't have private companies like Equifax collecting those because it is built into the government. At the minimum, new employee background check involved providing bank statement + social security contribution + income tax histor
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by handle584 28d ago
Meanwhile ppl freak out over Anthropic using timezone and Unicode for the same purpose, without realizing Chinese are simply ruthless in abusing iOS or Android or Web. Pinduoduo, who owns Temu, is infamous for exploiting an Android 0day vul
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by handle584 1mo ago
The keyword is soon , so OP simply meant current generation of LLMs are not likely to prove RH, judging from the performance shown in the paper. Why? Because such explicit numerical improvements are not that interesting, which is best summ
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by handle584 2mo ago
> Tesla is faltering so badly in China. Huh? In June the best selling EV in China is Model Y across all price ranges. Model 3 a tie for the 8th with many ~$10k entry level higher up. If you only rank among ~$40k, then it's a tie for
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by handle584 2mo ago
For more mathematics/physics behind it, Körner's classic Fourier Analysis [0] contains a few interesting chapters. [0]: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fourier-analysis/5FD8F0...
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by handle584 2mo ago
>> The current peer-review model, I should remind you, is a recent invention from the second half of the twentieth century. What? In EU Crelle's Journal is founded in 1826, while in the US the American Journal of Mathematics in 1
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by handle584 2mo ago
If you consider Tesla in China to be Chinese, then BYD in EU would be Hungarian in the parent comment. Japanese brands also manufactures in Mexico, so Mazda is suddenly Mexican now? I've never seen anyone claiming such stuff, except wh
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by handle584 2mo ago
> because US manufacturers are 100% unable to compete. In the June just passed Tesla Model Y is the best selling EV in China.
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by handle584 2mo ago
>> I meant it in its fullest form, i.e. serious people. Is academia serious enough? Well ever since LLM journals' inboxes are bombarded with submissions, and this applies across fields. Like OP said, ppl serious or not are asking
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by handle584 2mo ago
Doesn't this apply to China in the first place? Their GFW practically blocked such choices for decades already.
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by handle584 2mo ago
Why not South Korea? Even ethnic Koreans in China go to South Korea en mass.
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by handle584 2mo ago
> You'd pay several hundred percents more Sounds impressive in relative terms but not quite so in absolute terms, because PCB is dirty cheap so 100% is just $10-$20. > it's not unreasonable to expect them to deliver higher a
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by handle584 2mo ago
Technically yes, but the ways US and China treat foreigners are at two extremes. As long as you are invited and keep your mouth shut about ccp, China does not care about papers. One famous example is an athlete, when questioned about nation
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by handle584 2mo ago
> paint China as a good alternative. I don't think OP is doing this, just stating the obvious. The invitation implies $$$ but not naturalization. > If you want to live in a country, you might want to actually be a citizen of tha
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by handle584 3mo ago
> It has nothing to do with loopholes on anything. Not sure about India but delivery in China has everything to do with loopholes. No health care and social security for most, and for the few who have the company artificially fake income
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by handle584 3mo ago
The textbook poverty which are created by such organization itself with strategic planning and a controlled economy in the first place, killing ~30 million. All the more impressive it only took them under 10 years.
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by handle584 3mo ago
This actually applies to the US as well. Anytime you need to send $1k+ to a stranger the process is a pain in the ass. > ACH, most bank does not allow send to stranger, and it takes 1~3 days for settlement among those which allow. > W
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by handle584 3mo ago
Not only this, it also enables sneaker/pokemon/5090 scalping, Chinese/Russian using ChatGPT/Claude. A residential IP in the US is very valuable elsewhere.
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by handle584 3mo ago
Yep this is the right answer, address jigging is the oldest trick in botting. Nowadays with fingerprint browser, generated credit card number and residential proxy, it is very hard to tell legit buyers from scalpers.
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by handle584 3mo ago
Your reply already shows the difference. In US you have the default expectation of privacy, until the feds get their eyes on you. Meanwhile in China the default expectation is no privacy, exactly as OP argued. This system in action is bes
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by handle584 3mo ago
By which it is implied such trips are obviously non-starters for foreign students. This is the most evident during Thanksgiving and Christmas when most undergrad students in the US reunion with their family and friends.
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by handle584 3mo ago
Well why Americans are not willing to take those PhD offers that pay barely above poverty line for 5 years or so? The answer is obvious, they would rather take a job in industry that pays miles better. There is really no reason to be resent
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by handle584 3mo ago
Not is but the obvious one was COVID policy during 2020-2022. It triggered the closest thing to a domestic unrest you can get in China after 1989, a large exodus of middle class, and an almost 50% crash in their real estate market. The
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by handle584 3mo ago
Any source? In my field US Citizens and permanent residents are actually preferred for at least two reasons, first they are eligible for graduate grants like NSF so they are not using department's money; second upon graduation they are
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by handle584 3mo ago
Because no one in their right mind will work the Chinese 996-esque schedule in the 21st century, except the Chinese? They are actually importing Chinese workers to their Brazil factory, leading to the slave labor expose by Brazilian authori
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by handle584 3mo ago
I wonder what will happen to Chinese employees of Anthropic/OpenAI/Google Gemini? Given the ubiquitous Chinese names in AI papers there must be quite a few. They probably have gotten their PR or in the process, but naturalization

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