jimmydef

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by jimmydef 2y ago
I think the main reason alibaba got beat down was because it was moving from "tech" into finance offering unregulated loans and jack ma criticizing regulators did not help at all. And alibaba was not "deep tech", more li
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by jimmydef 3y ago
i guess they can randomize the queue order so no one gets aan advantage by being in the queue first.
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by jimmydef 3y ago
I've been hearing about this downturn for the past 3 years now. When is it coming?
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by jimmydef 3y ago
As someone with severe Asian flush, with an overactive ADH gene (gene that converts of alcohol to acetaldehyde) and 2 defective ALDH2 alleles (gene that breaks down acetaldehyde into harmless byproducts), I wish there is a way to repair the
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by jimmydef 3y ago
Slow adoption of firearms by the Chinese was less to do with the crossbow than the fact that the Manchus occupied China during a period when firearms was coming of age. The Manchus famously despised gunpowder weapons in favor of the bow and
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by jimmydef 3y ago
I don't think that's the case. My cats knead my head, my chest, my abdomen and my legs, but it doesn't rest on me.
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by jimmydef 4y ago
Why didn't the German government massively subsidize Green energy? How on earth is it right to criticize a government for subsidizing green energy in the face of climate change? The reason why solar panels are so cheap today was becaus
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by jimmydef 4y ago
One theory is that churros came from the fried Chinese doughstick youtiao. The habit of eating raw fish in Japan probably developed indigenously but many of the words the Japanese use to describe sushi and raw fish came from China which to
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by jimmydef 4y ago
Baozi is unlikely to have come from the Ottomans via the Mongols. The Song dynasty chinese were already eating baozi and writing about it in their books and documents in the early 11th century, before the Ottomans were established or Genghi
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by jimmydef 4y ago
There's nothing to contradict as you have not provided any argument to support the claim that these two last humans must produce children.
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by jimmydef 5y ago
It depends where you live. If you live in the US, you can sell your house, have 1M, move to a low cost housing part of the country, buy a house for 150k and have 850k leftover for retirement. I live in Singapore. If I have a 1M house, I can
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by jimmydef 5y ago
Nowadays I hear a lot of people commenting about how excellent the quality of Japanese products are. How they have a "craftsmanship" culture where a master will spend his whole life perfecting a craft, etc. Recently read a reddit
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by jimmydef 5y ago
Both the nominal and PPP GDPs of the US as a percentage of the world GDP have been dropping steadily over the past few decades. It used to be near 40% of the world's GDP. Now it's barely 20%. At what percentage point will the worl
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by jimmydef 6y ago
No, Matsu is part of the Fujian province of the Republic of China (RoC), not Taiwan province. The RoC controls only two provinces of China, Fujian and Taiwan province. The Fujian province is the only province of China where both the Republi
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by jimmydef 6y ago
HFTs do not create demand. Most of the time, they flatten their positions at the end of the day. As such, their impact on the market is minimal. And anyone who can claim that HFTs front run trades simply do not understand the basics of what
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by jimmydef 6y ago
> 1. The kanji based words sound very different from what it would sound like in Chinese This is because you are probably speaking in mandarin which has deviated a great deal from Middle Chinese ever since the Jurchen Jin conquered north
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by jimmydef 6y ago
I've always found it interesting that the Japanese use the character 赤 generically for the colour red but Chinese speakers use the character 紅. When they both refer specifically to different shades and tones of red and speakers of both
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by jimmydef 7y ago
I don't think 11% is that worrisome. These are the cases where patients are ill enough to be admitted to the hospital. In the US, admitted patients of the flu have a 10% mortality rate, which is equivalent. We still don't have eno
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by jimmydef 7y ago
"Over 723,000 people, or one in eight Singaporeans, has this name from the Tan state of the Zhou dynasty." Yeah, this is complete nonsense. The "Tan" surname is basically the hokkien/min-nan pronunciation of the chi
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by jimmydef 7y ago
The fact that your well reasoned comment is downvoted shows how bad the Chinese hysteria has gotten.
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by jimmydef 7y ago
No native Chinese speaker will mistake 鸿蒙 (Hong Meng) for 洪门(Hong men) . And no Non Chinese speaker will even know what is HongMen. Don't know where you're going with this.
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by jimmydef 7y ago
> how they managed to fall so low I'm amazed that in so many English discussions about China's fall since the 17th century, there are absolutely zero mentions of the Manchus. On the other hand, read any Chinese discussion on it
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by jimmydef 7y ago
>Also, they force companies to share their technologies/IP if they are interested in coming into Chinese markets - and then they just steal it to undercut the foreign companies. If the companies are willingly going to the Chinese ma
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by jimmydef 7y ago
I think despite their best efforts, most people are still more or less influenced by nationalism. Not just Americans, but anyone in the world can be afflicted with nationalism that impacts true neutrality of viewpoints. Since y combinator n
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by jimmydef 7y ago
" It’s no wonder China continues to try to hack our elections, steal tech IP, and use social media to sow discontent at every level of politics. " He might have mistaken China for Russia.
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by jimmydef 7y ago
This is a false statement. Amazon is completely outcompeted by equivalent firms such as Alibaba-owned Lazada here in southeast asia. I think the only place Amazon has "won" is in North America and Western Europe. But sure, contin
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by jimmydef 8y ago
I doubt that most people are able to lead exceedingly satisfying lives. And I don't know about celebrity but wealth is something that has always been fixated on. Not just today, but since a long long time ago. In fact, I think it'
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Actually, I would think everyone travelling during one period of the year is better for the climate than the alternative which is people going back to their hometowns uniformly throughout the year. Going back together would mean that trains
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by jimmydef 8y ago
I think many non-Chinese sensationalize this problem. Yes, forgetting certain characters is common but not too an overwhelming or overproblematic extent. What many people like to do is to confuse word difficulty with the difficult of the co
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by jimmydef 8y ago
Highly likely to be unrelated. This is just one American company against another.

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