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by kszx 11y ago
His father also called him Loong (not Hsien Loong), at least sometimes: "He was still young and it was better that someone else succeed me as prime minister. Then, were Loong to make the grade later, it would be clear that he made it
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by kszx 11y ago
Cambridge professor about Lee Hsien Loong: "No, he was truly outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of the students. He was not only the first, but the gap. I think that he did computer science (after mathematics) mostly
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by kszx 11y ago
It may be true that this particular sample is too small; I haven't looked at the experiment in detail. However, just pointing out that n<=20 per group isn't enough of an argument to justify this statement. Significance is about
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Chinese Drone Maker DJI in Talks to Raise Funding at Valuation of $10B(wsj.com)
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by kszx 11y ago
I do. (The number of layers varies with the temperature.) May I ask the opposite question? Why do many people change outfits almost every day? Do they derive satisfaction from the process of choosing clothes? Or do they derive satisfaction
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by kszx 11y ago
Really? com.ycombinator.news seems much more logical and intuitive to me, just like 2015-04-01. Or how about com/ycombinator/news?
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by kszx 11y ago
The US (Great Plains Shelterbelt project), China (Great Green Wall, or Three-North Shelter Forest Program), and Russia (Siberia) are precisely the inspirations for this project.
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by kszx 12y ago
Writing out long variable names while working on a mathematical model is like writing the same text with ten times the number of characters. It's neither elegant nor efficient. Imagine you're playing around with variables and mode
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by kszx 12y ago
It makes sense to use Greek letters for exogenous parameters so that we can use Latin letters for endogenously determined variables. The distinction between capitalized and uncapitalized letters is useful for a similar reason. This makes ec
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by kszx 12y ago
Is this "issue" a bug or a feature? Isn't it very liberating that people can't see whether you're looking at them or not?
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Be Well-Rounded. Celebrate Pi Day(math.utep.edu)
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Google Opens First Google-Branded Store, in London(blogs.wsj.com)
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by kszx 12y ago
Alexa's China sample appears to be unrepresentative, so the numbers are flawed. Another indication: chinadaily.com.cn (English) is #23, just after one of the most popular Chinese web portals (sogou.com).
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by kszx 12y ago
The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You simply create .md files in the "content"
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by kszx 12y ago
Possibly. But Sandwich Video's decision to accept equity is obviously based on an assumption that start-ups continue to reach high valuations. So if we're at the top, Sandwich Video is late. In that case, cash out now by purchasin
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by kszx 12y ago
If the video increases your expected valuation by another 100k or more - e.g. by influencing other VCs' investment decisions - then it's probably the right thing to invest in. [This statement is inherently true by the principles o
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by kszx 12y ago
HK is a potential retail destination for > 1 bn consumers in East Asia. Mainland Chinese cross the border and come back with bags full of Apple products (in addition to LV bags etc.).
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by kszx 12y ago
My personal impression: Formulation 1 (with variables, short and concise sentences): easy to understand. Formulation 2 (without variables, long sentence): difficult to understand. ==> I prefer Formulation 1.
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by kszx 12y ago
The part about "Wilbarger Protocol" sounds like torture. "When he was unable to regulate the information coming into his brain, I would perform a process called the Wilbarger Protocol. It was intimate. I would move a soft bru
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by kszx 12y ago
It's definitely controversial if seen from an American perspective. But it's much less controversial if seen from a German perspective. So perhaps you need to understand Thiel's German background first. Germany offers many su
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by kszx 12y ago
You can do that with US Dollars. It's more complicated with Chinese Yuan.
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by kszx 12y ago
Correct.
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by kszx 12y ago
You are free to reject unpaid internships. You are also free to accept it. --> No coercion. --> No exploitation. In contrast, a law against unpaid internships restricts free choice.
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by kszx 12y ago
(1.) The plasticity of the brain changes, which means that it takes more time to learn new things and change your mind. Many other abilities remain at a high level. (2.) You may look up a chart that plots dementia against age. Prevalence of
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Amazon Makes a Push on College Campuses(wsj.com)
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by kszx 12y ago
My company hires freelancers for China-related research. Contributors from Mainland China would be ideal. But my reliance on services like Google Drive means that I typically end up with people from HK, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. It&#x
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by kszx 12y ago
Found it: "They Live" by John Carpenter. The idea is a bit different though. "Nada discovers the sunglasses are special. After putting on a pair, he sees the world in black and white and discovers it is not what it seems. Med
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by kszx 12y ago
Does anybody remember the name of the cult movie where all advertisement is blocked from the real world? It's pretty much the same idea. I remember seeing that movie many years ago.
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by kszx 12y ago
Full German email: "Liebe Flixbus Kunden, unser Paymentmodul der Onlineplattformen wurde durch einen schwerwiegenden IT-Fehler unsererseits manipuliert und zur Transaktion von Unbekannten benutzt. Scheinbar sind dabei auch eure Daten e
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“Your payment data is securely stored at Cloudflare.”
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