marukokinno

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by marukokinno 13y ago
Taobao, 360.com and the likes are selling Billions and Billions trough the internet, massive amount of internet consumption, home appliances, electronics, clothes. Thats not food nor real state and cars
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Can't be worse than Beijing. Shangrila is very nice.
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by marukokinno 13y ago
>>and the investments are limited to some shady financial products and...real estate. This is in Beijing , or Hebei, Henan and the 3 northern provinces. At the Pearl River Delta and the Shanghai-Zhejiang-Jiangsu triangle the in
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by marukokinno 13y ago
>>internal consumption is still moribund Do you ever go to the supermarkets? Every time I go to eat outside in the evening at the mall, I have to wait a line of at least 5 numbers to get a table, and I live in the suburbs, very far fr
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by marukokinno 13y ago
chinese dont live on credit like americans, they live for saving. The financial market is slightly more regulated than the american financial market, aswell.
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Last time I checked, China had 1 Trillion dollars in reserves. Chinese people is not living on credit cards, actually quite the opposite, they save a lot, even the little waitress at the cheap restaurant has a lot of savings. Every year, at
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Every year , for the last 20 years, many articles say that we can be sure of the imminent Chinese economy collapse. Then every year they are proven wrong. This is just one more of these articles. The guys have no idea what they are talking
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Congratulations and Parabens!
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by marukokinno 13y ago
BBC is not blocked, at least here in Beijing or other big cities. Are you in the countryside of Northern China? I advice to try www.myssh.cc , very fast and very cheap (2 USD a month), it unblocks everything, but then you have to turn it o
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Also the planes always have at least 30 minutes delay before take-off (here in China),and yes, airports are usually far from the Downtown. Anyway, Trains are much more comfortable, less stressing, you can take more luggage, you can sit at t
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by marukokinno 13y ago
I have been living in China for 6 years and last time I counted, I had already 1250 hours of travel time in Chinese trains. You can go to Lhasa, on the Himalaya, from Beijing by train. A friend of mine is going to Moscow from Beijing next w
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by marukokinno 13y ago
I still use the tiny lightning fast Macromedia Flash 4 to make simple animations, when its just simple animations, without all the script power, features and Photoshop integration you get with the Adobe 2 Gb in disk elephant. I used to run
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by marukokinno 13y ago
I noticed that when changing from one chapter page to another, it loads much faster than the original rails tutorial, that takes forever. Nice improvement, still note a little latency though. It will be nice for people to study the Rails Tu
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Congratulations! Will use it. By the way, thank you very much, Mr. Hartl, for the rails tutorial. It was life changing for me, a former completely non-tech guy, now running my customs brokerage business trough a collaborative database tool
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by marukokinno 13y ago
I had exactly the same thoughs today earlier, before seeing this article. "horror stories" was exactly the words in my mind. To be a prosecutor in the US is a political career, and they go nuclear to sentence the highest number of
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by marukokinno 13y ago
English is not my native language, but using "was" sounds pretty weird to me. In latin languages, when a sentence starts with "if" and the verb is in a past tense form, it must be the subjunctive form of the past tense.
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Yahoo U.S. get this award almost everyday. Strange that some other countries' versions of Yahoo News look more like serious journalism
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by marukokinno 13y ago
Like Bender said: "Forget about the blackjack! And you know what? Forget about the Internet!"