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by nichtich 4y ago
I'm not sure if he is trying to tell some version of this joke, but here it goes: (for context, dad jokes are often categorized as "cold jokes" here in China/Taiwan, since often its humor is not appreciated by the audien
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by nichtich 5y ago
Once you are already in prison it's hard to say whether you are forced to do it or not. It's not like you have a lot of employers and professions to choose from. And if the incentives include things like easier to get parole then
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China's draft regulations for recommendation algorithms(twitter.com)
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by nichtich 5y ago
This is a way over simplistic view. It's not a CIV game where someone decides what "China/Han" should do for all these thousands of years. People's minds change, sometimes the people themselves change, accidents hap
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by nichtich 5y ago
For US it will. People in the US seldom think about just how powerful their media environment and general influence is. Like women have been sexually harassed since forever in China, and it's the #MeToo movement that led to a lot of th
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by nichtich 7y ago
She should use 鹄(swan) instead of 鹅(goose). Yes people don't usually use this character for swan and call the thing sky goose instead, but most people know of it as it's part of the idiom: 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志.
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by nichtich 8y ago
Because they imply a safer and longer life and the creativity of dead people are zero. I think it makes some sense.
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by nichtich 8y ago
The mere existence of Wu is an outlier in China (and possibly in rest of the world). As anyone that closely follows Chinese politics know, the CCP is not keen on outspoken/unique people. Rappers has been banned for rapping about money
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by nichtich 8y ago
I just couldn't understand why he thinks the container should be made of hard metal. Sure maybe the current equipment like dry suit + full face mask has limitations. But shouldn't the natural path be building on top of that? Why i
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by nichtich 8y ago
from Chinese news report: 于某今年35岁，山东人，三年前采购了一批价值11万元的土豆后就消失了，逃到嘉兴西塘开了家民宿，利用弟弟的身份东躲西藏，警方接到报警后，将其列为网上追逃对象。 So it's more like a fraud. He bought some potatoes and then disappeared without paying.
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by nichtich 8y ago
I'm a bit surprised nobody has mentioned the fraud[1]. The reason electric bus becomes so popular in China recently is mainly because of government subsidies. Well that's the intended consequence and most people are OK with it. Wh
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by nichtich 8y ago
The usual. WaPo/NYTimes both did several stories like this. But keep in mind that one result of suppression of free speech is the lack of clear sources. So anecdotal is sometimes the best we got. https://www.nytimes.com&#x2F
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by nichtich 8y ago
I think 'do not disturb' has an option for only allow people from your contacts? and there are crowdsourced blacklist apps for scammer/harassment phone numbers.
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by nichtich 9y ago
When it's hard to draw the line from outside, prosecutors mostly try to prove their cases from the inside communications. If you email your coworker: "Guess what I found ... AMD can go bankrupt over this ..." and then short t
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by nichtich 9y ago
then how do you explain India? Its AQI rivals China's.
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by nichtich 9y ago
By the time you are born it's already getting better. Yes it's dirt poor compared to now but is already on the trend of improving. So the stress level would be very different than the "suddenly become poor" people. Anoth
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by nichtich 9y ago
There's no way Shenzhen is more free than US. I'm not sure you're more misguided towards US or China though.
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by nichtich 9y ago
So i think in both places cooking has become more of a hobby/status signaling thing. In China there's something similar to blue apron in late 90s or early 2000s. But it kinda die out because it's offered more on the convenien
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by nichtich 9y ago
It's pretty weird when you consider how food trends go. In China, back in the 90s, my parents use a pressure cooker and a wok for everything. And it's the norm as for most families I know both parent work and they have to come hom
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by nichtich 9y ago
If there're a lot of these objects entering and leaving solar system every year, and suppose some day in the near future we can keep track of them all, can we use them for us to send out larger probes? We see a rock coming near us, and
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by nichtich 9y ago
I've read the research about Stuyvesant, and several other articles with similar theme. The data and reasoning seems quite convincing. It's just I can't reconcile it with my personal experience. All these studies seems to sug
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by nichtich 9y ago
Yes, usually the money appear on the new account in < 1 minute. To facilitate this central bank setup clearing systems that every bank connects to.
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by nichtich 9y ago
The success of AliPay and WeChat Pay is mostly the result of a good banking infrastructure. Even before these services popping up, you already can transfer money from any bank to another bank instantly and with no fee (or a small fee, depen
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by nichtich 9y ago
Could it be they are not merely offering you help but also asking you to help others in this "buddy" program? Help can go both ways.
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by nichtich 9y ago
And the factory is set up by the Chinese company. It would be an understandable demand to insists on local management if the Chinese bought the already existing local operation. But for a brand new operation it's a weird thing to ask.
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by nichtich 11y ago
As always Matt Levine as some interesting takes on this. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-10/bank-hacker...
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by nichtich 11y ago
I don't think you understand what he means. If you change RMB to USD then there must be someone changed USD to RMB as your counterparty. The RMB you had never leaves China(unless one day RMB has the status like USD where people use it
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by nichtich 11y ago
Apple's app store is still in its hands. And because of the fragmentation of the app store, people are more inclined to download app from the website of the maker instead of some "store" that injects "non-kosher" st
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by nichtich 11y ago
Well I think the Uber-ization should be on the consumer side, not the production side. What Uber has that taxi don't is not how Uber have so much tools for the drivers to use, taxi company can do and are doing the same thing. The diffe
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by nichtich 11y ago
The beauty of WeChat is not it has tons of features, it's the tons of features are well hidden. As another user said, it's very natural to have used WeChat for quite some time and doesn't know all these existed. People always

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