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by vajaya 7y ago
Adam Neuman is bound to be canonised in our capitalist society. When his grand grandchildren donate to Harvard and waltz in high class ballrooms, nobody knows or cares about how their ancestor made that wealth and even for those who do, the
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by vajaya 7y ago
and people don't realise that china becomes manufacturing powerhouse not because of low costs. there're are many places in southeast asian alone which are much more cheaper in every aspect. What china has and other places dont hav
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by vajaya 7y ago
Indeed academics do not need to live in a place to study it, but they need to live there to feel it.
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by vajaya 7y ago
I watched an episode of last week tonight in which John Oliver covers issues of private prisons. Basically it's inmates being exploited by extremely low paid labor and various unreasonable charges for necessities. But I don't see
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by vajaya 7y ago
I guess it's because first world middle/upper-middle class are the most anxious of all social strata, because they have to constantly struggle with maintaining their social standings and that their children would not fall down, wh
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by vajaya 7y ago
Data messaging is a legitimate and well established study and practice
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by vajaya 7y ago
you are right. probably China has always been under reporting their growth rate as the hide your strength strategy. It's inexplicable that China's GDP from construction is smaller than that of U.S., given that China is undergoing
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by vajaya 7y ago
Not at all. first, real estate is the essential part of a grand urbanisation plan along with other infrastructure developments. second, concrete and steel buildings definitely last longer than plaster and wood built ones in U.S.. It's
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by vajaya 7y ago
China collapse has been predicted by china expert for at least 2 decades. I don't understand why people can still be this delusional at this moment.
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by vajaya 7y ago
I think all business has to know what they are selling. Google and Facebook know it very well. They sell ads. All their business endeavours hence are to sell more ads. On the other hand, newspapers seems to not know that they are selling. I
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by vajaya 7y ago
I don't have their unit economy data, but I'm still (stubbornly) skeptical of the profitability of bike sharing. One reason is the market depth, in the sense that most of the time it's just young, educated and often bourgeois
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by vajaya 7y ago
I wonder why bike sharing is still a thing in business world. Hasn't this business venture been proved to be a fiasco in China, where user base is larger in magnitude, operation cost is residual and virtually no regulation friction, co
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by vajaya 7y ago
there's physical limit as what algorithms and tricks can do. Their numbers are incredible though.
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by vajaya 7y ago
that's why I said it seems...because I'm not aware of any academia discourse or civil societal movement from china focusing on this kind of thought policing in its extreme. based on what I experienced, It SEEMS to me Chinese peopl
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by vajaya 7y ago
should we ban wechat? probably yes. it's a quintessential threat to privacy, freedom, and democracy practice. but are we able to? not at all. All big corporates and even some in government are on their side. China is where money is to
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by vajaya 7y ago
I'm rather skeptical of this news and perhaps just some typical PR effort by singapore government. Remember Singapore has a notorious education system of sending children in different tracks at an age as early as 8. That is, in your 3r
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by vajaya 7y ago
or can you? you have your credit card information surrendered.
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by vajaya 7y ago
I regret taking their test with 200 bucks now. It used to be novel and years back, the concept of a totalitarian society with surveillance, database, social credit was still very remote
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by vajaya 7y ago
basically Chinese government doesn't want its citizens to talk anything cultural, political, spiritual, religious, etc. If you wanna talk fashion, food, travel, music, and the likes, that's absolutely fine. and it seems Chinese pe
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by vajaya 7y ago
Clearly many traditionally established regional monopolies/oligopolies not being probed into is not a matter of resource scarcity. Can we argue in this logic that if some companies are not punished by existing applicable laws/reg
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by vajaya 7y ago
I don't see anything wrong with this monetization move. Chrome users don't pay Google for the use, so Google has no obligation whatsoever to make unpaid users as happy as their paid customers. And Goolge has(could) not set any ba
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by vajaya 7y ago
You ignore the fact that business operation in many sectors are localized. I don't have numbers, but my impression is the said companies like verizon, healthcare provider, power suppliers all have regional stronghold where their market