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  1. Apr 2021
    1. Someone would design a crazy thing, without having a manufacturer on board, so they could shop it around and get it published in magazines to raise their profile.

      maybe i should try to get fame

    1. Nhiều cô gái chỉ mới tốt nghiệp cấp 3 đã được bà mối đến hỏi kế hoạch học tập, rằng muốn học lên cao hay tính chuyện lấy chồng.

      vãi lờn

    2. học hành, không xe hơi, không nhà cửa, sẽ bị sót lại

      Không lẻ kiếm được phụ nữ giàu, giỏi ở thành phố về làm mọi ?

    3. "10.000 tờ tím, 1.000 tờ đỏ" (chỉ các tờ tiền mệnh giá 5 và 100 nhân dân tệ).

      Nghèo, học vấn thấp, cổ hủ, thì có cờ hó nó yêu.

    1. Con đường trước mắt tôi thật đẹp! Sau ngày giải phóng, tôi vẫn tiếp tục học đại học.

      giải phóng xong tha hồ đi học tập nhé

    1. Không phải tôi tiếc vài đồng, nhưng thuở đó với món tiền ấy đủ cho gia đình tôi một bữa cơm

      là tương đương 100k bây giờ.

    1. The way Zhima Credit is designed, being blacklisted sends you on a rapid downward spiral. First your score drops. Then your friends hear you are on the blacklist and, fearful that their scores might be affected, quietly drop you as a contact. The algorithm notices, and your score plummets further.

      I see Black Mirror here.

    2. Each of Suining’s 1.1 million citizens older than 14 started out with 1,000 points, and points were added or deducted based on behavior. Taking care of elderly family members earned you 50 points. Helping the poor merited 10 points. Helping the poor in a way that was reported by the media: 15. A drunk driving conviction meant the loss of 50 points, as did bribing an official. After the points were tallied up, citizens were assigned grades of A, B, C, or D. Grade A citizens would be given priority for school admissions and employment, while D citizens would be denied licenses, permits, and access to some social services.

      Better than old way (secret record that impact on how people get permit, licenses, admissions, job, ... ). Now it is public.

  2. Mar 2021
    1. A major selling point was Sinopharm’s immense manufacturing capacity; it has said it can make up to 3 billion doses by the end of this year.

      Large Capacity but expensive.

  3. Feb 2021
    1. Exams are our attempt to sum up whole teenagehoods and render them as manageable labels – AAA, ACE, AAC.

      similar but much easier comparing to #gaokao

    1. but so many books aren’t available electronically or cost too much for us to buy

      what about z-lib, scihub, github (people do upload pdf to github repo)

  4. Jan 2021
    1. betrayal — a waste of years of expensive school fees.

      12 years with cram school fee, 4 years of bachelor degree, 2 year of master, ... do you take PhD ?

    1. When you are 13, every day feels like it has the potential to become momentous and significant. For me, GemStone III gave those days a whole new level of meaning.

      Sadly, nowaday MMORPG is so empty.

    1. column ‘ratio’ where I did a scaled value of the positive_ratings / negative_ratings.

      steamdf['ratio'] = steamdf['positive_ratings']/steamdf['negative_ratings']

  5. Dec 2020
    1. This is exactly where the poplar ritual of dispensing tranquilizing pills to the young girls in orphanage in 1950s is portrayed.

      well, feed pill to girl orphanage ?

    1. “how can we maximize the time users spend with our content”

      So, rather than save reader time by "compress" the information, allowing user can read as much information as possible in shortest time as possible, author may choice to let user wasting a lot of their time.

    2. better sales and marketing skills, rather than who has the better content to offer

      Good point. So most of subscription payment go to marketing and sale rather than content.

      The example cases are mobile game. Ton of cash send into marketing and drive install, while the game itself is crappy.

    1. a machine-learning approach to discern gender based on authors’ first names

      predict gender based on name ? So, let avoid men with women-like name so you don't hurt you career.

    2. having women as mentors is harmful to their mentees’ long-term citation rates

      I don't check gender of author when I cited. Does people check ?

      If the author is female and you don't cite ?

      wtf is this mindset ?

  6. Nov 2020
    1. The people of North Korea suffer under constant surveillance and face the daily threat of imprisonment, torture, sexual abuse, and execution—and it’s been this way since 1948.

      More talk, what can be done ? Nuke Kim out of his misery ?

    2. “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.”

      then what can be done ?

    3. based on my reporting while living undercover in Pyongyang for six months, in a locked compound with two hundred and seventy North Korean young men who make up the country’s future leadership.

      interesting

    1. since youtube-dl could be used to download music owned by RIAA-member labels, no one should be able to use the tool, even for completely lawful purposes.

      citation ?

  7. Oct 2020
    1. the DOJ referenced Google’s search agreement with Mozilla as one example of Google’s monopolization of the search engine market in the United States.

      Why Mozilla not use DuckDuckGo

    1. tặng ông 200 triệu đồng (thay vì 10 triệu đồng như các hộ dân khác)

      vậy có trao 200 triệu cho mỗi người nợ hơn 200 triệu không ?

    1. We required better graphics, better optimization, more story, and more satisfying gameplay systems

      So basically you drop Portia because the project suck and want start again.

    1. can be tweaked and lowered at any time without announcement or warning to workers

      You can reduce income of worker without said so. You can temp lay off work (i.e: reduce work, thus reduce income).

      Why pay for worker when you don't have work for them ?

  8. citeseerx.ist.psu.edu citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
    1. 60% of editors’ time is spent on assessing manuscripts they don’t publish

      I think volunteer reviewer accept/reject manuscripts before paid editors do something. So editors only work on accept manuscript.