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> the vast majority of people didn't receive higher edcation and doesn't want to read serious articles

> Nobody care if it's original, they just want entertaining, explosive and easy-to-consume content.

This is hardly a unique thing to Chinese.

Any sources on these? If they are that unreliable, how are they working so well in China? Of a few cities I have been to in the past few years, their taxi and buses have gone all electric. The whole city relies on them, I seriously doubt they have major reliability issues.

Search result is now flooded with this news. Nothing on Wiki either. What exactly are you talking about? Any keywords?

Thank you. Correlation != Causation, but I guess logic doesn’t apply when it comes to anything China related discussion here. Saying that, this is still an ridiculously outdated law, 10 years sentence seems rediciculous.

> I don't understand why.

It's because you don't live in a highly competitive society. People try everything they can to squeeze extra points out of these exams. It's the only way to get into good universities. Why do you have to go to good universities? When thousands of people applying for one job, the company will try to find the fastest way to filter out applicants, and your degree is the easiest way for you to stand out. In an ultra competitive society, you do everything you could to stand out, otherwise you won't stand a chance.

> I’ve always felt fine despite sleeping 5 hours.

Tons of people will pay good money to be genetically modified with that ability. You should feel lucky.

Not saying the price is not outrageous but I found it ironic that you spec maniacs can’t tell the difference between a sata ssd vs pcie ssd. You will be hard pressed to find retail ssd that’s remotely close to the performance in these new macs.

I am sorry but your comment is dumb on so many levels. You do know HK is directly connected to mainland China, right? No bridge is needed if they want tanks over there.

How do you know it didn't happen before? And also, I found blaming everything on Russia is really funny. I mean, yes, they leaked the info and probably changed the course of the history, but it's not like they made up false information. I don't claim I know everything about the leak, but it sounds like it was mostly factual.

> And this is considered a good deal

No it's not. There are tons of cheaper plans out there from cheaper carriers like Public Mobile/Koodo/Fido and etc. You just have to look up for them. I used to pay 40 for 4GB/month and now I am at 12GB/month for 55. Still not cheap, but not as bad as what you are saying.

nice try, IBM.

Seriously? Down-voted for explaining my point? This place is as pathetic as reddit.

How so? When you count viewership, of course they will combine number of viewers from each match, considering most of the viewers will tune in for just a few matches. This is common sense, I don't think there is anything suspicious about that.

I don't get the point, those are hardly the only countries watch world cup. For a event like world cup final, it's the single most important match in 4 years. It won't just attract fans from the countries that are in the final.

For example, the 2006 world cup attracted 4 billion viewers from China, and their team was not even playing.[1]

[1] http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/ffprojects/ip-401_...

> The same package cost ESPN just $100 million for the previous two World Cups, in 2010 and 2014

It's clear the TV broadcasting price has jumped rapidly over the years. You can't compare the current revenue with a future deal. 100 million over two world cups is still a tiny portion compared to 2.4 billion in one world cup.

> For FIFA, the US is the single largest source of television audience and therefore advertising revenue.

Are you for real? This statement is so ridiculous that I don't even know where to start. You do realize football is by a huge margin, the most popular sports on this planet, right?

> Specifically soccer-related infrastructure

Do you have any sources for the claim? As far as I know, football is quite popular in middle east. Football clubs in that area have consistently been strong contenders in the AFC champions league. This means they have a healthy and competitive domestic league. Claiming they don't have soccer-related infrastructure is pretty ridiculous.

Both sides can learn something from history.

Why would you need both of them running at the same time though? Also, unless you are on Linux, you probably don't need both of these two VMs. Lastly, I don't quite understand why any serious developer would want to run their dev environment in a VM to begin with.

> that would require Baidu's cooperation

Don't count on that. Baidu is part of the Chinese government gang. It is notorious for censoring/altering search results both for political and commercial reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if they were notified about this beforehand.

Why not both?

> The product is pretty much on parity with Dropbox on the Mac

In my experience, Dropbox is always faster and more reliable. The other big selling point of Dropbox is the wide adoption of its API. It's basically the de-facto cloud sync solution for most of the iOS/Mac app out there (some are moving to iCloud, but Dropbox is still the more reliable/popular one). If you are deep integrated in the Apple eco system, Dropbox is hands down the best you can go with.

I never understood the criticism over one child policy. Had it not been for that policy, the population of China could well be over 2 billion by now. Is this something the rest of the world wanted? Sure it's cruel and not fair to some of the families, but considering the alternative, I'd argue this is something that has to be done.

I don't know. Are you sure you didn't violate any other rules? The Verge might be close to Apple, but I doubt you'd get banned just because of that.

"a bit slower"? My experience with Gitlab was terrible. It's unbearably slow especially when I try to create a relatively large pull request for review. The pull request comparison tool is not very smart either. Often times I have a big chunk of false change detection.

Maybe I was doing it wrong, but I just don't see any advantage of it over the like of Github and Bitbucket.

I don't think that's what he means. And iSheep? Seriously?

ugh... that ugly indentation of the table view borders. I wonder how much attention an app like this will get if it's not "Made at MIT".

"Salary offerings are lower by a factor of 10", compared to where? A decent freshly graduated developer in Shanghai can easily make 1.5-2k USD a month. Where you do get 10 times more than that?

Sorry for an ignorant question, but what would be the relationship between ReactJS and React Native?

It's a great story told by a not-so-great story teller. Hope the translation helps.