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Did these 67.x links above kill anyone’s device cellular connection? Something dangerous going on there.

I should note the dev of Overcast has his own podcast, which is replete with TONS of ads! I don't want to listen to these ads at all. I guess may as well add this feed to the training set.

This is fantastic. Can we use this as a proxy when we input RSS feeds into our podcast apps? I use Overcast on iOS, for instance. I'd love to remove all audio ads from Overcast, both dynamically inserted and normal "live reads," which are also fairly toxic.

Interesting line re: this from last year's moviee Crazy Rich Asians:

"There is a Hokkien phrase, 'Gar gee nang.' It means, our own kind of people. And you're not our own kind."

"Because I'm not rich? 'Cause I didn't go to a British boarding school, or I wasn't born into a wealthy family?"

"You're a foreigner. American. And all Americans think about is their own happiness.

"Don't you want Nick to be happy?"

"It's an illusion. We understand how to build things that last. Something you know nothing about."

Funny thing is that I feel like it is indeed rare for cultures-countries to think about building things that last. But the US is actually one of the few countries that does---whereas China can't float this level of debt at attractive rates because it is NOT long term focused. It keeps doing insane, credibility-destroying things. Yet always talks about how it is a long term actor.

James Risen has a checkered reporting background, to be sure. [1] There are all kinds of attacks on the press these days, and we are told to be afraid of attacks on the press. But the devaluation of the press is owed more to its own behavior than to that of its enemies. (In the U.S. Less so in Saudi, China, Russia)

[1] https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/10/is-james-rise...

Seconded. That is the proper contextualization for news out of CH.

"have not dared try"

This mission wasn't difficult from an astro perspective, and was only moderately challenging from a satellite comms perspective.

It just wasn't that high on the priority list.

Seconded. Apple under Tim Cook can't invent interesting new things any longer, only play MBAish games with prices. But the company is fine.

Apple's greatest innovation might be that it leaves a bunch of Wall Street fools out of jobs. Does an economy need as many people predicting quarterly iPhone shipments to speculate on stock price as it takes to actually design said iPhone?

Quite bearish on learning Chinese; and bearish, too, on articles such as this one. These articles are a type. You would see similar articles in 1989 regarding Japanese. That was not a worthwhile investment for most people. Trends about a country being ‘the hot new thing’ rarely pan out. The author of this article should know: he’s the “founder of a crypto asset manager.”

Meteoric national growth curves don’t continue; and the closed nature of these societies tends to mean they get hamstrung by unpredictable things in the future. No one can say why China’s growth will slow (and it already is slowing dramatically), but we can say for sure that it will be because of a lack of willingness to change.

Learning Chinese will be a worthwhile activity for leading Western businesspeople when the Communist Party is abolished or faces strong open competition for power.

I wouldn't be so sure that they won't cut it off.

For example, they have already removed the marketing page that people here are making fun of: https://imgur.com/a/xsF1ZX3

They have now completely removed the landing page because of how hard we are laughing at them:

https://imgur.com/a/xsF1ZX3

What a joke. Now they have pulled the marketing page -- possibly because of how hard we are laughing at them.

https://imgur.com/a/xsF1ZX3

Every new storage product offered by Google serves mostly to remind people to get their stuff off of Google.

It's super performant for me these days.

You re right, but this is a NY guy, not a Silicon Valley guy.

Try Mattermost.

You're right. And I'm surprised more Silicon Valleyers have not figured out that China, a country that has concentration camps going right now is racist.

What a joke of a blog post, and what a joke of a company. This isn’t “the latest.” It’s the latest deprecation, and the latest breach of implied warranty to the consumer.

Ah, the irrelevance of YC has begun.

"On the one hand, if I live at home for much longer I’ll go stir-crazy. What I need is a place to go. Friends. Work. Moving to Marin and doing another game for Broderbund would give me that...the games business is drying up.

Karateka may make me as little as $75,000 all told, and it’s at the top of the charts. Tere’s no guarantee the new game will be as successful."

What. $75,000 for a 21 year old in 1985? ($180,000 today.)

Why did he seem so upset about that?

So you were hoping that Booz Allen Hamilton would have some kind of role in helping the gov't procure this important service? Have you ever met them?

It's at most 6 months payback for the average commute at current prices.* And that's for a $400 scooter. Think Xiaomi can't get these things into U.S. ports for $300? Think again.

Scooter share economics don't work. And now that cities are placing caps on vendors and scooter quantity, prices are going up. Which means payback period to owning the scooter goes down. This is a vale of tears.

* What is the average payback period for purchasing a car (μ(p) = $30,000) versus taking the train? Much longer!

Will this be located in the independent sovereign nation of Taiwan so as to have the benefit of freedom of thought, religion, the rule of law, and private property?

Except that its business model IS being a monolithic entity.

I never click on AMP links. Google ≠ the internet.

Can these wiki links be viewed within China? Can someone try?

EU has floated 0 tariffs on autos, which they've never done before

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/04/eu-could-agree-a-us-autos-ta...

Exactly. Also worth studying Mao's Great Famine. Great podcast on this released yesterday: http://www.econtalk.org/frank-dikotter-on-maos-great-famine

Actually EU is negotiating 0-tarriff with the US and a great realignment is occurring against China.

This isn't a "trade war." It's a national security negotiation. But you know? I think maybe trade wars are "easy to win," as Trump said.