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When I use other models review plans (eg opus 4.x with Gemini3 or codex5.x), they often surface different issues than the model that wrote the plan.

It is also great for kids.

My oldest has read it multiple times, and my first grader has started reading it (struggling with all the big words). One of the longer lasting Christmas gifts I bought.

They are currently the most valuable company in the world: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/apple-now-wor...

The policy wasn't as simple as the English name for it. It encompassed many other rules including the ages men and women could marry and the ages they could have kids.

For certain people (mostly ethnic minorities) there was a higher limit. In rural areas, the limit was usually more relaxed than urban areas.

Many women who got pregnant before they were allowed had to have abortions. Some women were forced to have IUDs, and some women were sterilized.

So, depending on who you were, where you were, and how old you were, the one child policy might have restricted you to one child, or it didn't.

Second simplification characters are pretty cool. Every once in a while you'll see them on handwritten signs.

The West didn't listen. It poked the giant a lot. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many European countries initiated wars in China, carving it into foreign spheres of influence.

Bad driving behavior exists everywhere, but in China it's much more common than in the US. Left turns from the extreme right lane (and vice versa), is another common thing you'll see. In my experience, the drivers in Beijing are better behaved than those in Qingdao. Lane changes without signals (while you're in the lane) are also really common.

I got hired at my current gig through a who's hiring ad. Our recruiter had sent me a message on LinkedIn, which I basically ignored, but when I saw the Who's Hiring post, I reached out and was eventually hired.

I've even tried doing a "who's hiring" post myself, but it didn't produce strong candidates.

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About Jibe: We are pushing the limits of single page cross-domain web application development. Our code needs to run in some of the most hostile environments: within other people’s web pages and on dozens of browsers around the globe. In order to be successful we are using JavaScript to help automate the front-end development workflow using tools like NodeJS, Grunt, and AngularJS.

Responsibilities:

* Help/Lead in the development of new highly-responsive, web-based user interface components and modules using AngularJS and React. * Build visualizations that correctly portray large amounts of data in an industry-leading analytics portal. * Build flexible and well-structured front/back-end architectures, that is api driven. * Build microservices to support the scaling of internal and external applications.

Requirements:

* Experience building client side web applications (single page web apps, RIA) * Expert knowledge of Javascript * Understanding of NodeJS or JavaScript environments outside of the browser * Experience with single page web app design / frameworks * Cross browser development techniques * Understanding of modular JavaScript techniques

I'm sdaniels@jibe.com (an Engineering Manager for a different team). Feel free to apply via email (javascript_careers@jibe.com) or email me directly to talk about the role / get an inside track.

One big difference: there's been a lot more research on economic matters since America's early tumult. There have been warnings about China's debt issues since the issues started.

I don't think a learner should skimp on reading, but I think its worth asking if so much time should be spent learning to write Chinese. It's a lot of rote practice that can't be sped up, but in China, writing has been replaced by typing (on computers and cellphones). Typing Chinese using any modern pinyin IME is a reading exercise.

If you're looking for stroke order animations, try out my site , Tasty Mantou: https://www.tastymantou.com/blog/the-best-chinese-character-...

My comment didn't say that China is or isn't polite. I just said the discussion of politeness can't be reduced to the usage of one or two phrases.

There are so many intricacies to being polite in China. Living in China for over 12 years hasn't taught me even half of what I'd need to know. I don't think one can decide whether a society is polite or not based on one or two phrases.

Comparing what constitues politeness in China and in America is an interesting topic. In China, it is polite for younger people to greet their elders with the proper title (e.g. Grandfather Li, Second Auntie, etc., uncle) when meeting them. In America, teens will often go into people's houses without so much as a "hello". It's funny how far Chinese people will take this. Even children who can barely talk are strongly encouraged to greet their elders appropriately, and for most kids, grandfather (爷爷 yéyé), auntie (阿姨 āyí), grandmother (奶奶 nǎinai) and uncle (叔叔 shūshu) are probably among a childs first 10 words.

I recently watched American Experience's Silicon Valley. I was a bit shocked by the lack of diversity in the those early companies (Fairchild Seminconductor, AMD, Intel, etc.). Andy Grove, a Hungarian, seemed to be the most diverse of the bunch.

There wasn't even a token Black, Asian, or Indian in the company photos I saw.

>I think the disillusionment exists, especially among the youth and democratically-minded.

This. Except older, middle-class people are even more disillusioned than the young. As a rule, older Chinese people won't talk about their disillusionment, but those who lived through the 50s and 60s faced huge obstacles. They live lives of quiet desperation.

The Memory Palace is so good. I wish Nate DiMeo had more time to produce it. I love how Roman Mars from 99% Invisible ripped off Nate's intro.

Reminds me of another Hippo story, the U.S. Hippo Bill that was proposed to farm Hippos. http://www.wired.com/2013/12/hippopotamus-ranching/

Point of fact, there is a lot of competition between companies inside of China. In many instances, there is more competition inside China than there is in the US.

Here's a breakdown of who gets what fees during payment processing:

1. Credit Card issuer. They get the bulk of the fees because they assume all cardholder risks. Besides fraud risk, they also care about the riskiness of the loan to the cardholder.

2. Gateway / Third Party Processor. The gateway helps a merchant process some part of the fees(e.g. tokenization, authorizations, settlements, etc.). Generally, they get a smallest percentage of the transaction. Authorize.net or Stripe would be examples of these.

3. Merchant's bank. They basically buy a merchant's credit/debit sales. They get a percentage of the transaction. If your transaction volume is high enough, you can probably convince your bank to lower your rate.

4. Visa/MC. Technically, they don't get anything. However, banks are required to pay dues in order to offer or process MC or Visa cards.

Some other things to note:

Online sites often use a Gateway directly and don't have a merchant bank. In those cases, the Gateway is acting as both a gateway and a merchant's bank.

Issuing banks (the bank that gives customers a credit card) charge higher fees for reward cards so that they can provide customers with rewards. Rewards cards are annoying for merchants because one can't always tell if a card is a reward card or a regular credit card. Additionally, fees for different rewards are different. These fees can be found in the voluminous fine print in your credit card agreements.

I've been pushing together a lot of Chinese functionality into this Ruby library: https://github.com/stevendaniels/zhongwen_tools

That's kind of funny, would they have removed all of the readings borrowed from China? What would Japanese sound like without any borrowings?

Historically, the Japanese people have been very willing to borrow words from other languages.

I talked with Professor Moser before and his article happened to come up (it always seems to). He agrees with you about Chinese becoming more approachable.

Brendan O'Kane, a translator, said it pretty well: learning Chinese use to be a vocation, something you'd do for your entire life. That's no longer true, which is a good thing.

I once did a little project where I looked for phonetic components of about 20,000 characters. More than 90% had a phonetic component, but most of those characters are extremely rare.

In the first 300 characters a learner would study, there were about 5 characters with phonetic components. Phonetics don't really start to make a difference until about 2000 characters in.

The thing about the great firewall... It only affects expats or visitors to China.

Any Chinese person who wants to read the NYTimes can get access to it. Anyone who wants to read about the "Three T's" can find away (good luck finding anyone). Chinese people who want to spend all day on the Facebook or the Twitter, will.

But the rest of the Chinese internet, the 99% of them, being disconnected from the rest of the world's internet, doesn't matter that much. They have neither the desire nor the interest to look at blocked pages. They're happy with the Chinese-language internet they have.

Personally, I'm starting to believe the Great Firewall is mostly there to annoy expats like me.

Aren't there a few cases when this method won't work?