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yuncun··on China Blocks WhatsApp
Wow that's hilarious
yuncun··on China Blocks WhatsApp
>* Google and wikipedia magically stopped working when you searched for "tiananmen"

Hmm I find this hard to believe because the massacre is known as the June Fourth Incident. "tiananmen" is the location, and blocking that would seem a bit strange for people trying to find directions, etc.

yuncun··on Poachers kill rhino for his horn at French zoo
I think it's a capital crime in China.
yuncun··on According to Snopes, Fake News Is Not the Problem
>Through Wikileaks, we can plainly see that they were very much in bed with the Clinton campaign and frankly anyone with an ounce of sensibility should see that as plain as day.

Thought they were pro-Trump?

yuncun··on The ‘Dyson Sphere’ mystery deepens: Star keeps dimming
Sounds like the plot of Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. (I'm not done with it yet tho, so maybe not)
yuncun··on San Diego Struggles to Keep Its Young Tech Talent
Okay, I was just speculating. I lived in Penasquitos.
yuncun··on San Diego Struggles to Keep Its Young Tech Talent
I mean, you could live downtown and drive 25 minutes to Sorrento valley. Most commuters are going the opposite way. You could even go surfing in the morning before work, if you live just a bit north of Downtown.

Sorrento valley is a lonely place though, I do admit this.

yuncun··on Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
I dont want to detract from your story, but

>has an IMDB page

is a funny metric for success.

yuncun··on A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game
Hard to fake injury tho
yuncun··on Marissa Mayer says the secret of success is working 130 hours a week
What are the blood transfusions for?
yuncun··on Buffer Layoffs
What are Happiness Heros? Customer service or HR?
yuncun··on Moving Forward on Basic Income
> Socially, children are dependents. If guardians cannot feed their dependents adequately, they should lose their dependents.

I feel like I'm reading the beginning of one of those hunger game teen dystopia novels

yuncun··on Twilio S-1
Wow nice. This is kind of random, but can I ask how you got/licensed the photos of goats?
yuncun··on Cleartext: A text editor that only allows the 1,000 most common words in English
Agreed. Some people think that big words are good. Me, I think good writing should be like good code; short and easy to understand.
yuncun··on How I could have hacked any Facebook account
What if it's the Chinese government that's buying, would it suddenly turn illegal?
yuncun··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
Yeah, they're not going to launch a Saving Private Ryan search for every US citizen in the country.
yuncun··on Jeb spent $2845 per vote in Iowa
Probably because he's too moderate. There are more extreme candidates that people gravitate to.
yuncun··on Chinese police swoop on $7.6 Billion ‘record-breaking online Ponzi scheme’
First time I've ever seen Daily Mail cited as 'better link'
yuncun··on MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
There's no doubt the substance is actually more important, but the question is what folks end up caring about.

As an interesting anecdote, I found that when I'm around my Chinese friends or family, I'd hear the question "where did you go to school?", but when I had conversations with White or Black folks we'd talk about "what did you study?". I think that's a pretty interesting cultural nuance. For me, the second question is more wholesome.

yuncun··on Before Growth
So are you paying for these prizes out of pocket? What's your goal?
yuncun··on Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
I have the same problem, can you post your findings so I don't have the spam the guy?
yuncun··on Ten years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment
Honestly, I feel like High School teachers don't like Wikipedia because it's overpowered. What's the point of making a research assignment when Wikipedia already contains all the research a student could want?
yuncun··on Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
I think he/she's saying that you can still glean information from jokes/rants etc.
yuncun··on Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers
Sounds like what Google Analytics is doing for me, and I don't feel bad having that on my apps.
yuncun··on Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]
Yes, thanks for pointing out that important distinction.
yuncun··on Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]
>What I've read is that, ironically, kids with perfect SATs, 80 extracurriculars, who play the violin and speak 5 languages fluently are so common that they don't stand out anymore.

Can't wait for the day when traditional parents catch on and we see the mass enrollment of Chinese kids in linebacker camps.

yuncun··on Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]
Yeah, I dont want to accuse asian kids of being robots - that would be unfair, for example, to some non East Asian kids who dont have privileged upbringings. I just want to provide a counterpoint. And I was not aware that the AA ban was a California only prop, but that makes sense.
yuncun··on Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]
Tbh I don't take this for fact. My alternate theory is that schools aren't rejecting Asians for being Asian, but rather they are rejecting profiles that are common to ASians. How many apps do you think Cal receives every year with 4.3 GPA/2200 SAT, 4 yrs key club, no sports, and an essay about being nervous in a piano recital? If you get ten of those, and maybe one application from a kid in Inglewood with an 1850 SAT and a childhood fraught with gang violence, then I can't blame Cal for taking three from Category A and one from Category B, leaving seven families angry that their higher SAT was rejected.

The disconnect for some Asian parents is that they're stuck with the Chinese idea that highest marks always equals best university. As a result they push push push their child to test higher on the SAT, GPA, farm community service hours, play more piano... But they don't realize American schools aren't solely score based, and at the end of the day, there comes a point where the University just isn't impressed by the same profile over and over again.

As a supporting anecode, I'm Chinese, and I was admitted to a competitive department at UCLA with a 3.7 unweighted GPA in 2009, which was far below the average for whites, or asians. So I don't think there's a conspiracy against Asians.

yuncun··on Jack Ma: 'Harvard rejected me 10 times' [video]
I grew up in a Chinese household, and I swear, Chinese people are way too obsessed with university branding. It's not even about quality of education, it's a cultural status phenomenon. If you take 10 mothers, the dick size of each one is directly proportional to the US News (yes, specifically US News) ranking of the university of her child. And if Timmy, some random kid in school, had a 2380 SAT, then as a fellow Chinese kid, you'd hear about it somehow.

Thankfully my parents weren't this crazy, but I've seen Chinese families spend thousands on SAT preps, or parents discouraging their kids from playing sports to chase a 4.4 GPA. I hear it's even worse in areas like Cupertino.

I mean, I respect the pusuit of education, but this obsession with college is a poisonous byproduct. Those kids aren't even better off after college anyways. It's all pride. Look at Jack Ma. 22.5 Billion dollars, and Harvard is still like Gatsby's Daisy to him.

yuncun··on How much is Reddit making from Reddit gold?
Does Imgur make more money than reddit? How?
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