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His father also called him Loong (not Hsien Loong), at least sometimes: "He was still young and it was better that someone else succeed me as prime minister. Then, were Loong to ma…

Cambridge professor about Lee Hsien Loong: "No, he was truly outstanding: he was head and shoulders above the rest of the students. He was not only the first, but the gap. I think …

It may be true that this particular sample is too small; I haven't looked at the experiment in detail. However, just pointing out that n<=20 per group isn't enough of an argument t…

I do. (The number of layers varies with the temperature.) May I ask the opposite question? Why do many people change outfits almost every day? Do they derive satisfaction from the …

Really? com.ycombinator.news seems much more logical and intuitive to me, just like 2015-04-01. Or how about com/ycombinator/news?

The US (Great Plains Shelterbelt project), China (Great Green Wall, or Three-North Shelter Forest Program), and Russia (Siberia) are precisely the inspirations for this project.

Writing out long variable names while working on a mathematical model is like writing the same text with ten times the number of characters. It's neither elegant nor efficient. Ima…

It makes sense to use Greek letters for exogenous parameters so that we can use Latin letters for endogenously determined variables. The distinction between capitalized and uncapit…

Is this "issue" a bug or a feature? Isn't it very liberating that people can't see whether you're looking at them or not?

Alexa's China sample appears to be unrepresentative, so the numbers are flawed. Another indication: chinadaily.com.cn (English) is #23, just after one of the most popular Chinese w…

The Pico CMS website features an attractive description / value proposition: "Pico is a flat file CMS, this means there is no administration backend and database to deal with. You …

Possibly. But Sandwich Video's decision to accept equity is obviously based on an assumption that start-ups continue to reach high valuations. So if we're at the top, Sandwich Vide…

If the video increases your expected valuation by another 100k or more - e.g. by influencing other VCs' investment decisions - then it's probably the right thing to invest in. [Thi…

HK is a potential retail destination for > 1 bn consumers in East Asia. Mainland Chinese cross the border and come back with bags full of Apple products (in addition to LV bags etc…

My personal impression: Formulation 1 (with variables, short and concise sentences): easy to understand. Formulation 2 (without variables, long sentence): difficult to understand. …

The part about "Wilbarger Protocol" sounds like torture. "When he was unable to regulate the information coming into his brain, I would perform a process called the Wilbarger Proto…

It's definitely controversial if seen from an American perspective. But it's much less controversial if seen from a German perspective. So perhaps you need to understand Thiel's Ge…

You can do that with US Dollars. It's more complicated with Chinese Yuan.

Correct.

You are free to reject unpaid internships. You are also free to accept it. --> No coercion. --> No exploitation. In contrast, a law against unpaid internships restricts free choice…

(1.) The plasticity of the brain changes, which means that it takes more time to learn new things and change your mind. Many other abilities remain at a high level. (2.) You may lo…