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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…

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 …

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 s…

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…

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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 s…

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 …

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.). And…

>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 …

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 ris…

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…

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 transl…

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 ra…

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 a…