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Typical US news webpages have tens of trackers, it does seem a bit out of control tho.

If You're Not Paying for It; You're the Product.

Wang Jianlin, Xiao Jianhua

Not long ago they are selling $1.5 for 100MB in China.

I heard the service is cheap but quality is bad?

Modern psychology seems more and more plausible

That's totally true, people can learn it out of pure love. But realisticlly, Mandarin is very hard to learn, we learn it here in China everyday until the last day of highschool, th…

The ROI of learning Chinese is very low, be careful.

I guess that's how market economy works.

The same can be said to Boston housing market.

Non taken, I was referring to "Don't blame it on yourself. It's mostly genes." By this logic, "Don't blame it on yourself. being a peasant or not is mostly genes." The thing is, my…

That's kind of a survivorship bias, and again uninformed. People in China aren't allowed to move to cities freely especially back then, there are hukous to bind you to your birthpl…

Being tame means won't have the desire to revolt against tyranny. You might can't imagine that, coz you probably didn't live under one. Currently in China, there are tons of people…

This is just so false and uninformed, couple of dacades earlier in China people with glasses on were seen as a rarity, meant he's not a peasant. The current myopia near-crisis in C…

That's what baffles me so much, the US keeps buying those billion dallar war machines like cheap candy, yet has no money to build decent modern infrastructure back home, and the wa…

I've found delaying my sleep habit is very easy, just stay up late, yet the reverse is super hard and easily lapses.

You are being naive here, the edge is data size, what made Amazon stuck out is they have shopping specific data, that's what matters, so too will those specific apps.

Why users will stick to Google forever for those queries? they can search those on shopping/review apps.

Ultimately, it's not a good thing.

Tik Tok

99% Chinese won't go back too, the one who does maybe a spy.

I guess I'm involuntary lonely.

Money laundering