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In other words, you're trying to justify your own racism? (If you have to preface your statements with "This may sound horrible and racist", they probably are.)
His statement was never racist, which is probably why he qualified racist with "may sound." China isn't a race.
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Two words of praise followed by a stream of acknowledged personal biases and admitted stereotypes, which are forwarded anyway. For what reason? To prove the author's own point that he/she doesn't understand the scale of a company which serves one billion people? My humble suggestion is this: next time, if you don't have a good reason to recite publicly a litany of unfounded assumptions about an entire country and peo…
While I agree with what you have to say, it's hard to support you're point of view when you're saying like that. Be civil. It seems (to me, at least) that you're saying it so aggressively and childishly, your comments are likely to be discarded and ignored rather than considered.
Does anyone know what they did in 2011 from a sales perspective? They are a marketplace for small retailers, so I'm curious what their margins are or commissions they take. What % of the total online commerce for that day was this? Also are these all credit card transactions or are they COD? Other forms of payments? Is taobao handling all the payment transactions? sorry for all the questions, I don't read chinese so…
They own their own version of PayPal which lots of people use, which easily links up with all of the major Chinese banks + debit cards. They also do a lot of pre-paid business where people go into the post office and put money on their account. Sounds weird but it's huge over there. Don't know about commissions but given how fiercely competitive the market is (and most of the competition is on price) there is no chan…
However, a craiglist like email based system between buyer and sellers which replaced the chat worked tremendously better in the Indian setup. At least from the India marketplace perspective it looks to be sometime before the same model works here.
Hardly anything like Paypal in India though.
Surprised nobody is talking about the most interesting part. Taobao runs almost entirely on Nginx-Lua-MySQL. And I mean entirely. There is no application server just Nginx. And every request is non blocking all the way from user to database and back. Very, very fast. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390816 In fact one of the developers from Taobao wrote the Lua integration.
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While I agree with what you have to say, it's hard to support you're point of view when you're saying like that. Be civil. It seems (to me, at least) that you're saying it so aggressively and childishly, your comments are likely to be discarded and ignored rather than considered.
Unfortunately, you're right. I think it's a bit ridiculous that people are more offended by incivility than racism, though.
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Why? Because those are common misconceptions that I am far from alone in holding. Bringing them up in the face of a monumental achievement is helpful for both myself and others who have had similar thoughts.
In other words, you're trying to justify your own racism? (If you have to preface your statements with "This may sound horrible and racist", they probably are.)
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