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When I hear about technological prowess, I am expecting things like rockets that land on barges, self driving cars, and even block chains. Not web apps and mobile apps.
Most of Chinese people share the same opinion. There are huge resources poured into the areas you mentioned above. Though the progresses made on those fronts in China won't be covered by Western media, until they happened.
Dropbox vs OneDrive or Google Drive could be a better example here.
Two features of LEAN won me over are : 1) LEAN supports finer data such as minutes, seconds, and ticks. 2) LEAN was developed in C#, which is way faster than Python.
If you're serious into retail algotrading, IB (Interactive Brokers) is the best broker you can get.
For backtesting intraday trades, LEAN from QuantConnect is a better alternative.
This reminds me a scene of the wonderful AniMatrix clips. Here is what I recalled (may not be exactly accurate): Escaped robots established their own country in remote area and started to export products for natural resources. Since robots never need a salary and can keep producing goods 24/7, human beings cannot compete and all countries ran into deficits and their societies collapsed. In the end, all countries blockaded the Robot country and the war started, then the rest is history.
Yeah, DJI would be a better choice, if you are in the market for a drone.
I used to be bullish on Xiaomi. Not any more. They seem to get into any hot sectors very quickly, but never manage to grab a big piece of pie and keep it. I wonder if Xiaomi has spreaded itself too thin.
I did not say 'democracy' -- this is an economic discussion of how capitalism, and not communism, creates prosperity.
You're right on this one. I shouldn't have put words into your mouth by mentioning it.
Can you name a single modern large scale society at all that experiences prosperity without market economy?
I think you does have a point. Though I would agree with a bit conservation. If we are talking about market economy itself, I consider it a necessary but not sufficient condition for economical prosperity.
Thanks for the nice words. That's why hackernews is the forum I frequent most, since we can have discussions over almost every imaginable topics in an intelligent and decent manner. Even it is as political and ideological as this one.
Thanks for the nice words. Speaking with an accent and writing not as fluent as native English speakers used to make myself frustrated a lot. I got used to it a while ago. Though debating political or historical topics like this one is still a challenge to me. I think I need to participate more often, :)
Um, not a native English speaker here. Though as long as I can articulate my thoughts to have a meaningful discussion, I don't think that's being an issue. I would rather you focus on the topic and contribute your thoughts or counter-arguments, than focusing on trivia or throw off 5 cents party stuff to close this fruitful conversation.
Appreciated for your comments. Though statistically that is not very convincing: the ingredients of capitalism, i.e., market economy and democracy would lead to prosperity. We have more than two hundreds of countries on this globe, the most advanced ones are still the powers from the colonization era. In my humble opinion, those factors seem to be more of correlation than causation.
I know communism left a big scar on you, which is totally understandable. The Romanian Communist government was a puppet one imposed by Stalin's Red Army, which has no legitimacy anyway. That is not the case for China. The Chinese Communist Party has led the Chinese people to resist the Japanese invaders in World War II for eight years, which gave them the legitimacy back then. The economical progress they led in China for the past thirty years gave them the legitimacy now.
Maybe it's nowadays politically correct in the West to bash China. Though I do think you're being overly zealous here by promoting boycotting China economically. China has been making huge progresses for the past three decades both financially and socially. Hundreds of millions of Chinese peasants got out of poverty and started enjoy more freedom in education, living, migration and social upwardness. On that fact alone, China should be praised instead of being scolded on.
Very spot-on post. I don't have any facts or numbers though. But my gut feelings is that the percentage of people that survive the scarcity (China) or overabundance (West) are comparable.
One word: rent-seeking
I've heard lots of good stories on Vert.x and was planning to give it a try. This news makes me wonder if there's is something happening in the project.
I would use it for personal projects at home. Just for fun.
Though I would envision there might be a niche market for affordable Spark clusters as appliances, say, one 1U box that contains 20 boards with total 160cores, 160GB memory, etc and only 200watts power consumption.
Wish there is an affordable ARM SOC board for building DIY Spark clusters, which has a 64bit CPU, 8 cores, gigabit ethernet, SATA, USB3, and 4GB memory (8GB memory would be even better), and under $100.
Spec-wise, Odroid xu4 [1] from Hardkernel is very close to meet this requirement, though still lacking in cpu and memory(only 32bit and 2GB memory for xu4).
To be fair, there is a positive side of China being the "World's Factory". For example, without the inexpensive components from Chinese factories, Wind/Solar Power won't be as affordable as now. Also I suspect without China mobile phones especially Android phones would be much more expensive.
That sounds simple and effective. Thanks.
Is it possible to attach a receipt (say scanned PDFs) to a Ledger entry? I am interested in ledger, would like it to be the accounting system for my side business, a bit more bookkeeping feature such as the receipt attachment would be great for tax filing purpose.
Edit: I know that Ledger uses plain text for each entry. Though I kind of wonder how do you guys keep those receipts.