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One hundred years of solitude is the only one I ever re-read, first the original Spanish, then in Portuguese, then in English.

I remember reading an article saying that the memory storage in the brain may be at molecular level, making the brain's storage capacity really huge. Anyway, there are much more things going on in the brain than just deep neural networks.

I know that very well. The same goes for the term "President". I didn't say the terms are mutually exclusive, the point is the way they choose the terms to describe those considered allies and those considered enemies.

Alibaba is like MercadoLivre, they don't sell anything. They pretty dominant, in China they have TaoBao, an e-bay like, TianMao, also like e-bay, but more selected, more expensive to open a shop in it, and more brand-oriented than TaoBao, and finally they have Alibaba China, that is a B2B site, it means real wholesale. Oh, there is also Alipay, huge, it is the Paypal in China, people here use it even to pay 10 bucks to a friend when sharing a restaurant bill, a guy just taps his mobile phone and send the 10 bucks to his friend that is sitting just across from him, it's funny. There is also Alimama, advertising market. The thing is that in Brazil (I'm a brazilian too!) the e-commerce is still far from the level it has reached in China. My wife (chinese) buys everything in the internet, even noodles, milk, oil, soap,her clothes, her Lenovo laptop, her Iphone6, everything from the internet. She can't spent a day without buying at least a pair of socks from the internet. Brazil lacked a good payment system, but now with PagSeguro i guess things will improve. But there is also the expensive delivery in Brazil, in China it's ridiculously cheap, like you pay 30 Reais to send a 5 kilos pack 2000 Kilometer away to the other side of the country within 24 hours!!

It is funny how american media is eager to depict China as a North-Korea, and how americans opinions end being formed by their partial media in the same way it happens under dictatorships. Have spent a decade in China, I have yet to see a cop carrying a gun. Cops in China are way more friendly than in US, and for me, way more trustable. people think they keep the chinese people under fear and draconian control, but if you spend some time in China and listen to the people, you see thats not the whole truth. American media call Mugabe a dictator and call Cameroon's President a "chief of state", but both countries hold the same kind of elections. Anyone saw the news about the recent death of the Arabian king? I didn't read any mention about him being a dictator, indeed he is, but he is an ally.

You are right, Alibaba doesn't even sell anything, they are like e-bay, just connect the buyer to the seller. As far as I know Alibaba also doesn't have a delivery service, ShungFeng Express is the most used delivery company. The chinese Amazon is YiHaoDian(360buy), they sell their own things and they have their own delivery operation.

"heavy-handed riot police action" This is much more likely to happen in the US than in China

They will suffer more without the job. You think not buying from them will help them...how?

At have been living in China for 8 years, have visited dozens of factories, speak fluently Mandarim and Cantonese, and I have never heard about someone working for 0.5 USD an hour...Actually I saw a salary like that mentioned in my Chinese Language book, but that book was written in the 70's. Vietnan is another story, they may very well work for something like that, but life is much cheap there. All considered, I think the situation in Asia, for the poorest, is much better than in my home South America, and may be better than at US ghettos (there are no guns around here, there is less domestic violence, less addiction, less bullying, less discrimination) I have seen slavery in the deep South America, but not yet in Asia.

thank you!

I suppose this is not a language, is some kind of cypher, how do I read it, please?

I wonder how long it would take to run all the possible games, assuming there is no sleep time between moves.

Sometimes the girl will feel good and confident the whole day after receiving a compliment, as long as it is in a polite and respectful way, even when they ignore it or roll their eyes to it...anyway it's a delicate matter.