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angel opportunity posted:haier can I point out that some of your health stuff is almost as bad as TCM? maybe you have crohn's disease or IBS? I thought the whole appeal of his stories is that he's an idiot who thinks he's smarter than other idiots
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Blistex posted:/\/\efb Ooooh, yes, I have a Filipino lady that constantly tries to do this. It's annoying as hell, but after the 5th non-issue or so your boss should realise she's a crock of poo poo. edit: All it took was a conference call with bossman in the room? Why do you gotta take the fun out of it? WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:I thought the whole appeal of his stories is that he's an idiot who thinks he's smarter than other idiots the dunning kruger of expats
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I pointed out to someone who doesn't know much about economics that in nominal US dollars China's GDP only grew by 1.3% in 2016 and I am having immense trouble parsing the response:quote:I consulted an economist friend of mine, and we think you may be mistaken. %growth is a proportional change, so it does not matter what currency you measure the change in. "%" has no currency units. 5% growth is still 5% growth even if you translate the currency into different units.
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Fojar38 posted:I pointed out to someone who doesn't know much about economics that in nominal US dollars China's GDP only grew by 1.3% in 2016 and I am having immense trouble parsing the response: Global economics are a western concept and he should respect your culture
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Like I think that their friend told them that exchange rate doesn't matter when comparing international economies and I don't even know where to start when it comes to correcting that. It's like someone just told me that 5% of 100,000 is the same as 5% of 100 because both are 5%  Maybe they were talking about PPP?
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Fojar38 posted:It's like someone just told me that 5% of 100,000 is the same as 5% of 100 because both are 5% that's exactly how I read it
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Jeoh posted:why is it always wuhan with this kinda weird poo poo Have you been there? It makes too much sense.
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Ron Darling posted:i truthfully have no idea how the hell this is supposed to curb jaywalking but ok Or I was thinking, going around them.
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Fojar38 posted:I pointed out to someone who doesn't know much about economics that in nominal US dollars China's GDP only grew by 1.3% in 2016 and I am having immense trouble parsing the response: I can't figure it out either. You could point out that US dollars are the de facto world currency so all valid comparisons should be done in USD, I guess?
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Glenn Quebec posted:I'm not too worried about her VP or MD daddy in HK though. I work out of the head office in NYC and anything else is subordinate, or I should say -- doesn't have any jurisdiction. The really funny part of all this is that I'm doing this as a favor and a side project. This isn't my "real" work. I'm just a good coordinator and communicator so it seemed like a right fit. Even if it's not something drastic like this, the important thing here is that when you embarrass someone in China, they will devote the rest of their life to finding ways to passive-aggressively gently caress with you, no matter how small. It could be something like purposely using an email font that is hard for you to read, or forgetting to CC you in some emails, or CC your boss if they think youve made even the smallest oversight, or any other thing that can be pulled off remotely. The important part here is that regardless of impact they will do this FOR YEARS. It WILL NOT STOP because you deserve to be ruined. Ron Darling posted:NINJA EDIT: Ok so I saw the article and it locks on red but what's to stop people from just jumping over the railings and doing it anyway? This will just encourage even more people to walk in the bike lane rather than use the sidewalk
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Grand Fromage posted:I can't figure it out either. I'm not even sure they realize that exchange rates are a thing that affects GDP.
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Fojar38 posted:Like I think that their friend told them that exchange rate doesn't matter when comparing international economies and I don't even know where to start when it comes to correcting that. It's like someone just told me that 5% of 100,000 is the same as 5% of 100 because both are 5% 5% of 100,000 units of type 1 is the same as 5% of 100 units of type 2 if the exchange rate of type 1 to type 2 is 100,000/100 = 1,000. So, your friend isn't wrong about percent change being dimensionless. The flaw, though, is to assume that the exchange rate was constant during the relevant time. The discrepancy between the 1.6% growth measured in nominal USD and the 6% or whatever growth in RMB would come from the changes in the exchange rate (in this case, a substantial depreciation of the RMB). CIGNX fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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There's a Chinese stay at home dad in my apartment community and he never puts pants or a diaper on his 11 month old. So the kid just struts around with his dick in the wind peeing everywhere and then when he does China-dad calls over one of the maintenance women to clean it up. They don't look particularly happy about it. I've seen plenty of naked Thai children (loving phrasing) but they're always hanging out in rural areas and not in the city proper or suburban communities, so this guy comes across as really trashy.
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LentThem posted:Even if it's not something drastic like this, the important thing here is that when you embarrass someone in China, they will devote the rest of their life to finding ways to passive-aggressively gently caress with you, no matter how small. It could be something like purposely using an email font that is hard for you to read, or forgetting to CC you in some emails, or CC your boss if they think youve made even the smallest oversight, or any other thing that can be pulled off remotely. The important part here is that regardless of impact they will do this FOR YEARS. It WILL NOT STOP because you deserve to be ruined. I've always wanted a nemesis and I suppose I should be thankful that it's a mildly attractive woman. ( Normal 6, Yellow Fever 9.)
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Glenn Quebec posted:I've always wanted a nemesis and I suppose I should be thankful that it's a mildly attractive woman. ( Normal 6, Yellow Fever 9.) more like normal 3 yellow fever 10
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Knew a lady with Yellow Fever, she dated some real dogs. At the end of the day though she moved to Japan and found some dude to make her stay at home and wear kimonos 24/7 so she clearly is smarter than me even her husband appears to be a salaryman extra from Godzilla.
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angel opportunity posted:haier can I point out that some of your health stuff is almost as bad as TCM? maybe you have crohn's disease or IBS? http://www.livestrong.com/article/348314-soy-protein-intolerance-symptoms/ Jeoh posted:Maybe you need to drink some ginger coca cola because you are having too much sex, Haier. I wish they still sold coffee cola here. It was a favorite "I want to drink something sweet, but I don't want to finish the whole bottle" kind of drink. But you can just walk around it, as proven in the photo. Gargamel Gibson posted:It's for putting lead in your pencil! Only the finest lead, rhino horn and polonium. Just for you, my friend.
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Atlas Hugged posted:There's a Chinese stay at home dad in my apartment community and he never puts pants or a diaper on his 11 month old. So the kid just struts around with his dick in the wind peeing everywhere and then when he does China-dad calls over one of the maintenance women to clean it up. They don't look particularly happy about it. I've seen plenty of naked Thai children (loving phrasing) but they're always hanging out in rural areas and not in the city proper or suburban communities, so this guy comes across as really trashy. They did this in Mongolia since diapers are expensive and difficult to find, but what made it hilarious was that mothers had a "poo song". From the time they are born mothers sing some song and try to get their kids to poop so it conditions them to poo to this one song. Then whenever the mom thinks they need to drop a deuce they sing the song and just hold the kids over a bucket.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:They did this in Mongolia since diapers are expensive and difficult to find, but what made it hilarious was that mothers had a "poo song". From the time they are born mothers sing some song and try to get their kids to poop so it conditions them to poo to this one song. Then whenever the mom thinks they need to drop a deuce they sing the song and just hold the kids over a bucket. The poor thing is why rural kids in Thailand often go around wearing nothing at all, but this guy doesn't have an excuse except laziness and a lack of manners. The poop song is hilarious though. My kid is just conditioned to waves his hands when you say "butterfly" and to clap when he finishes a bottle. Being able to poop on command would be way more useful.
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CIGNX posted:5% of 100,000 units of type 1 is the same as 5% of 100 units of type 2 if the exchange rate of type 1 to type 2 is 100,000/100 = 1,000. So, your friend isn't wrong about percent change being dimensionless. The flaw, though, is to assume that the exchange rate was constant during the relevant time. The discrepancy between the 1.6% growth measured in nominal USD and the 6% or whatever growth in RMB would come from the changes in the exchange rate (in this case, a substantial depreciation of the RMB). So I just did a bunch of research and from what I understand, China's GDP is stagnating in US dollar terms because of a depreciation of the Yuan amounting to roughly 10% since the 2015 stock market crash. The depreciation pressure is because of the capital outflows from China, which are/were being driven by a lack of investment opportunity in China along with lots of firms with US Dollar denominated debts that were becoming more and more expensive as long as all their assets/profits were denominated in Yuan. Depreciation has stabilized somewhat in recent months because of these new restrictions of capital outflows, but it means that there is now a ton of money in China with nowhere to go, hence the asset bubbles and price inflation. Am I correct or is this all wrong?
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:They did this in Mongolia since diapers are expensive and difficult to find, but what made it hilarious was that mothers had a "poo song". From the time they are born mothers sing some song and try to get their kids to poop so it conditions them to poo to this one song. Then whenever the mom thinks they need to drop a deuce they sing the song and just hold the kids over a bucket. So does blackmail in Mongolia revolve around figuring out your nemesis' poop song and using it against them?
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Barudak posted:So does blackmail in Mongolia revolve around figuring out your nemesis' poop song and using it against them? When they're good and drunk.
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Barudak posted:So does blackmail in Mongolia revolve around figuring out your nemesis' poop song and using it against them? Big test at school? Poo song. Graduation ceremony? Poo song. Walking down the aisle at your wedding? drat well better believe poo song is ready to go, but being performed by local choir group. It is their wedding after all, got to class it up a bit.
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Haier posted:I wish they still sold coffee cola here. It was a favorite "I want to drink something sweet, but I don't want to finish the whole bottle" kind of drink.  Hell yes I loved this stuff way back when they sold it in shanghai, but I havent seen it in a really long time
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Glen are you sure your nemesis pitching her voice during the last call wasn't an attempt to find your childhood brown note?
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I was just in the supermarket. I'm the guy unloading the pallet of dry noodles by throwing them against the wall towards the direction they are supposed to go. I'm not concerned with the constant crunch of shattered food stuffs that people hope to buy intact. LentThem posted:
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Atlas Hugged posted:The poor thing is why rural kids in Thailand often go around wearing nothing at all, but this guy doesn't have an excuse except laziness and a lack of manners. There's a whistle mothers do here when they want their kids to go. I read a book once that claimed Chinese kids get potty-trained faster than kids from other countries because of this technique, although I'm not sure. e: This book! How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm by Mei-Ling Hopgood. Fleta Mcgurn fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Three employees sentenced to 18 months in jail in B.C.'s biggest immigration scam A firm in BC using the same addresses over and over again to falsify immigration documents has had a bunch of its employees charged and sentenced to jail time. Roughly 1300 of the 1600 or so clients of this firm have been or are being ordered deported.
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Haier posted:TINY DANCER I feel you buddy, I had this happen to me at a public toilet in KL a few days ago. In such a rush to turn around and drop trou that i couldn't hold it in, instead shat on the seat of the toilet rim and then sat in it. I've never ever been so happy in my life for squirty hose and the generally disgusting wet state of malaysian toilet floors.
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I just saw a CCTV thing that mentioned China's space station as now being for 2022 instead of 2020. I wonder if this is the beginning of quietly trying to slip things back and hoping nobody noticed.
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Grand Fromage posted:I just saw a CCTV thing that mentioned China's space station as now being for 2022 instead of 2020. I wonder if this is the beginning of quietly trying to slip things back and hoping nobody noticed. They were looking at its Western age before.
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BONGHITZ posted:is there fiber in china? Plenty, but it's useless since everything is bottlenecked at the GFW.
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BONGHITZ posted:is there fiber in china? Dietary? Not so much. All the bran in the world wont save you from oil shits.
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BONGHITZ posted:is there fiber in china? Like dietary fiber? I guess not much, looking over a list of high fiber foods I found on the internets there's nothing on it that's common here.
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BONGHITZ posted:is there fiber in china? chinese internet is weird cuz it's stupidly fast if you're connecting to something domestic but anything outside is a total tossup. Like I can stream shows/movies from domestic sites and get perfect HD steaming, and download games for tens of megabytes per second, but amazon.com might take 5 minutes to fully load. When they brought the PS4 here domestically it was great cuz they got a chinese server and suddenly those big modern ~50GB game downloads went from "maybe next year" to done in a couple of hours max. Haier posted:That stuff was good. I am not really a soda fan, but when I heard about it I found some at a 711 and enjoyed it. At the same time, it just made me want a real Schweppes. I still think Vanilla Coke is better. I was really into that green tea sprite they sold for like a year.
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