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ladron posted:I've worked with at least 8 of them, all named "JiYoung" Trying to find my gf on Facebook was like, a two hour endeavor. Do you have any idea how many JiYoung's there are in Seoul? Sorting by last name or even by job barely even helps. It was actually pretty funny trying to pick her or from the endless sea of heavily filtered, identically posed profile pictures.
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nickmeister posted:Chinar has more gaudy buildings that fall down after 2 years and stores all provide wechat pay so they don't have to look up from their phones and interact with another human being therefore china is grandiose. thomas friedman is that you
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Fojar38 posted:thomas friedman is that you He said nothing about the next six months so it cant be.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:
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Haier posted:She said I was the one that did her bullshit to her, and foreigners are all just looking for sex and leave China. She's got your number there, Haier.
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Jun 7, 2017 22:49
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I like the ones that go to china for sex but they're weird looking nerds with low self esteem and end up getting married and then just make pathetic youtubes of their lives.
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Baronjutter posted:I like the ones that go to china for sex but they're weird looking nerds with low self esteem and end up getting married and then just make pathetic youtubes of their lives. We laugh at them but they've got more than they could ever dream of. A wife, sex, somewhat positive attention from random people in public and online. Gold jerry, they've hit gold.
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Jun 7, 2017 22:58
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George Costanza would be a massive Chinese celebrity because he is living face culture.
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canoshiz posted:Saving lives the China way I like how this is sped up 20%, it's like watching newsreel footage from the 1920s
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Barudak posted:George Costanza would be a massive Chinese celebrity because he is living face culture. Sinofeld. "He's a uighur Jerry! A uighur!" Xerxes17 fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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Xerxes17 posted:Sinofield. Not that there's anything wrong with that
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Devils Affricate posted:Not that there's anything wrong with that "The hot-pot kempetai".
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Barudak posted:He said nothing about the next six months so it cant be. he unironically wrote an article today that says basically what we're talking about https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/opinion/trump-china-trade.html?_r=0 quote:My visit to Beijing left me with two very strong responses. The first is that we underestimate China — and attribute all of its surge in growth to unfair trade practices — at our peril. The country has been fast and smart at adopting new technologies, particularly the mobile internet. For instance, China has moved so fast into a cashless society, where everyone pays for everything with a mobile phone, that Chinese newspapers report beggars in major cities have started to place a printout of a QR code in their begging bowls so any passer-by can scan it and use mobile payment apps like Alibaba’s Alipay or Tencent’s WeChat Wallet to contribute to the beggar’s mobile payment account. basically he got dragged around by a bunch of corporate ceo's around a government approved potemkin village in beijing and probably stayed exclusively at expensive hotels and poo poo because they knew he was a NY Times columnist and he loving fell for all of it smh
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quote:"Trump may be too late" ... uh huh. About 15 years ago, I was stunned to find that the number of engineering graduates in China is, like, 1000 times the number in the US. At that point, I knew China would overtake US sooner or later.
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Kopijeger posted:If a pale Russian from Siberia or the Far East immigrates to the US, he or she would likely be considered white, yet still be an Asian-american in terms of geographical origin. I met a blond haired, blue eyed girl from Vladivostok on my flight from Fukuoka to Seoul. We were waiting to board and started chatting, really sweet girl. She had just spent a year in Honolulu and was heading back home. We actually both had an overnight layover at the airport in Seoul so we got recliners next to each other so if we crashed we'd be safe but we ended up chatting the majority of the night. She brought up this very thing, where she met people in Honolulu and they would ask her where she's from and she'd tell them and they might not know where Vladivostok is, and she'd say "Russia" and they'd be like "Wow, cool! I've always wanted to go to Europe, do you travel a lot there?" and she was like "I live in Asia" and people would look at her like..."What?" I asked her if she considered herself Asian and she said "Of course", which, yeah, I mean it was kind of a dumb question, what else would she consider herself?, but it's just not usually what we think of in the US when you talk about Asia. Russia is gigantic, how weird would it be to live in a place that is like 9,000km actually now that I think about it I worked outside of Anchorage and that's pretty freakin' far from Washington DC. I dunno. Anyway that's my story about someone from the Russian east coast describing herself as Asian while having super blond hair and bright blue eyes. Thanks for reading.
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also i absolutely despise the idea of a cashless society and am going kicking and screaming into that future, and it's annoying, because i'll go to places and try to give them actual money, which is legal tender, and they'll be like "please use this dumb app to pay" or whatever and i'll say something like "sorry i don't have a phone or an account" and people look at me like i'm some kind of talking zebra that just sauntered into their store. it like totally fucks with their head that someone would not use alipay or whatever dumb app they want me to use. there's a few different reasons why i think charging everything and cashless societies are bad and it irks the poo poo out of me that i'm holding 50rmb and i want a 3rmb bottle of water and they are like "please use your phone and give us your information to charge this 50 cent bottle of water". no. take my money.
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TsarZiedonis posted:Trying to find my gf on Facebook was like, a two hour endeavor. Do you have any idea how many JiYoung's there are in Seoul? Sorting by last name or even by job barely even helps. It was actually pretty funny trying to pick her or from the endless sea of heavily filtered, identically posed profile pictures. MEJ Newman's paper on power laws notes that all known naming systems wrt surnames display good statistical fit to power law- all except Korean surnames, which obey exponential distribution. Power law is prototypical long tail distribution, exponential is definitional boundary between short and long tail distribution, so there will be many, many fewer folks with uncommon surnames They found out surname + clan is power law, so there's a bunch of obscure clans who are still 김 or 박 but you can't put that you're 선산 김 in your Facebook curufinor fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jun 7, 2017 |
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personally i can't believe that an authoritarian government would want to track every single purchase you make and where you make it no matter how insignificant it must just be that the perfidious chinese are truly living in the future thanks to their confucian respect for STEM majors
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Fojar38 posted:personally i can't believe that an authoritarian government would want to track every single purchase you make and where you make it no matter how insignificant They don't need to be competent, having a lot of them is enough.
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Fojar38 posted:personally i can't believe that an authoritarian government would want to track every single purchase you make and where you make it no matter how insignificant Government mandates that all purchasing info be collected and handed over for 'security' monitoring. Immediately sells it to advertisers and retailers.
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nickmeister posted:They don't need to be competent, having a lot of them is enough. it is possible to have too many STEM majors especially if the CCP ever intends to walk the walk in the whole "transition to a service and consumption economy" narrative (not that I think it's possible to simply order the creation of such an economy)
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https://zippy.gfycat.com/CloseTanGosling.webm I'm assuming china. How does this even happen?
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Speaking of STEM majors, I've always wondered, wouldn't it be especially challenging to learn to code in popular high-level programming languages as someone who doesn't speak English, specifically a language like Chinese that is completely etymologically removed from English? All of the foundational class names, methods, keywords, etc. are English words or combinations of English words, and even if you want to write new code using your own native language, you can't really do that if your language doesn't use the Latin alphabet. I guess you could make an attempt at using Pinyin but without the tone marks that would be pretty terrible. Do Chinese programmers just end up learning a weird sort of pseudo-English lexicon consisting of programming terms? Is having that as a base enough to extrapolate out into meaningful names for things when they're writing their own code? I feel like I should know this because I work for an international software company that has its own Chinese (and Japanese) employees, but hardly any of our coding is done by them, and when it is they just follow our own conventions. I'm curious, and a little scared, to see what an all-Chinese software company creates in C# or Java.
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China's transition to a cashless society has worked really well. My local mart has got it down to a science- they average a speedy ten minutes per customer! Minus the screaming fights that occur every time it doesn't work and they try to send the customer to the cash machine, of course. But other than that, really well.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:China's transition to a cashless society has worked really well. My local mart has got it down to a science- they average a speedy ten minutes per customer! Minus the screaming fights that occur every time it doesn't work and they try to send the customer to the cash machine, of course. But other than that, really well. 1. Stand and stare blankly as the cashier rings up the purchase 2. Cashier announces the total 3. Stand and stare blankly for another few seconds 4. Fish around in pockets/purse for 15 seconds looking for phone 5. Input the wrong unlock code 6. Input the wrong unlock code again 7. Close whatever app was open on the phone 8. Swipe back and forth a few times until you find the wechat/alipay icon 9. Navigate through the app for 10 seconds until you find the right payment option 10. Cashier scans phone 11. Wait 30 seconds while it doesn't go through 12. Cashier scans phone again 13. Success at last! Repeat x infinity for every customer ahead of me in line. But hey, so much better than boring old cash! It's just like back in the day when you would get stuck behind an old lady writing a check by hand, only now every single person ahead of you in line is an old lady writing a check by hand.
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Do you not have Android/Apple pay in America? I just hold up my phone to the card reader and it beeps and it's done.
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canoshiz posted:Saving lives the China way That's pretty cool originally thought the truck was honking to get people out of the way and was just gonna roll on by
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Do you not have Android/Apple pay in America? I just hold up my phone to the card reader and it beeps and it's done. We have it but cashiers don't refuse cash and cards. And NYT reporters don't rub one out every time they see a person here pay for something with their phone.
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Known Lecher posted:1. Stand and stare blankly as the cashier rings up the purchase You forgot step 11a- previously unseen child appears from nowhere loudly demanding something and the cashier has to re-ring everything. but yeah whoohoo cashless society Incidentally, I can't get Alipay because my legal name is too long.
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Known Lecher posted:1. Stand and stare blankly as the cashier rings up the purchase so convenient, do you know?
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Devils Affricate posted:Speaking of STEM majors, I've always wondered, wouldn't it be especially challenging to learn to code in popular high-level programming languages as someone who doesn't speak English, specifically a language like Chinese that is completely etymologically removed from English? All of the foundational class names, methods, keywords, etc. are English words or combinations of English words, and even if you want to write new code using your own native language, you can't really do that if your language doesn't use the Latin alphabet. I guess you could make an attempt at using Pinyin but without the tone marks that would be pretty terrible. This is part of why everything programming related in East Asia is a goddamn mess that doesn't work. Also that the programmers can't read English and basically all the useful resources are English language.
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cashless on my phone is fine for me. I can book hotels, air fare, taxi rides, and pay for dinner with my reader. People just need to have their poo poo together to make it work. Like know what to order when you are the cashier in Macdonalds. I hate people who still don't know what to order after waiting in line for a while. Have your phone ready to be scanned. Actually the reason why I like to chill out in China is because of cashless. It just makes everything so much easier.
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I'm an old man because I don't understand at all what is so onerous about handing someone a bill and receiving change. Plus it's way faster since nobody can ever figure out how the phone pay works and it takes ten rounds to get it done. I haven't yet encountered a place that wouldn't take cash, but I have had some that won't take my (Chinese) debit card. I use the phone stuff for deliveries tho. Just not in person.
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Grand Fromage posted:This is part of why everything programming related in East Asia is a goddamn mess that doesn't work. Also that the programmers can't read English and basically all the useful resources are English language. I heard it's mostly bc they just use the sample program that comes with the "how to program" book and just modify everything to fit their purposes, which causes a lot of problems and invalid calls and references, which are then kinda patched with other mods, until it looks like the coding version of that server rack chaos picture. I asked about this a lot in Korea bc of their obstinate reliance on Active X, long after Microsoft themselves said "jesus lol stop using this, it was obsolete and insecure like 5 years ago."
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ladron posted:I asked about this a lot in Korea bc of their obstinate reliance on Active X, long after Microsoft themselves said "jesus lol stop using this, it was obsolete and insecure like 5 years ago." My school's IT lady cried for a week after XP had to be uninstalled. She had no idea what to do. She also told me that Skype and Chrome were both viruses and once wiped my entire computer in an attempt to destroy all these horrible viruses. Oh, and erased everything on my USB because it was foreign and therefore dangerous to their computer system. Also she tried to use me as a pimp so she could meet foreign men. She already had a boyfriend. Of course.
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A lot of my coworkers and a sister in law asked me to introduce them to foreign men. I didn't know any.
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VideoTapir posted:A lot of my coworkers and a sister in law asked me to introduce them to foreign men. I didn't know any. Nevermind I thought you said "didn't know why." hakimashou fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 8, 2017 |
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