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    • River YoungR

      Trump bans Americans from investing in Chinese firms he claims have ties to the military - CNN

      Does this mean that the trade war ended but the financial war is coming?

      And is this realistic? As some companies are even listed in the US exchange, like China Telecom and China Mobile, which are dominant state monopoly in China btw.

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      Suddenly, hope - The promise of the new covid-19 vaccine is immense | Leaders | The Economist

      Let's hope this time it'll work. We human beings have long time suffering, losing hope to battles, and false hope for dictatorships. But we are always progressing.

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    • riverR

      Who's Gritty?

      https://twitter.com/NicoleConlan/status/1326928011963195397

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    • riverR

      Why you don’t like the sound of your own voice | Rébecca Kleinberger

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3vSYbT1Aco&ab_channel=TED

      Learned a lot from this video. You heard all kinds of voice from several level of masks, and your inward voice through your bones, not air. But magically there is the inner voice, maybe you can't really hear your own voice because your brain filters it. And you can hear your silence thought when you are reading.

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    • riverR

      TikTok executive says app used to censor content critical of China - Axios

      Surprisingly, why I am not surprised?

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    • riverR

      Democrats keep winning the popular vote. That worries them.

      US politics is really fun. Sometimes it's spectacular, sometimes it's nasty. Sometimes it's full of hope, sometimes it's full of anxiety. This year I learnt something new: win the popular votes, but lose the electoral. It's interesting.

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    • riverR

      Jeffrey Paul: Your Computer Isn't Yours

      This shit blocks every apps failed to open? Bad practice, apple! Do you know that the Internet has divided into two parts, the Internet and the Chinese intranet? So confident that you think Chinese ISPs won't mess the route up?

      Back to privacy issue, well I dont have any problem about that, because I don't have privacy at all. Welcome to China.

      Since October of 2012, Apple is a partner in the US military intelligence community’s PRISM spying program, which grants the US federal police and military unfettered access to this data without a warrant, any time they ask for it. In the first half of 2019 they did this over 18,000 times, and another 17,500+ times in the second half of 2019.

      This is very interesting. Be sure, US citizens, that this kind of information stays in the US, not grabbed by any country other than US military. Otherwise you will be a surveillance state, too.

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    • riverR

      5 ways to celebrate TensorFlow's 5th birthday

      Great, I should give it a try. Maybe adding some robots here is a good idea. Such as an auto answering robot, or a remind me later robot...

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    • riverR

      Dictionariez supports Portuguese and Russian now with v2.4.0

      Pals, I am proud to tell you that Dictionariez v2.4.0 has published.
      Well, chrome version is still under Google's review, as always lagged behind Firefox. But Firefox version and local crx file is ready to use now.

      So what do you think? Tell me your opinions and suggestions, I desperately need them.

      Download links and more details are at Github.

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    • riverR

      Barack Obama: I Still Believe in America - The Atlantic

      God first made the promise to Abraham (Genesis 15:18–21):

      On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, "To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites."

      The Promised Land, Obama's new book, a memoir that discover history and give hope to the future. Looking forward to it, highly recommend.

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    • riverR

      A Gentle Introduction on How to Use Anki to Improve Your Memory

      Saw this on reddit at a lonely sleepless night. It's well written, quite easy to understand. I have been using Anki for a year now, it has really helped me a lot.

      Another source I would also like to recommend:
      The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention

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    • riverR

      Small debts, big problems – Rest of World

      So this shit has being going for a while now, I wonder what's happened really, and what impact will it cause. The dust has not been settled yet, let's see.

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    • riverR

      A collection of M1 Macbook reviews

      Although some nasty news has been traveling around apple recently, such as privacy issue and new MacOS's glitch. But this new M1 chip seems really rocking. Some even call it a revolution...

      Let's watch a series of highly recommended videos:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoEDgl_xBo

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEaKQ0pxQsg&ab_channel=TheVerge

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4g2nPY-VZc&t=118s

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2qgTyTVUgI

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB89hwHJfxM

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZY2cJ4QYps

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sktKAsWx9bo

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    • riverR

      How do Spotify Codes work? - Boonedoggle

      Well written, both the article and the code. A little bit spoiler, I am also working on Spotify...

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    • riverR

      when you might die

      This is brilliant. Since death is uncertain, how can we predict it? We can't, but we can calculate the probability based on large data of WHO health observation and CDC's life expectation data...

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    • riverR

      Never thought this pic could be so sarcastic one day

      https://twitter.com/pnlpal/status/1329294776554848258

      To understand it need some cultural background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man

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    • riverR

      Taipei Golden Horse best documentary award goes to ...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT6pWkT6nC8&feature=youtu.be

      Highly recommend. Lost Course is a promising documentary on the crisis of Wukan, a rural fishing village of China whose villagers protested massively against the central govt.

      The only film that records a chronicle about mainland China in Taiwan, something gets more and more rare to see in nowadays.

      Some background info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukan

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    • riverR

      On the Offensive: The UK’s New Cyber Force | RUSI

      Nice. Reminds me of a tv series by David Schwimmer:

      Intelligence

      https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1058323993?playlistId=tt9454736&ref_=tt_ov_vi

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    • riverR

      China's new digital currency front has caught the world napping

      So the new Cold War is based on technology. China Digital Currency is not just centralized, which is totally the opposite of block chain, but also the world's biggest surveillance tool, has the potential of competing with SWIFT. Who said China is not creative?

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    • riverR

      So this is called the hand of God and the goal of century

      RIP, Maradona. One of the best players ever exist.

      He won the first goal by the hand of God, which is wrong and less controversial of course. But the second goal dribbled though a team of English opponents, so called the goal of the century, is much more controversial...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ccNkksrfls

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K5ixKDeao8

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