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yadongwen | 5 years ago | on: Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet

You certainly don't understand 低调 and 闷声赚大钱. Ma learnt and adapted.

yadongwen | 6 years ago | on: Zoom monitors activity on your computer

Is it related to screen sharing? They allow sharing a specific window. Without knowing about other processes you may not share the window. You have to specifically allow it in System Preference on Mac though.

yadongwen | 6 years ago | on: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

Pretty sure in a couple of weeks US will need masks and other equipment. China very likely is the biggest producer of masks and as the number of new cases drops to near zero they have the extra capacity to donate to the rest of world.

yadongwen | 6 years ago | on: Jack Ma to send 500K coronavirus test kits, 1M face masks to US

Well the hospitals are running out of masks, aren't they?

yadongwen | 6 years ago | on: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking staff to work from home

Well your action will likely make the virus spreading faster which may cause someone to be killed.

yadongwen | 7 years ago | on: In Screening for Suicide Risk, Facebook Takes on Tricky Public Health Role

So should we applaud Facebooking for doing this or not?

yadongwen | 7 years ago | on: Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation

This is a great loss to Chinese people who have to use worse products such as Baidu and so.com. I was hoping Google's re-entering could result in a better Internet (or Intranet) ecosystem in China but alas...

yadongwen | 7 years ago | on: I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On

I'm pretty sure the data DragonFly may collect is much much less than many companies in China are already collecting. The government literally knows everything about you in real time.. which hotel you are in, what websites you have visited, what messages you just sent, etc. So Google won't be able to help Chinese government anyway. On the other hand Google indeed can help the people a lot with high quality search results.

yadongwen | 7 years ago | on: In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs or Make Their Own

憨豆精神 if you know chinese.. He was legendary and inspired many ppl including me. Sadly he passed away last year.

yadongwen | 7 years ago | on: In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs or Make Their Own

They are yuaigongwu and 51qiji. They have helped numerous patients in China. To be fair, they are mostly patient forums helping each other and most of the medicine for cancer can be purchased with discount in China. They are less expensive than the US but still expensive which is why some poorer patients are seeking alternatives/self made medicine.

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Cost of California bullet train system rises to $77.3B, take 5 years more

Just did some quick calculations, for the bullet train connecting beijing and shanghai which is about twice the length of the cal bullet train system, the chinese spent about $30B

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: From imitation to innovation: How China became a tech superpower

Google, M$ and Amazon were not successful when they were not blocked in China.. Amazon China is still not blocked but far behind JD, Alibaba, etc. In some areas like fintech, drones, consumer apps and games China is clearly the leader. If FB is unblocked I doubt it can compete with Tencent at all. Tencent has a higher market cap than FB and understands the Chinese so much more..

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

So you are not one of the normal users. Do you think they will write special logic for you?

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life

it's bad for humanity but seems like most countries capable of doing this are following this trend now. any possible way to avoid this path? i doubt.

btw, your example is pretty weak. my facial features were collected many times in the last two weeks in US in airports and companies i visited

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life

exactly.. i've been robbed a few times with knifes etc but never guns in countries not discussed here. i really hoped there were cams

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life

Didn't know Singapore has so many cams as well. But then it's one of the safest countries and in the US i dare not walking alone in many places not worrying about being robbed..

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Reported difficulties getting help on Equifax's phone lines

None of the 3 links work for me. How difficult to save data from a form? I'm appalled by the technical capabilities of these crucial service providers..

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: ShortcutRef.com – discover and learn shortcuts easily and quickly

Thank you David. I'm so glad you like it. I'm adding new features this weekend. Printable version is in the feature backlog and I'll work on later.

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Help wanted: CEO for CA high speed rail project. High pay, sleepless nights

Just curious..if China could help build it with half cost and half time, would CA accept? If not, why?

yadongwen | 8 years ago | on: Nearly 1 in 3 drugs have a significant safety issue after FDA approval

Another example is Brigatinib (AP26113) which I'm familiar with. It's only approved recently because ~1% patients may get a severe side effect. But desperate patients who heard the news and cannot get it have managed to make their own based on the formula and the powder they made has saved hundreds of people's lives with metastatic lung cancer in the past a few years.