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I've spent a lot of time studying foreign languages. One thing I've learned is that language isn't about logic and persuasive arguments---language is what it is no matter how illogical or offensive. {% pullquote %} {"If you need to write a blog post to argue
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I am a classical liberal. Adam Smith's proposition that individuals pursuing their own self-interest serve the common good is right. Violence is behind every act of government, therefore: 1) government should be minimized, and, 2) suspicion of government is both necessary and healthy. So why am I writing
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Google recently opened up a field trial of it's Google+ Facebook/Twitter competitor. So far, reaction to G+ has been largely positive among the early adopter crowd. Google+ has even earned a stamp of approval from the Chinese government which blocked Google+ within days of its launch...a
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My friend Michael Michelini asked me why visitors to his blog sometimes get sent to a Russian .ru site when they try to visit his blog. He asked his IT friend about the problem and was told he couldn't replicate it. Never send an IT guy to do
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Friend Tricia Wang is spending a year in China doing fascinating research on poor migrants and their use of technology. She recently shared an excellent write up regarding her experience undercover as a migrant on the Beijing subway. I've lived in China for several years, most of which
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I'm a foreign entrepreneur in South China who has taken advantage of similar existing provisions in both Hong Kong and PRC law to sponsor my own work visas. The result has been a profitable business that employs Chinese, and happy founders and shareholders. If I was a Chinese
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I grew up in Cleveland. Like many people my age who wanted to do "more" than "just" graduate from college, get a job and have a family. I moved away from Cleveland...to South China where I own a growing technology business. A friend of mine
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Last fall, the New York Times published an article describing the rising importance of Mandarin in Chinatown. This seemed to offend travel writer Daisann McLane, an avid student of Cantonese. She insists that Cantonese is flourishing and cites her time with certain infamous Hong Kong politicians in New York'
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All of our internal production sites starting in 2009 have been launched with dual stack IPv4/IPv6 from day one. We typically serve static assets (images and javascript) from our content delivery network to improve load performance. Unfortunately, the CDN we use is IPv4 only. The following Ruby on Rails
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You should be worried when the CEO of Beijing's largest real estate company Zhang Xin has this to say: My view is that the real estate business has a lot of asset bubbles, but even with asset bubbles it doesn't mean that we are getting out
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Quick post as I wait for my 12 inch 1/2 chicken curry 1/2 pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut to be delivered here in Guangzhou: I was reminded tonight, yet again, by Papa John's nationwide delivery hotline why Pizza Hut does so much better in the China
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I woke up today to the headline that Google is threatening to leave the China market in response to what it says were a series of attacks aimed at the Gmail accounts of human rights activists. First, I must admit that I am a big fan and heavy user of
