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New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:17:45 +0000

Taobao, 360.com and the likes are selling Billions and Billions trough the internet, massive amount of internet consumption, home appliances, electronics, clothes. Thats not food nor real state and cars

New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 03:11:18 +0000

Can't be worse than Beijing. Shangrila is very nice.

New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:58:47 +0000

>>and the investments are limited to some shady financial products and...real estate. This is in Beijing , or Hebei, Henan and the 3 northern provinces. At the Pearl River Delta and the Shanghai-Zhejiang-Jiangsu triangle the investment is in production.

New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:52:19 +0000

>>internal consumption is still moribund Do you ever go to the supermarkets? Every time I go to eat outside in the evening at the mall, I have to wait a line of at least 5 numbers to get a table, and I live in the suburbs, very far from downtown.

New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:21:39 +0000

chinese dont live on credit like americans, they live for saving. The financial market is slightly more regulated than the american financial market, aswell.

New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 02:10:08 +0000

Last time I checked, China had 1 Trillion dollars in reserves. Chinese people is not living on credit cards, actually quite the opposite, they save a lot, even the little waitress at the cheap restaurant has a lot of savings. Every year, at spring festival, hundreds of millions of young chinese give their savings to their parents to keep, and those old people can save! I dont know where is the debt guys are talking about.

New comment by marukokinno in "How China Fooled the World [video]"

marukokinno — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:39:13 +0000

Every year , for the last 20 years, many articles say that we can be sure of the imminent Chinese economy collapse. Then every year they are proven wrong. This is just one more of these articles. The guys have no idea what they are talking about. The education effort is as huge as the infrastructure building effort, and it will bring its benefits. At some point the growing will slow down; at some point it will be 1% yearly growth; but a political collapse is very unlikely, and economic collapse is even more unlikely.

New comment by marukokinno in "Show HN: LiteScript"

marukokinno — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 17:00:01 +0000

Congratulations and Parabens!

New comment by marukokinno in "China Begins Longest Bullet Train Service"

marukokinno — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:44:55 +0000

BBC is not blocked, at least here in Beijing or other big cities. Are you in the countryside of Northern China? I advice to try www.myssh.cc , very fast and very cheap (2 USD a month), it unblocks everything, but then you have to turn it off when you want to watch all the free streaming movies, TV series, and music easy available inside the great wall.

New comment by marukokinno in "China Begins Longest Bullet Train Service"

marukokinno — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:35:17 +0000

Also the planes always have at least 30 minutes delay before take-off (here in China),and yes, airports are usually far from the Downtown. Anyway, Trains are much more comfortable, less stressing, you can take more luggage, you can sit at the restaurant, have internet with a 3G stick, play cards and make friends, many trains have a smoking area (in China). I prefer trains over planes every time.

New comment by marukokinno in "China Begins Longest Bullet Train Service"

marukokinno — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:25:11 +0000

I have been living in China for 6 years and last time I counted, I had already 1250 hours of travel time in Chinese trains. You can go to Lhasa, on the Himalaya, from Beijing by train. A friend of mine is going to Moscow from Beijing next week. My hours are increasing slower, now that high-speed trains are popping everywhere. Most high-speed are new paths, so little villages in middle of nowhere that had nothing, now suddenly have stunning modern mini Train Stations with High-speed trains (300 km/h cruising speed) stopping there. It's amazing. Many people say , in my home country Brazil, where trains are virtually non-existent, that a main reason our previous governments didn't build tracks was the lobby of Big Truck makers and Big Oil, that profit from all the transport being made by roads.

New comment by marukokinno in "Show HN: A visual HTML5 animation editor in your browser"

marukokinno — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:00:23 +0000

I still use the tiny lightning fast Macromedia Flash 4 to make simple animations, when its just simple animations, without all the script power, features and Photoshop integration you get with the Adobe 2 Gb in disk elephant. I used to run this Flash 4 in a Pentium 133hz with only 16 MB RAM and it wasn't that slow. I was waiting, wondering why didn't someone bring something like that for HTML5 yet, and Finally it is here! Thank you .

New comment by marukokinno in "Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial"

marukokinno — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 18:52:56 +0000

I noticed that when changing from one chapter page to another, it loads much faster than the original rails tutorial, that takes forever. Nice improvement, still note a little latency though. It will be nice for people to study the Rails Tutorial Book when published on Softcover's new platform. Is going to happen?

New comment by marukokinno in "Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial"

marukokinno — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:32:11 +0000

Congratulations! Will use it. By the way, thank you very much, Mr. Hartl, for the rails tutorial. It was life changing for me, a former completely non-tech guy, now running my customs brokerage business trough a collaborative database tool horribly coded by me myself :) edit: misspell

New comment by marukokinno in "Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed"

marukokinno — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 13:26:24 +0000

I had exactly the same thoughs today earlier, before seeing this article. "horror stories" was exactly the words in my mind. To be a prosecutor in the US is a political career, and they go nuclear to sentence the highest number of people they can, with the maximum charges they can, doesn't matter the situation, all out war, to get some press. to make things even better, the jail sistem is private, to build and run jails is a business. There was a guy who the cop befriended and pretended to be his good friend for 2 years, just to convince him to bet some money on football, then the cop sent the SWAT to arrest him for betting , and the Swat guys killed the man in his house. It was on HN i think. Being a third world foreigner and not so white as I am, It becomes easier to abandon the dream of ever stepping the foot on the country. Is a Pity, I really would like to see the girls in the California beaches and Las vegas.

New comment by marukokinno in "If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel"

marukokinno — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:21:15 +0000

English is not my native language, but using "was" sounds pretty weird to me. In latin languages, when a sentence starts with "if" and the verb is in a past tense form, it must be the subjunctive form of the past tense. I remember in primary school they teach the past of the subjunctive with "if" before all the pronouns. Don't know how they teach the past of the subjunctive in English though.

New comment by marukokinno in "Mysterious ‘flying saucer’ slides found in documents leaked by Edward Snowden"

marukokinno — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:43:53 +0000

Yahoo U.S. get this award almost everyday. Strange that some other countries' versions of Yahoo News look more like serious journalism

New comment by marukokinno in "How The Pirate Bay Plans to Beat Censorship"

marukokinno — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:16:12 +0000

Like Bender said: "Forget about the blackjack! And you know what? Forget about the Internet!"