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New comment by meyum33 in "Chuwi Minibook X"

meyum33 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:25:06 +0000

I have a Chuwi Lark Box from a few years ago. The volume less than my fist, it's great for doing occasional Windows stuff.

New comment by meyum33 in "Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights"

meyum33 — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:02:35 +0000

These EV makers will soon find out they have to set up a team to censor the stuff they can project.

Berkshire Has a Website from the '90s and Buffett Fans Say Don't Mess with It

meyum33 — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:56:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/berkshire-hathaway-shareholder-meeting-warren-buffett-greg-abel-d9670c30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974250

Points: 3

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New comment by meyum33 in "Warren Buffett dumps $1.7B of Amazon stock"

meyum33 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:48:34 +0000

My first visit to the Berkshire Hathaway website a few years ago literally changed my life. I was immediately attracted. I went to search Buffett and went down the rabbit hole of shareholder meetings clips and value investing and index investing. I am so much richer mentally and financially now thanks to the random visit to this website.

New comment by meyum33 in "Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)"

meyum33 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:30:08 +0000

I've always thought that the American individualist/China familial is looking at things absolutely upside down. For the Chinese, the family mimics the tyrannical nature of the government (and/or the other way around). The keyboard social observer of me find the American family value of equality, respect for autonomy, unconditional love and support more conducive to forming stronger bonds. Anyone who's lived in a typical Chinese family should wonder why the hell there's the stereotype that Americans are more individualistic?

New comment by meyum33 in "Rice Theory: Why Eastern Cultures Are More Cooperative (2014)"

meyum33 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:36:16 +0000

Eastern culture seems too big a term. What do you think is cooperative in Chinese culture? The whole point of the Chinese imperial ruling system post-Qin is to make sure people don’t cooperate to secure the emperor’s rule. It worked wonders for two millennia. Then the totalitarian Leninist system perfected it with modern technology, party organization and propaganda. The modern mainland Chinese people cooperate because there is a powerful central government pushing. Random people have minimal trust towards one another for cooperation. Yes we build power plants and highspeed rails. But we also quarantine cities and abort fetuses en mass and engineer famines with the same system. It’s cooperation with totalitarian characteristics.

New comment by meyum33 in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

meyum33 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:03:27 +0000

Over the years it feels like Federighi’s pleasantness and enthusiasm in those fun videos just don’t translate into the work he oversees. The software mostly work fine but they don’t make me feel “aha” or “this is how it should be done” anymore.

New comment by meyum33 in "A small collection of text-only websites"

meyum33 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:04:09 +0000

berkshirehathaway.com is a great text-only site, containing troves of buffett's letters with much wisdom. though the actual text mostly end up in pdf formats.

New comment by meyum33 in "Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don’t misbehave"

meyum33 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:42:02 +0000

This has been said of the internet itself in China. But even with such heavy censorship, there seem to have been many more internet heavy weights in China than even Europe?

New comment by meyum33 in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

meyum33 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:59:38 +0000

I don’t get how YouTube advertises. Because we use VPN in China, YouTube simply pushes ads in whatever local language my proxy server happens to be. Which baffles me quite a lot since even the most basic tracking and use history (I have two decades in Google) would tell them at least the language I can understand.

New comment by meyum33 in "Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover"

meyum33 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:07:24 +0000

That was a good film. I always remembered del Toro’s recommendation about bulling more lighted fields for kids. Chinese society could learn a lot about how gaming is actually not that addictive when you look deeper into the problem.

New comment by meyum33 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

meyum33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:10:00 +0000

Maybe Yahoo owns TechCrunch. Perhaps they’re detecting access from China based on more than just IP address. Since Yahoo was grilled for handing over dissidents’ info to the Party they really went the extra mile to distance itself from China. They even blocked Engadget from China.

New comment by meyum33 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

meyum33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:05:18 +0000

I clicked open the link to find Yahoo has gone dark in China since 2021. Doesn’t work even with a VPN. I miss the good old days of the Web.

New comment by meyum33 in "BYD is automaker with the most R&D staff"

meyum33 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 07:11:05 +0000

IIRC Chinese EV manufacturers on average lose like 9k USD per car sold.

New comment by meyum33 in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

meyum33 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:55:40 +0000

It won’t work. Just look at the mess of Imperial units in the United States. And this is when the metric system is vastly more straightforward, simply better, and universally adopted. The English language? No way any standardization would work. And that unlike the Imperial system the variations in English is probably a feature, not a bug.

New comment by meyum33 in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

meyum33 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:04:28 +0000

So true. With so much advancement in phone tech I’m still not typing as fast as 15 years ago when phones had physical keyboards. Copy paste undo redo is unnecessarily clumsy. The list goes on.

New comment by meyum33 in "Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis"

meyum33 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 11:29:41 +0000

Could be related to speed and asphalt and macadams. I travelled to Guangzhou a few months ago, the noise on the road is comparable to Beijing, despite having significantly higher proportion of EVs.

New comment by meyum33 in "Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis"

meyum33 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 06:05:03 +0000

Despite being massively impressed by those EVs I can’t help but wonder what the end games will be for all these EV makers that are ALL losing money. Worldwide only BYD and TESLA are actually making a profit. And leaders of the market seem to have little enduring advantage. Who remembers HTC smartphones that were all the rage? If someone comes up with actual autonomous driving, it’s gonna sweep all the net profits away just like Apple did with smartphones. And it probably will matter little if the autonomous software is run on ICE or BEV platforms.

New comment by meyum33 in "Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis"

meyum33 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 05:58:07 +0000

In reality the noise is mostly from tyres anyway. You don’t feel your neighborhood is actually quieter when most cars are EV. For me the really nice thing is kids that are barely taller than exhaust pipes or being carted are exposed to absolute ZERO emission. As a parent in a parking lot you feel much less stress.

New comment by meyum33 in "Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review"

meyum33 — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:18:00 +0000

It seems this is a mainland China study. “Eye exercises” here has a particular form, which is called 眼保健操. IIRC it was developed during the cultural revolution based on traditional Chinese medicine. In short, the conclusion is that this particular exercise doesn’t work, not that exercises for eyes in general don’t work.