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« The Universe is full of dots. Connect the right ones and you can draw anything. The important question is not whether the dots you picked are really there, but why you chose to ignore all the others. » RR quoting Sam Thompson
This week's EconTalk is @teppofelin talking about rationality and perception: econtalk.org/teppo-felin-on…
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Teppo Felin on Blindness, Rationality, and Perception - Econlib
Teppo Felin of the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about perception, cognition, and rationality. Felin argues that some of the standard experimental critiques of human...
Isn’t that playing with fire, creating a total confusion and a rare distortion of reality? As rightly put “If Chinese people actually learned Marxist concepts seriously, it would become clear to all that China today has nothing to do with Marxism” scmp.com/news/china/pol…
“You should have the decency to #Meitu my face if you are going to share it with your friends” ... “A generation of Chinese, while clamorously asserting individualism, share selfies that are becoming more and more similar and so are their faces.” #scmp sc.mp/2GUfpQX
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Holding a mirror to China’s selfie obsession
Meitu’s popular apps and a flippant attitude towards plastic surgery are changing what it means to be beautiful, but the result is not always pretty
“Kim was listening attentively, his head lowered, taking notes as Xi spoke during their meeting. At least 30 years Kim’s senior, Xi was smiling and sometimes nodding as Kim carefully reads from a script in front of him when it is his turn to speak” scmp.com/news/china/dip…
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Was Kim Jong-un ‘humbled’ by Xi Jinping on China trip?
North Korean leader seen taking notes and listening attentively during meeting
“Ask an established HK restaurateur for advice about venturing into the business and you will quite possibly be told: “Don’t!” That is because setting up a food and beverage outlet in the city is an arduous, patience-testing journey.” scmp.com/lifestyle/food…
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The rental myth and the facts about opening a Hong Kong restaurant
With one cafe or restaurant for every 600 residents, Hong Kong has more per capita than most cities. So the biggest challenge, once you’ve dealt with licensing, contractors, renovation and hiring, is...
“The system will also be able to register how many times a pedestrian has violated traffic rules and once this number reaches a certain level, it will affect the offender’s social credit score which may limit their ability to take out loans from banks” scmp.com/tech/china-tec…
What is the most powerful in China, the party or the government? « The party leads everything » is Xi’s motto. In other words the party decides, the government implements. «The Soviet collapse was caused by the separation of the party and the state» scmp.com/news/china/pol…
How to recruit two escort girls for one of the most audacious assassination? An astonishing and very sad story #LongRead #scmp #NorthKorea sc.mp/2I1hh72
The power of social network: here is Shanbay, a Chinese educational social network that quote “taps into the importance the country places on collective values, encouraging users to team up and then rates each team by the contribution of members”. sc.mp/2Igc5fL
Interesting to see how strong the #metoo campaign has grown in Korea - some even calling it “the second wave of Korean democracy” - while elsewhere in Asia - including HK, Japan, China - it has barely caused a ripple. sc.mp/2IdKWKH
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How a masturbating monk drove Seoul to say ‘Me Too’
In South Korea, the campaign against sexual harassment has taken down a presidential hopeful and a freedom fighter turned poet who once had hopes of a Nobel Prize. In a notoriously patriarchal...
Interesting results of last weekend local elections. People are tired about young localists extremist positions and prefer more moderate and realistic candidates. scmp.com/comment/insigh…
Is that paranoia or just an obsession to control everything? scmp.com/news/china/pol…
Can China soft power and international image be controlled by a “super cultural ministry”, while the Government has been tightening the grip on everything related to culture? There is obviously a risk of counter effects here. scmp.com/news/china/pol…
Rare and courageous protest after Xi announced lifting presidential term “It was the most effective legal restriction to prevent autocracy or putting individuals above the party and the state, one of the most important political legacies of Deng Xiaoping” scmp.com/news/china/pol…
As we enter the year of the dog, here is a very moving commercial created by Apple, capturing very well the Chinese spirit of commitment to work, family and study. A real buzz in China! #ChineseNewYear #iPhone m.youtube.com/watch?v=ySLn-2…
Sad and complicated topic. So it’s Interesting to go back to the origin of this relatively recent live-in rule. In 2017 there was 350,000 domestic workers in HK, a sharp increase of 75% since 2001. More are expected to come. #scmp #domesticworker #maid #hk scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
“Blockchain uses a lot of computer power in order to create the trust we value. These costs are hidden in systems like bitcoin because of the cryptocurrency reward paid to the people who provide their computers for this purpose.” #SCMP #Blockchain scmp.com/week-asia/busi…
“We Chinese only know Uncle Aamir”. Khan’s influence stretches far beyond cinema screens. His biography can be found at bookstores, while his television talk show has been translated into Mandarin and is widely available on Chinese streaming platforms. scmp.com/week-asia/soci…
Moving story: “Last year there were 9mio minors both of whose parents were working away from home or where one parent was working and the other did not have guardianship of them; and 60mio with at least one parent as working away from home.” #scmp scmp.com/week-asia/soci…
“China will never do what the Western countries have done or impose its will on others.” That is good to hear cause with its Belt and Road Initiative China shows every sign that it is doing in modern form what the imperialist Europe did in 19th century. scmp.com/week-asia/opin…
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