There are two sides of the story, there is a Chinese version saying that there are a lots of frauds here.
Car making is a capital burning business, you just can not do it without the wealth like elon musk.
It's kind of a venture investment here, there were so many car investment in the past few years, when there were investment bubbles, but now, the bubble is gone.
I've read in a paper somewhere that a big part of why Chinese auto manufacturers aren't as successful as Japanese or Korean ones is because they're too tied to the local government to fail. Each province in China has their own local auto company connected to the provincial government, resulting in a lot of duplicated effort and inefficiency. Japan and Korea had a lot of indigenous auto makers when they first started as well, but they allowed the weaker ones to get bought out and cannibalized to build up the stronger ones.
Japan has a very long tradition of quality and striving for perfection. China, not so much. And cars these days really need to be more than “good enough” to compete worldwide.
Japan's worldwide reputation was "garbage, low-quality stuff" until the 1960s. That's not a "very long tradition".
"At first, Japan had a widely held reputation for shoddy exports, and their goods were shunned by international markets"
For a pop-culture example look at the Back To The Future movie where the 1955 version of Dr. Brown says "No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'." The 1985 version of Marty says "What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
That's not the kind of "stuff" I'm referring to. Any visit to Japan will reveal rich history full of incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail - engineering, arts, and design.
A similar visit to China - not so much. They have so much ancient history - but their modern story is not as pleasant (for various reasons).
I love China and have traveled across it multiple times. I think it's a beautiful country full of wonderful people - but they just don't have any kind of desire to achieve perfection like the Japanese do. And Japan was able to exit their "goods shunned by international markets" phase very quickly (Tokyo hosted the Olympics and started running the Shinkansen in 1964, less than 20 years after the war).
When will china stop making "cheap stuff"? When will they create their own proprietary tech and license it out to us?
This is not correct. Nearly every iconic traditional Japanese craftsmanship originated in China, and was obsessionally perfected in Japan. The art of Bonsai, Camera Lenses, Sushi, Swordsmanship. You name it.
Japan and South Korea were both known for cheap low quality goods in the 60s/70s. We've seen how that history plays out once they got enough experience to move up the value chain.
This reminds me a recent story in china: senior ms employees complaint against newly hired Huawei employees, who voluntarily worked overtime, and even showed off this to other senior ms employees.
For first year, you can not take rrsp contributions.
And starting the second year, rrsp contribution room is 18% of your previous year salary. for 100 000 salary, you can only contribute 18 000 (maximum is about 22000 something).
Want to know if you have source code, I can help to contribute the calculations. I've accounting background studying react and python right now.
Oh, nice, thanks! Its in a private repo right now, but I can probably make it public since there isnt anything I need to protect in there.
I'm guessing most users going into tech would likely make at least $150k/yr, so they would be eligible to make the max contribution for the year. Good point about the 100k default base salary though. I didnt realize it was min(18% prev yrs salary, $27230.00), thats good to know, thanks!
I just searched the version in Chinese.
This is the google translated version :
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When the severity of the virus is unknown, many companies have been commissioned by different hospitals to perform sequencing. After the National Centers for Disease Control received the report, they ordered all units without safety qualifications to destroy all virus samples. Less than two weeks later, the full virus sequencing results were made available to the world.
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I found that it's deplorable that so many white politicians and media practitioners lack professionalism and wisdom that caused so much severe spread around the world.
Look at South Korean, it should be served as manual for pandemic crisis resolutions.
It's good that you're attempting to provide factual information. But it's bad that you're adding flamebait like "so many white politicians and media practitioners". Please keep doing the first and stop doing the second. That sentence is a specimen of the same pathogen you're deploring. Your comment would be just fine without it.
If this is the case than china acted fully responsible. _And any western country would have acted the same_.
Especially it wouldn't mean any research result was destroyed just strands of the virus kept in places where it's not safe to keep them.
This would be really sad that a media outed completely turned around the facts to put blame on China... I mean let's be honest if it would have started in the USA (like ironically the Spanish flue did, even through it had Spanish in it's name) then I'm pretty sure the results would have been far worse then they are now.
