I think I have the potential to be an economist, I think I am as cheap as them. Next time when my wife complains about me being cheap, I can tell her I am just concern about economy efficient.
Category Archives: Reference
Filing cabinet for a digitized world.
Tongue twisters
I always thought Chinese is the most difficult language to learn with its tonic pronunciation and different writing system than European languages. It turns out the grammar rules of the most difficult language is way more complicate than Chinese. I am a believer of universal language theory, why the world need so many languages. It would be a lot more convenient if everyone speaks the same tongue. But, I may revise my position after I take philosophy of language.
How green is your pet?
A dog’s eco-footprint equals to two gas hungry SUVs. Maybe the environmentalist should stop protesting against the car drivers, they should protest against the pet owners. If we raise carbon tax at the gas pump to help fighting the climate change, should we also impose some kind of tax to discourage people owning pets?
The tyranny of the majority
Hong Kong is so behind in the progress of democracy. While we are still asking for basic democracy, the Americans is already dealing with the problem of having too much democracy. I wonder are there any pro-China politicians in HK would smart enough to quote the problems in California as an argument against the pro-democracy movement.
Agricultural robots
One small step closer to my vision of the future, all low skill manual labor will be replaced with robots. The only problem is how should we deal with the displaced farm workers?