Category Archives: Reference

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The End of Gold Farming?

Just like any low/no-skill labor work should be replaced by automation, gold framing in online games should also be replaced by AI. As long as the online game provides a powerful scripting API, smart auto-play program can make gold farming obsolete over night.

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Cricket and baseball Common ground

Cricket and baseball has at least one thing in common, both of them are a very boring game to watch. But baseball has one advantage over cricket, they sell beer in the stadium.

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Why Money Makes You Unhappy

Everyone knows the law of diminish of return from high school economics textbook. How come the writer sounds like they have discover something now. The more money you have, you will need even more money to give you the same happiness. It’s like exercise, you are happy the the first time you swim 50m non-stop, but if you are contented, you will never about to swim 1500m.

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Socialist workers

China is reaching the turning-point, India is probably not far behind. Where the outsourcing will go next? Africa or Middle East?

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Hong Kong’s economy, End of an experiment

The minimum wage legislation marks the last straw for Hong Kong’s death. The city is still there, but it is no longer the city once famous for its economy freedom. In 20 years, we will see whose economical policy is right, Cowperthwaite or Donald Tsang.

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