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ripitruston How Singapore's government-run dating service works

The author's final recommendation about investing in offline third places is very true in modern Singapore

Modern dating problem comes from too many online platforms trying to sell you a lifestyle and tell you what you should have. People do not need another online platform to solve the problem caused by online platforms

ripitruston Incident with Actions and Pages

I initially thought it was because I ran out of action minute, and was about to upgrade my plan Lucky I came here before hitting the confirm payment button

ripitruston Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

I agree on that, I would like to add that for some of the time, consuming helps us create better. Different kind of consuming activities actually have different leverage on creating value

ripitruston Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

yeah it is not a reflection of causality, it is just that to sell is to create

ripitruston Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read?

https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more

This article inspired me on two things :

1) Lots of the things I do in everyday life is just to consume: buying, watching, following, etc. These things either consume my money, or my time. These things make me feel good, but it does not generate real value. In order to get rich, I need to create things. I also start to realize that great people are great because they started to create things at a very early stage of their life (but not consuming things as they advocate, think about celebrities, entrepreneurs etc), so they are able to practice and perfect the value creating skills to the extreme.

2) I start to realize that the world is binary in nature : I create to sell, I buy to consume. I either at the buyer side, or at the seller side. And in this current society, there is a huge buyer side trap, the whole idea of consumerism and social media is to trap you inside the buyer side, so you keep buying, you keep consuming. I really need to break free from this trap.

This blog post was written before COVID-19, but the idea feels even fresher during this pandemic era

ripitruston Welcome to Nestflix

So happy to finally see Jan quadrant Vincent from inter dimensional tv

ripitruston Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

How interesting, I have the exact same idea about one month ago so glad to see it been developed

ripitruston Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

SICP

I read it twice and it is still a gem

ripitruston Elon Musk Reading List

I was just about to mention this

For reference, he mentioned this book in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0871VJfvD1c (13:46)

ripitruston China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’

You are in fact very right, but there is one critical issue here. If we are talking about marriage. Culturally there is a "lifespan" of value to both genders. A Man's valuable lifespan can be well over 20 years, from age 20 all the way to age 40.While a woman's valuable lifespan maybe only less than 10 years, from 20 to 30.

This is because of the "stake" people are seeking when looking for a marriage between genders. Women are seeking wealth, social status, personality and whatever it may take to maintain a stable marriage ( family). While men, in most cases, are looking for prettiness, good-looking or whatever superficial. This kind of value lifespan and marriage purpose mismatch is the whole problem of marriage issues in China.

A divorced, less pretty (compare to those in 20s), mid-aged woman is very hard to find another marriage. Even if they did not even marry before, it is still hard for them. A lot of women in China who are well-educated, well-paid, in their 30s still have problems in finding partners (This is what Chinese society called sheng nu, or "women that left behind":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_nu).

Statistically speaking, women are indeed more than men, but the mating process is not statistic.

ripitruston China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’

Thanks

ripitruston China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’

Yeah I heard about that, it is sad that Japan women are suffering from this too.

ripitruston China’s Cheating Husbands Fuel an Industry of ‘Mistress Dispellers’

I doubt that this will ever work in countries other than China because women (and marriage) in other countries are mostly protected by law, while in china, women are not so well protected. Also, culturally speaking, a divorced woman is very hard to get marriage in China. While a divorced man is easy. In society, People think that "divorce" somehow depreciated the value of a woman, while "divorce" means nothing (sometimes positive thing) for a man. Also, after marriage, Chinese woman will not focus mostly on work or career promotion but rather on family, so in the long term, they are 1) financially attached to the husband 2) emotionally attached to the husband. This makes them want to "fix" the marriage rather than abandon it, even if the fix is superficial and (maybe) temporary.

But as more and more young women (born after 80s and 90s) are married, this kind of issue may be mitigating. Because young women tend to be much well-educated and wealthy

ripitruston Amazon search was down

I really agree with you

ripitruston Amazon search was down

They might still lose revenues from potential impulsive purchase

It just happened to me, I was trying to search a book and want to buy it, but since I can't search, I didn't. And now I don't want to buy it anymore

ripitruston Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a New Level

true indeed, to put it in most of my friends' way: "you can't make much money here"

ripitruston Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a New Level

I am not sure also. Singapore is not old enough currently to see any discontinuity between government's percetion and people's true needs. But I think "lack of free speech" is not the same as dictatorship. Singapore still allows multiple political party, and democratic elections. It is just that the PAP is too strong that no other party has the equaling power to win people's votes

ripitruston Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a New Level

very good insight indeed

ripitruston Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a New Level

Out of all the criticisms of Singapore, the most mentioned is the lack of free speech/media. But if you have lived in Singapore for a while you will probably find that this is not the case. It does not even affect most people's life in a tiny bit (unless you are into politics). And certainly Singapore is not 1984 stuff. People are really happy here.

Based on my reading of some books from Lee Kuan Yew, the reason he did not allow total free media and speech was that he was very much concerned about the stability of the nation, and as such a small country, Singapore really can't afford any civil conflicts (it had suffered one before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_race_riots_of_Singapore and recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Little_India_riot)

Besides that, some of the "free speech" online are actually either falsified or in very explicit languages specifically targeted at raising culture hatred, and hatred towards foreign immigrants. They are not targeted at solving problems

Somehow, the reason that keeps people leaving Singapore is not the lack of free speech, but something else. Most of my foreign friends from University had left Singapore, either to US or China. For them, the biggest problem seems to be high living cost, no space for personal development and no job satisfaction. How to retain these talents may be a bigger issue here

ripitruston The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (2006)

Link to the missing white paper : http://www.evworld.com/library/Tesla_21centuryEV.pdf

ripitruston TiltBrush by Google

simply OMG

ripitruston Singapore witnesses the rise of the entrepreneur

Singapore needs a Role model. For years parents and teachers in Singapore encourage their children and student to stay stable and follow the traditional way of success - work hard, steady income and promotion. The role models of Singapore society are always those who did so. in fact, it is not even possible to name a sound,successful entrepreneur. But in a real startup ecosystem (US and China in particular), the role models come from the entrepreneur world. Their success encourage people to take risk. If Singapore can have one or two Mark Zuckberg or Jack Ma, it will greatly help the ecosystem to grow

ripitruston WebGL water scene

the boat is clearly broken

ripitruston Feynman's Letter to His Wife

Man I am justing reading Surely you are joking mr Feynman, this comes in the right time

ripitruston We Took Apart Some Beats Headphones

people are buying what they want and obviously those guys buying Beats are not looking for very high quality sound. They are buying for style and recognition. The same stuff that Apple has played on us all these years.

Although this article is indeed a high quality analysis, and the author really done a great job. There is no point arguing that a Beats is not a genuine headphone. Whatever product it is, there are always people who are looking for quality and people who are looking for style (In some market they are one).

ripitruston Invert a binary tree on LeetCode

C++ Solution here :

TreeNode* invertTree(TreeNode* root) { if (root) { TreeNode* temp = root->left; root->left = invertTree(root->right); root->right = invertTree(temp); } return root; }

ripitruston How World of Warcraft led to Glassdoor

This is absolutely true

ripitruston I Am Eric Ries, Author of the Lean Startup. AMA

Hi Eric Glad you are writing new books So they will not be available thru Amazon or local bookstores?

ripitruston Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift

Finally

ripitruston Ask HN: I'm 18, broke, and inexperienced. What do I do?

Almost everyone is broke and inexperienced at age 18 man, the point is whether you are still broke and inexperienced when you are 28 or 38.

Living in abundance at young age sometimes stops people from carefully thinking what in their life is important

It is really great that you have figure out your future path I think you really should continue learn and practise, you may not necessarily need to work for some established companies, there are tons of open source project that you could take a look.

I wish I can figure out my path when I was 18 man, good luck.