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The stock market involves risks…

Life & Notes2007.09.11
The stock market involves risks…
A few days ago, just because I made a slip in trading, I cut my profits from more than 4,000 at the peak down to 2,500. Today at noon I was forced to go to school for a meeting. After the meeting, I went by Carrefour and a few other places to wander around for a bit, and only came back around 3 o’clock, just before the close. All I saw was the market plunging; Zhongguancun hit limit down, and the other two stocks I held also tumbled badly. In the blink of an eye, almost all my profits were wiped out again (only 500 left)…… Sigh, comrades with heart…
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2007年9月11日
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading

Life & Notes2007.08.24
A One-Month Running Account of Stock Trading
Before I knew it, I had been dabbling in stocks for more than a month, and a summer vacation that ought to have been the busiest of all is now clearly on the verge of being wasted away in vain (of course, not because of stock trading). And as my life rhythm returns to normal, and my stock-trading ideas grow increasingly mature, I will no longer spend more time researching stocks. So I’ll just casually jot down here my reflections from this past month of stock trading: Stock trading counts as yet another “social practice” I’ve done this summer. Originally, the point of my parents’ letting me trade stocks was…
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2007年8月24日
[Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing

Life & Notes2007.08.03
[Reposted] Perils Everywhere in Private Academic Bookstores and Academic Book Publishing
http://www.gmw.cn/01ds/2007-08/01/content_648751.htm More than 60% of academic book sales are carried out by privately run bookstores, and they largely determine whether academic books can survive. But at present, most of these bookstores are facing a survival crisis. Privately Run Academic Bookstores and the Publishing of Academic Books Beset by Crises Ye Zhi The scope of the objects discussed in this article is limited to privately run academic bookstores in provincial capitals. For a long time, they have been the main force in academic book sales. The reason I am discussing the crisis of the privately run book trade together with the predicament of academic publishing is that more than 60% of…
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2007年8月3日
[U.S.] Nicolas Darvas: “I Survived the Stock Market”

Culture & Public Commentary2007.07.22
[U.S.] Nicolas Darvas: “I Survived the Stock Market”
[U.S.] Nicholas Darvas: *I Survived the Stock Market: How a Person with No Financial Common Sense Can Survive in the Stock Market*, translated by Huang Jia, China Machine Press, May 2007, 21 yuan At my mom’s urging, I too have started playing the stock market~ Playing the stock market is a game in which, while sitting at home and clicking the mouse and tapping the keyboard, you can make capital grow geometrically (of course, it can also shrink geometrically). Buying and selling are so easy that you may often forget that every time the screen flashes “trade successful” in those four little characters, it means you have just completed a…
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2007年7月22日
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)

Culture & Public Commentary2007.05.07
Midterm Discussion Outline for “Deng San” (On the Scientific Outlook on Development and Coordinating the Harmonious Development of Humanity and Nature)
……Would the teachers in the School of Marxism go insane after reading this? Outline for the Midterm Discussion of “Deng San” Requirement: choose one aspect of the “five coordinated balances” in the concept of scientific development and talk about your reflections. “The scientific outlook on development is, in essence, people-oriented, comprehensive, coordinated, and sustainable development.” We say that “people-oriented” is the essence and core of the scientific outlook on development—“Adhering to people-oriented development means taking the all-round development of people as the goal, seeking and promoting development from the fundamental interests of the people, continuously satisfying the people’s ever-growing material and cultural needs, earnestly safeguarding the people’s economic, political, and…
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2007年5月7日
[Japan] Naoki Komuro: “For Those Who Dislike Mathematics—An Engaging Reader That Reveals the Mysteries of Mathematics”

History of Science & Scholarship2007.01.28
[Japan] Naoki Komuro: “For Those Who Dislike Mathematics—An Engaging Reader That Reveals the Mysteries of Mathematics”
[Japanese] Komuro Naoki: “For People Who Hate Mathematics—A Fun Reader Revealing the Mysteries of Mathematics,” translated by Li Yuzhao, Harbin Publishing House, 2nd edition, September 2006 To put it bluntly: a lousy book! More precisely, this is the worst popular mathematics reader I have seen so far! I had never imagined that a popular mathematics book could be written so poorly. This book may perhaps let readers know the “importance” of mathematics, and may perhaps even help some readers come to like mathematics. But this introduction to the book is an insult to mathematics! The issue of the language of God, and the place of the “being” problem in the…
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2007年1月28日
On Patent and Copyright Protection

Culture & Public Commentary2006.09.07
On Patent and Copyright Protection
This was originally a comment in response to the blog http://mistgalaxie.blogspot.com/2006/09/gnu-gnu-gpl.html, but after posting several times I still couldn’t get it through; it kept prompting, “We're sorry, but we were unable to complete your request. ” I don’t know why. Since I’ve already written so much, and it would be a waste not to post it, let me put it here for now: An appropriate system of patents and copyrights makes sense both from the standpoint of justice and from the standpoint of practicality. If a new technology developed by an institution through countless hours and immense effort were given no protection at all, and immediately turned into a public…
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2006年9月7日
The Superstition of Economics

Culture & Public Commentary2006.03.18
The Superstition of Economics
Economics is also part of science, and economic superstition is a part of “scientific superstition”; however, economic superstition has its own distinctive features. In China, not only is scientific superstition very serious, economic superstition is also especially prominent. There are two reasons for superstition: first, ignorance of the object; second, the object displays some kind of powerful force. This is true of science, and even more so of economics. Since reform and opening up, China’s economic takeoff has displayed what seems to be the tremendous power brought by economics, while the public’s ignorance of economics is no less than its ignorance of science. Like scientific superstition, the effects of economic…
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2006年3月18日
It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese

Life & Notes2006.02.07
It Turns Out That the People Who Support the Market Economy Most Are the Chinese
I came across an article in yesterday’s Cankao Xiaoxi, and found the full text online: http://business.sohu.com/20060206/n241679830.shtml This passage is quite thought-provoking: For a long time, there have been statements internationally such as “Chinese are born knowing how to make money,” “Chinese are economic animals,” and “Overseas Chinese are the Jews of the East.” A recently released global public opinion survey seems to have, to some extent, confirmed these claims. The University of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes and the polling organization “Global Scan” jointly conducted a sampled public opinion survey in 20 countries around the world. The results found that Chinese people are even more enthusiastic about the free…
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2006年2月7日
A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”

Culture & Public Commentary2006.02.01
A Brief Discussion of “Money Worship”
Many scholars, when mentioning the term “money worship,” often simply treat it as a “label” — especially from the standpoint of humanistic scholars, “money worship” is obviously a bad thing. This is somewhat like “idealism,” “agnosticism,” and so on: for example, when a thought has an “idealistic” tendency, it is tantamount to saying that it has a “bad” tendency, and in the case of an idealist philosopher’s agnostic thought, this sort of criticism is almost as good as saying nothing at all and can simply be ignored. Likewise, criticisms of money worship, relativism, and nihilism must avoid falling into this kind of childishness. In certain groups where rejection of money…
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2006年2月1日