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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by sudosysgen on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:25PM (#25842579)
It really isn't much to ask for. If you're making arguments based on really really shaky data you should not be making them at all. Comparing OECD regions to Chinese administrative metro areas is really quite absurd. The variance in Montréal for example depending on what you call a city can be almost 2x.

For example, if you take the Tokyo Metro Area, you find a GDP per capita of 48k, with a PPP ratio of 0.98 we get 48k USD PPP.

Comparing it to the Beijing Metro Area you have a 39k USD PPP.

This took around 4 minutes to do for the two cities, so I really don't think it's a quantity of rigor you should pay for, nor an unreasonable amount of scrutiny for an internet comment at all. I was just trying to get the commenter to realize the issue with using two completely different data series in a comparison.

You can also compare for example Jiangsu and South Kanto to find similar numbers.

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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by hkmaxpro on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:23AM (#25843133)
> It really isn't much to ask for. If you're making arguments based on really really shaky data you should not be making them at all.

Can you demonstrate your principles with your other comment [0], by using “a single source that contains the numbers” of many of the countries and claims you mentioned in that comment?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25840962

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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by sudosysgen on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @07:52AM (#25845812)
I asked for either a single source or many sources with an identical methodology.
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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by hkmaxpro on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:38PM (#25850942)
Funny how you asked others to “use a single source that contains the numbers”, and yet you make arguments without providing any sources, as you did in your other comment I linked above.

How do we know your arguments aren’t “based on really really shaky data”?

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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by sudosysgen on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:17PM (#25855322)
No one provided sources here. A partial source was provided by the other commenter. But if you ask, the source for inflation control is OECD inflation data, the source for Tokyo GTA GDP per capita is Wikipedia/SCMP, and the source for Beijing administrative region GDP is official national numbers.
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Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival Gi... by novok on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:55AM (#25868794)
If it really isn't much to ask for, then it should be no problem for you to provide it no?
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