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by Hongwei 8y ago
Can't argue with that. Thanks for correcting my fuzzy memory! In the same vein, this still removes the "we can always take our business over there" card that our PM was waving around.
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by Hongwei 8y ago
If you read the story, the major event is the case against Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng. She was arrested in Vancouver per a US extradition request back in December. Most of this new article is providing background on the charges against her and
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by Hongwei 8y ago
Speaking as a Canadian, this is already old news for us. There have been lively debates over on /r/canada, which went very one-sided (understandably) after China arrested two Canadians as leverage. [1] As someone who likes to foll
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MacKenzie Bezos likely to be world's richest woman after divorce(wired.com)
17 points by Hongwei 8y ago|6 comments
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by Hongwei 8y ago
From the blog, a "syndicate" situation sounds like when investors around the table are of relatively equal size and power. In that case, a consensus is required to move forward. My guess is Softbank at Uber owns the largest single
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by Hongwei 8y ago
If the HN crowd is representative of tech generally, they won't have many applications with this administration. I do think there are really cool problems to solve in what is surely the world's largest organization. Very ironic to
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by Hongwei 8y ago
Market on a 10 year bull run with analysts saying another 1.5 to go before a correction. Now's the time I guess. Somewhat related aside: these days when I do watch the markets for a few straight days, it seems macro trends largely rule
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by Hongwei 8y ago
What about clouds? Lights that only work x% of the time isn't that useful, they'll still need to maintain all standard infrastructure which will surely wipe out the potential savings. Plus the existing huge debt burden that we&#x
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by Hongwei 8y ago
Hopefully self-preservation - why call attention to himself (or herself)? Unless they had more sinister intentions to intimidate previous victims or worse. But even then, reporting yourself to the watchdog wouldn't be worth it. I think
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by Hongwei 9y ago
It's very unlikely that the Chinese government can force Kik to share data through a minority investment from Tencent. Their power is limited to behind their great firewall. I also find it inconceivable that Ted @ Kik would do this. Di
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Pictorial History of the Chernobyl Disaster(imgur.com)
3 points by Hongwei 10y ago|0 comments
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by Hongwei 10y ago
Wonder if the "tip" is part of a strategy to shop the deal, like the LinkedIn post-mortem revealed. Last I heard, Jet.com was haemorrhaging cash buying more growth with massive discounts. Looks like it would be a good exit given h
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by Hongwei 11y ago
MappedIn | Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada | https://www.mappedin.com/ | Full Time | On site MappedIn is building the world's best dataset of what's indoors. Four years ago, we built the company to help people find stu
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Canadian banks commonly restrict passwords to 6 characters in length(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by Hongwei 11y ago|0 comments
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Why I was unpopular and how it might have helped(hongwei.ca)
1 points by Hongwei 13y ago|0 comments