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by Markoff 3mo ago
Have you lived in China or you just parrot some US propaganda? In years of living there I haven't noticed any of my Chinese family/friends being opressed in any way. And if you mean by opression that Han majority population was fo
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Discussed already here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082060
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by Markoff 3mo ago
TLDR they think it's bad for business since users would have no motivation to install and pay for Threema, if they could contact their users from Whatsapp for free
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WhatsApp Opening:Threema Rejects Integration Not Just Because of Data Protection(heise.de)
2 points by Markoff 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Markoff 3mo ago
I guess it's about volume, I am also reading tons of articles or discussions per day and I would not say it's as good as reading books.
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Do you read books on phone? There you have your answer. I am also assuming you are not a child from 3rd or 6th grade, so not exactly sure how is your comment relevant to study about kids with phones. Somehow I would think adult HN reader wi
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Solar Power Tower(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Markoff 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Markoff 3mo ago
VPN
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Obviously reading improves reading and if kid has phone it doesn't read (books), but plays games or watch videos. Though study found one benefit - if kid is non-native speaker they can improve their English by using the phone (in Engli
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Kids who own phones have poorer reading comprehension scores VS those who don't(phys.org)
26 points by Markoff 3mo ago|31 comments
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High energy prices force Playmobil to end production in Germany(brusselssignal.eu)
4 points by Markoff 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Why do you need 3rd party app and middle man to show you QR code for instant SEPA payment? All Decathlon had to do was show QR code with payment details which you will scan with ANY APP you prefer to use (most likely your bank app you have
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by Markoff 3mo ago
police sure, but I was talking about racism in general in whole society and potential preferential treatment China in general for anyone would be safer than US regarding street crime, not so sure about food/air safety, which was one of
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Seats on hundreds of Boeing 737MAX were incorrectly installed:US aviation agency(channelnewsasia.com)
14 points by Markoff 3mo ago|2 comments
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Beijing/Hebei, I've done paperwork/lived long term only in these two regions, worked on business trips in more provinces, but don't have any experiences with bureacracy over there other than HK where you have to go if pr
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Obviously, if you do your research you will not go as black (partly also brown) person to China/Japan/East Asia unless you have any other option (though I guess students from poor African/*stan countries don't have many
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by Markoff 3mo ago
> In the past I've felt the same way in China. At a macro level there may be a lot more restrictions there. But when it comes to day-to-day life, it seemed like people had much fewer regulations bearing down on them. in general I wo
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by Markoff 3mo ago
No, as someone who lived in China for years (as foreigner) and visited also last year after many years I WOULD BE SURPRISED if this happened when travelling to China, since China is clearly more free than US/Israel. China wants tourist
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by Markoff 3mo ago
I was not impressed when I was sent there on business trip, from what I remember their subways were not as big as in Beijing or other CN places and I hit there my head, obviously anything is better than HK/London. Normally I'm not
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Nobody in China cares about your phone/laptop.* *Unless you are (well) known dissident/journalisy/politician. US is much more totalitarian than China. Lived in China for years, had multiple times various visa/residence p
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by Markoff 3mo ago
yeah, same thing happened to my daily driver T480s, so I took precautions and now I use magnetic adapter on TB port since if that's gone whole computer is gone I despise these new USB-C ports, never had such thing happen on proprietary
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by Markoff 3mo ago
I don't understand the point, why you need special payment system when you have instant SEPA bank transfers with QR code with any bank? Slovakia made this mandatory recently, every shop must offer QR code payment, the don't have t
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by Markoff 3mo ago
I would refrain from using people considering some of them may (become) controversial or are controversial depending on a country, there will never be agreement on someone who is not controversial at all and after all each country can use t
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The challenges companies face to launch robotaxis in Europe(euronews.com)
3 points by Markoff 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Markoff 3mo ago
for starters when I browse reddit in new interface after short scrolling it tells me to install app and I can';t read further comments, no such issue with old.reddit though I have also Continuum client with my own API key in phone, but
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by Markoff 3mo ago
For those who wonder - cause of death: "My source says he succumbed to complications following his double-bypass surgery." –Scott Mace (2nd link) Google: The overall risk of death during or within 30 days of double coronary artery
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Microsoft Teams will be blocked in China from July 28th 2026(support.microsoft.com)
4 points by Markoff 3mo ago|2 comments
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by Markoff 3mo ago
Just got notice from one of my clients, though I rely on e-mail anyway, they claim Whatsapp/Telegram is blocked in China, though Whatsapp works (my personal experience from last summer) for ordinary messages (they just may be delayed),
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by Markoff 3mo ago
why finally? what's the alternative, how should I get to see my family living 9000+ km away? and the best part is politicians flying in private jets are voting about this, as usual only ordinary people will pay the bill
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by Markoff 3mo ago
whole titles which didn't fit: International flights set to pay carbon costs under EU's carbon market review from 2029

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