NedIsakoff

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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
"That evening, the Haitian minister of justice personally intervened for the contractors’ release, according to local reports, independently confirmed. " -- So someone high in the Government hired them.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Sure, but doesn't help with the PR does it. If people start using it to send/dist the stuff, the news will mention it.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
How are they going to deal with bad content? Child porn? Pirated content? Illegal stuff?
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Depends on who you are. If you're a common worker, no. If you are member of the economic elite and work with foreign companies, then yes. When I worked in China, I say most of my team had FB profiles. Then again I was working for a maj
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
The database, whose server is in China, included fields labeled in English for sex, age, education, marital status, as well as a column titled “BreedReady”, which could be a poor translation of Chinese terms to describe whether a woman has
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
The sunrise period ended yesterday. All .devs are now only 12USD/year
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
We haven’t done enough of the latter. I’d love to automate and improve a lot of stuff but our project manager is pretty much always client visible first.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
My version of #9 I'm dealing with is: Is this an feature that a customer will use? Or is it internal improvement? Yes to first, no to latter.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
You won't be able to because the people higher are doing the same thing. Unless of course you make it to the top.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
I own a business that is selling a lot of #MeToo merchandising. High demand and profitable.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
The rational move is to be active in the outrage culture and profit. She's a journalist so if she starts going all outrage and getting more readers, it's good for her.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
This always happens with whatever movement that is hip the current day in your location. Regardless of what movement, #MeToo or Red Guards or etc, this will happen. Your only hope is to follow it and make a profit at it, which is what I&#x2
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Why does it need to be an AND? If it is much cheaper and faster but 5% worse, why not?
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Really? That's an international flight and you put in your passport number.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
He probably booked the other ticket in advance as well.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
This is why. One of my ex's maternal grandma left her a little over $100K for college. The grandma trusted her daughter and son in law to manage it. The parents divorced and the mother went wild for a while and spend it on drugs, party
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
I like to point out that Russia violated the INF Treaty in 2014. https://www.csis.org/analysis/putin%E2%80%99s-treaty-problem...
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
My sister-in-law works in a fashion store. They have a 14 day return policy assuming same condition. You be surprised how many people buy a dress, cut all the tags, wear it once to an event, and try to return it.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Real question: does anyone see anywhere on the site where they say what LTE/3G/GSM bands it supports? Or TD-LTE vs FD-LTE? I like to know before I pre-order if it will work in my region.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
"Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. The featureset will expand after shipment and over time to more free software applications. Y
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
They say it on their site: Upon initial shipment of the Librem 5 in 2019, it will offer the essentials: phone functionality, email, messaging, voice, camera, browsing. The featureset will expand after shipment and over time to more free sof
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
So I'm reading this and I'm wondering, is Librem pulling a BlackBerry here? When the BlackBerry PlayBook came out it had no native email or calendar or contact management capabilities. Purism is going to ship the Librem 5 without
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Going GA and shipping to customers.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
I'll commit to buying one.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
If they ship a final product by 2019-12-31, I'll donate 500CAD to any charity they pick
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Isn't 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop? :) I'm willing to put up 100CAD that it won't ship this year.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
When were you in Beijing? I was there for 2-3 years with Google prior to them leaving.
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Xi's breaking the 10 year rule. Xi's involvement in the Bo Xilai incident. Xi's anti corruption campaign which is basically a purge of those who oppose him. You have to remember that the people on HN from China or Chinese is
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
Sure most people if you include the peasants and the migrant worker force. If you look at the true middle class in the cities, I'd say most know about the truth but don't care. When I was working there for major IT companies prett
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by NedIsakoff 8y ago
My cousin has the same point of view. He knows about May-35th and the other issues (eg. Xi's insanity) but doesn't really care. He's making good money right now (30K/month) and things are looking good for him (family, ho

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