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by PakG1 7y ago
I live and work in Shenzhen and am doing an MBA in Hong Kong. As one mainlander told me, Hong Kong can protest for democracy as much as they want, but independence from the mainland isn't ok, that's the line that can't be cro
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by PakG1 7y ago
Depending on what happens in the next 6 years in all major democratic powers, I may or may not still agree with that sentiment. edit: 6 years isn't long enough to figure it out. Let's say a decade.
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HarmonyOS is launching in China first. In China, you only need to have a few apps on your phone to make it worth buying, because those few apps let you do EVERYTHING. WeChat, AliPay, etc. WeChat even has its own mini-app ecosystem becaus
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Looking at this now, it's amazing to compare with the public criticism that Werner Vogels gave to the face of the corporate blogging movement back in 2006. https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/03/naked_an
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Now that is interesting. What are the challenges for making sure the trees survive the first five years? Do you have any knowledge you can help to elaborate?
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Stripe gets no love? :)
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Hah, now I have a vision of one of these things hooked up to every air conditioner in the world to claw back some of the electricity that the air conditioner uses. I imagine the heat would need to be a bit more than what an air conditioner
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by PakG1 7y ago
For profit companies can't spend funds on doing foundational research. There's no financial return on that. So foundational research is left to the universities and foundations. Biotech ventures only can focus on treatments.
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This language seems to be really gaining popularity. I believe this is the third or fourth time I've seen a cancer treatment referred to as a Trojan Horse. I have some stock in such a company, they're about to start Phase 2 clinic
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Unfortunately, could say that about a lot of other news media too.
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Mm, even if they "tried to not put their life in danger", they still wouldn't be putting your life in danger... simple physics.
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That's interesting. I presume it needs to spread evenly over the entire insole?
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No kidding? Did you do anything else to treat it? I thought diligently cleaning my feet with soap would be helpful. I think it has been, but it's recently started coming back a little bit, so I'm not sure. I've tried a wh
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by PakG1 7y ago
I somehow believe that our need for physical sex will not allow us to become gelatin in tubes. Even the world of Alita seems a bit farfetched. But who knows?
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My experience is not that most people are raging assholes. It is that most people are clueless assholes like elephants who aren't aware of the ants they step on until they become "enlightened". I didn't use to think like
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by PakG1 7y ago
If you're going to write that, then also post https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_China because most Chinese people don't seem to serve in the military. It's not like South Korea where young
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by PakG1 7y ago
>> The absolute worst things are these https://www.ehanddryers.com/hand-dryers/tap-hand-dryers , my kids just plain refuse to wash their hands out of fear of accidentally triggering the dryer Wow, I was recently
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by PakG1 7y ago
Gigabit Ethernet? I'm tempted to grab a few and try running Pi-Hole for my whole organization (~1200 users) and see how that goes. :) I know you can set up Pi-Hole on Ubuntu VMs. But there's something so attractive to me about
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by PakG1 7y ago
While that's a valid concern, the real question should be: despite that, is it more trustworthy than closed source or not?
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In this analogy, are the founders and employees the hired workforce, the raw materials, or other? Just joking not really joking. ;)
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Is Audi's target market also a complete subset of that target audience, or is it at least significantly overlapping with that target audience?
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>> Do you try to rebuild/force roll out a proprietary, non-interoperable telecommunications system? Honestly can see that happening. It's happened in the past for economic reasons, no reason why a government wouldn't f
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Part of the opportunity cost being that you could have chosen a more effective treatment if the bar had been set higher. Difficult for patients to be able to correctly determine whether a treatment would actually be good for them. They&#x
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That's a horrible example. Of course that's not going to wash. Of course an investor would not be willing to sell back their stake before seeing the return they were looking for. If they wanted to sell AI software to the US GOV
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This article is published in the SCMP. The SCMP was purchased some time ago by Jack Ma. There were fears from various corners that Jack Ma, being friendly with the mainland Chinese government, would influence the SCMP to have coverage tha
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The key thing is knowing that their level of curiosity may not be what you prefer. I've come to terms that people often don't actually care about understanding what I do and would rather just make assumptions about it. If you can&
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I'd say attitude and personality are greater predictors of success than technical competency for very senior level people too. I can't think of many people who reach senior levels with poor attitude and personality. And those tha
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Nothing wrong with trying to fix both. Often, the obstacles to most problem solutions are political and economic, not technological or scientific. It's feasible to work on many problems if the political will is there. Doesn't have
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I'm not sure that you disagree with parent. Parent is saying that these online relationships are not replacements for "real" relationships. I don't think you're advocating replacing "real" relationships
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Honestly, while getting phished and hacked are big issues, I would also worry about them being sucked into social media bubbles where they could start latching onto conspiracy theories, fake news, and the like. It was not too long ago wher

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