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by angled 6y ago
I thought this might be of interest, as the affected researchers mention OSS tools as a possible replacement. A shame that GNU Octave didn't get a mention!
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US military ban locks two Chinese universities out of popular software(scmp.com)
4 points by angled 6y ago|3 comments
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by angled 6y ago
I expect several airlines have something similar already - Cathay Pacific operates its own on-campus hotel for crew based elsewhere: https://www.headland.com.hk/
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by angled 6y ago
Be aware of TOGAF, even if you don't use it.
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by angled 6y ago
A GP in Hong Kong is attempting to study this across 1000 people, which is only marginally fewer than the number of cases in Hong Kong as of today (1013 confirmed cases): https://www.otandp.com/blog/estimating-the-longi
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by angled 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying!
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by angled 7y ago
My wife just pointed out what might be a spurious anecdote: no Caucasians died during the SARS epidemic in 2003, and none have died so far in response to this novel virus. Is there any data to back this up? (She was in Beijing during 2003,
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by angled 7y ago
Apropos the thread last week about recreation.gov: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21625160
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Hipcamp Became the Airbnb of the Outdoors(newyorker.com)
2 points by angled 7y ago|1 comments
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by angled 7y ago
SpringCM does just that. https://www.springcm.com/products/contract-management/negoti...
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by angled 7y ago
eBay had itself removed in version 5: https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1375881/diff/4/5 The reference to Uber was also removed in version 8. PayPal and Facebook don't seem to mind so much?
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by angled 7y ago
Here's a naive view: both the US and China have the death penalty. Hong Kong does not have the death penalty. Which is the more humane society? Having been in both the US and China, I cannot think of more similar countries at the indiv
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by angled 8y ago
There was a Tour of Beijing[0], with pollution as one of the concerns[1][2]. Perhaps in the next decade, once China has made more effort to clean up its air and traffic congestion, this will return. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by angled 8y ago
Those figures are definitely out of date - a quick back of the envelope calculation gives me over HK$1.5m for ESF P1-P13 schooling. https://www.esf.edu.hk/school-fees/ - and it only goes up from there for the internati
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by angled 8y ago
speedhunters' take: http://www.speedhunters.com/2019/01/wheres-my-3jz-bro-a90-su...
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by angled 8y ago
My main interest in this article was not about Singapore, but at what point does an online gathering cross the boundary to the physical world where limits are placed on the size of the gathering, or if and when it crosses countries' bo
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Singapore activist found guilty of hosting ‘illegal assembly’ via Skype(techcrunch.com)
170 points by angled 8y ago|178 comments
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by angled 8y ago
By far better, with greater coverage.
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by angled 8y ago
I started using tumblr for a photoblog several years ago for the simple fact that it wasn't blocked by the Great Firewall of China. All the FB properties, and most other western platforms, were / are blocked. It meant I could post
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by angled 8y ago
Macau is by far more dense, has a large petrol scooter population, and almost no e-scooters. Petrol scooters are far more flexible at this point in terms of speed, torque, gross weight carried; and announce themselves much better in the man
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by angled 8y ago
fdr wrote on pprune ( https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircra... ) """ Hmmm. ADC/Pitot or load.... P/S, Pitot main issue (alt is more stable than speed > static is OK). Ma
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by angled 8y ago
Does this story have the potential to invalidate any CC assessments / certifications? eg, this one for Ubuntu from earlier this year that was assessed at EAL 2: https://fmv.se/Global/Bilder/Verksamhet/CSE
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by angled 8y ago
The NYT covered this topic in late August 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/world/africa/...
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by angled 8y ago
Between WhatsApp / Facebook Messenger, Facebook Marketplace, and Amazon wishlists, who uses free email to describe what they want to buy or are interested in?
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by angled 8y ago
Absolutely. This is in Starbucks in San Rafael, right in the heart of Marin: https://i.imgur.com/FgFkx2O.jpg
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by angled 8y ago
I was in Shenzhen on Tuesday in the Futian district, and while the vehicles might be quieter, there is still a large amount of street level construction; and worst of all, the streets /smell/. Shenzhen still has a long way to go f
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by angled 8y ago
A bit slow to respond, but the ASIO Act reads dimly in this context: AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 17A Act not concerned with lawful dissent etc. This Act shall not limit the right of per
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by angled 8y ago
Related paper that also mentions the SGI workstations in this PDF: https://w3.leica-geosystems.com/downloads123/zz/general/gene... They used / use SGI Visual Workstation 540s: https://en.wikip
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Current and Future Bridge Health Monitoring Systems in Hong Kong (2004) [pdf](samco.org)
1 points by angled 8y ago|1 comments
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by angled 8y ago
An amusing few paragraph in this context: [...] REASONS FOR AND BENEFITS OF THE ACQUISITION AND THE [MCDONALD's] FRANCHISE CITIC is China’s largest conglomerate operating domestically and overseas, with businesses in financial services

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