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by apexalpha 10y ago
Agree, and I'd like to add that I know at least two companies in the Netherlands where the 'actual work' in innovation is done at big chemical plants in the south-east of the country, but patenting and other administrative st
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by apexalpha 10y ago
In the Netherlands you can buy "Unlimited Everything" plans for €35 a month. This means unlimited Calls, texts, data in the entire EU. I think the EU part is capped to 10gb a month after the first 2 months you spend outside NL. In
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by apexalpha 10y ago
And still the influence of 'government is the problem' is alive and well in my home country, the Netherlands. We are in no way in a state like the US, and still the largest political party wants to cut taxes and decrease governmen
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Ah, now I can finally digitally simultaneously love and hate Google.
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by apexalpha 10y ago
You can imagine that street food doesn't earn both the vendor and the state a lot of money. Every country wants to climb the socio-economic ladder. And part of that is moving to higher end service industry with larger profit margins. R
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by apexalpha 10y ago
You can very easily link your Chinese bank account to the digital payment services like AliPay and WeChat. All you need is a Chinese bank account (UnionPay) and the phone number that you gave them when you setup the account. This is mandato
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Some of the features I encountered where just webpages being loaded inside the app. Like the ticket buying. Possibly just using Android Webview. Except it did perfectly integrate with the (built in) Payment service in the app.
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by apexalpha 10y ago
I have lived in China for 6 months, and from the top of my head: - Voice/Text Chat - (Video) calling - Payment service (like Apple or Android pay) - Buy movie tickets - Buy plane tickets - Send money via Chat. - Splitt the bills. - Pay
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by apexalpha 10y ago
I don't know I don't think people care. Look at Google, the web is, in many parts of the Western world, mostly Google. Many people, including me, use *.google.com as a one-stop shop for all their software needs.
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Having lived in China for 6 months I can say: if you build a mobile OS to just run WeChat embedded. It would work for 90% of what average users (so no, not you here on HN) want from a phone. Seriously. you can message, voice chat, call, vid
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by apexalpha 10y ago
actually all containers do is utilise the very design in an OS like LXC in Linux to form containers. Containers are not a platform on top of Linux, they are a wrapper around different isolation tools build into the kernel. https:/&#x2
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by apexalpha 10y ago
I do this. Go to Slack and click 'add to desktop' and Open as Window and you're good to go. Same for Whatsapp Web etc...
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Dutch here. We also have huge debt, on average. But if we lose our job and don't find one within 1 year (of unemployment benefits) and welfare after that isn't enoughh you can still sell your house. You can't really sell your
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Hit refresh. I noticed :)
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by apexalpha 10y ago
A sincere thank you to Ubuntu from someone who didn't study anything remotely close to IT but is now a software engineer anyway. I've always been interested in software and computers in general and, besides with the raspberry pi,
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Snaps have very real advantages for both users and developers. I'm in favour of them!
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by apexalpha 10y ago
> it was always a country to keep offshore companies/accounts, so every rich developer in ex-USSR already been there and knew the place, but since 2014 it started to make sense to move physically as well I'm sure that has nothi
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Yeah I recently learned from a Candadian friend that people in the US and Canada still text a lot? Outside of the US & Canada my estimate would be that 99% of people has switched to WeChat, Whatsapp and FB Messenger. The only texts I ev
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by apexalpha 10y ago
So does my 9 year old HP Elitebook running Win10 now. The problem is that vendors are allowed a say in the matter. If MS used the Android model I'm sure PCs wouldn't be update either.
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by apexalpha 10y ago
In general people who invest in stock are people who work at big financial institutions. Not 'regular' people trading on their own. For individuals, picking stock in stead of just buying accross the board is really risky. So it do
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by apexalpha 10y ago
I'm a starting Sofwtare Engineer, just got my first job. I installed Ubuntu to get familiar with Linux since my job requries RHEL 6/7 knowledge. Don't have a specific request. Bluetooth fails sometimes, display sucks after su
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by apexalpha 10y ago
tl;dr: buy a globe.
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by apexalpha 10y ago
Adam Curtis is, by far, the best documentary maker I know. His origin-of-terrorism doc "Bitter Lake" gives an insight no one else will. Hypernormalisation is, also because it is simply the most recent, his best docu imho. If you l