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by askl56 6y ago
Given his Twitter feed looks like a Chinese diplomat's[1], I would assume he is part of the pro-Beijing influence network. I mean, why would someone dedicate 6 months of their life to convincing the world that something isn't happ
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by askl56 6y ago
As someone who lives in SEA and used to live in China, he's able to move around because he lives in China and I assume has a long term visa and speaks Mandarin. And he is going with the blessing of the Chinese state media: https:&#x2F
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by askl56 6y ago
I strongly disagree. There is nobody in Eastern Europe (or Western Europe if they know enough about politics) who is boggled by money in politics or misleading ads. There are countries in Europe that have had Gulags in the last 50 years, I
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by askl56 6y ago
https://twitter.com/slasher/status/1295434558112960519?s=21 This may have consequences for Unreal Engine too. Without a dev account, how can they maintain it?
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by askl56 6y ago
Without a developer account, EPIC can't update Unreal Engine on iOS?
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by askl56 6y ago
https://twitter.com/slasher/status/1295434558112960519?s=21 Apparently this also applies to all apps using Unreal Engine.
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by askl56 6y ago
Surely all free games currently would just be $0.01?
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by askl56 6y ago
This is the clip, but the whole interview is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4
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by askl56 6y ago
Ironically, it seems your site is down? Hug of death?
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by askl56 6y ago
Regardless, that would need to be fact checked?
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by askl56 6y ago
The problem inevitably has flared up: Twitter's head of integrity leading this push has previously tweeted that Trump is a Nazi and accused the flyover states of being racist. https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status
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by askl56 7y ago
They certainly brought it to prominence: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/chinese-o...
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by askl56 7y ago
Intentions are meaningless. If you're providing a service, (especially charging money for said service), you can't break it because "you're hard at work".
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Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?(newyorker.com)
28 points by askl56 7y ago|3 comments
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by askl56 7y ago
It's profitable through Uber's own non GAAP numbers, the GAAP numbers are still unprofitable.
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by askl56 7y ago
Applico and they don't seem to understand how the Chinese phone market works.
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by askl56 7y ago
So what you're saying is that they are not currently a tech company but that they intend to become one?
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by askl56 7y ago
Whilst I agree with your premise, the problem is that they explicitly made the distinction that this was for professionals. I can't remember the precise verbiage but when Cook introduced it he said that this was by and for professional
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by askl56 7y ago
> “saudi investors bought into secondary offering at X share price” I think Beyond Meat are currently demonstrating the perils of doing a secondary offering whilst the company is unprofitable.
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by askl56 7y ago
That's not already self evident?
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by askl56 8y ago
Not OP but I assume project managers
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by askl56 8y ago
To be fair that is not unique to surface books depending on which distro you are referring to
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by askl56 8y ago
He's not defending the honour of Ukraine or making a political statement about Manafort. He's asserting that the US has more corruption in local police and justice departments than the average American would like to believe.
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by askl56 8y ago
Count me in
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by askl56 8y ago
I3wm is a window manager you can run on any Linux distribution
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by askl56 8y ago
> Since when has our "field" become so flubby that we're now eschewing the notion of background knowledge? I think the issue is more that the skillset follows the money. If you are a top web developer who can work in adtec
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by askl56 8y ago
I've always believed that "genius" is simply mental illness with an audience. People such as Mozart were known for feeling nervous anxious etc, until they wrote music which was cathartic, which nowadays I'm sure would be
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by askl56 8y ago
Rupert Murdoch does not own the Guardian. That is laughable. It's owned by The Scott Trust Limited, which was formerly a charitable trust and is dedicated to keeping the Guardian's editorial independence.
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Ask HN: What is the best Linux Laptop for 2018?
4 points by askl56 8y ago|1 comments
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by askl56 8y ago
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-dyiASgGkk

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