bangkoknights

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Apple hikes iPad, iPod prices in Japan as yen weakens from money printing(business.financialpost.com)
1 points by bangkoknights 13y ago|0 comments
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Steve Wozniak: "For a corporation, there's no such thing as personal ethics."(telegraph.co.uk)
9 points by bangkoknights 13y ago|1 comments
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
> "The issue for PHP and even Node.js is obviously you're trapped in a single-threaded situation and what I really wanted was to be able to do a lot of things concurrently," Remember "Node.js is cancer"? Remember how the Node.js fanboy
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
Only yesterday it was announced "China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5783373
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Mayor unveils plan for $1.5bn Chinese business district in London(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by bangkoknights 13y ago|1 comments
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
Belarus doesn't have civil war and terrorists blowing things up on its border.
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
Hear hear. This advert should not be on HN.
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
Keep hearing stories like this. Makes me think there's quite the hacker culture in China and other developing countries, driven out of necessity and lack of (or looser) regulation. This farmer couldn't afford to buy prosthetics so he built
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A Chinese farmer has built his own pair of prosthetic arms from scratch(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by bangkoknights 13y ago|1 comments
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
Everything you describe sounds like China in 1980. They designated Shenzhen as a special economic zone and it became a model for the rest of the country. Whether or not Belarus benefits in the long run, who knows, but it's a good deal for
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by bangkoknights 13y ago
> The hub will put Chinese exporters within 170 miles of EU members Poland and Lithuania and give them tax-free entry into Russia and Kazakhstan, which share a customs union. It will also let them draw from a workforce that’s 99.6 perc
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China Builds EU Beachhead With $5 Billion City in Belarus(bloomberg.com)
44 points by bangkoknights 13y ago|27 comments