carmen_sandiego

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by carmen_sandiego 3y ago
I think China changes so fast that these fun personal touchstones come and go so quickly. I remember when I was first there you couldn't walk very far without hearing 'fapiao! fapiao!' from people selling them, so there must
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by carmen_sandiego 3y ago
Nobody asked me for a visa in 2015, and I was on a tourist one at the time so it can't even be some unified database thing they were using. A nice thing about Chinese banks is they can just hand you the card over the counter as well.
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by carmen_sandiego 3y ago
You can open a bank account in China without any real requirements and thus have a 'local' card. You just need a passport, phone number, and a local address (a friend's is fine). And yes I think long long ago the WeChat setu
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by carmen_sandiego 3y ago
China has decoupled a lot more since then. If you visit now I would say paying for things smacks you in the face way before access to Google services does. Recently they've enabled foreign cards so you can pay for stuff in stores wit
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by carmen_sandiego 3y ago
Most Americans don't even have a passport and have never left the country apart from Canada/Mexico. But to be fair I find Chinese people's views of America are equally based on cliches.
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by carmen_sandiego 3y ago
> Its biggest competitor in the country famously has a cheese-flavored latte. Actually Starbucks has that too, you can get it in 7-11. It's not like it has a 'Cheesy' flavor though; more of a creamy dairy thing to it. &#
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by carmen_sandiego 4y ago
It's AH so... more hype when they want to advertise it?
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by carmen_sandiego 4y ago
I don't think they typically include theft by those who have the private keys.
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by carmen_sandiego 4y ago
The counterbalance is that this is like a game of hot potato. You set up your platform with known flaw, and you wait around trying to hit max locked funds. But the whole time you're nervous someone else is going to spot the issue and
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by carmen_sandiego 4y ago
The loan is zero-risk for the lender because it's taken out and repaid within the same transaction (sort of like a database transaction). If the borrower fails to repay, the entire transaction fails/reverts and the money is never
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by carmen_sandiego 4y ago
Then I think you are assuming your premise/begging the question. You constructed the conditions in a way that leaves no room for a valid example. If you think crypto itself is a greater fool scheme then purely definitionally there ca
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by carmen_sandiego 4y ago
I mean, most legit exchanges are not 'rooted' in scams, even if some of their employees take advantage. The only way you could say Coinbase were 'rooted' in that is to assume your premise: that crypto itself is a scam.
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
> if the new place you were applying called, and asked me, "Do you have any feedback about X candidate?" You better believe I had things to say about the people who were negative. > And bosses are petty, they'll get rev
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Which standard is that? ePubs, for example, use canonical fragment identifiers, which could also work on HTML. I think hypothes.is uses them too but adds fuzzy matching fields so that they can match up after document changes. At least fr
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Maybe https://hypothes.is/ ?
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
The terminology used is a bit confusing. Execution model and application architecture are not the same dimension, so it shouldn't be a comparison between 'monolith' vs 'microservices' vs 'serverless'. The
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Walmart is famous for doing exactly that. I'm not sure what else I can tell you if you (a) claim that a certain outcome never happens, when a cursory search shows it does, and (b) actually think that your political opinions are the re
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Yeah, how is this relevant to the thread? It's not about why you think we should have unions. It's about the claim that there's no possible rational reason for these workers to vote against the union.
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
> Closing it would almost certainly be a lot more expensive than meeting union demands, so I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that is likely. Not if Amazon thought swift action would act as a deterrent in other locations
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
For example if they thought it likely Amazon would just close up shop as a result.
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
> HN is very consistently anti-union. Is it? It just seems to vary per thread.
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Well I think both are intertwined. It's a lot easier to get everyone pulling in the same direction with the help of social bonding. Partly what I see in remote work is a deterioration of good faith assumptions. E.g. two people on dif
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Women weren't turned away, they did the turning away. I don't see what was misrepresented. The person you're chastising seems to have edited the quote to ensure we know they're replying to one specific part of it. Aft
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
I didn’t say that; that’s not me. And I gave an intermediate option for using a ‘tertiary education if any kind’ stat.
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
> We were talking about English skills No, 'educated' was the term used. I'm not sure why you would think we're only talking about basic 'English' skills.
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
You're conveniently circling an arbitrary part of the chart and saying 'look over here!' but it's disingenuous. For example, Chinese tertiary attainment is half that of the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Sure, I'm really saying that it's fine to be K-12 educated but it doesn't seem to be translating into further educational opportunities for most people. They often don't go from K-12 to university, rather they go into s
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Rural China is the opposite of many rural places in the West. In the West, there are small towns seen as desirable, where you go to live when you're richer and have kids or just want more space. In China rural is almost always poorer
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
Whether they're form China seems pretty irrelevant. You could very well make the opposite case that people from China know even less about its actual KPIs. It's trivial to pick a relevant metric and look up the median value for C
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by carmen_sandiego 5y ago
The top 45 cities are what, 200 million people? So 85% of Chinese people live somewhere more rural than where you grew up, and in China that's correlated with poverty and all sorts of negative things. This is exactly what I mean; the

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