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by cornfutes 3y ago
> there's not exactly a US market enthusiastic for "cool" Chinese military propaganda films either. Hero debuted as #1 in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film)
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> However, the outlet said, Vietnam and the Philippines aren't negligible markets, where a Hollywood hit "can earn anywhere from $5 million to over $10 million in each country." I'm wondering if the firms already calc
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by cornfutes 3y ago
And where are they now ?
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Actually, Runescape one of the most successful MMOs ever was a Java applet. Java is much more effective at complex object-oriented modeling and an MMO is a canonical example of where OOP not only shines but is necessary. Before ES6, there w
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> I always figured pay was based on market condition for finding employees, not a companies specific profit. It has parallels to this Doordash delivery person who expected their tip to be based on the price of the customer's house r
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days And thousands of developer years have been wasted smoothing over pre ES6 JavaScript warts.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> this sounds like a joke… “with no bathtubs” Maybe from an American POV. This is an article by NHK by a Japanese reporter and likely a spin of a similar story for a Japanese audience. In Japanese culture, being able to bath is up there
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Reddit just acquire 3rd party apps?
31 points by cornfutes 3y ago|41 comments
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Are people just upvoting based solely on the title, or do people have accounts with this blogging platform? It’s my first time visiting and I’m hit with a paywall
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Why does Google and Facebook cost $0 USD per month?
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by cornfutes 3y ago
We’ve addressed this before. It’s the Fermi equation
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by cornfutes 3y ago
So basically what they did to all their neighboring countries for decades before Hiroshima
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Interesting how they pivoted from an app[1] to a market maker. Those are completely different problem spaces in traditional asset classes. [1] https://www.producthunt.com/products/chainsage
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by cornfutes 3y ago
The keyword you just mentioned is dock.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Startups tautological focus on product and do the bare minimum on compliance that they can get away with.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> The app gains nothing by being in google proper. Or Google gets sued and pays fines that exceed the value of the company. As evidenced in this thread, Google is increasingly losing goodwill and trust from tech people. This product that
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Sure, developing countries don't have the infrastructure to recycle. The point of criticism here is reduce. Datapoint: I'm vietnamese and think the use of plastic is unnecessary. It doesn't take much e
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> the government controls what the people think (case in point, the helmet "law") This was a just a cash grab.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
I agree in the general case for more complex apps. Firebase for example. In this case, it seems the content is the real value rather than the app itself. Meaning, the app doesn't have too many roots that can't be uplifted. The mai
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Google must comply with all sorts of regulations and compliance. You get a lot out of the box if you used standard tooling. For example, privacy, GDPR and data retention compliance if you used standardized libraries. You also have dedicated
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Technically speaking, this is a 3rd party app. Evidence is the "sign in with Google" saying the app is owned by Qwiklabs. It took a bit of dig but they were acquired by Google. https://www.crunchbase.com/organizati
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by cornfutes 3y ago
In that case, if houses are so correlated to the swings of the job market, maybe they aren’t such good investments after all.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
If houses in hot markets truly had economic / inherent value, for example the quality of life improvement / job opportunities, then that can’t really be lost.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
I was locked out PayPal and funds this week. I’ve been outside the country for over year, so my Google Fi access got cut off. I migrated my number from Google Fi to Google Voice, then discovered that PayPal won’t allow Google Voice numbers
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by cornfutes 3y ago
You’re conflating floating point numbers with decimals.
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> 100 million copies combined and three feature films whose box-office receipts approach $1 billion, everybody not living under a proverbial rock has heard of Lara Croft. Meh, that’s only a small percentage of the world population. There
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by cornfutes 3y ago
> it cuts the major drawdowns by 50% and saves a lot of money, pain and anxiety! You can also cut major drawdowns by 100% by staying in cash. What matters is the risk:reward and sharpe. > but with approximately one portfolio change p
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Do employees get a slice of that equity?
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by cornfutes 3y ago
What asset class are you trading?
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by cornfutes 3y ago
Say what you will about BDFL development, but if the alternatives was so great, Unix and Go wouldn't have remained the de facto implementations.

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