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You mean to say Britain was so scared by China in 1960 that from 1960 to 1997 it could not grant autonomy, economic and political freedoms to Hong Kong. I am not sure what stopped them to democratically elect a Hong Kong CEO, which is an ap
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I already commented on this issue on another post so won't repeat again. Britain never had intention to give democracy to Hong Kong which will require it to make economic contributions to a colony. Their first priority has always been
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I couldn't disagree with you more. Economic inequality and no hope for future triggers world wars and revolutions. This bears same signs. If you see China as a single homogeneous place then there is no point to even argue. Even two ind
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Economic issue should have been raised in protest and could have converted to mass movement to reject a house of car park size or make it illegal for developer to build such home. Force government through peaceful protest to take measures l
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It's a nice system in PHP. There are quite a few of them. Like ledger-cli [1] in C++ and emacs lisp, hledger [2] in Haskell and beancount [3] with fava [4] in python. We used ledger-cli and beancount with fava and built automatic creat
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Well even though my minority position on this issue will downvote my comment I will still write it. As most on this thread are not willing to talk the real culprit behind this protest which is economic inequality and no hope for future deve
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No you don't sound arrogant, our team is still learning. You are right we shouldn't have approached the way we did due to inexperience. My team only did C, C++ and bit of Java in University and majority of the things they learned
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In our startup due to earlier experience working with pandoc, we tried to give Haskell a try. It was very difficult for team to pick up and then they took longer to accomplish very little. It did drain out confidence and make us think, we a
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Majority of the Chinese app eco-system is based on this HTML5, including WeChat mini-apps and Alibaba's Alipay and Taobao apps. I hope Apple apply this guideline equally to all developers and do not Grant exceptions to WeChat or others
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> So, a question for you - do you have any scientific basis for your views, or are they based on an idea of how the world should be? The average nucleotide diversity (pi) for the 50 segments is only 0.061% +/- 0.010% among Asians an
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In China Amway (called Anli in China) and Mary Kay generates over 40% of its global revenue. It's memebers actively promote and use WeChat and their relationship with personal friend for sale. All the live broadcaster use their friends
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I will disagree with your views, scientifically we are same race and our genetic differences are insignificant. Our ancestors originated in Africa. Indeed today most nation's are a hotpot of multi-culture, language, colors, food etc. A
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Well this sows seeds of mistrust. If commerce infiltrate our private conversation, it turn from convenience to creepy. Every conversation will invoke a feeling that someone is trying to sell something for profit. This is one of the issues i
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It's a good effort by ISRO and it's scientist. Just can't understand why so many countries reinventing the wheels. Space missions should be multi-country efforts continuously as it belongs to all. We should not extend our tri
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As programmer becomes more proficient at work in things like language syntax, api's, library and algorithms, the usage of googling will go down, as it becomes distraction, instead of helping in doing a programming task quicker. Screeni
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Nature is wonderful it always gives us signs of distress. But we as species who have transformed earth due to our behaviour are too late to take action on these signs. Majority will trade distant future for today's comfort. We only hav
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JD has its deliver and warehouse and still use network of delivery companies and warehouse too. Tmall and Taobao use a network of delivery companies their own logistics arm Cainiao is not that big in warehousing and last mile delivery like
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Locust [1] is fantastic for load testing for python or any REST API, it's also nice as wrk. [2] In our startup we used it to test 100,000 users traffic on our python based backend and optimized it continuously. We also used wrk with te
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In any e-commerce business you have challenges like: 1. Getting traffic to online store. 2. Converting it to sales. 3. Able to deliver it to customers in time. 4. Service the complaints or product in time. Out of this website traffic is dir
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Grafana comes to mind as kibana replacement.
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> Non-violent protest often wins because the powers that be want to avoid antagonising the violent arm of the movement. Not really a non-violent protest wins because majority move away from a violent group to a non-violent group. So it m
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I am not sure every comment critical of elastic's move has been down voted consistently to grey them out. This has happened with my comments on other posts, it's content is that instead of using license encumbered ELK product peop
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Releasing a software with license-encumbered code, using specialized marketing to vote down a comment critical to company's product, justifying the lawsuit for copyright infringement similar to Oracle. I think users can see through it.
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It's already known elastic made elastic search code base proprietary. So if anyone who uses their distribution without proprietary license will likely be sued. It's very difficult in a mixed proprietary and open source code to fig
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There are many studies done and in many non violent struggles are more successful in bringing change. [1] [2] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/07/24/the-proven... [2] https:/&#x
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It's not just a claim many studies do prove non violent struggle are more successful in bringing change than violent once. [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/07/24/the-proven...
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> Utterly false, but persistently preached by those in power A non-violent protestor is a person who does not fear anything, and the person who doesn't fear is the most powerful one. Violence is a result of fear, that's the rea
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> I don't think Beijing anticipated or endorsed this. This is endorsed and approved by Beijing, she already declared the bill dead this is just a matter of wording. Legally it can be brought back as laws are always evolving and Hong
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> they didn't pronounce these students "innocent" or "guilty." Here student were already pronounced guilty and forcibly send back on return flight. > this resembles the situation when a police officer arrests
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No closed source mesh networking can be secure. However good user experience it has. They are no different than using WhatsApp. Indeed in that respect at least Signal is better. I am not sure why protestors did not adopt the open source ser
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