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by forkLding 5y ago
I know, I've developed with timezone logic for international settings, I've even dealt with international tax logic which is far worse. However timezones, although they are geographical, are also social and political constructs, h
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by forkLding 5y ago
I'm still not sure why we have Daylight Savings Time, is it ok to abolish it? Makes coding timezone logic hell.
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by forkLding 5y ago
War of attrition encompasses guerrilla warfare which is what the Taliban used, see definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attrition_warfare War of attrition does not mean casualty numbers, it means the goal of the w
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by forkLding 5y ago
Afghanistan was a war of attrition that the locals felt the most of. Likely one of those wars that your dad and granddad fought (if you trace it back from the Soviet invasion) and somehow you also ended up fighting in. After a while everyon
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by forkLding 5y ago
I think competitive programming is useful as an interview style if you want to learn a language and gain that development intuition of stop, think, clarify, design, code and test. But do I think people are taking it too far? Definitely. A t
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by forkLding 5y ago
ApplyBoard is quite big now, they raised $375 million recently and was the fastest growing tech company in Canada in 2019 as ranked by Deloitte. They have been quite successful in the specific field they are in. I did some research, my girl
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by forkLding 5y ago
Clothes, this is observed in the stats too: https://www.officialdata.org/Apparel/price-inflation/2000-to... This is just general apparel, of course. Likely prices have dropped due to cheap factories that have high
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by forkLding 5y ago
I've bought edibles and weed in Canada, mainly in Toronto. It used to be a lot stricter but now a lot less people check my ID or whatever. Overall the process feels more informal than before and less go through all these checks etc. Co
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by forkLding 5y ago
It is actually quite hard to raise the birth rate, Japan has been trying for years (see https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/Tokyo%E2%... ). The real impediment is that it is now too costly to ra
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by forkLding 5y ago
Don't think this program exists anymore, searching around found Business Immigration Program but its for people who want to start startups but they also have to have like a designated VC fund or designated angel investor group or desig
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by forkLding 5y ago
This is still a similar viewpoint held by the young to adult generations of China although the idea of China as a democracy is definitely warming up but its more of at a certain date, China will transition to democracy instead of the curre
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by forkLding 5y ago
From what I can see, podcasts vs Clubhouse is a bit like Youtube (without streaming) vs Twitch. One is more spontaneous and interactive whereas the other is consuming content. I'm guessing it's the sense that users get to particip
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by forkLding 5y ago
Pretty sure this is not the rationale behind this move, because those are very small links, if parents don't have money for cram school, they won't pay for it. It's more because cram schools culture in China and East Asia is
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by forkLding 5y ago
The classes getting shut down are equivalent to SAT prep schools, they make billions of dollars of money by fearmongering parents into purchasing more classes because their peers are buying more classes and thus their kids will be left behi
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by forkLding 5y ago
I'm a lot more hesitant to say: Build something people really need because of examples like Instagram/Snapchat etc. Were those really needs? Were people really "needing" Instagram at the start? I think businesses should
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by forkLding 5y ago
Working now, much thanks!
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by forkLding 5y ago
happy to work on this too, played MUDs a lot in childhood and occasionally now. I believe the visually impaired will have to be accommodated as have met many friends on MUDs who are visually impaired. Also the server might be down as I can
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by forkLding 5y ago
Still a bit confused after going through each step, what does this do?
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by forkLding 5y ago
Might not be a game but be from this: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2008/05/article_0005.h... and then seeing the widespread usage of red cross symbolism in video games
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by forkLding 5y ago
This might be also a part of all this, where Johnson & Johnson fought in court with the American Red Cross over the Red Cross emblem on American Red Cross products: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2008&#x
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The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark(vice.com)
3 points by forkLding 5y ago|0 comments
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by forkLding 5y ago
Seems like a good way to test and play around with APIs before coding it all out
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by forkLding 5y ago
Long or lóng is the pronunciation of dragon in chinese/mandarin chinese. You can google pinyin of dragon to check.
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by forkLding 5y ago
This looks amazing, cant wait to try it out
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by forkLding 6y ago
It depends, the PE firms that bought Toys R Us did what is considered a hostile move in an leveraged buyout (LBO) which is to saddle Toys R Us with lots of debt (aka they raised debt financing to buy the company) so it had to do everything
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by forkLding 6y ago
Chanced upon MUDs as a millennial due to the Discworld novels and the Discworld universe, spent my childhood laughing and playing in Discworld MUD, RIP Terry Pratchett http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/
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by forkLding 6y ago
This is Li Zhi's wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zhi_(singer) for those who are curious, basically this is a repo linking to his music so Chinese programmers in China can still access his music, h
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Banned Famous Chinese Singer Li Zhi's music on GitHub: Songs are banned in China(github.com)
5 points by forkLding 6y ago|2 comments
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by forkLding 6y ago
My mum was a restauranteur and I used to crunch the numbers for her on excel when I was a kid. Sit-down restaurants have more operating expenses because they have to pay more for labor for like waiters. People usually only buy certain produ
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Mexico Blames U.S. as Energy Crisis Spills Across the Border(bloomberg.com)
6 points by forkLding 6y ago|0 comments

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