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by forkLding 7y ago
I think its for the cool and fun factor and to hear google text-to-speech voice talking to you. It must feel cool one way or another, its usually how kids and teenagers spread things.
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by forkLding 7y ago
Don't software-based games count? I always see games asking for funding on Kickstarter.
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by forkLding 7y ago
https://www.project-syndicate.org/ because its more from the source of international figures, a bit like an Twitter for intelligent international scholars and public figures.
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by forkLding 7y ago
To those who have watched the 1988 Anime Sci-fi film Akira, it is set in 2019 aka the future and what they got wrong amuses me greatly
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by forkLding 7y ago
这是哪路大神写的？
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by forkLding 7y ago
The media is obsessed about Trump because those stories bring money and is more relevant to American media and audiences, Chilean protests don't fetch the same amount of dollars or American attention.
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by forkLding 7y ago
Interestingly enough, no Muslim country is officially criticizing China, they're all on the officially supporting side.
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by forkLding 7y ago
Communication pains and always missing out on certain information that might help with developing features, projects and your career in general.
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by forkLding 7y ago
I've had an app that kind of blew up and grew to thousands of users in several weeks and then reach top 200 Lifestyle Apps on Appstore. It also had more than 100 ratings with an avg rating of 4.6. However I stopped updating a long time
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Ask HN: Past acquisition/partner-interested company trying to trademark our name
2 points by forkLding 7y ago|2 comments
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by forkLding 7y ago
From running my own apps and toy startups in college, I don't think its really the age, its rather the ability of the person to do many things from the tech side to the business side from like creating the tech/app to going out an
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by forkLding 7y ago
Had this feature on my Google Maps a while back, thought it was already released and has some fun using it, but you need a constant internet connection
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by forkLding 7y ago
TLDR: Arab armies are ineffective because of the all the internal, external and ethnic politics which hinders all kinds of cooperation and unity at the battalion-level, otherwise on the unit and soldier-level they are comparable to Israeli
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by forkLding 7y ago
They should probably put the title as Medieval Europeans, the misconception that Medieval "people"/Europeans don't bathe isn't a global notion because Medieval people from other places bathed such as the Japanese.
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by forkLding 7y ago
I think they're going the right route though if its a tutoring service that is always online and accessible, I wish I even had that in university
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by forkLding 7y ago
It should be noted that the mainland govt. doesn't need to mobilize troops. The 6000-strong combat-ready PLA Hong Kong Garrison is already in Hong Kong. The only way for them to enter is if the Hong Kong govt. gives permission or the v
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by forkLding 7y ago
Note that Child & Co is actually the oldest bank in Britain, not C.Hoare & Co. Child & Co. was sold which is likely why its no longer the original banking dynasty but it is still around. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by forkLding 7y ago
If USA is having a good relationship with Saudi Arabia which is not even really giving women rights and only recently allowed women to drive then you know USA don't care.
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by forkLding 7y ago
Smells a bit similar to the Handmaid's Tale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
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by forkLding 7y ago
Vice youtube video from 3 years ago on Mosuo women, a bit out-dated but good explanation of their lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc
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by forkLding 7y ago
You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc To be truthful, most of them are leaving the villages because they see better career and living opportunities in the cities which is why they are adopting mai
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by forkLding 7y ago
My dad was a student in Beijing at the time and was going to join in because that was the cool thing to do for students at the time, however he was stopped at a bridge by soldiers and didn't participate. He is pretty chill about the wh
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by forkLding 7y ago
You can actually gain a lot from investing in "poorer" Eastern European countries, like a lot of tech outsourcing occurs there because the intellecutual labour is much cheaper yet the quality of work is comparable to Western Europ
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by forkLding 7y ago
Had a friend who did this and then moved to BC. My friend lived in Quebec for most of his childhood but left during teenage years. Not sure about this stereotype about "rich foreign students driving expensive cars", because I thin
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by forkLding 7y ago
I remember that Amazon Home Services had a goat rental service couple years back for mowing your lawns, not sure if still there. https://www.newsweek.com/2015/04/24/meet-goats-amazons-new-g... EDIT: Found it,
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“Hang-face noodles, repairing cars, the great goddess”: love and sex in Sanhe(translate.google.com)
2 points by forkLding 7y ago|0 comments
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Some Chinese schools are rewarding students with pork meat gifts(whatsonweibo.com)
3 points by forkLding 7y ago|0 comments
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by forkLding 7y ago
Its not that they wouldn't care, its just unintentional blindness to issues that plague young people, likely people of an older age can afford housing while younger people can't and thus is confused what the big fuss is. Or its ju
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by forkLding 7y ago
Yea but you've breached NDA and likely committed some kind of intentional sabotage because this was done 4 times, so what happens to you is up to the courts and how you can argue it.
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by forkLding 7y ago
“For Southeast Asian neighbors, China’s navy may be intimidating, but its prowess is limited to waters near the country’s shores.” - A retired PLA officer ^This quote from the article basically summarizes the whole article. The rest of the

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