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by forkLding 7y ago
This is probably a better url as it is the one that is being used as the source: https://gizmodo.com/chinas-new-video-game-rules-officially-b... Also this seems to only be affecting Chinese-made/Chinese-published onlin
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by forkLding 7y ago
Thats bs, you only need to google "china bikesharing competition" to know what it means to compete in China. Startups in China will resort to any means, legal and illegal to bring each other down. A lot of bikesharing companies we
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The reason Boeing's new plane crashed twice [video](youtube.com)
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by forkLding 7y ago
I saw a similar article like this last month or so. This is a more realistic article on the subject: https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2019/03/11/renting-luxury... Note that I've tried figuring out whe
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by forkLding 7y ago
I would guess it is because to East asian authorities, you would only be getting a tattoo if you were being initiated in a gang or wanted to engage in outlaw activities, so stopping tattoos is indirectly stopping "outlawry" and th
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by forkLding 7y ago
Tattoos are generally stigmatized in most of East Asia: China, Korea, Japan and cultures affected by these countries. Although there are some ties to the past with tattoos predominantly being used by outlaws, criminals, prisoners, slaves (p
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by forkLding 7y ago
Support https://globalfishingwatch.org/ if you can, they visualize, track and share data about global fishing activity in near real-time for free to stop illegal fishing. I remember that they organized several online hackat
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The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea(bbc.com)
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Life of a Child Con Artist(sixthtone.com)
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People are betting there is room for other social apps to compete with WeChat(abacusnews.com)
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Photo provider draws backlash after claiming rights to first black hole photo(abacusnews.com)
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by forkLding 7y ago
I would argue its too early to tell that things are going bad, the Cannabis Act was put in place on October 17th which is only 6 months ago. Moreover, most retail stores in Ontario were given very short notice (~2-4 months) to build the sto
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Canada’s legal pot is going well(reuters.com)
147 points by forkLding 7y ago|75 comments
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by forkLding 7y ago
I can see this being very popular on Instagram, it is already moving in that direction. People love aspirational images of "themselves in the future" and these ads always sell well.
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by forkLding 7y ago
Its because Jack Ma still sees his company as it was in the startup days where the objective was out-competing anybody (even Western tech companies) through creativity, brutal price-cutting and sheer mental and time overload. These are qual
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by forkLding 7y ago
Looking at this another way, this one-quarter revenue coming from users in five cities probably is showing these users as the power users of the app so these are probably the least likely to suddenly give up Uber because they already have a
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by forkLding 7y ago
Used Godot 3.1 for a game project recently, really surprised at how good it is.
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by forkLding 7y ago
Sounds like Google, Sidewalk Labs and Sidewalk Toronto https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-g...
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by forkLding 7y ago
This build-a-city approach is also probably due to the large rural population in China that have been steadily urbanizing or just moving to the cities for work. So there is some expectance that cities will be filled which does generate fals
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by forkLding 7y ago
I did this before but was mainly because was too lazy and busy to eat.
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by forkLding 7y ago
This will also attract more people to want to work for BoA, right now their average teller salary is $13/hr so this is probably an amazing improvement. https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salaries/new-york-city-teller-salar..
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by forkLding 7y ago
China is a bit less than half of their sales, the rest is global sales, so it will hit them still pretty hard. Source, their IPO documents: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/bitmain-hong-kong-ipo/
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by forkLding 7y ago
This will probably crush Bitmain and other Chinese bitcoin mining giants and they will probably move elsewhere, however Chinese courts have said bitcoin itself is legally allowed. Probably what is going to happen is that you can own but you
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The Dystopian Reality of China’s Livestreaming Craze(sixthtone.com)
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Chinese Developers Protest Overwork on GitHub(sixthtone.com)
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by forkLding 8y ago
Sixth Tone isn't a propaganda outlet though, every media source in China has to get their news approved before they can publish it. The stuff in there is there because it had to be to get published. And I quote: "For instance, in
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by forkLding 8y ago
Article brings up a good point, pigs are one of the most intelligent animals on the planet, yet pork production is increasing every year. More than half of grain also goes towards livestocks. Intelligence and consumption efficiency of other
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by forkLding 8y ago
Just comparing smartphones in general, not really Android vs IOS. Samsung was probably the top-range Android phones in terms of pricing.
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by forkLding 8y ago
Wikipedia page on this place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City_(Beijing) Wikipedia page states that is 85 square km. Also another much longer and detailed Vice article of it: https://www.vice.c
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by forkLding 8y ago
Signals to the end of an era, smartphones have matured and are becoming ubiquitous like laptops. Moreover, the most profitable smartphones belong to Apple which held 86% of smartphone profits generated in the industry in 2018. Samsung was c

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