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by galuggus 6y ago
Perhaps the more deadly strains are infecting people in hospitals (health care workers and other staff and patients)
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Ask HN: Is quarentine selecting for more deadly strains of COV19
7 points by galuggus 6y ago|8 comments
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by galuggus 7y ago
This looks similar to wechat mini programs. They are instants apps availible from within the chat app. They are very easy to share. They are a real game changer. E. G you go to a restaurant scan a qr code and order and pay through the mini
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by galuggus 7y ago
Many jobs in China have two days off a month. This is true of waiters, cleaners and many factory workers. Software developers are a bit better off often working six days a week from 9am to 9pm
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Show HN: Website trains you to stop touching your face while you're working(handsoff.tv)
1 points by galuggus 7y ago|0 comments
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by galuggus 7y ago
This is very compatible with Chinese culture. It is very normal to do business (even very small transactions) with your friend group. This is partly because of very low levels of trust in society and partly to keep money from leaving your s
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by galuggus 7y ago
Douglas Adams - a puddle Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly
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by galuggus 7y ago
Nobody in China can use play store or Google services. There are many local equivalents of them all
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The conspiracy theory economics of Bitcoin(davidgerard.co.uk)
3 points by galuggus 7y ago|0 comments
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by galuggus 7y ago
who are you? The name of the place is The name of the place is The name of the place is It's like a dream come true, a dream dream come true
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by galuggus 8y ago
In China academics get bonuses for authoring papers. There is an informal market for buying selling authorship. I wonder if this contributes
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by galuggus 8y ago
10,000 in Chinese often means a big number. It is the equivalent to myriad in English.
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by galuggus 8y ago
That all depends on how powerful the leader is. If you look into the quite recent past this comment would be absolutely untrue. There was massive gridlock between factions it was just so opaque that we could only guess what was going on. A
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by galuggus 8y ago
There's a lot of vc money floating around China(lots of nouveau riche people + limited ways to invest). This means a lot of competition. Unlike Uber Didi has a lot of competition. Consumers will use whichever service discounts rides t
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Laser League Is One of 2018's Best Games, and Nobody's Playing It(kotaku.co.uk)
2 points by galuggus 8y ago|0 comments
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by galuggus 8y ago
In China I often get spam iMessage texts from illegal gambling services advertising their apps. These apps are often disguised as something else. You download a calendar/video app etc hit the right button and it turns into a casino&#x2
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by galuggus 8y ago
China is going cashless -mobile payments are increasingly the norm. There are two main ways to pay with your phone wechat pay and Alipay(run by ant financial). It will potentially handle a huge percentage of ALL payments in a country as big
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by galuggus 8y ago
"Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely" This is still true in the countryside. It's a cultural not raci
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by galuggus 8y ago
'Search' might be solved, but 'find' isn't.
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by galuggus 9y ago
Didn't the pioneers of rocket science come from nazi Germany?
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by galuggus 9y ago
Bitcoin is great in a crisis. All you need is a computer, electricity and the internet!
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by galuggus 9y ago
great tutorial Could you link the previous two? Will you offer the service to fiverr sellers? Whitelabel it to agencies? What is your current revenue?
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by galuggus 10y ago
bbc2 commissioned this to mark their 50th anniversary. Very funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlSHw_y0Lw
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by galuggus 10y ago
I can only counter with 'house is a feeling'.:-)
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by galuggus 10y ago
It's not singularly responsible. It would have happened with or without it (the people responsible for Hip hop and house/Garage/Techno were incredibly resourceful making the the best of what they could lay their hands on)- bu
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by galuggus 10y ago
I was told that Hackney has the greatest concentration of fake pound coins.(no source on that) Have received many in my time. Machines don't like them They seem to be not quite straight.
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by galuggus 10y ago
Sounds like the sugar cookie test is a way of filtering out people who won't blindly accept arbitrary rules from authority.
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by galuggus 10y ago
Player stats are a really American thing.
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by galuggus 10y ago
One thing that has always puzzled me. If addiction is a disease why wait for an addict to hit rock bottom? Would you wait for a diabetic/heart disease patient to hit rock bottom before treatment?
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by galuggus 10y ago
How about Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan?

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