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Reasons to Open a Chinese Bank Account(online.wsj.com)
150 points by garply 16y ago|110 comments
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by garply 16y ago
Naver, right? I've been using their image search engine a lot and have been quite pleased. In general, I find Google's image search to be one of their weakest areas, even in English.
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by garply 16y ago
I think, before I ran my first business this kind of thing would have been discouraging. But now that I have experience building and growing a business, accurate data is good. I think a seasoned entrepreneur will tend to look at grim data
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by garply 16y ago
From a strictly logical perspective, they might not. But I would wager a fair amount that there are Bayesian methods used somewhere in the stack supporting those two things. I also suspect that genetic algorithms designed for scheduling pur
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by garply 16y ago
They could do it twice. Buy before unblocking it and then short before blocking it again.
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by garply 16y ago
I'm an American expat in China and I've lived here for several years. I completely agree with the Chinese guy's statement and have thought the same thing myself many times, though I've never heard anyone else openly express it. Living in an
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by garply 16y ago
I grabbed a hacked version of Skype that works over wifi and mobile data connection regardless of carrier from an Android forum (I need it because I'm on China Mobile and it's not available in my app store at all). If you want the apk, plea
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by garply 16y ago
Invest in what you understand the best.
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by garply 16y ago
In what ways is Google atypical?
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by garply 16y ago
China already has 2 indigenous Facebooks, Kaixin (targeted towards professional workers) and Renren (targeted towards college students). It also has QQ, which is more like MSN Messenger + MySpace + gaming. Filtered or not, US web companies
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by garply 16y ago
Outbound calls to a Chinese number had a failure rate of about 50% (failed with a couple of different error messages, can't quite remember what exactly they were anymore, although I remember thinking they didn't seem particularly relevant..
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by garply 16y ago
Interesting, maybe it's something they rolled out more recently for their newer members. I only started with them a couple months ago.
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by garply 16y ago
I have a gripe against Twilio. Aside from their China service sucking, they keep sending me newsletters or emails that are tailored to look like they're personally written to me. The subject looks like "RE: Twilio's Developer Community" and
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by garply 16y ago
I have to say I hate Posterous links for a different reason: they're blocked by the Chinese firewall. This greatly decreases my desire to load them, as I have to switch to my proxied browser and have it load slowly via an international conn
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by garply 16y ago
Making money is a game, like baseball. If people can be passionate about the latter, why can't I be passionate about the former?
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by garply 16y ago
I'm passionate about making money. That said, once you identify a sector in which to make money, you need to master it. With mastery almost alway comes at least an appreciation or affection for a subject.
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Reddit Hotmail Dev Team Q&A (Live)(reddit.com)
1 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: VPS in Hong Kong?
1 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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by garply 16y ago
I don't think this story is off-topic. Most of us are interested in how technology is changing the world around us. That means something on-topic can be about how new technology is affecting medical practice (for example, potential advances
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by garply 16y ago
Let's say that we had machine vision software good enough to not need a human to look at the scanner images unless it discovered undesirable objects on the person (I don't think that's so far fetched technologically). What percent of people
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China Slaps $150 Tax on iPads(learn-chinese-in-beijing.com)
3 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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by garply 16y ago
I live here and would love to meet up, what's your contact info?
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by garply 16y ago
I quit clicking on them because every single time I tried to load a Scribd page Firefox would lock up and then crash. I really hate them.
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by garply 16y ago
This is a clever idea. The 1 in 9 captcha test was a poor decision, but if he forced everyone to type in a reCAPTCHA instead I think it would be a good service. Simple and effective enough. I wish I had thought of it.
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by garply 16y ago
Reports about brutal repression of Tibetan protesters would be a threat to Chinese national security. Should those be stopped? Or do you only support freeing damaging information about countries you don't like?
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by garply 16y ago
Whoever is behind the attack should just DDOS all of the media sites that have the leaked information. In seriousness though, the attack probably will moderate the damage slightly, as I imagine Wikileaks was going to publish all the raw doc
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Wikileaks currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack(twitter.com)
10 points by garply 16y ago|0 comments
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by garply 16y ago
Yeah, I think I've decided on grabbing a Mini just to reduce the headache. Looks like it has dual video output and is about as fast as an entry-level MBP, so I think it's a pretty good deal. Now just deciding between the server and the clie
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by garply 16y ago
Thanks, I didn't realize they called the desktop a Mac Pro. I had actually forgotten they built desktops. Actually, I guess that answers my question about threading in Hackintoshes too.
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by garply 16y ago
You can't get a 6-core Mac pro, can you? Actually, I'm in the market for a new Mac, as I need to do some iPhone dev. Does anyone find the non-replaceable battery to be an issue? That seemed like a real turn-off to me. Anyone have Hackintosh

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