garply

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   Mexico and the Failed State Revisited(realclearworld.com)

   14 points by garply 17y ago|4 comments
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   by garply 17y ago

   OK, fair point, let me change the second noun. That wasn't the point of the question.
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   Ask HN: monkeyswithrings.com or monkeysrings.com?

   1 points by garply 17y ago|6 comments
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   by garply 17y ago

   Interesting, I don't have a paywall, but that could be because it's WSJ Asia and my IP is China-based. Sorry, didn't know.
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   China Sets Ambitious Space Goals(online.wsj.com)

   7 points by garply 17y ago|4 comments
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   by garply 17y ago

   Please add me to the list.
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   by garply 17y ago

   I'm already getting spammed by someone clearly targeting this demographic (not going to name them because I don't want to give them more eyeballs). I don't feel comfortable with you having scraped this data... I didn't mind entering data wh
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   by garply 17y ago

   2 cups of his coffee a day is enough to pay my rent! Incidentally, caffeine powder bought in bulk is a much cheaper solution to daily caffeine needs than coffee. Also, it makes it easier to monitor your dosage.
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   by garply 17y ago

   This quote stuck out at me and I found myself revisiting the article just to find it. Here's the thing in full: "The executives I met all showed pictures of their youth, reminding me that just a few decades ago, their country was nothing mo
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    by garply 17y ago

    I was reading some advice from one of the Forbes 400 and he said something like: 'Start off trying for singles. Then go for doubles and triples.'
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    by garply 17y ago

    Incidentally, if you own a website that is highly dependent on SEO, Google falls into a similar category as Apple, Facebook, or Twitter.
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    by garply 17y ago

    Where in the world does not already have some sort of censorship? Somalia?
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    by garply 17y ago

    "Seeing poverty up-close will annihilate any Westerner's malaise. It's suddenly very, very hard to get into a funk about your career when you're watching a family live on $2/day." I wish I could upvote this comment more. Throughout my teena
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    by garply 17y ago

    I think $data2 is worse than $data.
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    by garply 17y ago

    'Keeping face' is very important in China, and founding a failed company would cause you to lose face - which could damage your social network (people willing to trade favors with you). Also, in China, many people don't respect people who s
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    by garply 17y ago

    Why not? I could see mail sending / receiving to be highly correlated with age, which is linear.
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    by garply 17y ago

    I don't think what you're saying is correct. Sandwiches can be tasty, healthy, and fast. So can pot roasts (once you get the hang of them). Ditto for baked meats - prepare the marinade, let soak while you work, come back and throw in the ov
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    by garply 17y ago

    It's not just business and law in the US. When I was a CS student in college (not very long ago), during the summer students had to make a choice to go do low-paying internships for brand-name companies like MS, Google, and Amazon or take r
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    by garply 17y ago

    In terms of preparation speed - there's a reason we Americans like sandwiches - if you're preparing food for yourself, a sandwich is about as fast to produce as you can get. Also, can be made just about as healthy as you want, depending on
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    by garply 17y ago

    I find this far more interesting than the Topeka Google thing and yet this only has 14 points to Google's 56 in the same amount of time.
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    by garply 17y ago

    I don't understand. Is that a picture of Xinjiang?
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    by garply 17y ago

    Even with a VPN, the Chinese environment is harmful because VPNs are slooow (relatively speaking).
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    by garply 17y ago

    More specifically, all queries entered from the Google html web forms. I can still search from the search / url bar in Chrome. The block is indeed, as the article states, keyed off of the rfai parameter in the queries. Also, Forbes picked u
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    China is blocking most Google search queries(shanghaiist.com)

    16 points by garply 17y ago|6 comments
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    by garply 17y ago

    I'm an American who hasn't been in the US for almost a year now, but I occasionally hear the name Glenn Beck. Why exactly is he the worst kind of person? What makes him markedly different from, say, Rush Limbaugh? It strikes me that Apple's
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    by garply 17y ago

    I'm well aware of this. I do not believe the propaganda is aimed at them. Violent revolution is not going to come from that demographic. What the government is worried about is the less-educated, general population having unfiltered access
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    by garply 17y ago

    I don't think HN is the target demographic for the propaganda - the targeted demographic, I believe, would be more blue collar (if such a category can even accurately describe the social segmentation in China). I suspect most of the astrotu
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    Unable to disable Google SafeSearch when using simplified Chinese(google.com.hk)

    7 points by garply 17y ago|2 comments
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    by garply 17y ago

    How would you prevent the Chinese authorities from learning of the proxy IP addresses and filtering them when you have to tell the general population your IP addresses in order for them to be able to access them. I think you'd need some sor
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    by garply 17y ago

    Hey Googlers on HN, I live in China and access Gmail from my local connection. Where is my Gmail data located?