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by gkanai 10y ago
"His family moved to the United States from Beijing to receive medical care for an injury to his right eye at age 11" That, to me, is more impressive. Shi has a bad eye and is an Olympian pistol shooter.
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by gkanai 10y ago
Mitchell Baker has spoken many times publicly about why she chose the NPO structure for Mozilla. It was due to the Browser Wars of the 90s (when she was counsel at Netscape) and not wanting to go through that again.
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by gkanai 10y ago
> (and Firefox which has their own CA store for some reason). Firefox has it's own CA store because it's built for all 3 major (desktop) platforms. OSX and Windows have their own but Linux does not and uses Mozilla's.
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by gkanai 10y ago
If you have traveled in a Shinkansen in Japan and then been on Chinese HSR, you can see that the HSR interiors are almost identical copies of the Japanese equivalents. However the key part that China cannot copy from Japan is the human soft
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by gkanai 10y ago
I see what you did there...
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by gkanai 10y ago
The domain could be quite valuable not only because of the 4-letter length but also because it's an old domain with lots of links all over the 1.0 web.
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by gkanai 10y ago
You would need to find a domain broker you trusted to sell it for you.
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by gkanai 10y ago
The rules in China are evolving all the time but basically to have an app in China, you need to have an entity in China, have user data on a server in China, follow all Chinese laws, etc. So if Snow wants to keep it's Chinese user base
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by gkanai 10y ago
In Japan, Start Today Co. Ltd. (better known as Zozotown, a popular online apparel retailer) went public this year without having raised any venture capital. $5B mkt cap at this time. Founder also owns way more than 50% of shares and recent
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by gkanai 10y ago
Growth is next to zero in many first world economies. Most of Europe is basically not growing. Only Germany is. Many economies in Latin America are doing poorly, especially Brasil, Argentina- Venezuela is in free-fall. There is growth in Af
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by gkanai 10y ago
> Can anyone share some insight? If you were around in the 1980s, when Japan was at it's economic peak, Japan has slowly been passed by China and continues to tread water (i.e. stay in the same place, as China has passed it.) Japan
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by gkanai 10y ago
Come to China. No Google here! (You can get to Google with a VPN but...)
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by gkanai 10y ago
This does not make sense based on my own experience of launching phones in India with Intex, Spice and a few other Indian manufacturers. 'Indian' smartphones are all made in Shenzhen. There is no smartphone manufacturing in India.
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by gkanai 10y ago
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS—EXCEPT EUROPA ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE".
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by gkanai 11y ago
Look at China, where WeChat Wallet and Alipay dominate cashless payments. It's very good for the Chinese government that there are 2 large cashless payment platforms that they can monitor/control.
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by gkanai 11y ago
Until you change your terms of service and move to publicly-available APIs, your actions speak louder than comments on HN.
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Emily Parker and Clay Shirky on China's Accelerating Technological Development(acast.com)
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by gkanai 11y ago
> The French attitude is "we live to eat". They say every other country "eats to live". Japan also lives to eat and their public school lunches are very healthy and nutritious. The children often also partake in the p
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by gkanai 11y ago
The top result should be accessible without sign in https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0... .
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by gkanai 11y ago
Romer was covered by Planet Money a while ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/11/09/164813887/episo...
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by gkanai 11y ago
I've noticed this- even Manila is increasingly a location for this sort of maintenance work. I think there should be a place where we as customers can easily see where carriers we may be considering are maintaining their planes and if
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by gkanai 11y ago
Agreed that there needs to be clarifications around how most international startups are funded (i.e. Delaware Corp takes the funding and holds the non-US entity as sub.)
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by gkanai 11y ago
I had an Anker iOS Lightning cable fail on me. It worked for a while and then stopped charging or syncing.
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by gkanai 11y ago
A tremendous vote of confidence for AL and while it may take time for this to impact the market, $400 Mil. is a lot of money and it will have a long-term impact on how seed funding happens.
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by gkanai 11y ago
The same can be said about Google, no?
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by gkanai 11y ago
Alibaba is indeed a force in China (and less-so globally) but the stock price is doing pretty poorly (down below IPO price.) https://www.google.com/finance?q=baba&ei=fFT4VanDAdLisAHx9r7... It's a bit weird to see h
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by gkanai 11y ago
Last name first has nothing to do with trust. Japan is one of the highest-trust societies in the world (see crime stats) and last name comes first. I live in China and have lived 13 years in Japan so I know what I am talking about.
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by gkanai 11y ago
This is a big setback, yes, but if Baidu can properly push Uber, the two together should be able to hold a significant part of the market. In the Baidu Maps app now, you can order an Uber- so that's already there. But yes, not having a
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by gkanai 12y ago
1985 Pikes Peak Audi Quattro S1 Michèle Mouton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKKfzR7dX-c
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by gkanai 12y ago
Chris Harris on the Sport Quattro https://youtu.be/LDCE4FjVHOU?t=8m1s

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