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by gkanai 6y ago
Props to Gregory for building this. Giving up on Firefox OS too early was a such a terrible mistake- look at the success of KaiOS in emerging markets. That should have been Mozilla's success. Mozilla needs to find someone other than Mi
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by gkanai 6y ago
Memepool was before del.icio.us but Memepool was not open to everyone...
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by gkanai 6y ago
Another great example of an innovator who was not rewarded is Shuji Nakamura, who invented the blue LED, which led to a lot of other successful products including the white LED and the bluray disc platform. Nakamura was not rewarded by his
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The sun never sets on Tencent’s gaming empire(technode.com)
2 points by gkanai 6y ago|0 comments
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by gkanai 6y ago
One of the oldest moderated communities on the web is https://www.metafilter.com/
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The Bank of China pegs the yuan to the US Dollar afaik...
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by gkanai 6y ago
Justin Frankel of Winamp and Gnutella, before he went on to make Reaper.
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The Unusual Ambitions of Chamath Palihapitiya(institutionalinvestor.com)
2 points by gkanai 6y ago|0 comments
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by gkanai 6y ago
Has there been a public review of the last incarnation of Mozilla's funding of non-Mozilla projects, Mozilla Labs and Mozilla WebFWD? I feel like an honest and open discussion around what went well and did not go well with the last tim
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by gkanai 6y ago
That is brilliant casting.
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by gkanai 6y ago
Rural Italy also has the fish truck that comes 2X/week. They'll stop by pre-determined spaces for scheduled times so those who want fish know to be there at the scheduled time.
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by gkanai 7y ago
Ben's analysis is fine. It's not really relevant to the big picture imo. Andreesen needed to do more than just call for action in his blog post. He should have committed his own funds towards the goals he is calling for. Gates is
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by gkanai 7y ago
Marc's essay should come with a personal commitment of funding or some other concrete effort towards the future he wants to see. Without that, it's yet another elite op-ed.
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by gkanai 7y ago
I am also confused by Japan's situation. The one thing that I don't think Japan can fake is the death rate. As long as the death rate does not significantly rise, somehow Japan is keeping control of the virus without the significa
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by gkanai 7y ago
there have been credible reports in China of Chinese farmers using drones to spread ASF for various reasons, so yes
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by gkanai 7y ago
Domestic flights in China are often delayed due to weather or congestion in route because the People's Liberation Army Air Force control the airspace too tightly. Shanghai-Beijing HSR takes longer than air flight but in certain times o
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by gkanai 7y ago
It was one of the largest startups by valuation (no more)...
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by gkanai 7y ago
2019 update: Japan Records Lowest Suicide Rate Since Statistics Were First Kept in 1978 https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00381/japan-records-lo...
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by gkanai 7y ago
Japan recently lost one of their first F35s and the pilot. One wonders whether one of these problems was the cause of the loss of the airplane and the pilot, not pilot error.
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by gkanai 7y ago
This is a great idea. Something I struggle with daily living behind the GFW and having to use websites made without understanding of the impacts of the GFW.
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by gkanai 7y ago
I've wanted to pay for Google Fi because their offering is compelling, especially for people who travel internationally a lot but this is a great reminder of why I won't pay for a crappy customer service experience.
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by gkanai 7y ago
I was the blogger who first wrote (in English) about South Korea's reliance on Active X controls and Internet Explorer. That was more than a decade ago.
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by gkanai 8y ago
KDDI both builds transoceanic cable and has ships to install them. http://www.k-kcs.co.jp/english/cableShipKOL.html http://news.kddi.com/kddi/corporate/english/newsrelease/2017...
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by gkanai 8y ago
Stephenson's "Mother Earth, Mother Board" is still, I believe, the longest piece published in Wired. A tremendous piece that still holds up.
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Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too(theverge.com)
54 points by gkanai 8y ago|69 comments
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by gkanai 8y ago
> why don't we use any software that comes out of east Asia? Ruby Language is driven by Matz from Japan. I'm sure there are other projects from East Asia as well that I can't name at the moment. If you're using a Nint
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Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis?(features.marketplace.org)
2 points by gkanai 8y ago|0 comments
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by gkanai 8y ago
Some of the highest passenger counts per year are between Osaka-Tokyo or Sapporo-Tokyo or Seoul-Jeju or Shanghai-Beijing. And yet I don't see 380s on those routes...
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by gkanai 8y ago
Instead of asking a wide cross section on HN, why not look at the OSS projects you admire and contact the key people in those projects for their advice? You'll get more relevant advice from people who have done what you are trying to d
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Why Tesla Is Betting Big in China with a Shanghai 'Gigafactory'(youtube.com)
2 points by gkanai 8y ago|0 comments

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