hangonhn

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by hangonhn 7y ago
Last time I was there it wasn't too hard. But it depends on if the Chinese government is blocking your VPN or not. I usually connected to Seoul or Hong Kong.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Some churches and most volunteer organizations have one thing in common: altruistic people . That's not to say there aren't annoying people involved but I've made some excellent friends via volunteering because those organiza
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by hangonhn 7y ago
My doctor wore Glass when I had an appointment with her. It was part of some experiment or trial being run at the medical center where I'm a patient. She asked for my permission first. This was at least a year or two ago.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Uh... how many places have you lived in and for how long, and how much contact have you had with the homeless? And when we say homeless, what do you mean? Those who temporarily don't have homes, those don't want to live in a perma
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by hangonhn 7y ago
It's bad in the long run. It destroys your domestic industries and they won't subsidize it forever either. It's a lot like how some conglomerates will use profits from one industry to subsidize entry and take over of another
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by hangonhn 7y ago
What's this voice captcha you use?
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by hangonhn 7y ago
" if Google can make a profit on such an overall-good phone at $400" Are we sure they're making much of a profit from sale of the phone? Google literally pays Apple billions to be the default search engine on the iPhone. If t
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Punitive damages came largely out of the Ford Pinto cases because prior to that corporate leaders would just do the calculations, figure out that the limited amount of damage/fines allowed by the law is cheaper than the cost of fixing
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by hangonhn 7y ago
But to be fair, Java 8 to Java 12 (2014 to 2019) happened a lot faster than Java 6 to Java 8 (2006 to 2014). Being on Java 8 is not a bad thing because it's actually not that old.
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Oh man. Your question really hits the nail on the head and what I think most people fail to realize about China's threat. China represents a form of capitalism divorced from democracy. Their message to the world is this: you can have a
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by hangonhn 7y ago
I don't know how much foreign relationships or China-US policy you follow but when it comes to China-US, the term "Thucylides' Trap" gets thrown around a bit ( https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/
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by hangonhn 7y ago
Hang on. Stock market price is suppose to price in future earnings too. So, the price is always to some extend speculative and may look quite divorced from present circumstances. So, if during the Balmer era the price was depressed, it refl
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Uh... have you checked the news lately? https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-growth-beats-expectations... "China’s economic growth held to a 6.4% rate in the first three months of the year as factory production pick
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by hangonhn 8y ago
This is the dangerous allure of an authoritarian state and China has been here before -- many times. Replace "western medical infrastructure" with "a massive wall to keep the barbarians to the north out" or "a massi
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by hangonhn 8y ago
The Stormtroopers are based on WWII German army uniforms and equipment, even down to the gas mask cylinder that German soldiers carried behind them. Even the name Stormtroopers comes from German WWII unit type name.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
We are just splitting hairs here. In an authoritarian state with no real "rule of law" (yes there are laws but the party is more powerful than the law and power is completely concentrated in the hands of a few, possibly just one),
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by hangonhn 8y ago
I feel the same but about Java. I feel that with Java, however, it is much, much worse because of its enterprise friendliness and thus being much more reluctant about breaking changes to the language. I would love to see certain features ge
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Pornography is outright illegal in China so I imagine TikTok has that part nailed down.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Because you'll be taxed on something that often has no liquidity nor market. The estimated value on your stock may be $5 and you'll get taxed on that but if you were to go sell it you may only be able to fetch a fraction of that o
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by hangonhn 8y ago
But that's part of doing business. The shareholders and employees (many of whom are also shareholders) might be in a lot better shape had the deal gone through. I'm skeptical that those people are better off with the Verizon deal.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
It's one of the three schools you just listed. Don't know what to tell you. There are people who are different from us. I think your assumption that a large percentage of people think or believes the same things as us is a bit sh
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by hangonhn 8y ago
It may surprise some of you but the idea of "elite school" is unknown to a good percent, possibly the majority, of people even in the US. I went to an "elite school" and my GF didn't think much of it. She just thoug
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Things like that is why we have such insane damages dollar amounts for punitive damage. People reward huge punitive damages since the Ford Pinto case to compel companies to "do the right thing" because if you don't and you&#x
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by hangonhn 8y ago
12,000 is not a lot. My Instagram account for my dogs have 1,000 and I only post occasionally. That said, it didn't take much before some small vendors reached out to me about doing some small promotion like "here's a free le
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by hangonhn 8y ago
No. No it's not better. Half-truths are worse than outright lies. The difference between my parent's generation and my generation of Chinese is that my generation actually believes the Party whereas my parent's generation tak
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by hangonhn 8y ago
VMware did too.
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by hangonhn 8y ago
It can become a self-fullfilling prophecy: if most people believe that degrees have value, then the people who compete for those spots at "elite" colleges will go up, then the pool of high quality candidate goes up. Because the el
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by hangonhn 8y ago
Depends on the union but historically some unions have also been fairly anti-immigration and even racist. In response racial minorities formed their own unions. That said, the statement in and of itself isn't incorrect. There has and s
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by hangonhn 8y ago
One of the breakthroughs in stealth aircraft came from the book of a Soviet scientist ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev ). So it's not surprising that free sharing of information can inadvertently help
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by hangonhn 8y ago
The problem for Ruby on Rails is that a lot of its good idea were eventually borrowed while it was encumbered by Ruby's performance. No one develop web apps like they did on Java when Rails came out. A lot of good ideas from Ruby and R

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