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by hangonhn 9y ago
"WRT private class members, I can understand why this might be frustrating for library writers. But it's just so damned useful to be able to reach into a library and get functionality the library's writer didn't think I&
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Wow, one of the contributors is Pierre Sprey. I would take his criticisms very seriously. He's basically the father of the A-10, which he came up with when he studied WWII records and interviewing soldiers the aircraft was meant to s
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by hangonhn 9y ago
> Why not help these countries with setting up renewables, as much as it is possible. That's precisely what's in the Paris Climate Agreement. Sorry, I think we may be talking past each other and misunderstanding our views. Yes,
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Where they can't afford the more efficient methods of industrialization and must resort to the dirtier methods? Powering a country by coal is one such example. China has huge reserves of coal but little oil and natural gas. So what ar
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Haha. Not really, I'm actually a millenial (on the older end of the spectrum though). I can see what you may think I'm Gen X though. It may surprise you to know that I'm actually an environmentalist as well. I was definite
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by hangonhn 9y ago
That's a really good insight. Having never experienced that, I would have never imagined how the middle ground between full attention and complete autonomous driving could be a good place. That's definitely something for me to k
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by hangonhn 9y ago
Oh wow. Do they really think they can succeed with that? A Civic is a LOT cheaper than a Model 3. If Tesla can drive Model 3's price to be competitive with the Civic, then they really, really deserve a lot of accolade. A world with
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I think your response is a bit narrow and takes my response out of context. It also ignores a number of other issues to make electric cars look better than they really are. 1. Electric cars use a lot of copper and lithium. Mining of both
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by hangonhn 9y ago
I'm one of those people. I think the deposit was put down in a moment of excitement, which has since died down quite a bit. Not only am I one of those people who gave them a deposit, I'm also likely one of those people who they
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by hangonhn 9y ago
The QBASIC help "file" was really good for its time. That's basically how I learned. That plus a collection of QBASIC programs the nerds at my school passed around and would occasionally add to. Basically, I would open one
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by hangonhn 9y ago
True but isn't the job a lot easier because it's going from German to English, which are closely related? I don't want to take away from Google's achievement but wanted to point that out to set expectations.
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by hangonhn 10y ago
This is a just an ad or marketing stunt for the company. As most of you pointed out, they picked the wrong distributor for their business model. Now they are mad and severing relationships. However, 75% of the article is about their compan
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by hangonhn 10y ago
A Jewish friend once commented that it's the reason for kosher laws. I'm not sure if he was trying to justify an ancient custom with modern insights.
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by hangonhn 10y ago
No. China has historically used toilets. In fact, the earliest documented case of a flushing toilet date from the Han dynasty ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/851957.stm ) , which is more than 2000
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by hangonhn 10y ago
The thing is that when it's that many, the CEO isn't the one doing it. Also, when you fire someone I hope it's not to be cruel but for the greater good of the company that pays the other breadwinners. I'm not saying it&#
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by hangonhn 10y ago
Oh there's a very good reason why the German carmakers are only now just getting started: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/german-governme... In short, German carmakers' historical expertise
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by hangonhn 10y ago
How is that really any different from any Silicon Valley company raising a new round of money? So long as the valuation goes up enough to compensate for the dilution, the per share stock price will be the same or higher. I'm not sayi
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by hangonhn 10y ago
IIRC, she also wrote quite a bit on using Django. I learned quite a bit about the ins-and-outs of Django because of her writings. Glad she has had a good career.
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by hangonhn 10y ago
There is no network effect here. Each additional driver does not increase the value of the network to the other drivers and similarly for passengers. Uber and Lyft are old-fashioned market makers. They increased the pool of suppliers and
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by hangonhn 10y ago
I preach this knot to everyone I can. I'm a runner and a running coach. I've run literally thousands of miles (approaching 10,000 at this point) with this knot and it has NEVER come undone. The really nice thing about this knot
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by hangonhn 10y ago
You think the pool of available talent to replace all those H1Bs is large enough to do it before many tech companies implode or start outsourcing?
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by hangonhn 10y ago
The whole point of the Zumwalt and her sister ships is that they are stealthy and can do pinpoint strikes, especially in support of special forces. They're suppose to operate alone. Getting them closer to shore makes it that much eas
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by hangonhn 10y ago
Wow. If he really moves his project to China to take advantage of a lax regulatory environment even though he couldn't pass the scrutiny in the US, he's being very immoral and cavalier about people's lives in China. I don&#x2
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by hangonhn 10y ago
Yes you're absolutely right. The wording was terrible because I was caught up in the emotions and didn't think carefully about it. What I really should have said is that HK culture inherits and imports from a few other cultures
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by hangonhn 10y ago
My apologies. Someone later on in the thread gave me an update on the educational language changes and it is indeed absurd. That said, as a member of the HK diaspora, whenever someone complains about culture it often ends up being a nativi
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by hangonhn 10y ago
No I wasn't missing a point;I was missing an entire data set! I didn't know they moved that down to primary school! I knew they switched from English to Mandarin but I didn't realize they pushed it down to grade one. I am o
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by hangonhn 10y ago
Come on. "Most primary schools now teach in a non-native tongue" They used to teach English in HK schools. At least Mandarin is in the same language family as Cantonese. As someone who used to live in HK and then left before &#x2
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by hangonhn 10y ago
So Shark Tank people are definitely real. The sisters who made Coffee-Meets-Bagel were on the show and a friend met them at some startup event in Silicon Valley before their app took off. Also a friend of mine has been on the show as well
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by hangonhn 10y ago
I am really interested in what you've learned because you obviously know a lot about a problem that's very physical and concreate. What is your approach or what will it be? However, you website is horrible at communicating any of
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by hangonhn 10y ago
The current market valuation IS what people expects Tesla to be worth when/if it makes a profit in the future -- at least according to the efficient market theorem. Right? So unless new information comes along, the current valuation

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