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by hkai 7y ago
Same here, we tried allowing work from home once a week but people just treated it as a free day off. We also had to enforce starting hours, otherwise some developers would show up by 11:30 yet they will still leave work sharp on time.
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by hkai 7y ago
I am currently soft-quarantined by my employer in Hong Kong because I recently visited Mainland China, and will be working from home for 14 days, along with many others. It's not going that well: from my subjective point of view, peopl
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by hkai 7y ago
It's not bad at all. CNN showed its incompetence again with headlines like "Hong Kong turned into a ghost town". And then I went out and people are playing in the park, doing sports, going shopping, eating at restaurants - al
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by hkai 7y ago
You should test yourself for cancer. There is an at-home DNA test, which I won't advertise, that tests your genetic predisposition for 36 types of cancer. If you happen to have a certain mutation, you and potentially your blood relativ
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by hkai 7y ago
People I know are switching to Chinese messaging apps and social networks. There's less negative coverage about them even though their privacy practices may be slightly worse.
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by hkai 7y ago
Fantastic propaganda piece. Well, it's more of a camp made it prefabricated pieces, but yeah, let's repeat Beijing's propaganda.
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by hkai 7y ago
I think most ordinary consumers like your mom and dad don't care about privacy. I know at least two DNA companies that send your data to China for processing and yet nobody cares. So it may not be the reason of 23andme's problems
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by hkai 7y ago
How is that not correct? I don't recommend you drink tap water anywhere in Africa, China and India. People over there would envy water quality in the US.
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by hkai 7y ago
Chinese Profiles A collection of interviews with a hundred ordinary Chinese people in 1984
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by hkai 7y ago
Regrettably one worrying trend I'm seeing is people hearing that Google and Facebook do despicable things, and switching to an alternative like Wechat, which is arguably infinitely worse. Perhaps when discussing Google or Facebook, we
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by hkai 7y ago
Wow, first world problems I never had trouble finding my phone in my 150 sq ft apartment TC 65000
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by hkai 7y ago
Wow, a solution for a problem we never have to worry about in Asia. Why can't your government just crack down on theft so that people can be allowed to use their laptop wherever they want without fear?
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by hkai 7y ago
Useful, thanks
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Chinese scientists raise alarm about LCD screen pollution(scmp.com)
5 points by hkai 7y ago|0 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
If you're talking about life expectancy, certainly lifestyle means more than an excellent (as opposed to a good) hospital system.
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by hkai 7y ago
That's probably true. I'm paying around 70 USD per month for Azure Functions (an equivalent of AWS Lambda) because they charge like crazy for disk read/writes and my application is quite tiny, definitely could fit on a raspbe
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by hkai 7y ago
And how do you counter the sources that you recommended?
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by hkai 7y ago
I don't see that the age of the practice means we have to arbitrarily change it. On the other hand, I have two concerns: - on the weeks where I took Friday off for travelling, I did not complete as much work as on a normal week. The ou
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by hkai 7y ago
Is it the core reason though? Or is it that those employees tend to be against capitalism and large corporations in general?
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by hkai 7y ago
If it makes no sense whatsoever, why do you think it makes sense to some other people?
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by hkai 7y ago
We all did that, didn't we. I once worked for a subcontractor who received contracts from a Ukrainian company who received contracts from a foreign company that was sitting in a shiny skyscraper (the tallest in Europe) and branding its
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by hkai 7y ago
So SMS should be free and mobile companies should just charge more for data, to earn the same profit?
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by hkai 7y ago
Why should the company sell SMS in relation to its cost? The seat selection on a plane costs literally zero for the company but people pay like 50 USD to seat at the front. A phone company just needs to find creative ways to earn profit. Wh
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by hkai 7y ago
I remember the time where you could plan your route on Google Maps and save it to your maps. Obviously they removed that feature circa 2012 because it was too useful.
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Stack Exchange deletes most downvoted post on Meta (gender pronoun FAQ)(meta.stackexchange.com)
20 points by hkai 7y ago|15 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
You are assuming that NYT doesn't care about security, whereas this might be as simple as this particular lady being fired. As others said, her boss and other information security people are still working there.
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by hkai 7y ago
What if Swiss trains consist of 30-40 cars at most? Then the rule is purely technical and doesn't even have to be remembered.
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by hkai 7y ago
I'm not in the US, but I'm not seeing the reason for all the anger. Yes, they are hiding the free option, similarly to how Google for example was hiding the free option for the Gsuite - you had to dig for it in the menu. Plus ther
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US ban will be a challenge for Megvii, Chinese AI startup, CEO says(scmp.com)
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Ask HN: The biggest technology that people think is working, but it doesn't?
9 points by hkai 7y ago|11 comments

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