jcytong

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by jcytong 6y ago
> China could technically spin off their censorship functions to a privately owned company that would wholly depend on the state-issued license to operate and would keep doing exactly the same thing. I think that's exactly what&#x27
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by jcytong 6y ago
What started as "I want Democracy", which was promised in the Sino-British Joint Declaration signed in 1984[1], slowly was pressured into something different. As the CCP started to really apply pressure starting in 2014 after the
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by jcytong 6y ago
> They're about sedition, secession, national security, terrorism, etc. We have laws about those things too in the US. This is usually the reasoning for the CCP supporters that other countries have similar laws. That is true but thi
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by jcytong 6y ago
The British rule was more successful because it was governing at arms length. London never flexed like Beijing by actively disqualifying publicly elected legislators and meddling with its internal affairs, eroding individuals freedom and ri
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by jcytong 7y ago
I think most of the "overnight successes" are just stories where people look at the end results without point out the steps in the middle. Outside of the few "lottery winners", most are grinders that didn't commit b
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by jcytong 7y ago
Maybe you can do it and compete with them?
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by jcytong 7y ago
Maybe your takeaway is right but there's also a huge piece that wasn't captured in your one-liner "We lost about 2 years of our time and $30k of my savings (which was most of it). " "Getting those first 10/100+
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by jcytong 7y ago
>No. This is not how anything works, as almost anyone attempting to work in the art world implicitly understands. If there are 7,000 people globally who might be interested in your work, it would take a massive global campaign to find th
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by jcytong 7y ago
I hear you since I have a similar background (born and grew up in HK). I really wish that the Chinese people can benefit from better services (search, social media) and also the people in the west can benefit from some the the innovation in
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by jcytong 7y ago
You don't have to land in HK to be extradited. You can simply be extradited in transit through HK. https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/07/hkfp-voices-hong-kongs...
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by jcytong 7y ago
You're right. Getting to the real crux of the problem that someone faces but also are willing to pay for a solution is not easy. Though I have had good experiences talking to different industries because it could be as simple as a 20 m
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Proposed schedule change for JDK 9(mail.openjdk.java.net)
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A simple and free tool for building, understanding, and sharing your cap table(captable.io)
1 points by jcytong 10y ago|0 comments
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How Thalmic Labs Launched a Marketplace in 3 Weeks(openchannel.io)
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Ruby Rogues Podcast 241 What Makes a Great Developer with Phil Spitler(devchat.tv)
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OpenChannel Aims to Break Down Barrier Between Platform Makers and App Developer(techvibes.com)
10 points by jcytong 11y ago|0 comments