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by jeswin 4y ago
The actual reason why he's the richest person in the world: LVMH has mastered how to appeal to vanity. If you look at their catalogue, the only thing that stands out is the price.
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by jeswin 4y ago
For all its flaws, I'd take a democracy over the Soviets in the 80s, or CCP/North Korea today. I can't imagine what the world would have looked like if the Soviets had won the cold war, or if the CCP wins the next.
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by jeswin 4y ago
> because as soon as you has shared them with a third party the control is out of your hands anyways. If I delete something from FaceBook, there's no way anyone (other than FB) can prove that I have said the things I deleted. With a
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by jeswin 4y ago
Sure, I agree. I was only implying that nobody takes the "One-country two-systems" promise seriously. Much less the Taiwanese.
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by jeswin 4y ago
Two systems as in Hong Kong? Btw, those were local elections and if you've been reading Taiwanese news sources, you'd find that nobody saw those elections as a referendum on joining China.
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Of course they should be. I also believe that democracy is a human right.
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Status quo is being able to run their own country and free-and-fair elections. And besides, the question was asked under the threat of China's automatic invasion if it ever formally declared independence - I suppose people don't w
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by jeswin 4y ago
> Taiwan is an ex military dictatorship born as a puppet state for the USA to counter communist China. It is immaterial what Taiwan was born as. It is a self-governing, free country, and the only thing that matters should be the wishes o
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by jeswin 4y ago
1. Chrome is now tightly integrated with the Google ecosystem, and it works quite well. For instance, signing in to Chrome signs you into all google properties. 2. Firefox isn't doing that well on mobile devices (sadly), and people wan
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by jeswin 4y ago
> Rust is successful, and Mozilla could have been the guardian behind the language. How does being the guardian behind the language help Mozilla in any way?
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by jeswin 4y ago
> If you are a Rust developer, you pretty much need to do blockchain stuff, as most of the Rust jobs are related to that. And so on. I'm not a Rust developer, but I must admit I'm kinda surprised by this statement. Let me do my
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by jeswin 4y ago
> To me, seeing crypto on a resume means the engineer is a true believer in viability of crypto, and therefore not smart enough to do well in a big boy company. I don't believe in crypto myself - but your statement sounds a bit egot
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by jeswin 4y ago
For my desktop, I value 30% faster compilation far more than I care about the CPU using more watts. It depends on what you do, and it's not all benchmarks.
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by jeswin 4y ago
> Even with the limitations their products are vastly, vastly better than the alternatives. I could claim that my Pixel which lets me run multiple user profiles (each with its own copy of Gmail, Outlook, Teams settings - which I can swit
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by jeswin 4y ago
I agree with what you're saying, and it's of course entirely your call to make. However, given that a significant percentage of developers are on Macs, this makes bflat a non-option for a large number of use cases. Even if I'
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by jeswin 4y ago
If an app is available in native and PWA/webapp versions, I always install the PWA/webapp version. It's usually lighter, is better w.r.t. privacy, will need fewer permissions, and might allow copying text.
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by jeswin 4y ago
> M1 is particularly spectacular when compared to other chips with similar thermal characteristics. i7-3770K has TDP of 77 W, without a GPU, so it has 7-8 times the power budget of M1 for the CPU. Performance doesn't scale linearly
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by jeswin 4y ago
Very, very rarely. Both for planes and cars.
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by jeswin 4y ago
While I don't agree with the bans, here's a counter argument. Will it be ok to ban someone if they tailed a car every day and live-posted the driver's location on Twitter? One can argue that someone with has a plane has more
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by jeswin 4y ago
Also, in India the dominant digital payments mode in 4Q 2016 was digitals wallets, not UPI. UPI was small fish, but rapidly grew to devour digital wallets (because you didn't have to preload money). Damg, Sorry. Made a mistake again in
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by jeswin 4y ago
> This triggered mass adoption of phone payment apps, I worked in the digital payments industry at that time. The sectoral growth was unprecedented during that period. Between Oct 2016 and Jan 2017, transaction value went up 40 times! &g
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by jeswin 4y ago
Thanks unmole for correcting these numbers. (Too late to edit now). - Nov 2022 is 140B (accurate) - Oct 2016 was 150m not 1.5B (incorrect) - Nov 2016 was 1B not 10B (incorrect) The point still stands. UPI grew 600% in Oct-Nov 2016, and 10-2
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by jeswin 4y ago
> India's approach was to cancel large-denomination banknotes, but it did not have the intended effect The objective was not to cancel large-denomination banknotes, given that even larger notes were issued in their place (2000 Rupee
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by jeswin 4y ago
> Their state is powerful but it only works because the citizenry are decently happy with their lives getting better over the last decades China has had a billion for more than 40 years now; the only signficant challenge to the CCP'
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by jeswin 4y ago
The bigger news to me was that Apple blocked AirDrop in China - specifically to limit dissent and for preventing people from organizing [1]. A company that misses no chance to showcase its liberal credentials, bending over backwards for per
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by jeswin 4y ago
If the CCP backs down it will be a historic event. If the CCP doesn't back down, it'll be just as significant.
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by jeswin 4y ago
> Given more and more applications require constantly polling backend server (not only social apps, e.g. a TODO list, note-taking application, a time tracker, etc.) I much more prefer this behavior being the default. Why are desktop ver
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by jeswin 4y ago
AJAX was certainly a part of it, but it was also more than that. For example, wiki vs encyclopedias - early wikis made very limited use of AJAX, if at all.
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Fair point. I'm referring to whatever is implied by Web 3.0 today, discounting the misappropriation of the item.
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> On Windows and Linux, applications can have no window open by installing a background service (ugh) or hide to status bar, but application need to explicitly implement the behavior. On macOS, this is the expected behavior. Yeah, but th

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