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by jmknoll 6y ago
San Francisco is around 60% of the density of NYC. Outside of the US, cities like Taipei, Hong Kong, and Seoul are all similarly densely populated and have largely avoided the problems that have befallen New York due to quick responses and
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by jmknoll 6y ago
Refusing to regulate a trade in live, rare, and endangered wildlife which has devastated ecosystems worldwide and resulted in multiple global epidemics over the past 30 years?
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by jmknoll 7y ago
An aviary doing crowvid-19 tours would work as well
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by jmknoll 7y ago
They very much are. Amazon's advertising business made $14 billion last year https://marketingland.com/amazons-booming-ad-business-grew-b...
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Just flagged, but commenting as well. This article is poorly written and uninformative PR spam. All it does it tell us that important meetings lack conflict, then advertise its services, which are not related to meetings at all.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
For what it’s worth, Jack Ma has a degree in English and taught English at a Chinese university. Chinese unis don’t have the best reputation, but I would expect him to be able to speak the language decently well at least.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Totally unrelated to the topic, but I really like this style of writing/speaking, where you open with a story that serves as an extended analogy on a familiar topic, and then dive into the (usually more complex) actual topic. Does anyo
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by jmknoll 7y ago
The post you’re responding to says “people are irrational and unable to account for costs that are farther in the future,” not “I don’t care about costs that are farther in the future than my own lifetime.”
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by jmknoll 7y ago
China's GDP appears to be about 20% export-driven. Subtracting this still leaves China the greatest polluter in the world, and by a large margin, the greatest polluter per unit of GDP, which is the real measure we should be looking at.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Apple has been around for 30 years. It’s not like they appeared overnight with 20k employees looking for housing. The city has had a literal generation to respond to housing pressure. How much housing has been built in Beijing, or even in N
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by jmknoll 7y ago
What’s stopping the collection and re-condensation of the evaporated water, which can then be returned to the river.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Does that number include the water cost of the food we eat? Or is it only direct personal usage?
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Because professionals working full-time jobs and commuting at rush hour can typically afford the higher fare, while people working part-time/odd jobs/commuting to interviews/not working at all probably aren't the ones ta
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by jmknoll 7y ago
I’m not sure, I think “fail fast” could have benefited Theranos if they had seen the early failure of their machines and iterated on them rather than attempted to cover up the fact that they didn’t work.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
100%. This is a standard item from the imperial-power playbook. The author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" documented it pretty well. The basic rundown is that a country sets up international financing institutions, then l
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by jmknoll 7y ago
To add to that: Wars of aggression against two neighboring countries (Vietnam and India) in the past 50 years, active territorial disputes with basically every other significant country nearby. The creation of client states like which are t
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Use of disposable plastics is actually _accelerating_ as China develops. The most developed cities are the ones where the most plastics get thrown away. In Shanghai, for instance, almost everything is delivered. Meals, products, groceries.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
India, Iran, and the Middle East are also parts of Asia, and it might feasibly be faster to transmit data through the Atlantic than the pacific to get to those places.
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by jmknoll 7y ago
Definitely impressive, but certainly not delivered within 48 hours. I’m based in Shanghai and use Taobao/Tmall on a near-daily basis. There was a noticeable slowdown in order for at least a week or two on either side of the holiday. Fo
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by jmknoll 8y ago
FWIW, I work out of a wework near my house in Shanghai. I’m a software engineer in my 30’s. Our office is on the other side of the city from where I live, and takes over an hour on the subway to get there. I don’t need to be there physicall
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by jmknoll 8y ago
100% yes. We need more nice applications made by indie developers and small agencies. Apps that charge a couple of dollars, or even a modest subscription fee, and don’t harvest their users data, record their screens for marketing purposes,
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by jmknoll 8y ago
Just to add a bit of info... in-app purchases are required for things like extra functionality. On the other hand, if you’re using the app as a gateway to a service that is provided outside of the app, you can process payment outside the ap
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by jmknoll 8y ago
That’s an excellent point (and a pretty cool website). Looks like there are direct (and cheap!) flights to Addis Ababa from London, Shanghai, and Mumbai. And visa-free or visa-on-arrival for almost everyone. It’s not super-accessible from N
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by jmknoll 8y ago
Unrelated to your main point, but what is a bohemian effort?
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by jmknoll 8y ago
There have been a number of planned exoduses from Reddit over the years (the banning of FatPeopleHate, some kind of succession crisis with the CEO, and the banning of the AMA mod, to name some off the top of my head), but none of them has a
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by jmknoll 8y ago
Because one is a website about cats, and one is an authoritarian nation... I’m relatively certain that the reddit admins are not going to jail me as a pawn in a political game, or as a punishment for being in the wrong place at the wrong ti
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by jmknoll 8y ago
We don’t really have an analogue to this in the West, but Mandarin and Cantonese are very similar in their written forms, yet mutually unintelligible in their spoken forms. There are some differences due to different history and some differ
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That’s because it isn’t a story. People are routinely arrested in China for things they share on the very-much-not-encrypted WeChat. Anything that goes through any chinese tech company can be assumed to be have been read and processed by th
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by jmknoll 8y ago
This is awesome. Going to add it to a project that I was working on a new landing page for today. For a bit of constructive criticism, the name makes the project really difficult to discover. I remembered having seen this on HN a couple of
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by jmknoll 8y ago
That doesn’t seem too hard to solve. You just say that an h1-b job needs to be at the 85th percentile, salary-wise, in a basket of similar jobs by location/position.

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