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Ask HN: What's a climate change organization you would recommend donating to?
14 points by kaptain 6y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardware?
36 points by kaptain 6y ago|35 comments
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Company using Linux violates GPL(reddit.com)
2 points by kaptain 6y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What are the technical justifications for keeping .DS_Store?
106 points by kaptain 6y ago|91 comments
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iCab: Alternative Browser for macOS(icab.de)
167 points by kaptain 6y ago|80 comments
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by kaptain 6y ago
A friend of mine who is a teacher pointed out to me that “highly gifted” children were actually special needs children. She used this term because she worked in a highly competitive district where parents were constantly harassing her to co
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by kaptain 6y ago
Hrm. This is very interesting. Your post made me think about using a couple of different software packages together. I could use IMAP Grab to pull all the email to disk on the server and then use https://www.duplicati.com/
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Ask HN: How do you backup your email?
30 points by kaptain 6y ago|17 comments
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Communism Is a Faith(supchina.com)
1 points by kaptain 7y ago|0 comments
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by kaptain 7y ago
You're not wrong, but it's this kind of thinking that the author is referring to. When it comes to children, if the motivation to develop and cultivate comes from seeing them as a long-term retirement plan that can be dangerous if
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by kaptain 7y ago
Wrong because others have monetized their own children. I am thinking specifically of parents who have children in the entertainment or sports industries. I actually agree with you. My kids are awesome and I enjoy the time playing with them
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by kaptain 7y ago
I was going to suggest that raising children was something enjoyable that resisted monetization. But upon further reflection, I would be wrong.
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by kaptain 8y ago
Planet Money had a great podcast on this topic. https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
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Tell HN: iCloud sign-in is blocked in China
2 points by kaptain 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why is search at the bottom?
1 points by kaptain 8y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What kind of anti-virus/malware software do you use?
2 points by kaptain 8y ago|3 comments
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by kaptain 8y ago
I'm surprised ASCII/Unicode or some sort of encoding isn't on the list.
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Using GitHub to protest China's religious policies(github.com)
1 points by kaptain 8y ago|0 comments
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Beijing Is Pushing Hard to Influence U.S. Views of China, Report Says(npr.org)
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by kaptain 8y ago
This assumes that your talent pool is only local. If Chinese (i.e. 大陆) parents would be willing to send their kids all over the world for a university education, do you think it would be a big deal that a Shanghai team moved to Taiwan?
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by kaptain 8y ago
I agree with you. But I'm not suggesting that people develop business based on the location of YCombinator. YCombinator accepts applicants from all over the world who want to focus on specific issues that their home markets exhibit. Ju
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by kaptain 8y ago
The PRC says that Formosa (i.e Taiwan) is part of China. That's why I added the caveat (for some definition of China). There are political definitions, cultural definitions, linguistic/anthropological definitions. So, my statement
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by kaptain 8y ago
The political concerns are real. It's too cynical to say that YC just cares about money, though. There would be better ways to create an incubator than to do it like this, if that were the case. One obvious question that hasn't be
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by kaptain 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. I live in China and thought Fastmail was finally being blocked by the GFW. Over the past year I've had intermittent issues with connectivity and I've wondered if FM's time in China was up. Are there a
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by kaptain 8y ago
Always on VPN hinders my productivity. I live in China and sometimes the VPN connection stalls so while the my operating system indicates it is active, packets aren't being sent/received (I'm on macOS/iOS). Resetting my
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by kaptain 8y ago
Reminds me of bike sharing in China. Now THAT is out of control. In China, the companies pay committed employees or contractors to gather bikes, as opposed to crowd-sourcing it. There's pros//cons to that (as per the article
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Don't use 1Password (2017)(blog.goodstuff.im)
33 points by kaptain 8y ago|17 comments
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by kaptain 8y ago
I've never purchased a "new from the Apple Store" iPhone in China. But I've purchased a second-hand/refurbished US model iPhone in country off of Taobao. And you can make/receive FaceTime Audio-only calls with
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by kaptain 8y ago
I spoke to a friend (recent college grad) about expectations about work. He said that pre-marriage, he expected to work every day, as many hours a day as possible to build up his skill set. As he acquired more skills and responsibilities, h
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Ask HN: How do you share assets with co-founders?
5 points by kaptain 8y ago|1 comments

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