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Why Snatch Blocks and Pulleys Are Awesome [video](youtube.com)
1 points by kenneth 7y ago|1 comments
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by kenneth 7y ago
Business is bad. The number of restaurants and bars I see closing on an almost daily basis is getting sad. My friends in the F&B industry here confirm that they're hurting. Bad. Hospitality is hit even harder with hotels at 30% occ
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by kenneth 7y ago
(For context — am an expat living in HK.) Living in HK the last few months has been frustrating for me, primarily because of growing spread of misinformation and the untrustworthy reporting on the situation. It's getting hard to know w
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by kenneth 7y ago
(Not OP) a common acronym for American-born Chinese.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Chinese grammar is refreshingly simple. I'm currently learning Chinese and it was shocking to me how easy it is to sensibly express ideas with very basic grammar (and some really funny idiosyncratic phrasings like… dong bu dong).
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by kenneth 7y ago
Isn't that the crack smoking mayor of Toronto? Selling weed is almost quaint by comparison.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Ah, you mean the Tron strategy.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Before blaming Switzerland, perhaps best to take a look at places such as the U.S. and Delaware, which gets even more of the world's shady business.
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by kenneth 7y ago
I'm a VC and I would be ok with this arrangement. It's important that the patent is owned by the company, but if the company ends up failing, I've already lost my money anyways, and the likely value I'll get out of liqui
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by kenneth 7y ago
Perhaps you could have an agreement in place that should the company be dissolved, the patent gets reassigned back to him.
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by kenneth 7y ago
ITA Matrix is my favorite powerful flight search engine. It lets you filter by aircraft, among many other things. You have to learn what essentially amounts to a really obscure query language to use it effectively.
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by kenneth 7y ago
The 757 is similar to the 737-MAX10 except for that nasty MCAS crashing business.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Most airline websites and search engines will show you which type of aircraft a flight is on in the results. Alternatively, Google Flights or ITA Matrix can show you. You don't always get to find out easily which variant of an aircraft
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by kenneth 7y ago
No they don't. We Swiss are a little more responsible with our guns than Americans.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Been robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco. Guess where this will never happen? Hong Kong where I live now but where people are now afraid to visit because they think it's Syria.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Additionally, this article has a lot more background on the scandal: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-01/thiam-and...
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Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite(swissinfo.ch)
191 points by kenneth 7y ago|86 comments
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Protester shot by police in chest with live round in Hong Kong protests (live)(scmp.com)
1 points by kenneth 7y ago|0 comments
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by kenneth 7y ago
I'm 28 and at the height of my career, but I've just started making education a priority again. Still working full, but also taking 3h of intensive classes every day in something completely unrelated to my work (learning Chinese).
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by kenneth 7y ago
Do post your Instagram, would love to follow you too!
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by kenneth 7y ago
It doesn't. Not saying that we should throw in jail any accuser who fails to prove their case. But if it's proven they made it up, then we should. There are three outcomes, not two: proven guilty, inconclusive, proven not guilty.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Innocent until proved guilty is a fundamental principle of American values. I don't at all see why we should throw that out the window and say that "a few people falsly convicted is an acceptable casualty" just so we can catc
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by kenneth 7y ago
We should make the punishment for falsely accusing someone of rape equivalent to the punishment for rape. That's take care of the problem.
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by kenneth 7y ago
Apple bricked my series 0 by requiring a software update to activate the watch, and by not providing any watchOS versions still compatible with the series 0.
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by kenneth 7y ago
I like the Apple watch fine, I had the Series 0 and also bought a Series 4. I never use them because I love my mechanical watch and you just look like a massive idiot wearing two watches. Bummer really. Would love an Apple watch in a form-f
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by kenneth 7y ago
As a Swiss citizen who immigrated to the USA to study, it's an impertinence that I had to lose all my Swiss bank accounts because they found out I had touched the tainted land and I was no longer worth keeping as a customer. Jokes asid
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by kenneth 7y ago
Emigrant is the word you're looking for, since we're talking about the policies country towards someone who left it.
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by kenneth 7y ago
With an iPhone you can't tether while roaming. I bought a Huawei LTE router devices and popped in a data sim for when I'm traveling and the speeds are ludicrous. (Like, stream 1080p with zero issues, use 4GB in an hour. Dangerous
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by kenneth 7y ago
Hello from HK :). Quick nitpick: the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed in 1984 between Margaret Thatcher and Zhao Ziyang (really on behalf of Deng Xiaoping). 1997 was the year of the "handover."
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by kenneth 7y ago
It's not just a stretch, it's ridiculous. It's a fact made up to make their narrative fit because it wouldn't work if it was 119 vs. 121 Taiwan is an entirely different entity politically no matter if you subscribe to th

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