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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000(nibblestew.blogspot.com)
792 points by khc 7y ago|689 comments
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by khc 7y ago
This is factually correct and relevant, not sure why it's downvoted
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by khc 7y ago
> They could have tried to stay under British rule, but they gambled on the fact that they expected a very different future for China. The gamble did not pay off, As if this was a choice for people from Hong Kong
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by khc 7y ago
This is more representing the power of social media mob justice than what "China" wants. It's really not that different from how the left or the right boycott a business after any other tweet
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Cryptographic key used to sign one of Facebook's Android apps compromised(androidpolice.com)
1 points by khc 7y ago|0 comments
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by khc 7y ago
> British were in Hong Kong for 150 years and only granted enough freedom to Hong Kong to align with their own interest I don't want to speculate why the British did what they did, and that's not the point > Hong Kong never
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by khc 7y ago
> Its clear from the videos of protest supporters and media outlet without China's influence like BBC, CNN, The Guardian that there was violence in the protest (not small enough to be ignored). This is just deflecting the reality to
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by khc 7y ago
"For young Hong Kongers however, they didn't live during British rule. They were born into wealth, and now their own career prospects (like many millenials around the world) aren't great. So they protest." Almost everyth
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by khc 7y ago
I thought that's because this is the time when interns' code get deployed
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by khc 7y ago
To be fair, people have said that about many things and they were mostly right
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by khc 7y ago
Admittedly I left HK 20 years ago, but even then Yuen Long had not been "a village of people from several big family" long before I left. They do have stronger mainland tie, but I see that as mainly because the cost of living is l
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by khc 7y ago
Not strange at all https://twitter.com/kahingcheung/status/1146092771003867136?...
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by khc 7y ago
My claim is that Google entering China is making a bad situation better
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by khc 7y ago
Yes as someone who has used Baidu, I am making the argument that using Google is better than using Baidu, at least Baidu as it exists today. It's possible that once Google enters China, Baidu would get better. But we won't find ou
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by khc 7y ago
How has that worked out for Cuba, North Korea, and Iran? Or Afghanistan, Iraq until we invaded them?
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by khc 7y ago
That's definitely the intend of having vague laws. But whether Google is in it or not doesn't change that
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by khc 7y ago
How am I advocating for race to the bottom?
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by khc 7y ago
They could. Do you know that's the case? China allows a lot of foreign investments and to think that the only reason is to further their censorship is silly.
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by khc 7y ago
As an overseas Chinese (born and grew up in Hong Kong but have relatives in China) I am sadden by this and HN comments. Any claim that Google would have helped China censor Chinese citizens ignores the fact that Chinese search engines are a
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by khc 7y ago
300mbps is no where close to s3 throughput. Try 300MBps per node and much higher when you access the same bucket in multiple nodes
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In New York, Friendships Run Along Subway Lines(wired.com)
7 points by khc 7y ago|0 comments
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'The Restaurant of Order Mistakes' Employs Waiters With Dementia (2017)(spoon-tamago.com)
99 points by khc 7y ago|45 comments
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by khc 7y ago
Do you have more details about this?
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by khc 7y ago
nounset
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by khc 7y ago
Many people didn't believe and weren't in positions to leave
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by khc 7y ago
I was born in Hong Kong but don't live there anymore, although I still visit regularly. That's a very simplistic view. Many people who oppose the Chinese government do not support complete independence. If there's a referendu
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by khc 7y ago
What happened to due process?
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by khc 7y ago
If Oracle wins, next time you re-implement an existing API someone can sue you.
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by khc 7y ago
panic gives you line number and stacktrace
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by khc 7y ago
People who develop webassembly are not your average web developers

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