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by kredd 3y ago
It’s the same as saying Naver (SK Google), or Weibo (Chinese Twitter), and so on. They’re primarily used by their local residents, and have little traction outside, despite having millions of active users. Giving a clarification makes it a
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by kredd 3y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “entire stack” when it comes to mobile development, especially with iOS. If you want to target >85% of all devices, you aim for iOS current version - 1, then Swift and xCode your way into AppStore. I am obvi
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by kredd 3y ago
I generally agree with you, but on the other side of the coin, if you follow the processes they’re forcing on you… it’s pretty seamless. Sometimes it’s a bit buggy when they release new APIs or versions of tooling, but given the amount of p
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by kredd 3y ago
It’s literally the first time I’ve heard anyone saying this about Denmark. I’ve been to a ton of places, including Denmark, and can’t even understand why would you have such opinion. Care to explain?
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by kredd 3y ago
I have a strange feeling that a vast majority of people will throw in the towel rather than “work forever” once retirement isn’t an option.
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by kredd 3y ago
I think it depends what you’re looking for. You won’t go and find friends in a Japanese bar, like you could in some parts of US or LATAM. But I don’t think I’ve seen more “quiet slice of life” happening while strolling around Japan, Taiwan
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by kredd 3y ago
Thanks, I’ll think about it!
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by kredd 3y ago
Oh, I totally agree about the stroads, I wish we could somehow make them disappear, alas impossible. They’re doing an ok job densifying some parts of them, so it’s less dead at least.
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by kredd 3y ago
I live in Vancouver, and absolutely love how we didn’t go with the freeway idea. And traffic will suck anyways, might as well let the locals enjoy the walks and life instead.
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by kredd 3y ago
To each their own. I've heard second hand accounts for all kind of scenarios - parents regretting their decisions in their 30s, extremely happy parents, childless extremely happy couples in their 50s, and some with their regrets. That
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by kredd 3y ago
I still don't understand how the opportunity cost can be 0 for the rich. Women still have to get pregnant, and sacrifice a lot of things at the cost of 1 year per kid. Like sure, they'll have nannies, but the years of "when y
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by kredd 3y ago
Can you elaborate on that? Every statistic I've seen so far looked like even "the filthy rich" don't have enough kids. Obviously you'll get some exceptions that are talked again and again on the media, but that&#x27
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by kredd 3y ago
Upper-middle and upper class aren't having children either though, so my bet is on the latter side of your argument. Huge opportunity costs for having kids before your mid 30s, and afterwards, it's a bit late to have more than a c
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by kredd 3y ago
How sound is this argument? It doesn’t pass my smell test as from what I recall 25+ years ago, some of my friends didn’t have siblings. Yet we ran around up until the street lights were on. Looking at people with children in my circles righ
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by kredd 3y ago
Absolutely agreed. I do think it will go the Argentina way if/when we start mass banning imports of Chinese consumer tech. Well, unless, as you mentioned we start heavily investing and encouraging local competition. I guess, time will
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by kredd 3y ago
Yeah it sucks. We’re trying to play catch up game for manufacturing industry, but it’s abysmally hard to get it going. I don’t think we can easily pour down money and the talent and processes would just reappear in a couple of years either.
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by kredd 3y ago
The problem is, Chinese consumer tech is full of extremely competitive and cut-throat companies. Some countries don’t like how their government is giving a tons of subsidies for them to progress like crazy (see BYD in 2012 vs now), but they
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by kredd 3y ago
Tangent question — isn’t Chinese iOS firmware different due to their regulations as well? It’s a similar situation, just different applications of laws.
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by kredd 3y ago
I really don’t understand this post. You can obviously have both? Like it’s very super-duper obvious how you can just live in a city and don’t use your car at all, but drive out to get outside of the city. I live in Vancouver, I go to Costc
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by kredd 3y ago
That analogy doesn’t work for art, since worker’s ditch is result based. There are no feelings like “i like this ditch”, “experience of a ditch” or “i’m curious how this ditch was dug”. Again, i’m not saying buying a mass made AI art will b
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by kredd 3y ago
That’s totally fine, everyone’s definition of art is subjective. But general value of an art as a piece will just still be zero for AI generated ones, just like any IKEA / Amazon print piece. You just pay for the “looks pretty”, frame
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by kredd 3y ago
In terms of art, population tends to put value not on the result, but origin and process. People will just look down on any art that’s AI generated in a couple of years when it becomes ubiquitous.
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by kredd 3y ago
~100k foreign temp workers in Malta to support the labour, about 20% of the population.
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by kredd 3y ago
That's basically how astroturfing works though. "Marketing companies" have rotation of accounts that they use to create discussions to make it sound real. The easy ones to spot (again, i'm just a messenger here, but been
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by kredd 3y ago
I'll add a quick note, basically every brand that knows what SEO is (and in today's age it's every company) has figured out the Reddit astroturfing. I've had bar chats with people in NA, and some of them would talk how t
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by kredd 3y ago
Might be a tangential question, but does trying to escape surveillance matter? I somehow made myself believe that even if I self-host everything, avoid all the tracking, yada yada, unless everyone I hang out with does the same, the data bro
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by kredd 3y ago
Because Google is still "good enough" for super-duper majority of people doing their searches. Very anecdotal, but sometimes I look at Google Trends / top google searches, and most people just search for very generic things (
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by kredd 3y ago
Smartphones are a thing outside of US as well. Doesn’t track, given in EU/Japan and etc. traffic accidents haven’t increased in similar rates.
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by kredd 3y ago
Car death/injury rate is in 20 year high again but only in the US. I’m not 100% sure if the culture or the cars themselves are the main contributors to the statistic, but it’s not really getting better anymore.
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by kredd 3y ago
Honestly, any smart TV connected to Apple TV is fine. You can skip the wifi enablement on your TV and will never think of the bloatware in your life. Been with that setup for 5+ years, have absolutely zero complaints about my “smart TV” for

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