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by kweks 11y ago
Just as 'simply' as you'd need to register a US trademark in Europe, for example. Just because you have a mark registered in the US, doesn't mean China (or any other jurisdiction) will magically know about it. There are
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by kweks 11y ago
You're free to believe your hunches. The reality is different. We've manufactured and exported brand-name products from China for over 30 years. In our experience, when a trademark is registered, Chinese customs is very proactive
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Chinese customs are very proactive on brand defence. You simply need to have your trademark registered with them. http://www.forbes.com/sites/danharris/2015/10/12/how-to-prot...
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I'm trying to work out why retaliation with porn / tragedy propaganda is even vaguely acceptable. HN would typically be aghast if you served NSFW content potentially to unexpecting audiences (..think of the children!), or even wit
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We ran a fairly prominent online store for two years, and had huge amounts of fraud from the countries you mention. We essentially stamped it out overnight by giving false positives. If we detected and order as fraudulent (and you can do it
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Technically, ESP8266 refers to a chipset, but typically now refers to the PCB with integrated antenna, etc. There are multiple versions - seemingly incremented at random by chinese manufacturers - we're up to the ESP-14 now - http:&#x
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by kweks 11y ago
You can also use node.js, or lua on the ESP. It's not the perfect solution for everything; but it's tiny, and it costs $1.50 on aliexpress / banggood, and there's a ton of code for it. If you need a module that is mono-t
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by kweks 11y ago
The ESP8266 is actually a system on a board, too. Essentially, it's a tiny microcontroller, with Wifi and a few GPIO connections, in a very small form factor, for a very small price. You don't need to solder it to anything (it alr
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This app also exists for all jail broken users. A swipe over the keyboard controls the cursor, and can select, move, erase, etc. Very smooth and natural.
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VPNs simply don't work in China. The GFW actively detects and disconnects SSH, VPN (OpenSSL, PPTP, socks.. etc) The only reliable solution has been ShadowSocks; it's what locals and expats alike use. It simply works, and also has
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by kweks 11y ago
I had the same phone, bought for the same reason, and had the same problem. It was a hugely expensive phone, with terrible, terrible lowlight photos and broken AF. Furthermore, HTC refused to replace it under their replacement policy, as I
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by kweks 11y ago
Thanks for the well balanced, well informed reply. You're completely right on every single point - you highlight a lot more of the 'nuance' that I was referring to. Obviously, and luckily, the majority of people would not be
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by kweks 11y ago
I've not worked with the homeless in SF, but I have seen it first hand. Noone is contesting the infiltration of alcoholism, drugs, etc that is a huge part of the homeless puzzle. However, it's important to consider that the abuse
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by kweks 11y ago
The subject is more nuanced than this. Firstly, you need to examine the reason why people are on the streets. Generally, it falls into three categories: 1. 'Normal' People with mental illness, and no support network 2. 'Norma
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I've written a production app in Python 3 + QT4 (PySide as opposed to PyQT) - I've bundled with cxfreed, and it's great. Fully cross-platform.. easy to distribute. Quite nice all around.
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by kweks 11y ago
Unsure this is still there, Les Halles has been under major works for the last 4 years - haven't seen the sun dial for years.
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No, but there's no need to render it more complicated than it has to be. If the person on the other side loses interests because you are indeed being yourself, take it as an advantage. If they don't want to make the effort in the
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by kweks 11y ago
Is it only me that finds this type of obsessive-compulsive over-thinking somewhat bizarre; yet the author is trying to pass it off as the norm. Perhaps it's the author's fretful nature and over analysis that drives women away? I&#
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by kweks 11y ago
Slightly OT, but I have been looking for a live streaming / transcoded solution. IE, webcam in, and streaming video out that doesn't use FMS/Flash/etc. Is it possible in HTML5 yet? Dash seems promising - but is there a
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by kweks 11y ago
As the sub-poster mentioned, shadow socks is designed to counter it. What is interesting is that the author (mainland Chinese) had a 'visit' from the 'police', who 'asked' him to abandon the project. He changed
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by kweks 11y ago
I travel frequently to China; the best solution that I have found, that works out of the box on handset and laptop is shadowsocks, pointing to a secure [ie; your own] server. I recently used this in Iran with success as well.
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by kweks 11y ago
Interesting article - certainly as it has a lot of photos that I'd not previously seen before. Further links for interested people: "Gweilo" - book about a british son of expats growing up in Hong Kong, and includes his visi
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I work with homeless people, people in precarious situations, people without ID, immigrants without papers, etc. I've discussed this very concept multiple times, from multiple angles, with a few organisations. This issue becomes a real
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by kweks 11y ago
Depends what your goal is. If you're wanting to steal the copper, perhaps, but if your goal is that the continuity is interrupted, there's a variety of ways to achieve this, the most simple of which probably being fire.
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by kweks 11y ago
Small insight on the Paris metro system. All systems run on 700V @ up to 5000A (yes, 5000). There are substations scattered around Paris that do the required step up / down for their respective lines (Poste de redressement, or 'PR
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by kweks 11y ago
Tooling and injection molding is an arcane art. Most people would be amazed to realise that the tooling to make even the yubikey would probably be around 45cm x 45cm of (almost) solid steel block. They'd be probably even more surprise
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by kweks 11y ago
For full disclosure, I work with factories (Based in China) running plastic injection molding and zinc casting molding. 5kUSD would be a conservative price from our factories; but the item is rather simplistic. As a general rule of thumb, f
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by kweks 11y ago
It seems that hardware breakdowns inevitably place a 'raw materials' costing to ojects broken down, often (but less in this instance) - as a somewhat passive-agressive dig at the company: "They sell it for $50, but it's
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Another perspective: Parisian traffic has a high tolerance of bikes and pedestrians in general. As other readers will attest, some countries are down-right hostile (US, UK, Australia..) The recent advent of allowing bikes to run through cer
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I was in Paris this weekend; it was great to be able to participate in this project. It was pleasant on multiple levels - the lack of traffic, absolutely, but also the sense of community and sense of belonging. There's definitely a fee

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