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by lacampbell 7y ago
High speed internet is better and more available than ever before. Storage is also much cheaper than before youtube came along. If it could happen back then, it can happen much easier now.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Good move. The name 'Perl' has connotations (good or bad depending on who you ask), but this language always seemed like a different kettle of fish. Names matter.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
So to sum up - we should deal with a regime that runs concentration camps and threatens its neighbours because you once met a nice taxi driver. I'm convinced!
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by lacampbell 7y ago
To an American sure. I know people in NZ paid less than that.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Modern China is like a dystopian alternate history novel where the bad guys won.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Which communist society was not "State Capitalist"? IIRC State Capitalism is a term invented by Trotsky, who used it to describe state control of the economy is opposed to workers control in the utopian vision of communism. But th
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Fascists and Communists are very similar. Mussolini used to be a marxist, the Nazi party started out as an explicitly socialist party and was until Hitler took over. Many people today call the regimes of Mainland China and North Korea fasci
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Communism is a utopian ideology from the 19th century. That doesn't mean communists don't exist, and the people who advocate that ideology aren't communists. Of course China isn't a communist society. Nowhere is or ever
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by lacampbell 7y ago
When was this?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Communist China has annexed territory. It also has a civilian death count much higher than that of Nazi Germany. I often think that if Germany had won the war people today would be talking about how it wasn't pragmatic not to do busine
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by lacampbell 7y ago
The Republic of China is commonly known as Taiwan. No one is confused about the geopolitical entity you mean when you say "Taiwan". The ROC government has for some time used some variation of "Taiwan (Republic of China)"
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Helicopter Taxis are much cheaper than I thought they would be. What distance do they travel for that amount of money? Not familiar with New York.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Maybe these should be flagged too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21174439 Happy moderating!
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Yeah, thicker skin and reading manuals. All jokes aside, there's surely a middle ground between being rude to everyone and "hi guys wowzors dinosaurs and ninjas! this project is made with <3" and the overwhelming passive-a
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Does anyone else remember the days before the tech community became filled with all these CoC writers?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Well I thought the Norfolk joke that the other poster did was a bit low effort. So I thought I'd go all in and ask the real question - is in-breeding the reason the british and irish often have big weird ugly heads? I am leaning to &#x
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by lacampbell 7y ago
The Brits here are fine to take the piss with their Norfolk or Daily Mail jokes, but seem to have a bad sense of humour when they are the target :D Their big misshapen heads must be bright red with rage.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Have you seen celebrities from that part of the world? I mainly know comedians. Ricky Gervais, Al Murray, Dara O'Brain... those are all considered normal looking people over there. They'd be considered circus attractions in Austra
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by lacampbell 7y ago
I hate to break it to you, but... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/the-most-googled-que...
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by lacampbell 7y ago
One advantage of working alone is that you will inevitably be closer to the business, its product, and its users. To me that has been worth more than working with a high performing development team. I am not in a US tech center, my road to
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by lacampbell 7y ago
There is no extradition treaty between Taiwan and China. https://www.mac.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=FD37619195CF6DA5&s=CED28... You are probably thinking of this. It's not an extradition treaty. It's also now wi
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by lacampbell 7y ago
He should at least have the good manners to tell us who he's going to murder.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
I'm not convinced fascism really exists in the modern world anymore. I tried searching for self-described fascists on the internet, and I encountered one mans geocity page that claimed he was running for US President in 2008. He admire
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Communist China issued invasion threats when the UK proposed introducing self-government in the late 50s and early 60s. https://qz.com/279013/the-secret-history-of-hong-kongs-still...
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Seems like an extremely expensive vanity project. Is that wise for a middle income country where hundreds of millions of people live in abject poverty?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
To expand on whoevercares' comment, recently someone committed a crime in Taiwan and fled to Hong Kong. To close this loophole and prevent HK from becoming a safe haven for criminals, the Chief Executive of HK proposed a new law to fa
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by lacampbell 7y ago
I'm not exactly at a fortune 500. I'm one of two developers at my company and it would be hilarious to me if my CEO (who seems like a nice enough guy) even knew what version control was. Then again, this isn't a tech company.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Stuff like this is one of the main reasons I focused my efforts on web apps, not native ones. https://hkmap.live/# Looks like the devs were smart enough to make it a web app, so it can still be used.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Why is a CEO even getting involved in an issue on that low a level? Unless these are 'CEOs' of 3 people tech companies, I guess.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
I'm bewildered as to why a CEO would have any opinion on version control at all. Or why you'd ask a CEO whether you could use one. It's like a builder asking a construction company CEO if he can hold a hammer lower in his han

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