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by lvturner 8y ago
"In the UK, for instance, he calculates that a 10% increase in the use of public transport could result in 1.2 million more people reaching the recommended levels of physical activity." I suspect that's partly because our pub
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by lvturner 8y ago
Because Ambulances tend not to carry the kind of heavy duty cutting equipment required to get people out of mangled cars
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by lvturner 8y ago
Mike Daily has also been working on getting Lemmings running on the ZX Spectrum Next - worth a read: http://dailly.blogspot.hk/2018/04/making-lemmings-on-zx-spec...
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by lvturner 8y ago
The key was "two systems" which I think is the more relevant part to the article ;)
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by lvturner 8y ago
Granted, but put quite simply, I have residency in HK but still need a visa to visit mainland China. Also the capital controls are entirely different. It's naive to say they are the same country when they are demonstrably different in
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by lvturner 8y ago
Hong Kong is most definitely not China. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
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by lvturner 9y ago
But you can't... the future is a derivative of Bitcoin, not actual Bitcoin.
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by lvturner 9y ago
I'm pretty new to trading concepts and financial markets so I may very well be missing something obvious... but from what I can make out, both CBOE and CME futures are cash settled, so you can't actually "short" bitcoin
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by lvturner 9y ago
tiingo.com has 1 & 2 (via IEX) and the prices (iirc) are not prohibitively expensive.
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by lvturner 9y ago
Brainfuck - because of it's name.
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by lvturner 9y ago
Shameless plug, I wrote a little telegram bot to send an alert whenever new Tether are created: http://t.me/TetherAlerterBot
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by lvturner 9y ago
One thing that springs to mind is that it would allow you to have POSITIONS on both sides of the market, you could use this to create a series of small sell orders that would lure the bots down towards a larger buy order. You could do this
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by lvturner 9y ago
Thanks for this - would be nice if the article included an example on how a strategy was built, or how to add additional ones into the framework.
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by lvturner 9y ago
That burger to me looks like it's actually a 肉夹馍 (rou jia mo) - which is often mistranslated as a burger or a "Chinese Burger" if done right they are really tasty... unfortunately this particular example looks a little stomac
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by lvturner 9y ago
No longer live there, but did for a couple of years - e-bikes there are dirt cheap, require no tax, no insurance and no licence and in Beijing at least, there is pretty decent cycling infrastructure that the e-bikes share. Car ownership is
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by lvturner 11y ago
No one obeys the stand only rule, at least not anywhere on Hong Kong island that I've seen - so much so that it startled me to read it in the article.
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by lvturner 12y ago
I wrote https://www.npmjs.com/package/crisp a while back, which simplifies a lot of this, it generates a self-signed cert and starts a web server in one move
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by lvturner 12y ago
Haven't yet played with this, but every time there is talk of a new messenger, no one ever mentions WeChat, I guess it's just not that popular out of mainland China, but it blows whatsapp out of the water. If even for the very sim
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by lvturner 12y ago
A lot of the translations read like spam to me, with the mentions of "commerce", "home business", "the company" etc, and in Chinese marketing copy, it's quite common to say use "China" as part of
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by lvturner 12y ago
WiFi is pretty ubiquitous in most coffee shops large and small in Beijing, doesn't require a passport either (although I think technically it is supposed to)
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by lvturner 12y ago
For me that's actually cheaper than what my bank charges for international transactions and transfers. I need this often enough that it would save me quite a bit of cash. Also there's no fee if you have existing bitcoins by the lo
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by lvturner 12y ago
Of course, it depends if the 1.4k a month is NET or GROSS pay. Might sound strange to some - but my salary is currently paid NET (i.e. what it says on my contract is what I actually get in my bank account), which is why I bring it up. (Hone
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by lvturner 12y ago
I actually did pretty much exactly this for a previous job for testing a rendering engine - we had a 'golden master' set of screenshots, a bunch of code to render those original golden masters, then used perceptual diff ( http:&#x
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by lvturner 13y ago
Jump in a Beijing taxi and show the taxi driver the pinyin for the address you wish to go to instead of the Chinese characters. Report back on how well it works out for you.
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by lvturner 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti Though this point has pretty much been raised, English is hard too - it doesn't follow it's own rules and borrows from so many languages. The arguments in this article (exce
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by lvturner 13y ago
I have a more off-topic (from Android/iOS) question, why did you decide to go with SMS/MMS, I understand that in theory it meant not having to build an infrastructure, and re-invent the wheel... but for me, as a customer the huge
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by lvturner 13y ago
My bank balance and mental well being doesn't care.
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by lvturner 13y ago
I one thing to consider, is that emerging markets also generally spend less money on applications, and good design is expensive. I've seen two identical apps (games specifically) on Android and iOS, the iOS versions made considerably m
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by lvturner 13y ago
How many are interfaces are you expected to deal with now? Zero. This sounds as much about having too much stuff in your life than it does about user interfaces. If you are complaining about your cars touch-screen, you should perhaps be con
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by lvturner 13y ago
whois At least one of the domains linked on that site leaks his gmail account through it.

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