mstaoru

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by mstaoru 7y ago
> valuable IP that if gets in the hands of the competitors is total failure for your startup It is not IP then. "P" stands for "property", something thats definitely yours (as proved by patents, trademarks or copyrigh
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by mstaoru 7y ago
Welcome to Shanghai, we have it, provided by the government. 5 years ago it was such a cacophony, then they passed the law forbidding honking, and now cars just flash their lights like crazy. Scooters still honk though, but since they'
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by mstaoru 7y ago
I like the YC question: please tell me about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage? In my team I place high value on resourcefulness, and seeing whether people can come up with solutions rather t
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by mstaoru 7y ago
This Reddit thread might be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/bhk4gc/shanghai_n... > [...] welcome to Shanghai 2019. It’s not totally dead though but it has been sanitized. >
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by mstaoru 7y ago
My journey was between four clients (Mac). For a long time, I used Postbox. It was reasonably fast, its search wasn't great but wasn't too bad either (it still doesn't search Chinese well), but as I grew bored, I decided to t
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I live in China for 10+ years now, and I believe it is turning the whole country into a prison. Here are some of my observations from Shanghai: - while walking 1.1km from my home to the subway station, I counted 47 cameras, and probably mis
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Seriously doubt that. The relevant law for bus travel is in effect since March 1st, 2017. Source: http://www.gd.gov.cn/gzhd/zcjd/snzcsd/201703/t20170301_24804... For train travel is in effect since Jan 1
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by mstaoru 8y ago
This comment is unfortunately so wrong on many levels. I live for 12 years in China and work in systems security. For the hotels, "easy to find" for you -> easy to find for the police. China is actively resisting people moving
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I'm working on a food delivery service that helps count macro- and micronutrients (in Shanghai). RDA of magnesium is ~400mg, which is reachable with ~300g of cooked salmon or halibut (~600 kcal), or 350g cooked navy beans (~250 kcal).
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I'd say get a $250 aftermarket replacement top lid from China, a screwdriver, and 2 hours free time to DIY the replacement. Bonus credits for eco-friendliness. Your laptop is okay, and IMHO there is no need to throw it away. Considerin
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Forgive me for sounding harsh, but it sounds like your real startup idea is "to get into YC". If you believe in your thing, then do it. Life is short, and being poor is not great, but better than being rich and unhappy. Why is YC
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Squaresoft, the company that made Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Xenogears. After merging with Enix, their games just lost that magical touch they had. Firefly TV series. Comme des Garcons Kyoto perfume. And, of course, I second
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I started being interested in coding when I was 7 (in 1990). Our family was quite poor, and no way we could afford even 286DX, and 386DX was well out of our reach. Somehow my father found a half-broken Electronika BK-0011M, an old USSR comp
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by mstaoru 8y ago
smcFanControl - makes my old '14 MBP with replaced-almost-everything tolerably warm. menuBUS - for easy switching between built-in audio, Bluetooth, digital output + equalizing each of them in their own ways. Spectacle - for window man
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I'm one of those people who hug their glass of water, finds a cozy (i.e. devoid of people) corner, and pretends something is very important in their phone. The few contacts I had from those events were never helpful, and I'm not a
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Shanghai. - Cardboard-thin walls, single-bedroom, single-bathroom (no tub) apartment in a crumbling dirty building looking out at your neighbor's drying red underpants can easily run you US$1-1.5mm. - Renovation and construction noise,
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by mstaoru 8y ago
So you just come and tell an immigration officer - hi, I have $10k, do you mind if I live in your country for a year without paying taxes while building my US-targeting business?
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by mstaoru 8y ago
There are also REMOTE (...possible after 6-9 months onsite) and REMOTE (1-2 days per week upon confirmation).
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Here in China in every city, you "have to" scan your luggage when entering the subway. Why I say "have to" is because it is not strictly enforced, and many people just push by in a hurry, making the whole system kinda mo
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Dear Ukrainian friend, I assure you the majority of the Russian population does not support it at all, but they are powerless to change it (hence the "totalitarian" sticker on the regime). I don't have that many Russian frien
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by mstaoru 8y ago
My point is that "horrible sanctions against the regime" do absolutely nothing to the regime (or might even improve it, given the "whole world against us, but we will heroically prevail" rhetoric in Russian media), but h
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Yes, isn't it a weird thing. It was meant as "retaliation" for Western sanctions against Russia, but nothing became any better after it. Not that different from the "trade war" that's going on between China and
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by mstaoru 8y ago
For once, I am on Google's side with this one. Somewhat of a discourse. In the last years, "China and Russia" became a new racist norm against anything and everything there. My mom and dad are absolutely against totalitariani
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by mstaoru 8y ago
An average Chinese Joe's line of thinking is: look at the West, 9/11, London, Paris. We don't have a single bombing! These religious people are aggressive and bad! If it makes the country stable and harmonious, the government
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Every Tue/Thu/Sat after waking up I drink a strong black coffee and eat 6-8 eggs omelet with cheese. Read news, catch up with the Internet for 40-60 min. Then do a lifting routine for 60-80 min. I follow a slightly modified SL5x5
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I wear 3M Peltor X5A earmuffs, rated at -37 dB (European version). It seems to be the highest rated earmuff on Earth in 2018. It's not particularly heavy, but if you have a big head, it might create a bit of a pressure over time. It do
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Two personal anecdotes about this. I'm from a country with the Cyrillic alphabet, and somewhere in 2012 or so they decided to change the romanization rules. When I renewed my passport, I became e.g. VASILII MAIAKOVSKII instead of VASIL
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by mstaoru 8y ago
He is a son of a well-connected former KGB colonel, so no good would come out of this.
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by mstaoru 8y ago
Let's Encrypt works in China, but not the best due to many older Android phones, Windows XP, and general love for IE (I can even see 7-8 sometimes) and QQ browser with also in less recent version does not support SNI.
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by mstaoru 8y ago
I probably would happily use hosted solutions, but being in China, everything is either completely blocked, half-works, or way too slow. So we (have to) use Gogs[1] as own Github, Mattermost[2] as own Slack, and StandardNotes[3] as own Ever

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