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by mstaoru 9y ago
The original block was way too wide, now they just block gist which is obviously used by dissidents to spread unlawful propaganda. The whole family of pastebin and pastebin-like websites is blocked for the same reason.
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Then you don't get the license. I have an app built on top of Zappa, using Lambda + API Gateway, I don't even have an IP address! :) Anyway, for NOW, the possible workaround, as I've heard, shall we say, is to use a temporary
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by mstaoru 9y ago
AFAIK it is possible now to get the ICP, but to integrate Wechat / Alipay or any other meaningful service you need a Chinese legal entity. A foreign company can register WFOE which is a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise, you do not need
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by mstaoru 9y ago
When you apply for ICP beian license at Aliyun (Alibaba's cloud), you either choose "I use Aliyun" and give them the server ID, or you choose "I use another server" and two additional fields appear: your server log
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Privacy concerns aside, without running VPN half of the "allowed" (i.e. not explicitly banned) Western Internet is completely unusable thanks to Google CDN, Google Fonts, Facebook Retargeting, Twitter panels etc. any of which stal
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Well, as Sci-hub doesn't push links to Elsevier in every paper they obtain, you shouldn't expect BuzzFeed attributing food blogs. However, I do not defend BuzzFeed's actions, and it would probably be better off for everyone i
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Recipes are not copyrightable, and I'd argue that it's actually beneficial to all of us to exchange recipes freely and allow for commercial reuse. Food is an important and quantifiable part of our lives, and improving it is a coll
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Yes, I agree with you. Shanghai is very far from being my favorite place on Earth, but for other reasons I am here, and from pure architectural and cultural points of view, it is way above most Chinese cities. Hong Kong, on the other side,
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Lived 3 years in Shenzhen, and 2 years in HK. Now I live in Shanghai. From my perspective, what the grandparent said about Shenzhen is very true. You just can't compare "green areas" in Shenzhen (Wutong mt? Meilin? What else?
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I think the whole story is not as simple. First of all, it happened in China, the country with vastly different cultural mentality. "36 stratagems" are fully alive and kicking here. People in businesses here lie, cheat and deceive
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It's a risky game. We've had a major accelerator application, proceeded to an interview, they requested our business plan which we promptly sent to them. Then they went silent and stopped taking our calls or answering emails. We m
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It is proven that everything is "harmful" and, eventually, leads to death. 100%. Another question is how certain things make you feel, short-term, as well as long-term. I think it's wise not to chase the extremes and latest d
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by mstaoru 9y ago
There are two open formats for recipes: hRecipe microformat, and Schema.org Recipe entity. Aggregators like Yummly parse those. Most food blogs are based on Wordpress or Typepad, both of which has recipe "editors" as plugins and p
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Good work! Parsing hRecipe and Schema.org Recipe entities is what we also did before for Spiceship. Unfortunately, the quality of recipes from the Internet is unspeakably low, so we had to switch almost entirely to parsing e-books. Some web
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Or it pays one skilled non-tech employee for a YEAR here in China. I'd gladly take $10k in exchange for 0.5-1% at this stage.
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Congratulations to the team on a great success. I live in China and hi-speed intercity travel here is both affordable and fast. CRH is building up at China speeds, with new stations popping up almost weekly. It used to run at 370-380 kph (2
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Tiny lib with a website that pulls 1.1 MB of JS.
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"Where do you live?" Right.
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Happy if it helped. IMO Dr. Rhonda Patrick is good, even if she is a biochemist. Her nutrition advice is mostly based on others' work and is well researched and solid. I'm skeptical about the whole cryo thing, and we do not suppor
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I think that's a big misunderstanding about meal plans in general. What is a "fitness meal plan"? Why "traditional" meal plan cannot count macronutrients? It's not necessarily to lose / gain weight, any fo
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Hey! Didn't want to provide details that aren't relevant to the parent topic. We built a system to calculate science-backed meal plans based on customer data. Calories, macronutrients, micronutrients, vitamins, probiotics, fiber.
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...in the US. We do a similar, but very different, thing here in China, Shanghai. Not only building the meal plans but also cooking and delivering it every day. The city is flat and dense, 10000+ people per sqmi dense. Every day local food
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I'm a co-founder of a company doing science-based tailored meal plans for people here in Shanghai, China, and over a few years of pre-study on this, we developed a framework to sift through the body of nutritional knowledge. As a part
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by mstaoru 9y ago
Just completed Witcher 3 at almost 270 hours. It was an amazing experience and comes highly recommended. Started The Last of Us (ps4) now, and so far it's been very good as well. Skipped FF15 after playing half an hour (used to be a hu
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by mstaoru 10y ago
I live in China and run startups in e-commerce and food. China subsidizes up to 70% of postage fee, so Aliexpress sellers can sell cheap stuff for $2 with "free shipping" worldwide. There is no such thing as "free shipping&qu
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If you're outside of the US, it gets even more interesting. First, you need to be VERY careful about using VPN or letting remote team members access Paypal. One misstep with, say, Hong Kong account being accessed from Ukrainian IPs, an
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by mstaoru 10y ago
Official retail prices in China and real retail prices in China are not always the same. "White"-imported i7 6900K the companies will buy is ¥8199, but most people will buy from the marketplaces, where the price is about ¥7000-740
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by mstaoru 10y ago
I only represent about 0.00000013% of all Chinese Internet users, but let me chime in: EVERY website that uses Google CDNs for js or fonts just doesn't work here. It just keeps loading and loading, and loading forever. In most cases it
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I thought they had a good business in China? Apparently it will stop working here once they move to G-you-know-what.