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by nekojima 15y ago
"Tofu Hotel"... despite the marketing propaganda. I really hope these projects are publicized enough so that when I am in China, I can avoid these buildings and the buildings next to them, in case they collapse and cause a domino effect or
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I license photos for publication. One of the best photos in terms of revenue is of a sunset. The cost of licensing is not very high, and varies on publication type & volume. This photo alone has paid for the camera I took the photo with
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Just chatting to a senior exec at one of those sites and he said for them it was in part because they don't get ad revenues from viewers outside of mainland and the cost of external bandwidth was too high to service overseas Chinese and oth
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I graduated in the mid-90s from UW and I can say from my classmates and friends from a variety of faculties most had $20k+ loans to repay (though that first year after a lot was forgiven by the govt program). At that time, in the mid-90s, t
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"China also restricts access to Chinese sites, probably partly to stop foreign countries complaining about copyright violations" More often than not it is because the Chinese site is in competition with a state owned or controlled competito
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"I go back to China quite often, and I've never had Google blocked for me. Facebook has been blocked on occasion, and most blog sites are, but it's honestly never been that problematic." It is problematic when you are being monitored 24/7 a
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You aren't alone, at least myself and three other Canadians I know have bought that or a similar package in the last two years and received refunds after finding out how useless the packages were. We travel a lot for business and would like
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"First, cycle through all my employees and make sure that I have equipped them to be happy and productive in their jobs. Second, find something to do. If possible, delegate it; if not, do it. Repeat." This is what I did in my role as team l
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I usually consider my start-ups to be pre-trading/revenue stage, where it can have a url & be in active development, but not be necessarily be an active registered company. Generally I prefer to avoid the expense (and in some countries
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"if GoDaddy users are actually taking actions" There has been so much past idiocy from GoDaddy, that I'm surprised there are all that many HN readers left with them now anyway.
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Looking at the released list of funeral mourners, this has already begun. A few surprises in the order, though it could be a ruse. Everything in NK is a ruse, tough to ever know anything for certain, even with 'educated' speculation. But it
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North Korean jokes/humour First story Jung Man Yong, a farmer at a collective farm in North Korea, catches a large fish in the river. Exalted, Jung comes back home and asks his wife to fry the fish. “We can have fried-fish for dinner!” sai
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Not likely. Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law was generally understood/guessed to be the one holding the reins of power in 2008 when Kim was ill then and will likely take firmer control again, even if its from behind the scenes, using Kim Jong U
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Yes, "anointed", typed too fast & forgot to re-read. :-( Thanks for the note.
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A mixture of scenarios two and three have long been considered the most likely by many "informed" (a relative term for NK) observers.
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Kim Il Sung was his father. Kim Jong Il's son Kim Jong Un is the annotated successor, though will be a puppet for a while, if he survives the next few days and weeks.
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"Work on your own agenda." This is the only point that matters, though the explanation after is idiotic and should be ignored. But just by following this list, or even this one point, you won't become highly productive. Perhaps more product
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"Remember to enjoy the journey - it's fun, and if you fail you'll be held in extremely high regard amongst fellow entrepreneurs and HN'ers for having tried. Most people just dream, the people that actually try are stars." Just because most
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My starting point to design a tablet would (likely) be the screen on my laptop and after detaching it, work from there to design/engineer a tablet. With this starting point, and looking at the three laptops on my desk (Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo
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You'd be writing cheques to the Canadian govt. Checks are something on clothing or you put in boxes. :-D
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An 'Indian Jasmine Revolution' is highly unlikely in India because there are at least the relatively free-and-fair elections that are/were completely absent in Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Yemen.... There might be massive corruption in the
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"a strong resistance to teaching kids the skills to do those jobs" There is a strong resistance from the kids because its either boring, too hard or not explained in a way that is relevant to them to see how it can be applied. This is among
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Depends how its written. In your example, the answer would be there are no zeros after the 3. ;-)
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"The request itself may be clueless, however you can easily mass censor content that contains certain keywords." Then you get ridiculous situations for mass banned keywords like recently in Pakistan or for a long time in China, most recentl
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In my old neighbourhood in Birmingham, around 75% of the deaths are of either young or elderly pedestrians. I'd like to see if there is a higher instance of injuries at those locations as well. As it may be location based, rather than possi
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Hopefully pg will remove the link, so HN isn't associated with Ryanair. ;-)
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If you do link to their site, what can they do? Redirect to 404 or home page for external links?
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One of the OP comments is on how conservative Canadian companies can be. Ten years ago I worked for a major financial services firm in Toronto and was involved with the launching of their web services, which at the time was already five yea
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We did begin one start-up in Singapore, though not using EntrePass, as that required paid-up capital of at least S$50,000 and actually an operating company with bank account before applying for Entrepass. Unless there is a local partner wil
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I'd like it if India and other Asian countries had a 'start-up visa'. Currently its usually too difficult to start-up a company using business or tourist visas for most Asian countries, let alone the police registration issues for even shor

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