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by ngokevin 6y ago
China is just US public enemy #1 because it's a geopolitical and economic threat. The US doesn't want to export data to them for free. It's funny America sometimes gives China flak for banning Google/FB/etc because
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Did a Node library for that once...ranges, odds, hand evaluation, supports the poker hand syntaxes (e.g., QhQs, 99+, AQs+). https://github.com/ngokevin/pokery
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by ngokevin 6y ago
That's interesting, I think a lot of people may use their Quest a lot often because of that hurdle to put on the headset (or charge batteries, etc). This is sort of a self-plug, but we're experimenting with the idea of an app that
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by ngokevin 6y ago
"abusing" is not the right word, but they definitely can make it impossible to compete in many areas. Let's say you made a laptop tray and sold on Amazon, it did well! Then Amazon sees it, makes their own laptop tray, subsidi
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by ngokevin 6y ago
One issue is they run a marketplace platform where they also sell and push their own products on that platform. People sell products on the platform, Amazon gathers data, and eventually undercuts them out. They can exploit their 50% market
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Maybe this isn't a substantive comment, but I think China understands America more than the other way around.
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by ngokevin 6y ago
Yeah, I don't really blame them for taking control of their citizens' data and keeping the revenue within borders versus shipping it out to American corporations.
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by ngokevin 6y ago
You need to be really careful how you tailor it (what you like, hashtags you look up, who you follow, what videos you watch all the way through or multiple times).
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by ngokevin 6y ago
People in tech love to brag about not having / using FB :)
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by ngokevin 7y ago
The hatred of China in Western media is amplified to the max. Sometimes I think we're the ones being washed.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
There are some CDNs in front of rawgit like jsDelivr that may work.
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Lot of Americans are in dire straits and the customer base on the margins can probably no longer afford non-essential things such as Netflix.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Relatively small, but their margins are way better. Of course they haven't overtaken Luxottica, but they are growing quick and are still businesses in the billions. I think online eyewear sales and awareness have been spiking over the
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by ngokevin 7y ago
As with much of the economy, it's winner-take-all. I would put Zenni Optical alongside Luxottica as the duopoly at the moment. Warby is popular, but it's driven a lot by marketing and VC.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Online eyewear is maybe 5 to 10% of all eyewear, but rapidly growing as consumers realize they can pay $7 for glasses instead of $200 (e.g., zenni.com).
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Hey, we're Supermedium, a YC company exploring building a VR home environment for utility and productivity (which includes focus). If anyone is interested, subscribe to our email list at http://supermedium.com to get update
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by ngokevin 7y ago
In the meantime, Facebook claims it is unable verify political ads for truth.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
What is work? With a large portion of labor subject to automation in and economy that doesn't need much of work anymore, people can rediscover their own form of work that brings value to the us as humans: caregiving, volunteering, arts
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by ngokevin 7y ago
You can sync your photos to Lightroom cloud and pull up the photos and edit them from anywhere like the app.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
It deems accounts as bots if they post and retweet a lot and are newly created? Being familiar with the Yang Gang, people are extremely passionate almost to an addiction of supporting Yang. They follow his every move, his surrogates words,
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by ngokevin 7y ago
I have both. The AirPods have better NC because they have both active and passive NC. I think the active NC is better too. The QC35s are more comfortable however.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Could become legalized? https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomangell/2019/12/16/andrew-yan...
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by ngokevin 7y ago
There are a few presidential candidates that are for it, including mushrooms: https://www.yang2020.com/policies/decriminalizeopioids/
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Quantum Computing and Encryption Standards(yang2020.com)
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Maybe data as a property right? https://www.yang2020.com/policies/data-property-right/
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Data is the oil of the 21st century.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Yup. My wife works at Zenni in the manufacturing and product. I even tagged along twice to Danyang (Spectacle City). It's hard for another company to come in offering $7 glasses including lenses to the US when you don't have the s
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by ngokevin 7y ago
Still way cheaper than even getting a non-polarized from like Warby.
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by ngokevin 7y ago
There's a presidential candidate (Andrew Yang) running on Universal Basic Income which would give every US citizen adult almost that amount ($1K/mo), just to survive especially as automation and AI is ravaging the top five common
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by ngokevin 7y ago
I know a student programmer at the university data center that got caught sniffing through the network logs of other students.

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