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by pcr0 7y ago
Asia is having a 2nd wave because of students and people working in the West returning to Asia due to fear of lockdown or the spread of the virus. I don't think the opposite migration will be of similar magnitude since it hit Asia firs
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by pcr0 7y ago
Singapore's justice system is geared towards making extreme examples over fairness.
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by pcr0 7y ago
Zoom's product team is based in China. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...
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by pcr0 7y ago
The staff can be put on unpaid leave since they're getting paid by the government and the rents could be negotiated since the landlord should be getting their mortgage payments paused. I believe those are the main expenses for a brick-
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by pcr0 7y ago
Infected persons are easy to cover up with inadequate testing as we've seen in the US but deaths are much harder to hide as we've seen in China and Iran. There's neither in India currently so I'd say there is no sustaine
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by pcr0 7y ago
Local community outbreaks are a matter of probability based on travel connections with countries that have outbreaks. I believe Italy and Iran have closer economic ties and more travel volume to China than India. https://www.wire
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by pcr0 7y ago
I think parent comment meant putting up a captcha on the website for suspicious traffic, the way Cloudflare does. I don't think anyone is silly enough to suggest putting captchas on ads.
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by pcr0 7y ago
Steam doesn't host multiplayer servers, but it does offer services for match making, lobbies, voice chat and P2P networking (including the use of Valve's network as a relay). https://partner.steamgames.com/doc&#x2F
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by pcr0 7y ago
* Banning major search and social websites (Google, FB, Twitter) * Mandatory censorship of information (Google before leaving, Bing) * Foreign ownership limits (aka forced intellectual property transfers) * Capital outflow restrictions * He
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by pcr0 7y ago
Airplane lifespans are determined by pressurization/depressurization cycles (i.e. number of flight trips), not distance flown or interior wear and tear.
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by pcr0 7y ago
You'll probably never be allowed to sign up for D+ again. I'd only use charge backs as a final resort if I can't contact the company and/or I never want to do business with them in my life.
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by pcr0 7y ago
You're forgetting that Chinese people can still sign up for Visa/Mastercard/Amex cards in China, it's just not popular. On the other hand, a foreigner can't sign up for Alipay/WeChat Pay.
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by pcr0 7y ago
It's not yet solved for people living in Hong Kong, as they aren't allowed to use the international version of these apps with an HK phone number. There are AlipayHk and WeChat Pay HK, but those only work with merchants that speci
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by pcr0 7y ago
Getting a new card doesn't necessarily stop recurring bills as trusted merchants can use features like Visa Account Updater or Mastercard Automatic Billing Updater. Though in practice, these trusted merchants usually have easy cancella
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by pcr0 7y ago
The hypocrisy is ridiculous. Try ordering something off AliExpress/Taobao shipped to HK/Taiwan and you're directed to "international shipping". In particular, they should change Taiwan's entry in ISO-3166 befor
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by pcr0 7y ago
Does this message only show in the release notes? It would be cool to display a link to this on startup, like with Vim and the ICCF-Holland charity in Uganda.
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by pcr0 7y ago
Writing a JS compiler in TS is easier than writing a TS compiler in TS, since TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript.
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by pcr0 7y ago
I didn't think this was a problem as I assumed most people with astigmatism (myself included) wear corrective lenses or glasses.
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by pcr0 7y ago
I think most people stick to 1-2 apps based on their culture and friends. But when you live in a culturally diverse society you end up having to install quite a few (e.g. WeChat for China, Kakao for Korea, LINE for Japan/Taiwan, Whatsa
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by pcr0 7y ago
Is SMS free in the US? I don't understand why it's still so widely used when almost every other country has moved on to WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, Viber, Signal, Telegram, Messenger etc.
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by pcr0 7y ago
> In the “stone age” days of the Internet ... You simply gave your username and password for one service to another so they could login to your account and grab whatever information they wanted! I wish we left that in the past. I live in
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by pcr0 7y ago
I agree that unsustainable and user-hostile growth is a problem caused by overzealous VC investments. However, I don't see the direct connection between adding telemetry to drive product decisions (e.g. improving conversion flows, prio
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by pcr0 7y ago
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company with close ties to the Chinese government. Not Korean
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by pcr0 7y ago
Kubuntu (KDE) has their blue/silver theme and Mint is a distinctive green. Ubuntu looks pretty drab in comparison.
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by pcr0 7y ago
I'm on an unrooted phone and F-Droid doesn't do auto-updates or even "update all". I have to remember to open F-Droid once in a while to click "Update" and then "Install" for each app, one-by-one. I u
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by pcr0 7y ago
For ACID guarantees?
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by pcr0 7y ago
Are you in China? Perhaps it's only been removed for users in China.
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by pcr0 7y ago
That sounds like the perfect way to test stolen credit cards. In high-risk transactions, Stripe uses SMS 2FA so you're back to needing a SIM card.
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by pcr0 7y ago
I live in China and sometimes I buy made in China goods shipped from the US as it's cheaper.
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by pcr0 7y ago
According to the article, he had them in his bag and there's no evidence of him using them.

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