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by pcr0 8y ago
I think HN stores text encoded as UTF-8, so all you need to do is input an emoji via your keyboard/copy-paste.
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by pcr0 8y ago
To varying degrees of success. Wechat for example, is a killer app that provides immense value to users (privacy concerns aside) and probably would not have been developed without the firewall. On the other hand, online search services in
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by pcr0 8y ago
In China, the corner-cutting attitude is called "cha bu duo" (Close enough). Unfortunately this is a problem for Chinese real estate, vaccines, food, etc.
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by pcr0 8y ago
The same thing was said about China. Furthermore, it's likely that foreign tech companies will just bend over backwards to self-censor, without having to resort to a GFW. They wouldn't want to be shut out of both China and India.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Not always. If interest rates go up, house prices go down but rents go up. The opposite is also true if interest rates go down.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Rule of law vs rule by law
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by pcr0 8y ago
It replaces gvm/rbenv/pyenv/nvm/etc. with a single CLI. Saves you from having to use multiple shell completion scripts, bashrc entries and CLIs. Useful if you work with multiple dev languages on your computer.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Likewise on my S8, the telltale jankiness gives it away.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I think it's about stress relative to other jobs. Most of the other jobs on the list are in healthcare, which is arguably more stressful than software development.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I've purchased flagship Android phones from Samsung/Google for a while. The biggest differentiator for me is the quality of the camera. I've owned budget phones before, and even though I'm not much of a photographer, I f
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by pcr0 8y ago
It's hard but it's not "practically impossible". One route is to get permanent residency in Hong Kong first, then apply for Chinese citizenship there, which is much easier than directly applying in China.
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by pcr0 8y ago
The article states that US offered 1 million people permanent residency vs 10,000 in China last year. I don't think there's much to learn from here.
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by pcr0 8y ago
AWS just launched ARM-based servers
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by pcr0 8y ago
> I realize this isn't a sexy industry with lots of growth, but neither is the phone market anymore. Samsung figured this out already. Their proportion of revenue from phones is decreasing while their semiconductor business is growi
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by pcr0 8y ago
Beijing's subway carries over 10m passengers a day and definitely has less harassment and human excrement.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Given that the Chinese government actively promotes tourism, the number of hoops a foreigner has to jump through to pay for things where cash isn't accepted is quite ridiculous.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I got into League of Legends pretty bad as well. Unfortunately for me, the MacBook Air I got in 2013 ran the game on low settings perfectly in OSX.
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by pcr0 8y ago
To gain access to natural resources outside China.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Related, but the treasury rate hikes played a bigger part than the trade conflict.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I think paying to opt-out of ads and tracking is a reasonable solution. There will always be people who can't afford or don't want to pay for content.
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by pcr0 8y ago
That gives me an SSL error on both chrome and firefox.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Third thing: the Yuan is sliding, negating the impact of tariffs.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I've used Firefox 55-62 and I switched back to Chrome recently. Quantum was a great improvement, but it is still too buggy for me and it's gone downhill somewhere in the past few months * Uses 30-40% CPU constantly on my Ubuntu la
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by pcr0 8y ago
I think salesmanship and being able to sell a daring vision is key. Why else would anyone invest in risky long term projects like space travel when they could just buy an ETF instead?
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by pcr0 8y ago
Why would Netflix fund Amazon's prime video service? Why would Walmart fund amazon.com and Whole Foods? Why would Dropbox fund Amazon Drive? AWS is their most profitable business in terms of margin. It makes sense to avoid funding
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by pcr0 8y ago
It's like Anki but with a nicer UI, dynamic questions and progress tracking. Nice!
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by pcr0 8y ago
Playing devil's advocate, I've found the feature useful for meme pages and university groups. However, I think they should add another tap to the process as it's too easy to send accidental invites on mobile.
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by pcr0 8y ago
Not OP, but I've had the same experience with Ruby on Rails. I switched to RubyMine last month after using VSCode for 2 months. I don't blame VSCode, Ruby has got to be the hardest language to do static analysis for, but JetBrain&
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by pcr0 8y ago
That's the spirit of the current system, and it mostly works. The 2008 crisis was crazy because nobody anticipated the magnitude of moral hazard between insurers <=> (banks <=> rating agencies <=> pension funds) <=
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by pcr0 8y ago
Over 90% of the monetary supply consists of credit as opposed to money. If companies and people can't borrow money, the world economy freezes and banks control credit unfortunately.

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