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by pcr0 8y ago
Car ownership in Hong Kong, and even the rest of the bay area is relatively low. Lot of it is probably buses.
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by pcr0 8y ago
They've already got some responses, there's a link to the answers at the top of the article.
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by pcr0 8y ago
It resembles MDN a lot. I like the contrast on the page, it's really nice after all the faded blacks that you see around the web.
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by pcr0 8y ago
> ActiveRecord makes the easy things easy and the difficult things impossible unless you just give up and write SQL, which you could have just done in the first place and wouldn't have actually been that much harder. Most queries in
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by pcr0 8y ago
1) Large, mostly homogeneous nation. 2) Government bans foreign internet/social media services, protecting local companies from foreign competition.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I've had good experiences with committing <some-plaintext-config-file> with git-crypt.
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by pcr0 8y ago
They're not specifically targeting muslims, at least for now. For example, Hui muslims, another Chinese minority, aren't persecuted. It's more to do with the Uighur ethnicity.
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by pcr0 8y ago
I find it incredulous that iPhones with a Chinese locale can't display the Taiwanese flag. AFAIK, there's no such restriction on Chinese phone brands like Xiaomi/Huawei/Honor/Meizu.
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by pcr0 8y ago
As much as I'd like that to be true, I end up having to use !g in half my searches. It does okay at keyword matching, but can't infer what I'm actually looking for, falls short at finding obscure/niche topics and its pag
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by pcr0 8y ago
Given 1) China's recent push for domestic hardware after the ZTE wake up call 2) Impending slow down in crypto mining hardware sales, the VC's connections will be invaluable for diversifying into other hardware products.
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by pcr0 8y ago
SAT scores decide where one can go for university. Credit scores decide interest rates and loan approvals. Social credit score decides whether one can board a plane or a train, or whether your child can get into a school of their choice. Fu
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by pcr0 8y ago
1. Yep, they're funded by Alibaba and they've been buying out bankrupted bikeshare companies. 2. Alibaba and Tencent both own competing bikeshare services, so it's a cash-burning contest.
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Critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption(twitter.com)
4 points by pcr0 8y ago|0 comments
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by pcr0 8y ago
Is there any information regarding methodology or is this just shilling for their assessment services? The stats show that most programs had syntax errors. I don't think it's fair to ask someone to write strictly correct Java&#x2F
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by pcr0 8y ago
The 2013 Macbook Air was the first and only Apple laptop I owned. It's still incredibly reliable and (the hardware) is a pleasure to use. I needed a new laptop with more RAM/storage/CPU but I was utterly disappointed in their
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by pcr0 8y ago
For a public company, sure. How would you find company officers of private offshore companies located in Cayman/Seychelles/BVI?
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by pcr0 8y ago
This divide extends into politics too. The North is dominated by a centre-right democratic party and a far-right nationalist party, whereas the South is a cacophony of center-right to far-left parties
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by pcr0 9y ago
I'd argue China is actually one of the easiest markets to adapt for, given its size. We're talking 1.3 billion people with the same national language, 92% of which share the same ethnicity (Han). Most Chinese cities are quite cons
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by pcr0 9y ago
Meanwhile in Hong Kong, the Chinese national anthem still gets booed every football match [0]. This will be an interesting reunification to watch. [0]: http://scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/1901082/hong
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by pcr0 9y ago
For about $100 cheaper.. The big news here is Intel not having a monopoly on desktop CPUs anymore. I personally remember Intel being the only serious CPU choice for building a desktop since at least 2015. Now a lot of low-medium high deskto
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by pcr0 9y ago
Hopefully not. They usually jail people for disrupting the harmony of their society but I think intent matters. E.g. organizing protests or selling banned books, but I don't think an unintentional meme starring oneself is up there as a
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by pcr0 9y ago
Depends on the location. Tunnels are great for cities but flying cars make more sense for suburbs or the countryside, where building long sparse tunnels isn't worth it.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Cross-border payments is one. BTC was a cheaper and more convenient alternative to Western Union before the tx fees skyrocketed.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Depends on the case I guess. I got a mid-sized case from Otterbox, which has slightly raised lips at the top and bottom of the case so it's quite unlikely that the screen hits the floor first. Also, at least with the S8 series, the cur
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by pcr0 9y ago
I've never had a phone that I've felt confident using without a case, bezel-less or otherwise. I personally like bezel-less phones because I get more screen space for a phone that's just as durable (in a case).
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by pcr0 9y ago
Apps that work just as well across Mac/Windows/Linux. Among terminal emulators for example, Hyper is the only one I can think of.
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by pcr0 9y ago
I wish the page had a short explanation on how the bubble index was calculated. From the PDF: The Index score is a weighted average of the following five standardized city sub-indices: priceto-income and price-to-rent (fundamental valua
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by pcr0 9y ago
For A/B tests implemented in backend code, I just use rand() to bucket a user, then store that bucket in redis. After it's been live for a while, I pull the data from redis then use this open-source calculator to view the results:
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by pcr0 9y ago
>> Third, the search intermediation agreements prevented publishers from using search services of competing search engines. > I have no idea what this means. Any ideas? This refers to widgets on the search results page. E.g. when y
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by pcr0 9y ago
On the flip side, the % of space taken up by the battery is tiny compared to macbooks. One could argue that of all the components in a laptop, the battery wearing down is what most people will face, so having custom components + a larger b

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