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by pcr0 9y ago
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/upshot/how-many-deaths...
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by pcr0 9y ago
What do high-rises have to do with unbreathable air? That's a consequence of being the world's factory.
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by pcr0 9y ago
That doesn't check out. Why would China try to push down the US dollar when the US is their largest export market? That would also damage all the effort they put in trying to devalue the yuan.
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by pcr0 9y ago
No, it's just Safari. YouTube seems to works alright on Firefox.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Noticeably slow for me in southeast Asia as well. Other issue is I ended up using !g on half my searches anyway.
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by pcr0 9y ago
What is the stackoverflow equivalent in China? Their circle looks too small to be true.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Geekhack is a community primarily focused around mechanical keyboards. When you spend >$200 on a keyboard, $30 for a handmade USB cable to match your keyboard isn't too bad. Given the amount of customization you could have in a USB
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by pcr0 9y ago
Aren't machine learning workloads more variable than crypto mining? How would ASIC users cope with that?
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by pcr0 9y ago
Not sure where you got that from. Alexa rankings show google.com as #1 and baidu.com as #4. http://www.alexa.com/topsites
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by pcr0 9y ago
That doesn't explain why they've banned Justin Bieber, Winnie the Pooh or celebrity gossip. If anything, those would distract conversation away from the party. They're also trying to be a moral police.
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by pcr0 9y ago
That's alright if EC2 is all you were using. Past a certain point though, it usually makes sense to begin using managed services like S3, BigQuery, lambda, etc.
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by pcr0 9y ago
They also punished a local official for refusing to smoke in a meeting of Muslim religious figures - http://m.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/20867...
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by pcr0 9y ago
The question is, why? Realistically, everybody who uses Coffeescript is/was a Rails developer at some point since the syntax is very opinionated towards rubyists. The typical Node dev is more likely to use ES6/7 which fixes a lot
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by pcr0 9y ago
I don't think Node solves the problem of static dependency compilation and fast startup.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Did you try clicking the globe in the header? You can view the page in English.
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by pcr0 9y ago
I was one of those developers with an OS X machine who decided to buy a Thinkpad and throw Ubuntu on it. pulseaudio worked out of the box for me and I definitely preferred it over the stunted OS X audio mixer that doesn't even let you
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by pcr0 9y ago
That was a totally different China. Since then there was the communist cultural revolution and then "capitalism with Chinese characteristics" which is where China is currently.
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by pcr0 9y ago
They probably ask for your ID number and look up those details from the government.
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by pcr0 9y ago
It doesn't. If the article is to be believed it topped Google Play in spite of that. Tencent also has their own payment service which casts further doubt on that statement.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Funny bringing up DJI as an example of a Shenzhen company. They were actually conceived in a Hong Kong university but moved over the border due to cheaper rents and closer proximity to factories.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Pretty sure this is the case. Even with the tax, Vancouver prices per sqft are a bargain compared to what you would get in Hong Kong.
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by pcr0 9y ago
All of those were either additional plugins that had to be installed, came with a huge vulnerability surface and/or were closed standards.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Superchargers should still be cheaper than gas. If I recall correctly, Elon stated they weren't looking to make a profit but rather to recoup their investment in Supercharger infrastructure.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Indeed. Any time JavaScript is executing, there is blocking. One has to be really careful to avoid CPU-bound code in JavaScript or all the benefits of the "non-blocking" model go down the drain.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Their hacking capabilities seem closer to that of a criminal gang than a state actor, I'm not sure what there is to be worried about.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Google Keep. It lacks formatting, but it's readily available on all platforms.
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Dying malls in the US should take note of how China is approaching retail(businessinsider.com)
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by pcr0 9y ago
The microwave picture was a joke. As for airport/train station displays, I think early displays were LED matrices running on custom hardware + OS. I suppose just hooking up an LCD flatscreen to an embedded windows computer displaying a
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by pcr0 9y ago
Aside from India and the Philippines, language/cultural barriers are relatively greater in most other parts of SE Asia. Eastern Europe seems to be quite popular.
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by pcr0 9y ago
Even more so in parts of the Middle East.

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