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by pentae 9y ago
I live in SE Asia (Thailand) and although I'm fascinated by China, my experience with Chinese tourists has turned me off visiting the mainland completely. They are more often than not incredibly loud, rude and lack almost all basic hum
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by pentae 9y ago
Industry standard holdback rate is 10% for six months. I've been in the payments industry 15+ years and never heard of anyone holding more than 10% except for PayPal. Not giving a timeline on when the holdback is returned is also uniqu
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by pentae 9y ago
My team runs a paid chat app for Instagram models to monetize their fan base. Apple did a 180 on their own IAP rules and called us to insist we could not use the App Store without charging with IAP. Their app store rules clearly state that
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by pentae 9y ago
Trust me, you don't ..
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by pentae 9y ago
Reminds me of this great video I just saw about the new Motochimp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEiJHq1Izwg
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by pentae 9y ago
My family lives in the wealthy eastern suburbs of Sydney. My mother can only get ADSL and it caps out at around 3.5Mbit. She can hardly have a skype call. They say she won't be able to get NBN until at least 2020. I live in Northern Th
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by pentae 9y ago
Precisely because it limits it to specific markets you mentioned. The new 3310 got a ton of press in the US/AU/EU etc and lots of people like myself would love to buy one as a second phone. In a lot of places such as Singapore the
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by pentae 9y ago
What's really sad is how they took Nokia down in flames with them. I'm really looking forward to seeing HMD Global rise Nokia out of the ashes - the new 3310 is a great start but without 3G/4G LTE support is DOA. Lots of coun
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by pentae 10y ago
I wish we had Lyft in Thailand.
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by pentae 10y ago
TLDR: You have no rights.
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by pentae 10y ago
Probably the same reason theres not too many penises on Tinder profiles - report button.
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How Uber fails world travelers(medium.com)
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by pentae 10y ago
Funny how whenever I read that a company is 'launching an investigation' into something, I interpret it to mean one of two things "We're so incompetent we don't know what we're doing" or, more likely &quot
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by pentae 10y ago
Calling them shit heads for 'giving up' when they feel the deck is stacked against them is an oversimplification that avoids the issue. I think we're seeing in western culture what has been happening in Japan for the last 20
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by pentae 10y ago
My housekeeper here in Thailand costs about $290 a month and fetches groceries for my household daily, so this makes me feel quite lucky.
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by pentae 10y ago
As a consumer, the only power I have to deal with this situation is to tip my drivers who give good service. I actually hate tipping, and think it should be included, but I don't have any control over Ubers business model. So I tip. Un
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by pentae 10y ago
Simply incredible. She got a 'charming' apology letter only because she's famous and the US got caught with its pants down. To think that this happens every day to people without a platform.
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by pentae 10y ago
If Apple can manually review and curate the thousands upon thousands of apps a day being submitted to the app store, I think it's reasonable for Steam to manually check that 30 new games a day load and actually work.
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by pentae 10y ago
I think the same market that is interested in the Toyota 86, Subaru BRZ or Miata would be interested in a car like you describe - but with more horsepower and with a mid mounted engine. Like a poor mans Porsche Cayman.
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by pentae 10y ago
ROI. You know what that stands for? Radio. On. Internet.
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by pentae 10y ago
Apple Inc. isn't taking this development lightly. It even prohibited WeChat from using the term "app" as applied to mini programs. Glad to see Apple once again using its tight grip on its developers to look out for Apple.
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by pentae 10y ago
Anecdotally, I live in Thailand and just paid $150 USD to have a contractor wire fibre from the street, into my building and up to the 6th floor to a communications closet, and then to my room. Best $150 i've spent!
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by pentae 10y ago
Or maybe.. these investors know exactly what they are getting themselves into?
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by pentae 10y ago
Seems to me like they have, sadly, set themselves up for failure by adding too many gimmicks to the car that sound fancy but nobody really cares about. Facial recognition? On your first model? Really?
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by pentae 10y ago
It would be more economical to have scales in the floor at the check-in counter, no?
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by pentae 10y ago
Let's not forget it's a great 'make work' program for former military personnel.
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by pentae 10y ago
Pretty sure the US already tried to do that with the Panama Papers.
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by pentae 10y ago
I only tend to play games when i'm bored on a plane flying somewhere - the necessity for it to be connected to the internet for copyright protection after I pay $10 is devastating. I'm sure they will still make a lot of money and
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by pentae 10y ago
Me personally I could care less about the extra memory, but what I really wanted was a quad core in a 13" form factor
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by pentae 10y ago
Portability, mainly. I didn't buy it to play civ on, and it's a good thing too-it's basically unplayable. Graphically, there's not much thats special or impressive about the game so its quite surprising it can't eve

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