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by potatofarmer45 4y ago
What people don't realize is that extra-judicial "persuasion" is also commonly applied for strategic business interests. I recall a discussion with a someone at an electronics company a while ago where they described recent b
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by potatofarmer45 4y ago
Small powerboats. The biggest market for recreational boats is the 3.5 to 5m trailer boats. What people don't realise is while the market appears to be saturated with generic boat manufacturers, almost every boat buyer wants some kind
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by potatofarmer45 5y ago
Every time any Chinese diplomat opens their mouth, something incendiary comes out these days. There will be books written in the future and these times will be used an example on how to lose friends fast. The absolute reverse of soft power.
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by potatofarmer45 5y ago
This 95% has as much credibility as Kim Jong Il's 36 round golf score.
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by potatofarmer45 6y ago
This has consumed my morning. I've been humming out all of random tunes of my childhood from folk music to pop that I never knew the name of. It works.
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by potatofarmer45 6y ago
This survey almost certainly wrong. 9 out of 10 people when given a leading question will probably say they think buying the latest smartphone is a waste of money, but the whole point of marketing shows that's not the case. Average upg
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by potatofarmer45 6y ago
Fountains pens are an experience and a statement. It's fussy in that it takes much longer to dry than most ball point pens, and it has a clear preference for pricy paper. In return, it makes a mundane part of life (writing notes etc) m
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by potatofarmer45 6y ago
One of my favorite aspects of Diablo was the randomly generated levels. Imagine a space strategy game, where your "civ" is randomly generated giving you a random tech tree, with random ships of random attributes. That would so muc
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by potatofarmer45 6y ago
I found a free espresso machine on craigslist (Gaggia Classic). It was old, rusty and "wasn't working". Spent time researching the model, took it apart and de-rusted and cleaned every part. Now it makes delicious coffee. Tota
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by potatofarmer45 6y ago
Cricket is a rare game where the condition of the tools used to play the game (the ball) is allowed to alter over the duration of the game. This differs from almost all other sports such as baseball, where new balls are used after every hit
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Ask HN: What does it take to manufacture a COVID19 testing kit?
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
Looking at the comments, there needs to be a distinction between the "eminent" career vs what people define as "success" in the title. The success in this paper is the equivalent of the Forbes 30 under 30 rankings except
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
Just downloaded and starting to read. Looks super promising. Thanks so much for the tip
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
If the active ingredient really temporarily "rewires" the brain such that multiple "rewires" can help break dependency, it should be tested with video game addiction. I know many people I grew up with who have a WoW addi
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
"Some even had tomatoes on top. Only recently introduced from the Americas, these were still a curiosity, looked down upon by contemporary gourmets". Well that settles it. Next time a pizza traditionalist blasts me for having pine
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
Then by the same logic, WeChat should be banned since it's clearly documented to be used by Chinese Trolls to attack protesters in Australia and Canada.
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
The Chinese Government shakedown works like the mob. First they ask for a small favor, and then as you get deeper and deeper in the web, the demands increase. If you've already censored the NYTimes, then Quartz, why not a maps app? It&
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
I'm sure by then there'll be brainwave controlled programming and the idea of using a keyboard with defined syntaxes will be as silly as punching cards sound to us today haha
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
For a large deployment of our SaaS software last year, in order to connect to the raw data for their POS, we discovered they were on mainframes running UNIX. Not Linux, Unix. We had to go to a local library, in the old archived basement to
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
I used to complain so bitterly that the computers I had for AI research work, despite being a flavor of Linux, had no access to any sort of networking, making the installation of basic packages a pain. It turns out the safest way, barring s
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
Just like the Yuen Long attack by white shirt triads sparked the current cycle of violence, this will further escalate a dangerous situation. There is a clear difference between fighting with sticks and stones to guns. It is now only a matt
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
The issue here is the spread of Chinese Censorship beyond China. With WeChat, so far, users outside of China are not subjected to the same level of censorship when communicating with other non-Chinese users. This is different because it sub
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
This is a common takedown tactic to clean up your image online. It's easily contested with a counter-claim but it works because most orgs/sites don't have a lawyer or don't want to spend the resources to fight it. I&#x27
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
This is an example of attempting to treat the symptom not the disease. Rather than fix the underlying socio-economic issues such as income inequality, lack of affordable housing, and the lack of social mobility and opportunities- the instin
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulera9c18F0 Whole song with English Subs.
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
A noble and brave people fighting for their rights and freedom against a brutal and evil regime. It may seem like it but this is history in the making. What still is shocking is how many Chinese people I know who are nice and rational peop
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
I hire people via upwork and freelancer to do a lot outsourced non-core tasks for my startup. One of the traits I look for is an immovable demand that 30-50% of a project be paid upfront. It's a s * test that is a far better indicator
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
The Chinese and HK government's have realized they've lost the culture wars and public opinion so they've resorted to the tried and tested handibook of authoritarian governments, to create a cycle of violence to create justif
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
It's an extension what already happens in industries such as construction. If you want to remodel your home in Florida, you'd hire a local contractor who then subcontracts people who are almost certainly illegal immigrants from Me
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
So my HK team had the week off to protest. Luckily I didn't get any calls at 2am to bail anyone out of jail. This result- where the government backed down, was not expected by anyone. Ever since the Beijing-picked government stared dow

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