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by robjan 5y ago
I think IKEA in Hong Kong has a completely different business model from most of the world since their stores are located in prime shopping malls and shopping districts instead of out-of-town which is more common elsewhere. It's quite
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by robjan 5y ago
Depends where you live. I live in HK and the speed is usually pretty bad unless I use a VPN / reverse proxy on a service which uses higher quality bandwidth.
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It's a problem of management, not th developers. Either the developers were allowed or pressured into shipping a defective system
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They've recently launched a Clubhouse clone and monetisation features
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Eventually you get shadowbanned from flagging. I also fat finger and my flags aren't counted anymore.
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Are we talking about travel or right to work? The latter tends to be beneficial to both countries as it prevents brain drain without the country having to impose exit bans / quotas.
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by robjan 5y ago
Should have at least listed the Special Administrative Regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau which have their own passports and currencies. I'm not going to vote for China since I am not allowed to enter 95% of it without a visa.
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If you see something you feel goes against the community guidelines simply flag it rather than adding oil to the fire and publicly reporting it.
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The office address in that link is just a virtual office.
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I would say it's less important for our leaders to be at the coalface and coding / learning to code than for them to know what's possible. During the last industrial revolution, the leaders who we all hear about weren't
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by robjan 5y ago
I'd say that ignoring the whales, PHP and MySQL (especially WordPress) are the opposite of the long tail.
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I don't think it's specifically targeting anyone, it's just oversimplifying issues. e.g. a place may look really good on average salary but terrible in terms of GINI (inequality). Neither should be taken in isolation
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by robjan 5y ago
Lax visa requirements
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MTR Corporation is 75% owned by the Hong Kong government and receives subsidies in the form of land leases granted below market value and a monopoly on rail infrastructure. I really appreciate the MTR, and am also a part of the 25%, but it&
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by robjan 5y ago
Infamous is probably the correct word, its infamy just hasn't been translated.
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Better than other abuse prone services, such as Hetzner or OVH, which require you to take a selfie holding your national ID card.
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by robjan 5y ago
The language and behaviour is consistent with the cant generally spoken by the crypto community. It's a similar idea to /r/wsb/ and does the job of identifying insiders while keeping outsiders out.
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Who appoints the notaries?
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GP is probably referring to KF94, the Korean standard. Their form factor is somewhere between a surgical mask or an industrial / medical N95. They are quite popular, here in HK, with people who want to protect their makeup. Example: h
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It's not specific to one Chinese Language or even just Chinese.
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It's easier if you create some value added service like "premium support" or an Active Directory integration plugin then charge for that.
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by robjan 5y ago
Amazon stock represents ownership of a company and gold has both utility and intric beauty. They are demonstrably valuable
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The mentioned examples don't have reasonable alternatives in many scenarios.
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Forking a repo is highly disruptive to the community and any users of the software, especially if the original repo is just abandoned with no notice
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The pilots haven't been identified so we don't know about their cultural background
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You also have to run a datacentre or server room with the on-prem version
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It's easy to pick stocks in a bull market
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That's the theory but in practice very few companies bother because it's expensive, complicated and most workloads or customers can tolerate less than 100% uptime.
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Tech debt is a thing for any non-trivial product. The more tech debt, the slower it is to create working increments of a product and the more risky changes are. I have experienced products of which the development has ground to a halt due t
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That is your assumption

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