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by robjan 5y ago
Handcuffs (not fluffy, as mentioned by a sibling). No key, just a latch. They are easy to release in case of emergency. Source: was cabin crew and use of cuffs was part of the training.
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by robjan 5y ago
The article pretty much demonstrates that donation doesn't solve the wate problem.
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by robjan 5y ago
There'll be a lot more people driving on the equivalent of racing slicks to avoid replacing their tyres and, I imagine, a black market for retreading
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by robjan 5y ago
It's easy to stop using YouTube, it's not easy to stop everyone else using it.
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by robjan 5y ago
In Hong Kong we call it Club 7/11
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by robjan 5y ago
Fastmail is hosted in New Jersey. If it was hosted in Aus the user experience would be pretty bad for most of its users.
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by robjan 5y ago
HSBC Hong Kong does not accept US citizens or green card holders to open an investment account.
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by robjan 5y ago
Who benefits from the artificial womb? The bearing of the child is much less of a disincentive than other factors like money, space and the ultra competitive school system we have in many Asian regions.
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by robjan 5y ago
One factor that needs to be considered is that in Korea, as in many Asian regions, people are expected to look after their parents when they get old. Society and social security have been build around this assumption.
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by robjan 5y ago
This is why I said "not necessarily efficiently". At a very macro level, you can increase economic output by either working more or increasing efficiency (productivity per hour).
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by robjan 5y ago
There is a huge assumption here that productivity isn't increasing, which is false. Economic output per hour worked has been steadily increasing in every country since their respective industrial revolutions. When you go to the source
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by robjan 5y ago
Scrum and agile are often conflated but are two different things. Agile is more a set of general principles whereas Scrum(tm) is a specific framework
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by robjan 5y ago
Most overseas buyers don't actually visit the property before buying it. In fact, it's pretty common to buy a property before it's even built. I live in HK and receive brochures every few days for foreign property in Canada,
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by robjan 5y ago
Probably half of the posts on HN are blogs
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by robjan 5y ago
Gift cards and gift certificates are examples of scrip coupons
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by robjan 5y ago
It's not impossible for a foreigner to become a Chinese citizen but for most people it's not particularly attractive because you have to renounce your original citizenship. Since the passport isn't particularly strong at the
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by robjan 5y ago
Is this curated based on experience or some metric?
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by robjan 5y ago
The commercial version of Christmas is "celebrated" across East Asia. It's treated pretty much as a Hallmark Holiday.
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by robjan 5y ago
We first need to know why we should bring more people on board.
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by robjan 5y ago
There's a small cost of keeping your computer on 24/7 if you aren't using a pinning service, but it can be pretty cheap if you use something like a raspberry pi
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by robjan 5y ago
Singapore shares little culture with China
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by robjan 5y ago
Here's a citation. Nearly everywhere in the world working hours are decreasing apart from China https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
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by robjan 5y ago
I'm in HK and I pay HK$150 ($19) for 20GB full speed, unlimited fair usage policy (capped at around 50Mbit/s)
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by robjan 5y ago
I experience exactly the same problem. After hitting the merge button, the UI sometimes reaches a completely inconsistent state.
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by robjan 5y ago
Purely anecdotal. I have seen a few people on HN and Reddit complaining about their outgoing mail being quarantined due to having a sensitive word in it and the support staff reading the email without their consent.
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by robjan 5y ago
Zoho is also an alternative but I have heard stories of questionable privacy practices
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by robjan 5y ago
It's not been free for around a decade now. The free version was mostly a ploy to attract people away from Outlook at the time.
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by robjan 5y ago
Most people recycle passwords. You can say they are doing the wrong thing but it's the reality. When that recycled password inevitably gets pwned, 2FA makes the account more secure.
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by robjan 5y ago
Security is usually a requirement and therefore YAGNI doesn't really apply
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by robjan 5y ago
This is because it's the main route for money going in and out of China. Pretty much all of the commercial activity in Hong Kong is either trading/investing activities with China or facilitating trade/investment in China

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