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by robjan 5y ago
The government of Taiwan does not report into the Chinese Central Government like in Hong Kong. It's controlled by an independent government on disputed land.
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by robjan 5y ago
From what I understand, a lot of the Poundland goods are grey market parallel traded goods. e.g. Colgate toothpaste manufactured in the UK but intended to be distributed in Poland. The manufacturer often sells them at a lower margin in lowe
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by robjan 5y ago
If you need to open up 6 million channels it will create approximately a month worth of transactions at the current rate and will significantly push up the transaction fee.
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by robjan 5y ago
As of just over a year ago they now provide strong read after write consistency which should solve this problem.
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by robjan 5y ago
MSFT dividend yield is nothing to write home about. Less than 1% per year at the moment.
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by robjan 5y ago
What I said is factually accurate. It's mentioned on the homepage of the lightning network website in the "How it Works" section. Why would you challenge my statement when you haven't even read the basic information? ht
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by robjan 5y ago
There have been a number of Chrome extensions which monetize by selling your bandwidth to provide this kind of service. Not ethical but probably not a compromise.
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by robjan 5y ago
They'd still have to open 6M channels which would create the same number of transactions on the Bitcoin Blockchain
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by robjan 5y ago
Market price is based on the price of the last trade in the instrument, not the total money put into it
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by robjan 5y ago
You need to work for an airline and have an airside pass. Generally only other pilots (on or off duty) or cabin crew (on duty) are allowed onto the flight deck. They generally don't want strangers on the flight deck because of security
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by robjan 5y ago
It's the SNOMED code for Covid-19
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by robjan 5y ago
Open source work gives us leverage. It can either be used to demonstrate skills, create consulting work, get you a spot at a big conference or... provide self-fulfilment.
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by robjan 5y ago
They can be a lot cheaper. We commonly use them in HK to stop our flats going mouldy when we are out the house and it's 35C (90-95F) at 80% humidity. It's a lot cheaper, possibly an order of magnitude, than running the air-conditi
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by robjan 5y ago
It's a ploy to make money. Nothing more or less. It turns out that vapid content that you will forget about tomorrow resonates with all societies.
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by robjan 5y ago
The average HK billionaire is rich because of China. They aren't going to bite the hand that feeds them.
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by robjan 5y ago
The risks are that tether brings down whatever currency your short is denominated in. For DeFi, it will be either another token or cryptocurrency.
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by robjan 5y ago
As long as shadow IT is allowed to build their business processes using no-code tools there will be plenty of work for expensive consultants to clean up the mess.
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by robjan 5y ago
Regarding speaking with lots of cultures, I feel the current platforms have bring out the worst in people. Society has been completely divided in many places and well developed democracies undermined by the current incentives to promote and
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by robjan 5y ago
Just bring back DMOZ, it was by no means perfect but was a great curated directory of the old internet despite SEOs always trying to spam it. Apparently Curlie is trying this but I haven't really looked much into it: https:/&#x2F
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by robjan 5y ago
Theranos was FDA approved. The approval alone is meaningless. Without the results of a clinical trial using your device, it's as good as useless.
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by robjan 5y ago
This is quite common in the product world. Even before the internet we had "as seen on TV" where people would go to extreme lengths to get their product mentioned either on some magazine show or, failing that, just an informercial
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by robjan 5y ago
Atlassian products: Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence. They are the tools I use the most and they bog my computer right down especially when connected to a corporate proxy which only supports HTTP 1.
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by robjan 5y ago
Inflation hurts people who hold mostly cash more i.e the poorest in society
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by robjan 5y ago
They are selling the community, not the content. Similarly, when Instagram got bought by Facebook the users didn't get cash and stock
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by robjan 5y ago
The user generated content is under a fairly liberal license so if they restricted access someone could just create a mirror.
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by robjan 5y ago
The whole point of signal is that it's secure and has reasonable UX. As soon as you can start choosing security parameters it becomes unnecessarily complicated for the average person with added scope to mess something up
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by robjan 5y ago
GraphQL is an open standard. If you don't like Apollo which, by the way, is open source; you can choose other libraries. To an extent all technology choices produce some level of lock-in, including REST, otherwise you end up rolling yo
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by robjan 5y ago
A lot of these can be addressed using a combination of Apollo GraphQL and dataloaders. This is especially true if you move most of the hard work to the backend and use optimistic updating on the front-end to improve the user experience.
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by robjan 5y ago
Culture also plays a big part. For instance, in many Hong Kong companies (where I live) people tend to stay until after their manager leaves. If the boss burns the midnight oil, so do the subordinates. If your boss emails you on Sunday whil
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by robjan 5y ago
There is still a male surplus and culturally people still prefer to have boys because they carry their family name. Girls are married out of the family and if your one child is a girl there will be nobody to look after you in your old age.

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