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by robjan 6y ago
Nonsense. HKers and TW people welcome each other with open arms.
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by robjan 6y ago
That's Wordpress.com or Tumblr
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by robjan 6y ago
Your browser sends an accept-language request header so JavaScript isn't needed to determine the wanted language. My browser sends "en-GB" in this header but Google always defaults to Chinese because I am using a Hong Kong IP
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by robjan 6y ago
In most democracies (or allusions thereof) political parties each release a manifesto before elections. Most people don't read them.
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by robjan 6y ago
For most transactions, not being included in the next block is unacceptable.
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by robjan 6y ago
If they use a third party mail provider like Gsuite or Fastmail that won't work. If they really want to hide their IP they would do this or entirely avoid MX records.
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by robjan 6y ago
There are many ways. Boat; train; bus and, yes, flying. International commerce will not stop forever and as long as that's true people will travel.
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by robjan 6y ago
That really depends. Many many people live in world cities where public transport is cramped and people from all over the world come and go in a constant stream.
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by robjan 6y ago
Other countries and territories are also heading towards eradication. There is talk of an alliance between these places forming with free travel inside the alliance but locked down to people from outside.
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by robjan 6y ago
If you're so sure of that, I hope you are shorting the market.
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by robjan 6y ago
I doubt Dropbox have seen a significant drop in paying subscribers or increase in costs in the wake of the coronavirus.
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by robjan 6y ago
Clickbait title for the actual article which is "I don't like the TG bot platform docs" The other complaint is that the API doesn't use REST properly. Judging from the docs, it looks like a JSON interface for a SOAP API.
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by robjan 6y ago
I feel that having a specialism is more a more marketable headline early on in your career (e.g. I am a React Developer). As you become more senior the expectation is for you to take on additional roles such as hiring, coaching and mentorin
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by robjan 6y ago
Why? Before you buy shares you can easily find out what class of shares they are and whether they have voting rights. Any shareholders without voting rights voluntarily chose to buy part of the company with less or no rights.
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by robjan 6y ago
This post makes no-code feel like an MLM. Half of the highlighted startups are no-code startups founded to teach about no-code.
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by robjan 6y ago
This is blog spam. The original article is http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2020/04/17/studio-ghibli-video-c... Which points to the actual images located on http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013251&#x
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by robjan 6y ago
The S&P500 is an index of some of the best performing companies in the US. Their performance isn't completely correlated with the broader market. Additionally, this damage to the economy is not permanent, most companies in that ind
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by robjan 6y ago
The problem with WhatsApp is that the other participants in a given chat are likely to back up the conversation to Google Drive of iCloud which defeats the purpose of E2E encryption. And, of course, the metadata.
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by robjan 6y ago
You don't need to use JSX in order to use React; it's just syntactic sugar. https://reactjs.org/docs/react-api.html#createelement
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by robjan 6y ago
We don't even know if the creator is alive
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by robjan 6y ago
Yes, and there was plenty of opportunity for someone to develop a client that scratches all of those itches. But they didn't.
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by robjan 6y ago
I used to drink very little but then the office reduced the friction of getting a cup of coffee by installing a machine which grinds and brews espresso. Now I am on 3-5 cups per day but slowly reducing my intake.
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by robjan 6y ago
What you just said can't be packaged up and sold as training courses or countless books, which is why it hasn't prevailed.
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by robjan 6y ago
The site has blocked Hong Kong (and possibly other) IP addresses for some reason. Here's an archive link https://archive.is/wip/OFF0F
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by robjan 7y ago
In the UK landlines almost always start with 01 or 02 so it's easy to identify who is using a landline. You can also go through the phone book (which only lists landlines) looking for "elderly" names. People who don't bo
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by robjan 7y ago
Theoretically yes. It was quite annoying back in the days when people used to pocket dial you. From what I remember, repeatedly pressing the button under the receiver in quick succession eventually disconnects the call.
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by robjan 7y ago
Maybe everyone doesn't have 401k, but pretty much every pension scheme around the world is in some way linked to the performance of the stock and bond markets. Even the ones that aren't rely on people being employed and paying tax
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by robjan 7y ago
Can still post them. We have Google translate.
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by robjan 7y ago
This same conclusion has been posted many many times but the actual answer is "horses for courses". Everyone has their own preferred working style.
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by robjan 7y ago
Also Line, which is also used in many parts of East Asia.

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