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931.
by robjan 7y ago
It would also potentially burn your hands.
932.
by robjan 7y ago
From the perspective of a person who uses an alphabetical language, such as English, sure Unicode can be "done". But if your language is based on ideograms, like Chinese, then it'll never be "done". As words are cre
933.
by robjan 7y ago
People who are less at risk of complications have the same / more (because they survive and are more active) risk of spreading the illness.
934.
by robjan 7y ago
There are a two options: first is to do social distancing properly and the virus will naturally die out, the other is to "go on as normal" and eventually most people will be infected. The current low infection rates are because pe
935.
by robjan 7y ago
You will quarantine yourself but will have probably started spreading the virus before you knew you had it.
936.
by robjan 7y ago
Other entities may not forgive the banks for failing to make repayments on their loans. There are also instruments such as bonds and fixed income which may be backed by mortgages.
937.
by robjan 7y ago
Fully aware of that. RH don't even directly connect to the exchange, they use a third party execution broker. Since all securities are affected, it probably actually is their OMS which is malfunctioning.
938.
by robjan 7y ago
Ultimately, RH is backed by a legacy system somewhere. I believe they custom built their OMS (order management system) which was the previous bottleneck but somewhere between RH and the other side of the order is a legacy system that they c
939.
by robjan 7y ago
It's best to avoid timing the market. It could do up x% on Monday or down y%. The people driving the real volume know way more than you or I.
940.
by robjan 7y ago
Use a tissue or, increasingly, gloves.
941.
by robjan 7y ago
Rather than covering everything with dirt, you just have to make everyone believe it. In HK, this has been quite successful. Pretty much everyone refuses to touch the buttons on an elevator, handrails on escalators or the MTR etc.
942.
by robjan 7y ago
Incredimail wasn't an SaaS so the impact isn't particularly high. It's just an email client which can be fairly easily replaced albeit without the ability to add 1990's style backgrounds and large animated emoji to outgo
943.
by robjan 7y ago
I think part of this is a cultural issue with older "traditional" companies. I have worked at such a company and, after introducing Slack, people used it in exactly the same way including cc'ing everyone at the end of the mes
944.
by robjan 7y ago
If many people are doing roughly the same "thing" then surely it makes sense to automate that "thing". It's much like how we don't build and develop software for every business process: we look for an existing
945.
by robjan 7y ago
It's easier to turn a million into a billion than a thousand into a million or ten into ten thousand. All of these are 1000x the original value. So yes, he's not entirely self made. Not even close.
946.
by robjan 7y ago
GP was pointing out that Gates wasn't entirely "self-made", as suggested by GGP. Gates in fact enjoyed opportunities that aren't available to the average American and is therefore not a particularly good example of socia
947.
by robjan 7y ago
South Korea is a developed country so why would you compare it to developing countries?
948.
by robjan 7y ago
How much did it cost to place a trade for a $100 stock previously? RH definitely helped more people gain access to directly trading shares on the stock market, regardless of whether or not they were responsible in doing so.
949.
by robjan 7y ago
Stop loss and stop limit orders are brokerage features.
950.
by robjan 7y ago
This isn't like the common cold. There have been cases of reinfection reported already.
951.
by robjan 7y ago
This site likely started before it was officially named.
952.
by robjan 7y ago
You can always suggest it on their GitHub issues. They also accept PRs. https://github.com/nandiheath/warsinhk
953.
by robjan 7y ago
I suspect that the majority of people value the convenience of being able to instantly see which of their friends are on WhatsApp.
954.
by robjan 7y ago
For a bootstrapped business who is talking about their ~$250/month outgoings it is. The problem is that the expenditure doesn't grow linearly with growth so there will be a window of growth where the company starts achieving &quot
955.
by robjan 7y ago
This particular flat is quite poorly laid out. I'm presuming it's a subdivided flat. That's pretty common where I live but usually the internal walls would all be knocked down and placed more sensibly before renting it out. I
956.
by robjan 7y ago
A lot of these services get quite expensive very quickly once you go over the free threshold. The free plans are just a loss leader to encourage vendor lock-in. For example, I used to use the MixPanel free plan in a project and went over th
957.
by robjan 7y ago
If they start using 320TB / month they will quickly enter "Fair Usage Policy" territory. At that rate of bandwidth usage, Hetzner would be taking a massive loss and other clients would probably be impacted.
958.
by robjan 7y ago
Depends on what real-world businesses and processes the tech are supporting. Most tech doesn't exist in isolation and involves things like manufacturing and logistics. Other tech companies are supported by ads which are funded by the a
959.
by robjan 7y ago
Vaccines are being worked on as we speak but the testing and approval process takes a long time.
960.
by robjan 7y ago
Because there was no emergency and people weren't starving. It just became very inconvenient to go shopping.

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