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by robjan 7y ago
There was no supply disruption, in fact the supply increased. The shops just couldn't keep up with huge numbers of people buying more than they needed because they knew that panic buying was taking place.
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by robjan 7y ago
The insecurity was just caused by people literally filling their trolleys with rice as soon as the store opened every day. The government keeps a huge buffer supply which can be released in the event of genuine emergency.
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by robjan 7y ago
Advising people to store food en masses is quite irresponsible. We have had rice, noodle, pasta, bleach and toilet paper shortages for around a month in Hong Kong caused by panic buying triggered by a rumour that there would be a supply dis
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by robjan 7y ago
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by robjan 7y ago
Hong Kong is inside China but not governed directly by PRC. Most non-Chinese citizens need a visa to enter "Mainland China" but not Hong Kong. Most Chinese people need a permit to enter Hong Kong. So, yes, the distinction is usefu
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by robjan 7y ago
"Mainland China" is the internationally accepted way to to distinguish the main part of China from the various Special Administrative Regions and disputed territories. Even the PRC government themselves use this term.
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by robjan 7y ago
Was it a password or secret question like "mother's maiden name"?
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by robjan 7y ago
There is a research area called "Empirical Modelling" which was trying to create these tools but not sure of the progress. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em
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by robjan 7y ago
Even if it takes longer, it's not permanent. Most components of the SP500 and other indices are not going to be bankrupted by this.
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by robjan 7y ago
Stock prices are (generally speaking) about the sentiment of the long term performance of a company. The coronavirus has caused a lot of setbacks but it's only a short term problem. As long as a company can survive this short term loss
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by robjan 7y ago
They accept pull requests: https://github.com/robchahin/sso-wall-of-shame
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by robjan 7y ago
I don't think a school would operate with broken AC
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by robjan 7y ago
Think it's a limitation of the issuer. I use my Hong Kong contactless card all the time for transactions up to 100GBP (the HK$1000 limit set by my bank) and the terminals just accept it.
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by robjan 7y ago
Probably the same thing it does now randomly. The reader says "Please use chip and PIN" then you follow the chip and PIN flow which automatically unlocks your card.
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by robjan 7y ago
The eighth tweet in the story explains the cause
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by robjan 7y ago
Depends on the territory. In Hong Kong all major credit cards plus several local payment processors plus WeChat and AliPay are accepted at McDonald's, for example. They regularly do crossovers and promotions to encourage people to use
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by robjan 7y ago
What are you searching for though? Some people care about the Elm language and some people are looking for information about the tree or location.
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by robjan 7y ago
10TB is a bit extreme but I agree they should be bigger and less pricey (or better, upgradable). Regarding your comparison with nanoSD cards, the technology is completely different. If you want to try, just plug a nanoSD card into your Mac.
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by robjan 7y ago
This is not related. 95th percentile means the top 5% of a group compared with everything else in the group.
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by robjan 7y ago
We don't know the mortality rate yet. Most of the confirmed cases are too recent for the illness to have killed the patients, so expressing the mortality rate as (deaths / confirmed cases) is incorrect. We are also not sure how ma
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by robjan 7y ago
People always report on the layoffs and not the hiring drives. I wouldn't worry too much.
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by robjan 7y ago
Subscribers receive a sharing link which can be used to share articles with friends. They tolerate sharing on HN because it brings in new customers.
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by robjan 7y ago
I live in Hong Kong and in the more built up areas, people honk their horn as soon as the traffic stops moving. It's not uncommon for me to be woken up by someone holding their horn while a minibus unloads it's passengers which is
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by robjan 7y ago
As another HKer, I just think that working practices at many companies in our city are not set up for remote work yet. There is a lot of reliance on micromanagement, paternalism and face-to-face communications. Working from home is too diff
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by robjan 7y ago
It misidentifies Macau as a "developing" region, despite having one of the highest HDI in the world.
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by robjan 7y ago
Not GP but I can give you my experience. SES seems to be a "good enough" solution if you use their API. There are a lot of missing features, such as logging anything other than metadata, which makes it not so useful if you are ope
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by robjan 7y ago
PHP is getting a lot better these days. There is still a lot of clunky legacy syntax but the performance and features are pretty much on par with other scripting languages now.
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by robjan 7y ago
Those services are a lot cheaper per email than fully integrated marketing platforms, such as MailChimp, when you have a lot of subscribers.
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by robjan 7y ago
It's the card network (MasterCard, Visa, AE) that sells your data. They each have their own op out: * https://marketingreportoptout.visa.com/OPTOUT/request.do * https://www.mastercard.us/en-us&#x2F
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by robjan 7y ago
Remember that people travel to and from China. I'm pretty sure it's illegal for a country to prevent its own citizens from returning to their homeland.

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