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by robjan 4y ago
Same in Hong Kong. Recently Impossible, Beyond and (our local equivalent) OmniFoods have been introduced to almost all restaurant menus. It's died down a bit, but still quite popular. And this is the place with the highest meat consump
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by robjan 4y ago
If it's gatekeeping, it's also hypocritical since the article is in blog format.
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by robjan 4y ago
The Tor tunnel will go through the VPN tunnel and terminate on your device, not at the VPN provider.
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by robjan 4y ago
It's a thing, especially in developing countries. You often get xGB data with an additional xGB social media data.
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by robjan 4y ago
You'd be surprised how many there are though. It's often quite easy to trace the seller using the Companies House website which now allows free company lookups. The companies are often held by a chain of UK based shell companies a
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by robjan 4y ago
It depends on the type of book. Tutorials are more like recipes from a recipe book, they help you achieve a specific outcome but don't necessarily teach the underlying reason or background information.
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by robjan 4y ago
HSBC Hong Kong is actively promoting this. Just say "I will need your help with something" and you're in.
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by robjan 4y ago
My Hotmail account from the 90s is still receiving emails
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by robjan 4y ago
There's no legal protections. Anyone can apply to be on the PSL.
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by robjan 4y ago
That's great until they get bored of running the service and you've now lost all of the aforementioned which are dependent on their domain.
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by robjan 4y ago
The page explains that Japan is ranked highly "masculine" because of how competitive the society is. > What you see is a severe competition between groups. From very young age at kindergartens, children learn to compete on spor
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by robjan 4y ago
Most index funds are quite transparent about their constituent assets. The purpose of index investing is to capture the market as a whole which includes assets held by the few people who make their millions / billions and the many othe
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by robjan 4y ago
So in other words, gambling. Some will win, many will lose.
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by robjan 4y ago
It's the same after any accident. presumably lessons have been learned, procedures improved and people more vigilant.
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by robjan 4y ago
AIs are not going to take your job (but may change the nature) for the forseeable future and a degree in Computer Science is still valuable. It's always valuable to diversify your skillset but in general it's highly likely that yo
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by robjan 4y ago
If you use the Blockchain you still need to legislate such that whatever is on the chain is legally binding then create an agency to enforce it.
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by robjan 4y ago
The final destination is unlikely China. Usually these phones are then transported to Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong or Guangzhou and from there flown back in a suitcase to various countries in Africa. https://www.ft.com/co
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by robjan 4y ago
It's a bad translation of 水軍 which is short for 網絡水軍 (astroturfers)
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by robjan 4y ago
It depends on the other party's privacy settings. You can set it to display the profile picture to Everyone or Contacts.
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by robjan 4y ago
We've been having this problem in Singapore for a couple of years now. Can't add any VMs to our k8s cluster and can't provision a number of services which made our multi-region BCP more complicated.
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by robjan 4y ago
He's choosing to use his talents this way
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by robjan 4y ago
I think it's a cultural thing. We Europeans are just more used to driving manual transmission vehicles.
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by robjan 4y ago
For that to work the destination server, in this case Gmail, would have to know to deliver mail addressed to me@domain.com into your Gmail mailbox. In this example it's a limitation on the Gmail side. Domains and subdomains are handled
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by robjan 4y ago
Could also be the Alter Ego Effect (there's a book with the same title about it).
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by robjan 4y ago
All of this is predicated on Twitter remaining accessible, or existing at all, in the medium to long term which is seeming increasingly less likely.
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by robjan 4y ago
That sounds like an easy way to crack the windscreen
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by robjan 4y ago
What's your connection? Most of your posts and comments are about Notesnook
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by robjan 4y ago
Pretty sure the NextStand is a whitelabel product inspired by Roost. You can also buy them from TaoBao for a couple of dollars or AliExpress for around US$15 in the 11.11 sale [0]. Disclaimer: I haven't bought this particular listing,
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by robjan 4y ago
Airline intercoms are usually analogue systems with no state or access restrictions other than physical.
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by robjan 4y ago
I have two dedicated home internet IPs (one iCable fibre and a China Mobile 5G fallback/quarantine WiFi) and get these "checking if your internet connection is secure" interstitials all the time now. Also see them on my HKBN

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