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by sfifs 8y ago
> On other hand, this is such a double standard. China would likely prefer that it be as hard for expat Chinese to get financial access given the sheer amount of capital illicitly flowing out. However, the Vancouvers of the world want th
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by sfifs 8y ago
Yes. However the business objective isn't finding people with interest in Japan. The objective is to reach people who would likely be interested in buying exotic candy. The further removed from your objective the marketing vehicle is,
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by sfifs 8y ago
As a marketing analytics & research person, I think the biggest issue here is that the WHY of choosing to reach out to cosplay YouTubers isn't clear. Why would people watching cosplay videos like to order candy from Japan? As oppo
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by sfifs 8y ago
I actually did some qualitative research on this recently. What i found was that while viewers very much know most stuff is sponsored, they try to assess signals of authenticity when looking at these
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AIG's collapse had nothing to do with life insurance. It was driven by a division called AIG Financial Products which wrote the infamous credit default swaps together with equity based lending. Arguably it reinforces the learning that
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by sfifs 8y ago
> It is hard to believe that an adverse mortality shock big enough to rock Pru could be absorbed by reinsurance capital. If you have an adverse mortality rate problem big enough to shake a highly regulated industry like life insurance (t
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by sfifs 8y ago
Reasonably good notes & it syncs nicely with the desktop OneNote app.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Yup since OneNote has became really good, I find myself nowadays predominently going to meetings with just my phone and no laptop or paper notebook. What would be amazing is a way for easily connecting phones to HDMI. I see others using tab
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by sfifs 8y ago
> This opinion is hard to swallow. This is not . at . all true. I used to think so too. Then I saw how my child learns stuff with far greater command of underlying concepts and connections through video and realized it's probably ju
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> Disgustingly, society thanked Pirate Bay for their sacrifices by switching to a closed, paid, corporatized service called Spotify. Or maybe what society actually values is different from what they believed it values or should value. Ma
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by sfifs 8y ago
Generally if you run your own server at any reasonable volume, you will be blocked by anti-spam algorithms and once your domain makes a blacklist, it's very difficult to get it reinstated.
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by sfifs 8y ago
> say history is events and people. Electric cars are something every company will have in the next That's one view of history - popular in common discourse and historians. Another view of history is that it is largely driven by eco
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by sfifs 8y ago
Hmm context matters I guess... folks I'm referring to have generally been together for a decade... So they may have a somewhat different take on relationship.
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by sfifs 8y ago
> That's a tough sell for any relationship, and if you ask me the real hero of this story is his partner who believed in him enough to support him all the way to the end. I'm very surprised you feel that way. It's actually
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Not quite sure what you are looking for but Go was one of the first languages about 7-8 years ago that had unit testing, benchmarking and code coverage built into the standard library and tooling. The unique implementation of automatically
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by sfifs 8y ago
He may have not insider traded but market manipulation is also a crime. It is on record that Elon was looking to hurt short sellers and making materially false statements about the company can be easily argued to be a criminal act used to
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by sfifs 8y ago
> Personally, I would say they belong to the 20% most complicated build toolchains I have encountered I actually agree which is why I used that as a comparison. Over a million developers deal with it every day of their work lives and the
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by sfifs 8y ago
Actually I recently bought a Spartan 7 based FPGA board after taking the nand2tetris course and started playing with the free version of the Vivado suite. If your complaint is principle based on the stuff being non free software, then it h
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by sfifs 8y ago
Or get a low cost international roaming data plan. Nothing is blocked if you are on international roaming because essentially your traffic is tunneled to your home country carrier.
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It's just an extra USB cable. Charges perfectly well with Samsung's charger
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> The worst that WhatsApp can see is "who's talking to who Not really, given keys are centrally managed, it is fairly straightforward for WhatsApp to setup MITM intercept. In fact they don't even need to push a malicious c
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by sfifs 8y ago
Well Airpods work perfectly well with my Galaxy S8. You don't need Apple phones to use them. And my S8 also has 3.5mm jack for when my 2 hour calls exhaust the airpods battery or when I want to push a drum track from my phone synth to
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Na is the chemical symbol for sodium. What's strange in the statement?
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Sure here https://www.tesla.com/support/home-charging-installation#out... Most home electricity installations have circuit breakers @ 15 Amps where I live. Wiring typically rated to a max 20 Amps draw before overheatin
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Well the obvious answer is parking spots will need to get electrified. Most new condos where I live already come with enough electrical provision pre-planned to electrify parking spots if needed and old ones are considering adding provisio
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In other words combining energy density, efficiency difference and lighter construction enabled by electric engines, the effective energy density gap is about 1 order of magnitude. In terms of engineering development over medium term, that
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Generally because of much wider device driver support
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Well Samsung customer service tends to be uniformly excellent in my experience (several instances over the years across two countries) It boggles my mind why anyone would choose Google contract manufactured hardware when a real hardware com
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> I also have a young family so I need to be careful with my time commitments Find a better paying job if needed. Taking time out of family time when kids are young is something you will definitely regret later - as do some of my friends
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Paper ballots are safe only if everything else around the election is safe. It's very easy to stuff fake ballot papers into the ballot box or take out ballots you don't like by unsealing the box. If you don't like the way a c

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