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by sho 8y ago
Firstly, it's not "genocide" at all - that's typical hyperbole from a very politically motivated party. His next quote reveals his definition of genocide: > “They want to erase, erase, erase your identity and our cult
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by sho 8y ago
It's hard to defend China here but it's also hard to see how they are supposed to handle the Uyghur question, and articles like this certainly don't give useful suggestions. What do you do with a region full of separatist agi
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by sho 8y ago
Amusingly, even the Thais often don't spell baht "correctly". I'm there right now and see prices specified any number of ways: 100 บาท (in the local language) 100 B 100 ฿ 100 BAHT 100 BATH (disturbingly comm
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by sho 8y ago
You're being downvoted, probably for the flip Tiananmen Square reference, but I think there's a lot of truth to it. The Chinese are not dumb - they know a lot of bad stuff went down back in the day, and they're not supposed t
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by sho 8y ago
I have my own issues with Singapore but the picture you're painting is ludicrously off-base. $100 a month? No-one, literally no-one, is paid that. There's no such thing as a society without any injustice but in my experience the v
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by sho 8y ago
I don't know which hotels you went to but that is bizarre. All water in Japan is safe to drink and, furthermore, is some of the best drinking water on earth IMO. You probably misunderstood, or perhaps the hotel staff were all sharing t
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by sho 8y ago
It's certainly not only Chinese, although perhaps the author lumps all asians into that category. It's certainly very common in China and South East Asia. I actually find it quite interesting. At some point, it's true, the ho
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by sho 8y ago
> can you give us a definition of "modern" Ah, I should have probably said "airports with modern equipment" as I presume this stuff is susceptible to periodic updates regardless of the age of the airport. I suppose it
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by sho 8y ago
> they're going to ... do what, exactly? I can tell you exactly what they do as this happened to me ~9 months ago when I had inadvertently left an e-cigarette in a checked suitcase. I was indeed paged (I was airside) to report to a
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by sho 8y ago
> The US is a close ally of Taiwan Heh. Exactly how close an ally is yet to be tested in any meaningful way. No U.S. aircraft carrier group has transited the Taiwan Strait since 2007. Some would forecast that no U.S. carrier group will t
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by sho 8y ago
> Tinder now bans your account for life if you ever change phone numbers Huh? I've got at least 5 different SIM cards for various countries and I've never noticed any issue with Tinder. I didn't even know it used your phon
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by sho 8y ago
> look at Django and Rails for inspiration. People love to hate them You'll always get some portion of the community hating whatever's on top. Even in 2018, if your startup isn't using one of these two, you'd better h
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by sho 8y ago
> It's better to demand cash upfront, period In my experience the vast majority of businesses will not entertain the idea of cash up front, period. I bet that you wouldn't either. If you were building a house, and the builder d
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by sho 8y ago
Right. I have been in a disturbing number of these fucking companies. The value attached to "I am going to absolutely lose my shit if I have to put up with this for another second" is underrated IMO. He had FU money already. They
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by sho 8y ago
Ironically, in telling you that you don't have a clue what "pedantic" means, I'm being slightly pedantic.
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by sho 8y ago
> it’s actually kind of hard to find really good American style pizza here And when she was good, she was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid I have to admit Japan is weird like that. Food is either world class
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by sho 8y ago
What an outstanding example of positive second order effects from the advance of technology - in this case, drones. This project might not even be possible without the advent of cheap consumer quadcopters. I love it. With all the negativity
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by sho 8y ago
> the design and quality of manufacturing is on par with Apple You've got to be joking. Huawei is decent for the money but it is not even in the same ballpark as Apple. In the everyday experience of owning and using the device the i
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by sho 8y ago
> it is a novelty I'm sure those millions of people who have hospital-grade ECG machines at home have no need for this toy, but for those few who don't, it sounds like an absolute game-changer that could really save lives. The
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by sho 8y ago
You can't stop it. Even if Brexit was reversed - which I doubt even possible - Britain has been shown to be a source of political risk. That isn't going away.
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by sho 8y ago
Exactly. I've also been involved with read-heavy Rails sites serving well in excess of 1000reqs/sec, and I know that others sites (Shopify et al) do way more. As you point out, it's all about having an intelligent caching str
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by sho 8y ago
> I struggle with how to say "both Ruby and Rails are poor technology choices" without sounding ranty Probably because you offer no evidence whatsoever, a typical characteristic of rants? I could entertain an argument that Rail
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by sho 8y ago
Of course it is. The question is kind of silly. For basically any startup, my advice would be: unless and until you can credibly explain a genuine reason why you can't use Rails - use Rails. I'm not some crazy fanboy but until som
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by sho 8y ago
Hit the nail on the head. Decades of underinvestment in critical infrastructure has left the whole system vulnerable to even small influxes. Driving down the eastern seaboard of Australia one is struck by the hundreds of kilometres of perfe
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by sho 8y ago
They do exactly what you describe. Moving to Adelaide, for example, gets you 5 points. I believe it can be even more for country towns if you possess much-needed skills eg. are a doctor.
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by sho 8y ago
Same situation - blonde haired, blue eyed white guy. For a while I was getting checked on every single flight I took, something like 10 flights in a row. I even asked why, to be told it was random - bullshit. Flipping heads 10 times in a ro
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by sho 8y ago
Care to expand on that? Why was the 1851 Expo a shock?
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by sho 8y ago
Every shelf at your local store filled with imports from that one-party state is pretty new in my book. And "strongman"? What are you basing that on? Saddam Hussein was a "strongman". Xi Jinping is unusually powerful for
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by sho 8y ago
I suspected that most or all of HN basically agrees with your attitude vis-à-vis Facebook and data collection, including your critics here, but that's not the point. The point is that games have Rules, and when you break those Rules, i
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by sho 8y ago
People said that about Japan 40 years, they said that about Korea 20 years ago, and it's already becoming irrelevant about China today. Yes, they caught up by copying, like everyone else did (including the USA). There are now entire pr

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