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by swang 11y ago
I mean what you're saying is correct, but I never said China instantly switched everyone over to simplified once China decided in the 50s/60s. I am saying the superpower it has since become has "forced" most other countr
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by swang 11y ago
After looking this up, yeah you are right. I just assumed there was a conversion of Traditional->Simplified for the most part because I had noticed earlier in my life that most of the written forms of kanji (I saw) were written in tradit
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by swang 11y ago
Which "Chinese"? Your point seems to miss where the pride lays. There is a lot infighting since the Communist in the 50s/60s decided to create simplified Chinese. Traditionalists would argue that simplified Chinese writing is
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by swang 11y ago
Anyone shed some light on whether there is any validity, or is it just Gillette trying to scare DSC and their customers?
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by swang 11y ago
Is this why Amazon waited a day before alerting me that my card was declined (bad month/year)? Almost missed a shipping window because of it.
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by swang 11y ago
The way you described it sounded like you just randomly wake up in the middle of the night, which _can_ be related to sleep apnea. If you're waking up that easily it _could_ also mean that you're not going into deep and REM sleep
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by swang 11y ago
What on earth are you talking about? The MGS series was a big money maker for Konami. Hint: You don't get to make 5 major console games (+Ground Zeroes), 4 portable games (2 Acid series, POOPS :D, and Peace Walker) if the games didn&#x
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by swang 11y ago
Isn't that what they're trying to do? Spin off all of Yahoo's current business into a new company, leaving current Yahoo with just the shares of Alibaba.
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by swang 11y ago
Or maybe something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk
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by swang 11y ago
Thought this would address something in regards to their workers' wages. Guess I was too optimistic.
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by swang 11y ago
I find it eerily odd that that pencil making article was posted on HN a couple of weeks ago.
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by swang 11y ago
1. Manpads are already pretty common 2. A-10 has both jamming and flare countermeasures against infrared. 3. Anything terrorist groups can acquire are probably going to be infrared MANPADs. My guess is ISIL would probably have acquired MANP
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by swang 11y ago
This is similar to Facebook's "BigPipe"[0] right? 0: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-...
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by swang 11y ago
I wonder if a big problem is that Yahoo couldn't really plant their flag on (for example) video and completely change the company towards that rapidly. Too many people still use the current version of their site and changing that could
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by swang 11y ago
So their decision is because of a tech-stack switch (Cassandra to their own Manhattan)[0]. Redoing it in Manhattan apparently is too resource intensive and not enough users care about it for them to devote those resources to the project. My
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by swang 11y ago
this makes the assumption that previous software was more robust at preventing this than running node.js as a backend.
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by swang 11y ago
1. dowries is money that the bride's family gives to the groom's family. you are thinking of bride price. 2. often times the dowry and bride price will mostly offset each other. 3. this already happens in china. it is so bad that
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by swang 11y ago
I know the facts plenty well, thanks. Ignoring how terrible the prosecution prosecuted the case (going for 2nd degree murder) and the terrible law that is Stand Your Ground, of course he would never be found guilty of 2nd degree murder. But
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by swang 11y ago
It is rent-seeking I guess if you think they will actually get $15 million, and don't think they deserve a dime. I think there should be some kinda of punitive damage for the school because of their actions. I don't think it'
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by swang 11y ago
If the things you stated are true: that Ahmed did not make the clock, that Ahmed's father is a politician (I guess your implication is that politicians will throw their children under the bus for publicity?), and that the sister was al
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by swang 11y ago
The "American Way" part was a joke. But it wasn't a hoax dude. It actually happened. He got arrested for pretty much _no_ reason whatsoever. There are two separate events 1. Ahmed was arrested for a pretty dumb thing and most
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by swang 11y ago
I am really confused by the negative reactions because it seems like Ahmed's family is following the American Way by suing for $15 million. But seriously, isn't this how it always has been with incidents like this? If they want to
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by swang 11y ago
How do you charge someone with a "bomb hoax" unless someone initially assumed there was an actual threat of a bomb? Can you just somehow jump straight to "bomb hoax"? Why do you need to call the police for a bomb threat
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by swang 11y ago
Neither of your examples were the kids ever arrested. So they suspect he has a bomb, but don't evacuate the school? If someone calls into a school and says there is a bomb, they evacuate regardless of whether its a hoax or not. Also yo
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by swang 11y ago
Hi mraleph, if you're still reading this thread, how are you getting these result? Is worrying about this for normal web apps just a micro-optimization or can you see instances where this would affect an application's speed signif
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by swang 11y ago
Just checked this using mitmproxy. My United MileagePlus Account is definitely there. Also, you need a valid MP#, and the # is not sequential (nor all numbers). At least they're using https. Edit: Also annoying the app keeps making cal
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by swang 11y ago
The joke/trope about MTV not playing any music was alive and well when I finally got MTV around '98 or so when I was in high school. TRL was the show that was on when I got home from school. I remember when Eminem first was shown
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by swang 11y ago
Source? I do not recall anything about DB Cooper in regards to the money other than the money that was found in the river in the 1980s and was later sold in 2008. And that has been the only source of serial numbers matching the ones found i
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by swang 11y ago
Curious why they aren't using hardware RNGs?
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by swang 11y ago
A bit off-tangent. Does anyone remember a really old game (probably pre-2000) where you are some dude stranded on a remote planet and you have these robots that you could code to do tasks (like mine, defend from alien attack?) I remember yo

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