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by tristanj 9y ago
Are there any voice samples?
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by tristanj 9y ago
The size of the tariff changes. No concrete numbers have been announced, but the tariff may be in the range of ~10-40%. That would mean the actual tariff value is several times smaller than the reported $60B value.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Edit: HN Mods quickly fixed the article, which makes this comment out of date. I really appreciate how quickly mods fix things on this site. Article is wrong, Trump is not announcing $60B in tariffs, he's announcing tariffs on $60B
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For some reason, the thread you linked never hit the front page, however your thread did. How odd. The highest rank that thread got was #39, which is page 2 http://hnrankings.info/16643056/
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by tristanj 9y ago
Something I've been thinking about: why doesn't WeChat, the world's 2nd largest social network with 1B MAU, suffer the issues Facebook is experiencing today? If Facebook became more like WeChat, would they avoid these problem
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by tristanj 9y ago
Most people who live in Mountain View, and silicon valley in general, aren’t tech workers. There are a lot of people working in the services industry, management, finance, marketing, etc or just not working in general (kids spouses or retir
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by tristanj 9y ago
> When I had a paid membership, I got 2 hours cumulative for free over a month. Maybe you are thinking of a different promo? Here’s the one I’m thinking of https://mobike.com/sg/blog/post/mobike-pass This
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by tristanj 9y ago
They don't make money. Ridesharing subsidies are like uber/lyft's but on an even bigger scale. In china, Mobike charges $1.58 per month for unlimited* trips on their ridesharing bikes. Given how their bikes cost ~$100 each, a
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by tristanj 9y ago
Investors want to replicate the massive success of overseas bikesharing companies. Ofo has over 60m users, Mobike has over 100m users. These companies are worth billions and do over 50m trips per day. Helmets, legality, and legislation hav
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I don't find $100m that surprising, and honestly don't think it's enough. They need the cash to expand to new cities. Motorized scooters are not cheap at all and cost $200-$300 each.
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There are multiple cases where people commit crimes so they can get free prison medical care, so yes the incentives are out of wack.
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by tristanj 9y ago
The paper does not say, however I did find a source speculating why: The reason doctors administered yeast is simple – it was his only source of protein, and without it, the body starts eating its own muscle tissue. Without any form of pro
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by tristanj 9y ago
Related: Results of a 382 day voluntary fast https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2495396/ (1973) This patient's initial weight was 207 kilograms, and over the course of a year he lost 125 kilogr
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by tristanj 9y ago
I would not worry about it. In a decade or so when this becomes a common problem, expect the major tech companies to come up with their own automated process to handle this. Whatever system you come up with now will probably be obsolete in
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Technically no. Martha Stewart went to prison for making false statements, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. She was never charged with insider trading.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16271005 (1 month ago, 268 points)
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by tristanj 9y ago
Do we really need a quantum internet though? Our current non-quantum encryption system honestly works very well. Symmetric encryption is statistically unbreakable at large enough key sizes. Using a brute-force attack on a 256-bit AES key, i
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by tristanj 9y ago
The title is a bit misleading. This directive seems to target 3rd party H-1B contractors such as Tata and Infosys, rather than 'High Tech' companies that directly hire engineers such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Companies that
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by tristanj 9y ago
This is an update to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815811 ( Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS ) from 3 months ago.
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I have no idea why it's on the site. Content is complete clickbait, the whole interview is a sham. Skip to 5 mins in and interviewees + the audience all stand up and start synchronized dancing.
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wizzard0, why didn't you use the original title, as per HN guidelines? Your title doesn't match what I read from the article at all. Environment is only mentioned once and culture isn't mentioned at all.
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This article is missing the key part where China blocked and limited products by major foreign tech giants such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft et al so homegrown Chinese variants could flourish.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16362085
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https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9227541
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Dupe, there's already an active discussion with 250+ points on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16392608
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Points < 40 and #comments > #points. Seems like that post was inadvertently killed by the flame war detector.
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>has been doing with all their raised VC VC money is not the intent of this program. Airbnb is trying to capitalize on the hundreds of millions of dollars in customer deposits they hold every day. Instead of letting this money sit in a b
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This is not a whatsapp hack. I cannot read spanish, but it sounds like this 'whatsapp exploit' involves downloading Android malware that installs a 3rd party keyboard that acts as a keylogger. The keylogger is used to record whate
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I'd bet most of the money is going to their employees. Asana offers great perks. Higher than average salaries, free meals, "unlimited" vacation, paid maternity/paternity leave. New employees also get $10,000 to furnish t
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> A U.S. citizen who was born abroad is not foreign This is a relatively tiny demographic. About 50,000 US babies per year are born abroad. Compared to over 4 million native births per year. So about ~1.2%.

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