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by usaar333 8y ago
AliPay only accepts foreign credit cards for Taobao purchases. You can't use them for in-person purchases; I verified this with Alipay's support team when I found I was being blocked in China.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> I can just give anybody 20 bucks without any third party involved Well, sure, if the good costs $20. If it doesn't, hope they have change. Or you have change. And carrying around tons of change is definitely painful.
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by usaar333 8y ago
Where did you go? In Shanghai, there are grocery stores that only take Alipay - even some vending machines only take Alipay (no cash)
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by usaar333 8y ago
> Ironically I recently realized tourists visiting China might be victim of this too. If you're coming to China you won't be able to do much until you open a bank account and get a local phone number. Just visited China a few w
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by usaar333 8y ago
Ya, I have no idea how someone parallel parks a manual (w/out hill assist) on a 15% grade; I personally have to keep one foot on the break and one foot on the accelerator!
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by usaar333 8y ago
> I wonder if Google employee accounts were to be considered business G Suite-like instead of consumer Gmail like, all these kinds of problems that constantly keep popping up for G Suite customers wouldn't be fixed overnight. I&#x27
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by usaar333 8y ago
It's changed a lot since I used it (and Uber China - https://medium.com/@usaar33/using-uber-in-china-a-case-study... ) two years ago. They now have a txt message system that should be relied on: 1. It has translati
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by usaar333 8y ago
As an aside, I just got back from China and found Didi, at least as a tourist, to have really improved in the past couple years. Accepts foreign CCs, very good English translation in app, and text based translation to communicate with drive
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by usaar333 8y ago
On the downside, the m subdomain makes for terrible social media posting. E.g. a commenter using Wikipedia's mobile site posts a link to said page and desktop viewers are unexpectedly taken to the mobile, not desktop, page.
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by usaar333 8y ago
> Nonko team decided to take advantage of this pattern by secretly providing some of Nonko’s customers with training accounts instead of live ones and simply pocketing those customers’ deposits. Seems like a really dangerous move it they
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by usaar333 8y ago
I'm not following your numbers. Max social security contribution is $16000 a year. 30 years of contributions at 4% return gives $1m; at 8%, $1.8m
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by usaar333 8y ago
> We aren’t talking anecdotally about “people you know”. Agreed, I'm raising anecdotes as I haven't seen any data users frequently update. Quick search shows https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statist
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by usaar333 8y ago
Might I ask what demographic group you are in? I personally am in the "founding generation of FB" (now a early 30s engineer in the US) and it's obvious to me that at least the people I know aren't giving data that much t
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by usaar333 8y ago
> Facebook knows more about its users because users tell it about themselves I'd be surprised if Google doesn't know more about its users than Facebook. Google (theoretically) has access to its users' email, physical locat
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by usaar333 8y ago
ah, what is the earliest age a kid will travel without adult supervision in the Netherlands?
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by usaar333 8y ago
> Rape was not a crime in France until 1980 This source seems.. questionable. Also this uses reported rapes, which are affected by culture of reporting and how broadly rape is defined. That Sweden, with one of the highest levels of gend
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by usaar333 8y ago
Almost any kid that can use an electric scooter can already bicycle. A scooter is barely even faster than a bike on flat ground. A kid under the age of 8 (half the population of children) isn't going to be taking solo trips.
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by usaar333 8y ago
Safety concerns are also a huge issue with motorcycle adoption.
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by usaar333 8y ago
The purpose of loans is that the private sector should be able to better evaluate college ROI than a government agency and offers/prices appropriately. Admittedly, government loan backing breaks this model. (Also it doesn't help t
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by usaar333 8y ago
> The problem would be solved in a week. Solved in what way though? The end solution state might be one where loans are less available, further entrenching generational income inequality.
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by usaar333 8y ago
The actual emissions aren't too controversial (calculator I used ends up ~50% higher), but the offsetting price is very controversial. (source I linked to seems to use $30/ton, 3x United's) The problem with a voluntary offset
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by usaar333 8y ago
That's simply because higher classes occupy more space and thus proportionately are responsible for a higher percent of emissions. https://www.myclimate.org/fileadmin/myc/files_myc_perf/12_fl...
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by usaar333 8y ago
I'm using 1.5 tons/ticket. Source: https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new
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by usaar333 8y ago
> After all, a carbon offset for a round-trip cross-country commercial flight is about $10 which can at least mitigate that impact. That uses an offset price of $7/ton, which seems rather low. Otherwise, offsetting the world's
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by usaar333 8y ago
Are you aware that all people die?
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by usaar333 8y ago
Right, but employer normally won't offer a number pre interview. So the dynamics are tricky to expect them to give you a number while not offering one yourself. The article doesn't touch on how to pull that off. Have you been suc
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by usaar333 8y ago
> It's theoretically optimal not to give the first number. Only if you ignore transaction costs of the interview process. Unless you feel you can get their numbers before you start, it may be worth the time savings to give up some
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by usaar333 8y ago
Plenty of people, especially engineers with families, have lifestyle costs that exceed what a startup will comp in cash. (Lifestyle is supported by current job offering bonuses or liquid equity).
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by usaar333 8y ago
I suppose it matters what type of activity you have. For most people doing equity-only trades in a single brokerage, the IRS can handle things themselves. There are ways to make things exceedingly complex: 1. Have activity cross-brokerage (
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by usaar333 8y ago
Stock transactions make your taxes very not boring. Pub 550 ( https://www.irs.gov/publications/p550 ) is one of the most complicated areas of personal income tax.

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