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by volgo 8y ago
WeChat has basically everything built in. Messenger has been trying to copy features from them, to no adaptability avail. Watch the video of Zuckerberg saying how they need to catch up to Chinese messaging apps.
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by volgo 8y ago
No, what you're talking about is stereotype. You have one experience and apply it to everyone. Imagine if you said that about black people: "black people tend to..." It's unacceptable in polite society, if you're so
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by volgo 8y ago
Very common bias. WeChat and other messaging apps are leaps and bounds more innovative
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by volgo 8y ago
Just because it's hard, and the people running them are sharp and smart, doesn't make it any more righteous or normal. Back in the Colonial times, sharp smart lads went to prestigious military schools and learned the complexities
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by volgo 8y ago
Asians are minorities. Also, Asian subcultures are extremely diverse - East Asian, South East Asian, South Asian, etc. You don't need every single minority involved to be called diverse.
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by volgo 8y ago
Alternative headline: "Netflix stock plunges to only +24% in 90 days"
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by volgo 8y ago
While you're at it, might as well pick up your vegetables straight from the farm, your clothes straight from the factory, and eat your food straight from the restaurant kitchen top? It's value added service that brings convenience
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Ask HN: I’m being asked to be a team lead with no additional salary. Accept it?
4 points by volgo 8y ago|4 comments
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by volgo 8y ago
Are there any reason that the new generation of developers still listen to random people from GNU like this? The organization seems completely irrelevant now. Developers nowadays face very different issue than they did 20-30 years ago.
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by volgo 8y ago
A boolean opinion would be saying whether Japan is "good" or "bad" as a whole. I was commenting specifically on the racism issue. They have amazing technological advancements, but have a major problem as a culture with r
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by volgo 8y ago
And so do weapons, because they can eliminate the very people who are killing civilians. Machine guns and bombs saved millions more Jews from being killed in WWII
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by volgo 8y ago
> But ethnicity, not just nationality, seems to matter a lot in Japan The correct modern terminology for that is racism. Something most people don't know a lot about, because as a culture Japanese tend to be very outwardly polite so
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by volgo 8y ago
Twitter and Facebook are used frequently to track down foreign combatants to be killed. Should people who work there be shamed as well? In fact, those social media sites have been used to manipulate foreign militant uprisings and sway polit
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by volgo 8y ago
Like the reasoning, but not the idea. 1.) The only time new information really comes out is during quarterly earnings, and that's also when prices are most volatile and jumps the most. If you make it annual, then an entire year has gon
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by volgo 8y ago
Whether you like China or not, Islamic fundamentalism is a huge problem to global peace today. Not just in the Middle East, Europe, but also parts of Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Philipphines) and China. The problem is people clinging to old t
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by volgo 8y ago
What about mass incarceration of black people (USA)? Should Apple play nicely with them too?
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by volgo 8y ago
Quality of life is not just about amount of money you earn. It's about your status in society. You can make a ton of money feel low status (ex. oppressed minorities) and your life wouldn't be very good You can make very little mon
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by volgo 8y ago
Because those numbers are thrown out by journalists who don't understand finances. Uber is, and has always been, very financially sound and no where near the "collapse" that the media likes to tout. They're hated (by a s
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by volgo 8y ago
> This isn't on the mainstream media This is blatantly false. It was reported on the BBC and the New York Times, two of the world's biggest mainstream newspapers
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by volgo 8y ago
How do you get 4% cash back without using any of those airline points? I mean straight up cash back
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by volgo 8y ago
It's funny how many people come out in defense of Amazon, compared to when it's done in China. It really reminds me a really wise saying I heard somewhere, that nothing is really sinister or even when it's happening in your o
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ACLU:Amazon Teams Up with Law Enforcement to Deploy New Face Recognition Tech(aclunc.org)
4 points by volgo 8y ago|0 comments
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by volgo 8y ago
Schwab refunds unlimited ATM fee, whereas USAA refunds up to $15. Schwab also has worldwide no foreign transaction fee, something that USAA doesn't have. IMO Schwab is still the best because I travel a lot. There's no downside to
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by volgo 8y ago
I don't think you understand social interactions online very well... People don't say it with a serious tone. It's mostly a friendly jab. It's similar to how people say "Chicago has the best deep dish and anyone who
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by volgo 8y ago
Should ban Apple in response. Would be hilarious
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by volgo 8y ago
The power of compounding interest. If you're 26 years old right now, then you have 70 years to compound your money. Assuming an average of 7% annual return: > x * 1.07 ^ 70 = 8200000 > x = 82000 / 114 > x = 72000 Essentia
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by volgo 8y ago
Imagine that the year is 1999, tech stocks are constantly discussed on HN, and someone says "in a few years most of these companies will be gone". Ha ha ha ha ha.... Today, someone (me) says: in the future, most cryptocurrencies w
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by volgo 8y ago
Love the salty comments on HN everytime China does something great. "Well actualllllly"
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by volgo 8y ago
Yes you are nitpicking. It's like if someone says "paper bags reduce wastes by 50%" and you retort "welllll you still need need factories to make those paper bags." It's literally the definition of nitpicking I
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by volgo 8y ago
They are, you just don't hear about it. Who do you think open all those bars and restaurants and other shops in the city?

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