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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
The bigger question is, Can China build any alliance ? Thus far, the one and only country in the world China has seen fit to form an actual alliance with is North Korea, but those relations are strained. At the moment, the PRC has territor
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I'd much rather work with a developer proficient with C, Java, JS, React, DDD and a deep knowledge of Unix than someone who has spent the majority of their time on JS, Backbone/Knockout/Angular/Ember/React/Vue&
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Google Voice Assistant will be a true success when can talk its way to Google's own support for a user who has lost access to an account!
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Google has willfully abdicated its responsibility to the hundreds of millions of people whose digital lives they manage. Whether the product is paid in cash or the erosion of privacy, this kind of failure can ruin lives. People choose to re
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
A fractal abomination.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> Nobody actually cares about any of this... It’s just shifting power centers and really all comes down to corporate profits. Europe has made this mistake before. Appeasing a totalitarian, expansionist dictator works well, abruptly to th
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
And it has failed spectacularly in the case of China... for decades.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> By staying at Facebook your friends are explicitly supporting these and other scummy actions. They have decided to hold their noses and prioritise themselves over humanity. > Think less of them. Given their explicit support of scumm
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
A billion+/year would be reasonable, considering what they've done with Android.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I think confounded makes some good points.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> Print journalism is interesting in the same way college teaching jobs are interesting: a great deal of the work is done by an underclass of marginally employed people (freelancers with no contract in journalism, adjuncts with no tenur
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Because the GDPR requirements are vague, overreaching, at odds with best practise and not yet even implemented by the misguided legislature that wrote it.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
California isn't the state for you, then.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Their behaviour is more defensive in nature, really.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Talk to your representatives and let them know the pain the vague and overreaching GDPR causes you. Perhaps, in time, law makers will undo some of the harm they've caused. Until then, invest in a VPN that lets you appear to be from els
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I don't begrudge losing the karma to share facts that violate our shared expectations. The view I have on it is that in China, there is a large and growing interest in large, long-term investment in new technologies and new ideas. Obvi
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Ah the joys of HN. Here is a source for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWpvgTH9oI&t=25m27s
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
It is telling that the defining book of the decade on tech startups— Zero to One was a runaway best-seller in China but didn't even sell 50,000 copies in India. India has, perhaps, relied too heavily on the 1 to N promise of globalisa
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
As a wise person once said, "You might love nature, but nature doesn't give a fuck about you." They'd gladly "snack on your dog" or your child, given the opportunity.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
> That's because German vendors are hopeless at processing cards. >Australia/HK/Singapore/China/most of Europe: the reader prompts you with the sale amount. You tap your card. It adds zero time to the transact
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I agree. Many who don the mantle of being "liberal" are anything but. A small percentage of people have genuine ideological commitments, but most are driven by self-interest.
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I think there are two issues they have, one of which I agree with: 1) We should support and rely upon state assistance, not charity. 2) Religious organizations present an inherent level of risk, have a special tax status and must be constra
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
GDPR is a train-wreck. I'm fully behind the motives, but like many high-level initiatives it has the effect of further tilting the playing field in favour of incumbents who have the financial and legal resources to accommodate it. Euro
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
This is, in effect, an exploit against vulnerabilities in US anti-trust law. Using dominance in online commerce and computing infrastructure to undercut food sellers is exactly the kind of problem anti-trust laws are meant to stop. Amazon i
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
This comment further validates the concern. If regularly countering demonstrably false propaganda encountered within threads is "national battle" that gets an account limited, but the demonstrably false propaganda itself is accept
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
pmarca had two separate $1B+ exits and the invention of the first mainstream web browser under his belt
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
1. Which years? 2. I've seen it happen countless times. With the exception of pg himself, who displayed an allergy to politics or anything that got in his way of attempting to discover truth, I believe every HN moderator his sit firm
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
I believe pg, pmarca and many of the others went from Reddit to HN to Twitter to more private lives. If the question is "what site in early 2018 most resembles HN of 2006", I believe the answer is Indie Hackers. Its community is o
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
To me, it serves as a powerful cautionary tale. Ten years ago, it was a vibrant community where pg, pmarca, DHH, and many other quite accomplished individuals commented regularly. It's not like that now. The elves have left middle eart
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by whatyoucantsay 8y ago
Greatest domain name ever submitted.

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