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by woutr_be 7y ago
In my opinion; the main difference here is that the government entities used bots or paid people to post propaganda. While the pro-democracy non-government camp used their own account to share their views. This I'm okay with. But a goo
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I think it depends, pro-China camp uses bots to share fake news, or out of context articles. While pro-Democracy are just individuals sharing posts where the truth is bend in their favour. I do find it surprising that the pro-Democracy camp
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by woutr_be 7y ago
You're turning this into a political discussion for the sake of discussing politics and pushing your opinion. Nobody is downplaying authoritarian rule, merely pointing out how unaware people are about other people living in different c
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I've been trying it in Asia with Cathay Pacific's Asia miles. I don't really do card churning, although I've opened a few cards just to get the sign up bonus. I only have two credit cards that give me a good cash to poin
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by woutr_be 7y ago
You're missing the point of my comment, and the parent comment. The parent comment isn't talking about how the GFW is a consequence of an authoritarian government, it's talking about how he wasn't aware people could get
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I come from Europe, and every time someone brings up the protests to me, all I can say is, this is nothing compared to what happens in Europe. Not to downplay what's happening, but I think in general HK people are not used to violence,
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by woutr_be 7y ago
There's honestly quite a lot of misinformation about how people live their lives in China. Many of my friends are perfectly capable of accessing blocked websites, and they're by no means computer experts. They all have been able t
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Don't get me wrong, it was absolutely massive. But 28% isn't half, or even nearly half the population. of course a lot of people didn't go out, but still supported the protestors.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I believe the police have also requested the MTR to add additional train services, so that people could get out of affected areas. There's been a lot of push back on the police operating inside the MTR stations, especially after what h
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I live in HK, and frankly, it's quite strange. I remember having a drink with a friend, while watching the violence unfold live on TV, it felt quite surreal. I live close to Victoria Park, where most of the large demonstrations have st
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by woutr_be 7y ago
There's over 7 million people in HK, at the largest protest, they estimated around 2 million took part, so not even half. During most protests, that number is significantly lower.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Some stations have been shutdown several times in the past few weeks, I'm not sure if it was on the request of the police, or the MTR just decided to skip stations. However, this wasn't due to people going to protests, this was du
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> The ransacking of parliament appeared to have been allowed. There was no police presence at all. Almost as if they were being purposefully held back. I personally thinks this comes after there were more confrontations before, and there
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by woutr_be 7y ago
That's what we used to do years ago, just render a script tag with all the data required, and then use JavaScript to link it up in the views. But I feel if that's what you're doing, you might as well use a templating engine,
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by woutr_be 7y ago
My background is mainly frontend, but I'm well versed in backend as well. I've been actively advocating at my company to stop with this whole separate frontend and backend, and instead just return plain HTML and some basic JavaScr
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by woutr_be 7y ago
From another article too: > Chief Inspector Chow Hok-yin from the organised crime and triad bureau said officers approached Fong because he was acting suspiciously, but he ran away. Officers chased and caught him, and found 10 torch-lik
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I'm not sure what the reason is. There's a hotel across the street from me, and some people were looking out of the window, instantly they had 5 lasers pointed at them. Someone was pointing a laser at me too.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Some more context; they're not only used to interfere with facial recognition. They're also being used to annoy the police officers, as well as people who are watching from their windows when protestors pass by. I've had lase
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by woutr_be 7y ago
You can do some cycling in Tai Po area, but down there, it's not the drivers that make it dangerous, but other cyclists. They cycle like they walk, so be prepared to be constantly cut off and have people stand in the middle of the road
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I'm not into running anymore, mostly focussed on weight lifting, if you're on HK island, go for a run on Bower Road, it's definitely an experience. I also used to run in Happy Valley race course, it's nice and quiet ther
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I've used a magic mouse for over 3 years, and I've never ran into a situation where I couldn't use it because it was charging. When I see the battery is low, I plug it in during my next bathroom break, and then fully charge i
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by woutr_be 7y ago
It's mostly to give your domain more authority (thus making it rank higher) by putting your link on various other sites. Of course in reality, you want your link to be on other sites with relevant content.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Out of interest years ago, I spend $20 on a few different gigs that offered link building, the results were actually amazing. (Not in a good way) They usually offer to post links for a couple of days, and sure enough, right on the dot, you
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by woutr_be 7y ago
As with most static site generators, it's generally just a markdown file with some frontmatter metadata, but that's it.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I currently have an old G Suite account with my own domain, the problem you mentioned is the only thing holding me back. All my things (Docs, YouTube, Cloud, Analytics) are currently linked to that domain, if I were to delete it, I would lo
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by woutr_be 7y ago
It's in the back of my head, when I feel the need to switch, I can easily copy all my files over. So not really worried about being locked-in with Apple.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I had Dropbox installed on all my devices, but wasn't really actively using it, that was until it kept asking me to upgrade to a paid account, that's when I moved all my files to iCloud and deleted my Dropbox account. Since I only
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by woutr_be 8y ago
It's more of a list of resources for generating static sites. I've handwritten everything based on my own experience, so I'm sure content will be different, but the end result is the same as what others have done.
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by woutr_be 8y ago
Sorry, "exactly the same thing" was bad wording, it's the same concept, but executed differently. You can compare it to two tech blogs who write about the same things. Definitely not an issue, they both give different takes o
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by woutr_be 8y ago
I understand that, I also compare services / products and make a decision, even if one is a copy of the other, I generally don't really care about it. (Unless it's just a 1-to-1 knockoff) But somehow with the products I work

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