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by woutr_be 5y ago
Is that any different from kids asking their parents to play Gameboy or Nintendo 64 games? Or wanting to play board games that are not sold anymore? Sure you can find it somewhere second hand, or you could use an emulator. But I suspect thi
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by woutr_be 5y ago
True, many of my Chinese friends complain that their parents are urging them to get married before 30. And while plenty of young people still do this, more and more people are putting of getting married, and wait until they're really r
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I see Tokyo and Hong Kong in there as well, which seems crazy. I know from experience in Hong Kong, that if you work in a local company, it’s almost expected to work overtime.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Another result of this, is that males outnumber females, so there’s a lot of single males unable to find a partner. This is because parents generally preferred boys as their only child.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
It generally wasn’t strictly enforced anyway, as in, if you had a second child, you could pay a fine, and legally register your child. And yes, it didn’t apply to rural areas as well. I had a friend in China who lived in Shenzhen and has 3
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I just don’t understand those arguments. It’s like agreeing to carpool with a group of friends, then suddenly you decide to move to another town. They’re not bad friends for not wanting to pick you up, it’s just not convenient anymore.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Email does exist, but it just doesn’t feel the same. I don’t feel like I’m having a real time conversation when using email. Email is not instantaneous, so making plans can take a couple of hours, compared to a couple of minutes. I haven’t
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by woutr_be 5y ago
You’re seriously twisting things to somehow make a point. I don’t understand why you have to respond with such a demeaning comment in the first place. Over the last 5-10 years I’ve established quite a few chatrooms with multiple friends. Me
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Well, I live abroad, my family and friends have various group chats on WhatsApp and Messenger. I can’t blame them for not wanting to include me, since it would cost them quite a bit of money to text or call me. Plus, phone calls are quite d
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Excuse me, but what? My friends text and call me through WhatsApp or Facebook. If anything, me ditching those two services would justify them not reaching out, because it implies I’m the difficult one. Me making it difficult to be reached d
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by woutr_be 5y ago
That’s exactly my point, I can’t justify deleting it.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
How does that work for WhatsApp (a Facebook app now)?
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I really hate it when people say “just delete Facebook apps”. I would lose touch with almost everyone I know. They either use Facebook or WhatsApp, I can’t justify deleting either.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
Regarding the “foreigners can’t stay here”, from what I know, this is because it requires extra work for hotels, they need to report your stay to the local police station, so usually smaller hotels, or the ones in non touristy cities just d
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by woutr_be 5y ago
The 100K+ person bank that I work at also offered new flexible working arrangements. Pretty much comes down to your team and manager, but I ended up with a full-time work from home position. Others do a few days in office, then the rest WFH
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I suspect they never thought they would win. And when they did win, and saw the amount they won, they somehow didn’t think it would be fair if they took it.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
This is Hong Kong in 2001, quite different from China. Horse racing is also taken very serious in HK, so when you’re able to beat the odds, it wouldn’t be seen as luck, but rather all your hard work finally paying off.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
They said it would be unsporting and they would feel bad about themselves for cashing in.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
> The winner will be shown on TV and newspapers, a random citizen who accidentally hits the jackpot and got lifted to being a king. I’m not aware of this happening in HK. Mark six (lottery) winners are not shown on TV or in newspapers. W
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by woutr_be 5y ago
My company (a 100,000+ employees bank) also announced they would introduce a new flexible working program, and every employee would receive around US$500 for their workspace at home. Two days after that I read a news article how my company
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I’ve been using it here in Hong Kong ever since the government made it mandatory. I did have to get tested after someone in my gym tested positive.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I disagree, for the past 4 years, I've worked in remote teams that were across different timezones and different countries. There are days were half the team is offline because it's a holiday in their country, and it doesn't
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by woutr_be 5y ago
I understand that. But how would strictly enforced typing solve this? Especially when using TypeScript. An incorrect value being given isn’t going to be caught by the compiler.
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by woutr_be 5y ago
What's wrong with this? Checking if a variable is defined/null is not exactly uncommon?
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I feel you. Having lived in HK for 8 years now. I hold a permanent HKID, and consider HK my home. I've been trough the protests in 2014, and the ones in 2019, it was mentally draining because it's hard to discuss these subjects wi
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by woutr_be 6y ago
My bonus this year was reduced, and also didn’t receive any increase. While it sucks, all I can think about is how lucky I am to get a bonus and still have a job. Many others weren’t so lucky.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Not sure why this got downvoted, but I have the same question. Most of my projects run behind a corporate firewall, where our NPM repository is proxied. Will Deno eventually offer something? As far as I understand, you can import packages f
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by woutr_be 6y ago
It works the same in HK, once you test positive, you input your case number, and upload your check in history to some government servers. I assumed this is how every country does it.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
It does seem to work here in Hong Kong. Two weeks ago someone who went to my gym tested positive, I was instantly notified through the app (as did 500 other members). Within two hours I got tested, and received my negative results the next
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by woutr_be 6y ago
That is if all your friends live in the same country, I have quite a few friends all over the world, and especially in Asia, people prefer specific apps. For friends in China it's WeChat, for Japan it's LINE. Other friends use Fac

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