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by xbeta 9y ago
I am curious what type of "traveling visa" was that, because a tourist visa don't work for me. Also Chinese government change policies all the time and rollout instantaneously. Whatever works 3-months ago don't mean it
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by xbeta 9y ago
Have you seen people type Chinese in a T9 keyboard? My wife grew up in China and typed using that method and faster than her English typing.
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by xbeta 9y ago
I just return from a trip to China and yes I carried a 10yrs China visa to open a bank with Bank of Construction in Guangdong province. No, the bank's front desk refuse it and said they cannot accept foreign passports. Having a "
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by xbeta 9y ago
Fair enough, but does WhatsApp put out any market in China? The strategy is a completely different approach. WhatsApp simply building 1 product for the entire globe where WeChat just focus on 1 monoculture. Have WhatsApp spent effort to b
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by xbeta 9y ago
> unless it's a credit card Nope, that exception don't even existed in Alipay/WeChat Pay as well :-) Being foreigner in China sucks.
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by xbeta 9y ago
Well, I think it's not just simply "protectionism", but because the Chinese government really want to enforce censorship on all digital products used by people living in China. When Google refuse to follow that, they are just
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by xbeta 9y ago
Webview everything? :-)
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by xbeta 9y ago
Please also point out that that "linked bank account" is currently only work for China banks. If you are using foreign banks, no luck. :-( And every significant transaction required you to provide ID, which is currently supporting
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by xbeta 9y ago
> This is not accurate. Along with WeChat and QQ, people can freely use Skype and MSN messenger in China. The success behind WeChat and QQ relies on their rich features, fast iterations, etc. Really? I am not sure about Skype which is no
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by xbeta 9y ago
Sure, but I don't think human is very good at judging his/her own emotion on a simple yes/no question on happiness. :-)
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by xbeta 9y ago
Are you talking about how much employees made on GAF (Google, Amazon, Facebook) or how happy are their employees? I think Amazon is bit special as Jeff Bezos was one-of-a-kind that can continue letting Amazon losing money until recently and
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by xbeta 9y ago
Unless there's an agreed methodology on how to measure that "happiness" in the workforce with good science backing it, then sure. But for so many years, I think human never reach that consensus.
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by xbeta 9y ago
> If other fast food establishments have been reluctant to raise wages, Jayaraman added, it’s because pressure from investors has elevated quarterly gains above the potential long-term benefits of happy workers. In-N-Out has no public sh
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Uber reduces ambulance usage across the country, study says(mercurynews.com)
2 points by xbeta 9y ago|0 comments
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by xbeta 9y ago
micromanagement at its extreme?
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by xbeta 9y ago
I was intern'd at IBM Toronto Lab about 10+ yrs ago to add instruction sets for this compiler/JVM. It was fucking awesome experience back then!
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by xbeta 9y ago
I don't work in Uber's team on ML, so I can't answer this, but I also cannot just simply assume everything is built-for-PR-splash. You can argue why can't they simply talk about the reason of not reusing any existing OSS
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by xbeta 9y ago
Sure, you sound like anyone can just have a eureka moment and come up with an algorithm. Uber has a legitimate use-case that fits their needs on ML, so they build it for that need. And why not just also talk about it too as a lesson-learne
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Uber’s Ride with the Sun: Tracking the 2017 Solar Eclipse(eng.uber.com)
1 points by xbeta 9y ago|0 comments
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by xbeta 9y ago
Steve Jobs returned to Apple after 10+ yrs. I don't think that's a fair reference with Travis.
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US Bill – Points System for Employment-Based Permanent Residence(fragomen.com)
2 points by xbeta 9y ago|0 comments
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by xbeta 9y ago
Great find! I guess I will have to wait for that Electrum wallet which supports BCC then, then transfer?
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by xbeta 9y ago
ELI5: For folks who moved BTC out of Coinbase before the hard-fork, what's the next step? Said I want to keep both BTC and BCC. I had a hardware wallet, what are some implications that I move my BTC now to my hardware wallet?
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by xbeta 9y ago
Quick Question: Sorry, don't know much about Bitcoin, but does this mean Block #478559 is the last block that was forked? Or the first block that was forked?
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Trump Administration to Slash Green Cards by 50%, Affecting H1-B/EB(alcorn.law)
92 points by xbeta 9y ago|112 comments
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by xbeta 9y ago
I am not sure what to say with your comment on this, but how do you expect any companies going public with a loss on a balance sheet ?
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Ask HN: Tips to start a ML bot
2 points by xbeta 9y ago|0 comments
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by xbeta 9y ago
For someone who recently lost a mother and still have a badly injured father. This is totally understandable regardless whether he is a CEO of Uber. For a regular employee, he could request for a sabbatical. But as a CEO, that's di
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by xbeta 9y ago
Have you thought about the college tuitions is expensive in US because every institution tries to run it like a business. Some countries in Europe offers free university-level education, some even free to foreigners. They also don't
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by xbeta 9y ago
I am not going to downvote you on this but using Scandinavian cities aren't great example. Think about the amount of people they are transporting everyday compare said a city in China, in Japan, in Indonesia?

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