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India’s destruction of satellite threatens ISS, says Nasa(theguardian.com)
61 points by zhte415 8y ago|62 comments
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by zhte415 8y ago
Wouldn't the IME remember it for next time? And IME updates include it? So at most type it explicitly as two characters once per IME/device?
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by zhte415 8y ago
The USB jack is always the first to fail for me too. Depending on where you live, you might be able to get it replaced. Where I am a USB jack replacement (parts and labour) is about USD 8 (and a replacement for a scratch screen (5 inch 72
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by zhte415 8y ago
Directly related book recommendation: Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, published 2018. They book follows the founders of 1MDB, the quasi Malaysia soverign wealth fund wbhose investments included the founding of Red Grani
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by zhte415 8y ago
This. Fortune 500s in China might not pay salaries as high as BATs (20-50% lower) nor sell dreams of being an early engineer at a startup. They do however offer 40 day work weeks with minimal overtime or shift, a good salary (development&#x
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by zhte415 8y ago
What adjustment for cost of living? Assuming living in a Tier-1 where the tech-hubs are (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen), rents for a 2/3 bedroom apartment somewhat centralish (these are vastly larger, more populous, and higher density th
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by zhte415 8y ago
Two-year and five-year are inverted and 10-year is flat https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
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by zhte415 8y ago
Somehow I'm reminded of the Leisure Suit Larry age check [0]... which for a young teenager all those years ago was quite hard. You need to be a certain age to get quite a lot of the answers. [0] Sample questions here: http:/&#x2
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by zhte415 8y ago
What led you to that general rule?
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by zhte415 8y ago
Some comments have suggested that the money needs to come from somewhere / business/staffing is still business, and/or that donating could be done in several ways. Could you turn these two threads into two birds to kill with
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by zhte415 8y ago
Thanks for the colour selector tip; not doing a search, I would have missed that it updates all pictures instantly. A very nice feature.
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by zhte415 8y ago
From reading the front page, I'm not sure I understand what it is. Is it something that is middle-ware for existing credit card(s) that handles subscriptions/cancellations? Or is it a 'virtual' card itself? If the latt
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by zhte415 8y ago
Only if the vanilla analytics product without any adwords or partner scheme options (i.e. coming from google-analytics.com rather than anything coming from Google.com). Plus it could disappear on a whim (as did Bing for a couple of days la
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by zhte415 8y ago
I think you're also being sarcastic :) Websites did this 15 years ago (miss the HTMLX compliant button at the bottom of the page), and now in large part do not.
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by zhte415 8y ago
For what it's worth, I still use a circa 2011 T420 for my work PC (decent spec for the time with i7 and 8GB RAM) which will probably be around or under your price. Great ThinkPad keyboard (non-chiclet), and instead of following the co
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by zhte415 8y ago
If you have a HRBP to go to, I'd suggest going to them with your concerns. Different corps have different setups, but often a fixed pool across teams and staying relevant (+/- X%) to market across teams is often a common thread. C
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by zhte415 8y ago
> Top mgmt obviously considers him a low performer (or manager of a low-performing dept), as evidenced by the "scraps" they got. That's not obvious at all. In large companies there's often a fixed pool. Are other de
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by zhte415 8y ago
Interesting link. Another link! This to a book that enlightened me to the chaotic world of globalised recycling: Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/1608197913
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by zhte415 8y ago
I'm guessing you typo'd CN as CH, as CH is Switerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:CH but if you mean CH (the post you were mention other agency supervision) could you share more?
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by zhte415 8y ago
I thought very interesting too.
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by zhte415 8y ago
One hour, 22 upvotes, and disappeared? I found it carefully written and well worth sharing. > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentenc
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by zhte415 8y ago
12 years experience in Vue or Backbone? Coldfusion was forgotten in a Flash, sorry for the pun. I do like jQuery, paired with it Coldfusion in the article, because of it's simplicity over what seems heavy React, Angular, and expect i
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The US attacks on Huawei betray its fear of being left behind(ft.com)
2 points by zhte415 8y ago|0 comments
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by zhte415 8y ago
A note-taking app: A note, what is a note? What is an app? Personal notes, clients, collaboration, users of the notetaking app? At my desk I have a chair and desk and PC and screens and pieces of sticky paper, cut-up pieces of scrap paper
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by zhte415 8y ago
Sitting on a train from Jilin to Beijing, I noted the below from Wikipedia: > In another study conducted about Japan's High-speed rail service, they found a "4-hour wall" in high-speed rail's market share, which if th
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by zhte415 8y ago
> You never felt like it was an extension of yourself. Not a better phrase to describe a Bloomberg Terminal. Everything is there, mainly data, quick charts, Messenger and with it 'social' (yes, Bloomberg Support do make restau
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by zhte415 8y ago
Perhaps just start. Not on coding, but on content. Coding facilitates, but a lot of people have already spent a lot of time coding things already. My own 'portfolio' is a wiki, looks neither pretty nor ugly, at least to me, wit
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by zhte415 8y ago
Browsing from mobile: webpage requests access to mircrophone. Why?
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by zhte415 8y ago
Judge much?
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by zhte415 8y ago
I was shocked to learn the Fortune-500 bank I was working for had only a single data centre. Should they ever go down, much of the world would be disrupted. I think this is not unique.

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