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People in safe countries generally do not worry about kidnappings.

compression is not free, dictionary compression: 1, complicates and slows down update, which is typically more important in OLTP than OLAP 2, is generally bad for high cardinality …

Sounds good in principle, but I don't see any meaningful suggestions.

News has never been about reporting absolute truth, there is just too much influence/power/money to be gained for manipulating public perception. The fact that people believe in jo…

Do they not want those conveniences? Or are they tempering their expectations based on their budget and perceived cost? If, let's say, a typical $30k car means a large EV SUV with …

I can accept the argument that they are trying to be inclusive towards disadvantaged students, and it just happens that racial make up of poor but qualified students lean towards b…

I think it's mainly corruption. A significant amount of budget (hundreds of millions) is allocated to "deal" with homelessness in SF, so efforts to actually solve the problem are g…

Since a few years ago, especially as layoffs started at big name companies, there have been a massive investment in funding and talent into modernizing traditional industries. This…

US car manufacturers other than Tesla have not been very successful at producing EVs despite subsidies. It'll be interesting to see how this affects future policy making. Will ther…

If a building's rent is higher than its surrounding ones, renters are less likely to live there. The same applies to cities, if, after adjusting for job/lifestyle/etc, people feel …

China does not ban YouTube or Instagram because they're foreign, They have some very onerous rules about censorship, which I disagree with, but are applied equally to all companies…

That's completely untrue. I can't say if the algorithm is the same. In my short experience of using Douyin for the past couple weeks, I get zero education content, but a surprising…

China is not a single entity. Huawei is not going to choose low quality high price local startup over suppliers with good reputation if they have that choice. Sanction means those …

Coincidentally, I just saw two separate job ads on the subway looking for caregivers. Maybe the next booming sector would be taking care of retired boomers.

I do not like ghosting, but having the ability to adapt to local customs is quite important when living in a foreign country. It seems the author actually understands the local cus…

Of course Taiwanese people care about their way of lives, and they have full right to expect and defend that. The problem is sadly much more complicated than "dictatorship wants to…

This is a very western view on things. Chinese people from mainland cares much less about democracy than citizens from western countries. The primary motivation for Chinese people …

It only opens up to another machine validated by public keys. It serves similar purpose as opening firewall to just a specific IP/port and dynamically change the IP/port as the oth…

I was just reading about it the other day, pure ingenuity! For those who don't have time to read, Tailscale uses a quirk in how stateful firewall treats inbound UDP traffic to allo…

It seems the first reason is root of all the other reasons. If one cannot find a job that pays what they believe they deserve, they are much more likely to start their own business…

What if the federal reserve goes down? Or just that US dollar goes down in value. Even if you only do business within the US, exchange risk is baked into your supply chain and infl…

Out of curiosity, what services do YC provide for additional fees?

The cheapest option is > 13 square feet “Virtual Inside” stateroom I can't wrap my mind with how this works, is it like a capsule? For 3 years?!

US has done much better than previous empires. Despite starting off with genocide of natives and slavery, it slowly improved over time in terms of addressing internal strife, which…