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Should I worry about being targeted in China as a small hardware startup owner?
I'm going to China tomorrow and have already prepared a laptop and phone which I plan to keep just for work trips abroad. I'm the owner of a small hardware startup (less than $1m r…
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Comment #41351557
A bluetooth and USB-C modification kit for the iPod Classic: https://moonlit.market/ I left my home country for Portugal when I was 18, and was refurbishing iPods for money while l…
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Comment #38207954
Hi Peter. Which countries are the most popular destinations for founders to immigrate to, in your opinion? I've heard Dubai is the best place right now. Thanks!
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Ask HN: How should I split equity between my partner and I?
The business revolves around refurbishing vintage electronics, which I've been doing for the last couple years. My contribution to the business: - Funding (around 10-20k in the fir…
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Comment #34713193
I also find access to limitless information addicting, and get bored at work sometimes. Practical advice: 1) Cut internet to your house, or get someone to change the WiFi password …
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Comment #34497509
On the other hand, being constantly ostracised from public spaces isn’t great either… something I find infuriating when I travel abroad. If there were at least a few smoking bars w…
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Comment #33915435
Out of curiosity, could you give a few examples of the difficulties you experienced?
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Comment #33735844
Funny, for me it’s the opposite. I always try to use the web view, and there’s an annoying pop up that redirects me to download Google maps. When I switch back into the web browser…
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Comment #33696874
Care to elaborate? Sounds ideal frankly.
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Comment #33205064
As if a Brazilian court cares about consumer protection. I wouldn't be surprised if the courts are _happy_ Apple are still not shipping iPhones with the charger, now they don't hav…
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Comment #33146044
You have written “it’s” instead of “its” on the last two occurrences of the word. It should be without the apostrophe, as it’s indicating possession. I used to get this wrong all t…
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Comment #32973912
You are relying on unenforceable government incentives (copyright law) to create an income for yourself. Find a way of commercialising the information in your head that makes it te…
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Comment #32953060
Lay-by by Tennyson complements the simulation quite well https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=3FfOsXr9rvw
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Comment #32260658
I used to walk home from school past a neighbour who had a similar system. The speakers were quite pathetic, so we figured out it was a recording pretty quickly. And so we took to …
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Comment #31824501
As a non-american this would have been really confusing without your explanation.
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Comment #30220353
You can't do that on the streets of Europe either - I don't see a no-walk-on-public-pavements list though.
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Comment #29878627
I just think that it's difficult to have the foresight to know whether something is good or bad. Perhaps if we allowed bitcoin mining in some regions and disallowed it in others, t…
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Comment #29878573
Why are you so rude?
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Comment #29875929
Why is it up to governments to decide whether Bitcoin is a good idea or not?
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Comment #29721644
Why do you have to justify it? You might pirate content simply because you can. If you don't want someone to copy your data without charge then find a better business model.
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Comment #29181790
I wonder how something like this would function with chorded typing? A keyboard like this [1] with only one key per finger I would imagine would be relatively easy (easier than han…
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