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I think China changes so fast that these fun personal touchstones come and go so quickly. I remember when I was first there you couldn't walk very far without hearing 'fapiao! fapi…

Nobody asked me for a visa in 2015, and I was on a tourist one at the time so it can't even be some unified database thing they were using. A nice thing about Chinese banks is they…

You can open a bank account in China without any real requirements and thus have a 'local' card. You just need a passport, phone number, and a local address (a friend's is fine). A…

China has decoupled a lot more since then. If you visit now I would say paying for things smacks you in the face way before access to Google services does. Recently they've enabled…

Most Americans don't even have a passport and have never left the country apart from Canada/Mexico. But to be fair I find Chinese people's views of America are equally based on cli…

> Its biggest competitor in the country famously has a cheese-flavored latte. Actually Starbucks has that too, you can get it in 7-11. It's not like it has a 'Cheesy' flavor though…

It's AH so... more hype when they want to advertise it?

I don't think they typically include theft by those who have the private keys.

The counterbalance is that this is like a game of hot potato. You set up your platform with known flaw, and you wait around trying to hit max locked funds. But the whole time you'r…

The loan is zero-risk for the lender because it's taken out and repaid within the same transaction (sort of like a database transaction). If the borrower fails to repay, the entire…

Then I think you are assuming your premise/begging the question. You constructed the conditions in a way that leaves no room for a valid example. If you think crypto itself is a gr…

I mean, most legit exchanges are not 'rooted' in scams, even if some of their employees take advantage. The only way you could say Coinbase were 'rooted' in that is to assume your …

> if the new place you were applying called, and asked me, "Do you have any feedback about X candidate?" You better believe I had things to say about the people who were negative. …

Which standard is that? ePubs, for example, use canonical fragment identifiers, which could also work on HTML. I think hypothes.is uses them too but adds fuzzy matching fields so t…

Maybe https://hypothes.is/ ?

The terminology used is a bit confusing. Execution model and application architecture are not the same dimension, so it shouldn't be a comparison between 'monolith' vs 'microservic…

Walmart is famous for doing exactly that. I'm not sure what else I can tell you if you (a) claim that a certain outcome never happens, when a cursory search shows it does, and (b) …

Yeah, how is this relevant to the thread? It's not about why you think we should have unions. It's about the claim that there's no possible rational reason for these workers to vot…

> Closing it would almost certainly be a lot more expensive than meeting union demands, so I don't think it's reasonable to conclude that is likely. Not if Amazon thought swift act…

For example if they thought it likely Amazon would just close up shop as a result.

> HN is very consistently anti-union. Is it? It just seems to vary per thread.

Well I think both are intertwined. It's a lot easier to get everyone pulling in the same direction with the help of social bonding. Partly what I see in remote work is a deteriorat…

Women weren't turned away, they did the turning away. I don't see what was misrepresented. The person you're chastising seems to have edited the quote to ensure we know they're rep…

I didn’t say that; that’s not me. And I gave an intermediate option for using a ‘tertiary education if any kind’ stat.

> We were talking about English skills No, 'educated' was the term used. I'm not sure why you would think we're only talking about basic 'English' skills.