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hoi

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About hoi

twitter: @hoista website: www.hoista.net

Recent public activity

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    Comment #23063678

    Early stage is also about ensuring that the levers are understood and that the thinking about the right things to measure and what to action are appropriate in understanding the bu…

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    Comment #22096420

    I don't use uber, or any other taxi app. Depends a lot on where you live and whether public taxis and public transport infrastructure is well developed. I can imagine this would be…

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    Comment #22061229

    When I was living in Japan, i once lost my wallet on a bicycle ride. It must have fallen out of my pocket somewhere on the route i was taking. I didn't notice it was missing until …

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    Comment #21749468

    Since this is based off tests does it stipulate whether there is a diffrence in reading, listening and writing comprehension vs ability to speak? There are many countries where wri…

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    Comment #21155361

    Actually, it's a trade off. How much freedom vs how much control. A prime example is government regulators, they are there to 'protect ' consumers vs pure freedom of capital ventur…

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    Comment #20958608

    No, it's not the focus of the world. The US with its upcoming elections and trade wars take up a fair bit of international news. Brexit and the political crises in the UK is anothe…

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    Comment #20873995

    Likewise police in Hong Kong are also being Doxxed. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

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    Comment #20835624

    Whilst article is accurate in terms of the US tax situation for Apple, it doesn;t really explain how it keeps it's foreign tax payments to ~$2B off ~$40B in revenue. That's where s…

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    Comment #20807536

    So if company Y created a genetic variant of a vegetable in Country X, and if this vegetable is shipped and sold in supermarkets around the world, the profit made from sales of tha…

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    Comment #20797680

    There isn't 1 type of protester. They are spread over a spectrum, from those who are totally peaceful, to the extreme end who are advocating violence against they "system". They al…

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    Comment #20775853

    nah, they would pass on the cost to the consumer. The consumer would go for the cheaper product which would be the manufacturer that uses plastic. So it would need to be enforced b…

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    Comment #20775776

    Youtube hasn't stated it was state actors, merely that they were suspicious (e.g. uploaded via VPN).. i.e it hasn't pointed a finger of blame.

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    Comment #19396479

    Really depends on your definitionof social stratification. Traditional class values is correlated to wealth, but you could be not wealthy and still be considered upper class. e.g a…

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    Comment #18624765

    Is it the same 1000 families from 2009, the article infers that it's the same 1000 families, whereas in reality there will be some people who drop out and some who come in. Just li…

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    Comment #17194175

    My criticism is that its usually US -centric, sure there is more about China every year, but the healthcare section is all US, lots of media usage habits which are all US, economic…

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    Comment #17035862

    There is another option. Just abandon any principle of data privacy and continue to sell their products (although GDPR in EU is an issue).

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    Comment #17026888

    It's an extroverts world. What are the best channels for introverts? How many potential start ups have never been funded because the founder(s) didn't have the networking skills th…

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    Comment #12184794

    Actually, Nokia Software was awesome. It was their usability and UX that was dog awful. A lot of SW features that are around today have been around for a decade with Nokia. They ha…

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    Comment #11711169

    The mobile space was aready hotting up. Nokia, alone in 2005 was already selling over 250M devices at around 35-40% market share. They were already using ARM chips. Forecast for sm…