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sgpl

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About sgpl

interests: photography, startups, finance, economics, travel, hiking, languages, wellness, mental health.

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    Congrats Garry! You're definitely an inspiration!

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    Comment #30613040

    Yeah I'd like to think that too, but the article mentions in its first paragraph that this aid was announced by the 'Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.' So in this cas…

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    Comment #30612932

    Wondering if any geopolitical experts on HN can take a stab at explaining this move? From my rudimentary understanding, China was (has been) allied with Russia behind the scenes in…

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    Comment #30519950

    I wrote a long response to this but I don't think it's worth debating these points further as we probably see and experience the world differently.

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    Comment #30510095

    Just because a place doesn't resemble Canada or Ukraine or people who look and act like your version of civilized society doesn't give the US a right to wage war resulting in large…

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    If others are looking to keep up with news in a low key way (including the OP), I'd highly recommend this approach that's been working well for me. 1. Create an instagram account t…

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    Comment #29992287

    I've used Bitwarden for over 4 years now after first hearing about it on HN. I really can't complain. I have Bitwarden on my phone, on my browser (chrome + firefox) and it works fl…

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    Comment #29671300

    Clubhouse is not a public company, at least not the one the OP commenter is talking about.

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    Comment #29576016

    I mean such behaviour is not uncommon on chess.com either. I've reported multiple people for game abandonment / abusive language / acting like jerks / taking super long to make mov…

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    Comment #29205502

    Maybe there's nothing wrong with this submission and maybe I'm a skeptic but definitely seems like a gamed submission. Submission by a new account, another new account posts that t…

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    Comment #29165289

    I think the biggest reason why the price is so high (beyond the brand, and the fact that the government policy results in everyone getting whatever loan amount they want) is becaus…

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    Comment #29090726

    > “The only way a Substack grows is through tweets. I am like 85% serious when I say this.” This rings true for me as a consumer of tech and tech-adjacent news. Most writers that I…

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    Comment #29060319

    While this behaviour by corporations (eg: Zillow buying and flipping, or Blackstone buying and renting out houses [0]) is inflating housing prices across the country, I don't see t…

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    Comment #28938884

    A&W restaurants are pretty prevalent in Canada, at least in Toronto anyways. Just looked at stats: they have about ~1000 restaurants in the country spread over 470+ cities. But a c…

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    Comment #28883533

    While I wouldn't say that their reserve is matching now ( I do not know) there were a few threads on twitter that I read a while back that stated that the folks behind tether were …

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    Comment #28834788

    I think the article's trying to convey that instagram has a more curated look and so by algo-design/human-design doesn't reward videos/reels that are shot on poor resolution phones…