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I have also seen this in public housing in Hong Kong. Government built housing for families in the 70s. Children move out. The remaining residents turn grey. The residents in the h…

The article is also missing an important context, Giant is a Taiwanese company. A lot of the world's high end bicycle are built by them in Taiwan.

This issue has been resolved over 30 years ago. The answer is no. I was born in British Hong Kong. I had a British passport, one that is in a special category (BNO) that was issued…

If any utility work need to dig perpendicular to the trench, wouldn't cut the fiber right away?

At least Mark Gardiner has the integrity to reflect on his mistake.

"MANILA - A shutdown of Boracay Island could lead to job losses for 36,000 people and P56 billion in lost revenue, stakeholders said Thursday, as they appealed for a partial, inste…

How did this shutdown came about? It sounds to me it is a top down decision to shutdown basically the entire island and all its economic activities for six months. I wonder how man…

Sad. I thought I saw it coming.

One of the most memorable ride was a trip from Vietnam to Kunming in the 90s. I hope this old line is still running. The train travels along a canyon. The view is incomparably stun…

It truly horrifies me when I learned there are groups who celebrate mass murder by posting video to Internet. They go out of their way to mutate their posting in order to evade Int…

Facebook's investor presentation shows MAU stay flat at 242 millions in Q4'18. I don't see a 15 millions drop. (The numbers for DAUs and MAUs do not include Instagram, WhatsApp, or…

Not really. I get a lot of spam from recruiters. I also get feeler from people I have worked with before. Last time I look for work, I got multiple job offers after one week. San F…

Do you teleconference your friends and family regularly? My guess is not. But it is always possible a new video app will comes up next year and gain wide adoption. Today some numbe…

If people's understanding of social network is something similar Facebook, then this understanding is too confined. The key is to observe how people adopt the technology. My extend…

Possibly. Like I say my mom has her social network.

I.e. it is a social network.

It is very much a social network. That's the place I go to for group chat, catching up with friends and share irrelevant stuff. It wasn't branded as such. But it is entirely social…

The article is just not doing a very good job of identifying social networks. Whatsapp is BIG. There are also many non-US base social network, like WeChat, that was not on their ra…

I'm really scratching my head. Does it mean load the item to the truck, find a buyer, then delivery to him without dropping it in a warehouse? I don't think this is going to work. …

I carefully measured everything in my household. Nothing come close to a space heater. Most small electronics use negligible amount of power. We should not need to pay any attentio…

Totally heating dominate energy use. I'm rather disturb to hear people pay much attention to so call "phantom power" from idle electronics and adapters. Adapters plugged in the soc…

I've gone through a bunch reviews in the Google play store. 100% of them rated 5* for his inspiration effort. 0% rated it 5* because the app is useful. In fact many commenters say …

Mythbusters did not prove anything. They have done just one experiment. It has no statistical significance.

I am disappointed about Eich's support of prop 8 and disagree with his view. But what is truly appalling is his critics pushing for ousting him base on his view. Isn't people allow…