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> It would be interesting if someone from China could comment on censorship in China. Is there a fraction of people who agrees with it or is almost it universally disapproved of?

In general people don't agree with it. However, for a lot of people, it's not actually on their radar.

The reality is most people in China are so engrossed in their work and day-to-day life that censorship isn't really actually an issue for them, and taking political action is not something that an average citizen would do considering the grave risks to your career.

Also, it's worth noting that most citizens prioritize safety over free speech. If changes in the law indirectly mean that there will be riots on the streets, most citizens would rather have whatever it takes to have no riots. That isn't to say people agree with censorship, but for what it's worth, people are happy that you can more or less walk around anywhere in China without much fear of your personal safety. Most people in Shenzhen were extremely happy they were in Shenzhen where you could walk around freely instead of "free" Hong Kong where you had to be in fear of idiot high school students throwing Molotov cocktails and beating up anyone who spoke Mandarin.

That would be kind of cool in a sense, because it would do exactly the opposite of what the SEC would want. The SEC may then start to realize that they don't have the power to control the crypto market, and that it's going to blow up on them every time they try to attack. The higher price could also be used to fund better lawyers and lobbying against the SEC.

Not necessarily in support of Ripple specifically, but I do think having something that can actually challenge the SEC and reduce them to tears is a good thing. There are lots of things about the capital economy that could use change.

XRP went down, interestingly enough.

I would have hoped for the community to collude and vote/bid its price up to give the SEC a big "ha" and also cover the costs of lawsuits.

After all crypto is one place where markets can be manipulated and the proceeds put to good use.

That's why I prefer to use the term "incompetents". Incumbents are always incompetent. We need to merge these two words.

That's why I call idioms idiots. If you have to learn idioms, it's an idiotic thing.

Related discussion about their founder's culture: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229291

> Yeah, but "making your code 100x faster" might cost significantly more than just adding 100x servers.

And moreover, it takes time to make code faster.

Very realistic scenario is that you have 2 months of runway in the bank and investors have committed to the next round but are holding back the money and still having 3-hour coffees and 2-hour lunches with you about how you can improve your go-to-market strategy instead of letting you get back to work on actually scaling your tech.

Yes. A while ago when I was single I tried using online dating apps for a while but ultimately I met someone in real life and it's going well. Previous relationships were also people I met in real life. Don't get discouraged if online dating doesn't work for you either. It didn't work for me. I know it's hard during COVID, but work on yourself in the meantime, and COVID will be over sooner or later.

Online dating just never worked for me, for the same reasons you describe. I think part of it is a combination of paradox of choice and part of it is people just not having faith in technology finding them something human. I went on dates where the other person sooner or later doubted the possibility of marrying someone they met online, and it usually degenerated from there into either friendship or nothing.

There's also the weird social expectation on many apps that males should message first, which results in females getting spammed, which then further results in females not messaging first, and the cycle perpetuates.

As a technology lover I really want online dating to work in bringing more compatible people together and increase overall societal happiness by increasing the average quality of marriage, but time and time again it seems to me that the best way to bring compatible people together is with offline events. Compatible people tend to want to go to similar places and do similar things, and any successful online dating app really should exploit that fact.

In fact, the most successful organizations I have seen at bringing together singles into stable marriages were not even explicitly about dating. I've seen far more stable couples form at mixed-gender sports teams, hiking groups, volunteer organizations, conference organizing teams, and other professional organizations where participants largely cared about the same causes.

Agree, although as a Mountain View resident I'm pretty disgruntled that there is neither mountain nor view here. A town like Mammoth Lakes, CA would be a better candidate to deserve the name "Mountain View".

Jokes aside there are places in the world that name themselves much more intuitively like you described.

Beijing = northern capital

Nanjing = southern capital

Shanghai = on the sea

Hong Kong = fragrant harbor

Xi'an = western peace

Tokyo = eastern capital

Taipei = north Tai

Tainan = south Tai

Taichung = middle Tai

Taitung = east Tai

Shandong = east mountains

Shanxi = west mountains etc.