larrysalibra

Very common for residential buildings - the house I grew up in in Ohio had an automatic standby back up generator than ran off of piped in natural gas. The idea was to protect against weather-related power outages. (Generally snow or wind causing trees to fall on power lines)

I’m not sure how common this is in commercial buildings. Mains gas powered generator doesn’t seem like a very good idea for anything critical.

I’m not sure why this comment is being downvoted. It is a relatively accurate description of how network effects work and the implications to those trying to resist those network effects and an opinion based on that. No need to downvote people expressing an opinion you don’t agree with!

In addition, the logos are blurry because apparently they couldn't be bothered to support "retina" displays. Sloppy.

Richard Stallman https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

I had a similar experience with an open source browser extension on Google’s Chrome Store. The loudest complaints seem to be about Apple’s walled garden stores presumably because that’s where the money, but in my experience Google and even Mozilla seem to be more arbitrary in their policies/behavior. Googzilla tend to approve your app or extension and then a couple weeks later they start emailing you about various policy changes or policy updates or reviewer questions with arbitrary response deadlines such as “We will remove your extension in 7 days if you don’t send our reviewer a link to the README in your open source GitHub repo and explain again how to follow the instructions to build it. (Type ‘make build’!)

It would be nice to finish the review process before approving an app. If you have new policies apply them on the next review or ask your questions when a future update is submitted.

It’s called “Vapor” as in “vaporware” and makes absolutely no sense.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say we’re being trolled. The emperor is naked.

> If France is so bad, move out. You'll learn a thing or two in the process. Beginning with the grass is not always greener elsewhere.

They do move out! I'm in Hong Kong and we're lucky to have 10s of thousands of French people that were frustrated with the business environment in France and moved to Hong Kong. They start businesses from restaurants to crypto currency exchanges. It's really great having them (and other immigrants around).

I encourage France to continue whatever policies they have that encourage their best and brightest to head for places that treat them better.

A data point from Hong Kong:

HK$138/m (US$17.80) for 1 gigabit (symmetric) fiber HK$160/m (US$20.64) for unlimited LTE deprioritized after 20gb

> the fact that advertising is not a socially beneficial activity and all advertising is an attempt to psychologically manipulate the public

That's not a fact, that's your opinion. Advertising is a form of communication and like most communication, the person originating the communication often has a goal or desired outcome in mind. That you or me might not like their goals or the message that they communicate doesn't mean that no one finds it valuable, nor does it mean that we should ban all communication.

He blocks many people for no apparent reason. There was an article written back in 2015. Some considering a pmarca twitter block a sign that you’ve made it!

https://money.cnn.com/2015/12/23/technology/marc-andreessen-...

Creator of the site here. As recently reformed long-time mask denier who lives in Hong Kong, I wanted to get the word out to people in the rest of the world that wearing a mask in public is not only okay but likely helpful in reducing or slowing transmission of SARS-CoV-19.

My main motivation for this weekend project was the challenge I’ve had convincing family and friends in the USA to change their behavior over the past month in preparation for this virus.

Tech details: The site is served using Cloudflare Workers Sites. I’m also using test as a test for privacy preserving analytics by proxying analytics through a worker and stripping all identifying info before forwarding on to the analytics software.

Beds per 1000 people:

USA: 2.9

Italy: 3.18

China: 4.36

Hong Kong: 5.4

South Korea: 12.27

Japan: 13.05

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

Questions I couldn’t find answers to in the post or linked info about the Trusted Resolver Program:

What’s in it for the Cloudflare & NextDNS?

Are they getting paid to handle this traffic or paying to have the opportunity to access this data?

Can users outside the US opt-in?

The comment about having “no plans” to enable this outside the USA seems a bit disingenuous. Hard to believe they built this program / feature and have no plan to eventually roll out to all users. Perhaps what they wanted to say was they have no fixed timeline for roll out to other locations.

"we" came off of the gold standard because Nixon was having trouble paying for the Vietnam war. Printing money doesn't create wealth, it redistributes it to the printer: this is seigniorage and it is a tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage

Taiwan imports construction workers from much poorer Southeast Asian countries. http://www.cedaw.org.tw/en/upload/media/Capacity%20Building/...

Congrats on the huge milestone!

I really like how you respect the Do Not Track flag. I wish companies had done this before browser makers started removing the feature.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/06/apple-removes-safari-do...

> Apple doesn’t have anywhere else to go.

Apple doesn’t have anywhere to go is a comment on the consumer market, not manufacturing. They are heavily dependent on revenue from China.

What's even more impressive than Sam's web site (which has been online for years) is that he and his two Hong Kong-based co-founders bootstrapped Bitmex, a multi-billion dollar company that handled over US$1 trillion of trading volume over the past year with almost no investment.

When they launched in 2014, no one on HN cared! 2 points and 1 sarcastic comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750453

I agree dining cars aren't needed on high speed rail because of the short amount of time passengers are on the train. That doesn't mean I can't miss the old 24+ hour trains with dining cars.

I wasn't aware of the HSR buffet. Look forward to trying out!

High speed rail in China is also killing the traditional dining car. In my experience, Chinese dining cars on non-high speed rail are amazing. Food is cooked freshly on the car and you can meet random interesting travelers sharing your table.

You used to even be able to get freshly made meat and vegetable dishes on the Guangzhou to Hong Kong (Hung Hom) intercity route.

High speed rail has for the most part either totally ditched the dining car or switched to pre-packaged boxed meals that aren't particularly interesting.

On my most recent long-haul slow train trip from Hong Kong to Beijing in 2016, a university professor from Beijing decided to sit across from and repeat government propaganda to me as if she was the first person to ever tell this foreigner who speaks fluent Chinese these things. "Did you know China has 56 ethnic minorities?" "Did you know China has 5000 years of history?"

I made a point to visit a dining car on an east coast Amtrak route several years ago after my amazing China dining car experiences hoping to get some of that traditional dining car experience and found to my disappointment that even then they were only serving pre-made meals.

I guess it's hard to justify pulling and staffing a full kitchen and stocking it with fresh ingredients.

I agree what you described - one client getting really popular is a huge risk, but the risk is not the popularity of one client, it’s the popularity of the client without any user knowledge of the underlying protocol. I recently wrote about XMPP and this problem https://salibra.com/p/the-death-of-jabber-8ea395e82f5b

The risk you’ve described isn’t as insurmountable: So far, bitcoin, ethereum, & BitTorrent serve as strong counter examples to the problem you state. They’ve remained clearly defined protocols that users seek out instead of a particular client and have proven hard for popular clients to fork.

Vanguard offers a number of exchange traded funds in Europe domiciled in Ireland.

There are funds in base currencies of USD, EUR and GBP and traded on number of exchanges across Europe in several currencies.

https://americas.vanguard.com/institutional/funds/all-produc...

Someone looking for exposure to Europe could get that through one of the Vanguard FTSE Developed Europe funds - they’re available including or excluding UK and in accumulating or distributing versions.

Very easy to buy just submit an order on the market. I personally use Interactive Brokers and buy on London Stock Exchange but any broker that gives you access to one of the major European exchanges should do.

+1 to this!

I first shaved my head for high swim team and after college started shaving it daily and would never go back. Save much time & money that other people spend drying, styling and cutting hair. It’s great to be able to dunk my head under the tap on a hot day and dry off after showering or water sports with one wipe.

News articles not checking sources is pretty standard. A few years ago I had a blog post about something regarding Apple picked up by the Hong Kong Free Press and then the New York Times. It ended up resulting in articles across hundreds of publications. The only publications that talked to me and Apple were the New York Times, the original Hong Kong Free Press and a CNN money reporter. Everyone else was just rewriting other posts.

The economics of the industry drive this behavior - most reporters have a quota of stories they have to write per day and there's no time or budget to even email sources let alone sit around waiting for a reply.

If you want to read more about this, I recommend the book "Trust me, I'm lying" by Ryan Holiday.

Complying with the MIT license by including it in each SVG file would defeat the stated purpose of "SuperTinyIcons" - to consume very few bytes - by ~tripling the file size of each icon.

The icons are ~500 bytes - the license is over 1 kilobyte.

I thought people complaining in the comments were just being critical, but I clicked the “coffee shops” example search in the post - I’m in Hong Kong - and it showed me only 2 results:

One coffee shop in Hong Kong and one on the other side of the Pearl River Delta in Macau. That’s pretty bad. Screenshot here: https://twitter.com/larrysalibra/status/1151182624108318720?...

Absolutely. If the user indicates they don't want your software running anymore, it should stop.

In Zoom's case, if the user exits the app, the web server keeps running. When the user uninstalled the app, the web server still keeps running.

The user twice said "I don't want Zoom's software running on my computer and both times Zoom ignored the user's request.

This behavior is both unethical AND malicious.

Edit: wrote up more thoughts on this: https://salibra.com/p/viral-growth-doesnt-mean-writing-virus...

Thanks for calling me paranoid! That's a compliment!

Clarifying: my post was about the private security guard before security, not Hong Kong Immigration ("customs officer") which is after security.

The airline "needs" to know who you are because they're trying to maintain their business model - capturing as much ticket value as possible - this would be impossible of airline tickets could be sold on a secondary market. Or they might have an obligation to a destination country to provide a passenger manifest.

Immigration might need a record of who you are because they're presumably trying to enforce immigration controls.

The airport doesn't need to know who you are. They are providing a building with some ancillary services like shopping and dining.

If the airport needs to have a record of you being there. What's next? Does the train to the airport need a record? What about the taxi you took to get to the train station. What about the 3 block walk you took to get to the bus stop?

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