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Singapore's justice system is geared towards making extreme examples over fairness.

Zoom's product team is based in China.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead...

The staff can be put on unpaid leave since they're getting paid by the government and the rents could be negotiated since the landlord should be getting their mortgage payments paused. I believe those are the main expenses for a brick-and-mortar business.

Infected persons are easy to cover up with inadequate testing as we've seen in the US but deaths are much harder to hide as we've seen in China and Iran. There's neither in India currently so I'd say there is no sustained local outbreak in India yet.

Local community outbreaks are a matter of probability based on travel connections with countries that have outbreaks. I believe Italy and Iran have closer economic ties and more travel volume to China than India.

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-is-traveling-along-the-...

I think parent comment meant putting up a captcha on the website for suspicious traffic, the way Cloudflare does.

I don't think anyone is silly enough to suggest putting captchas on ads.

Steam doesn't host multiplayer servers, but it does offer services for match making, lobbies, voice chat and P2P networking (including the use of Valve's network as a relay).

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/multiplayer

* Banning major search and social websites (Google, FB, Twitter)

* Mandatory censorship of information (Google before leaving, Bing)

* Foreign ownership limits (aka forced intellectual property transfers)

* Capital outflow restrictions

* Heavy subsidies allowing local firms to sell products at below cost (e.g. steel, bicycles)

Airplane lifespans are determined by pressurization/depressurization cycles (i.e. number of flight trips), not distance flown or interior wear and tear.

You'll probably never be allowed to sign up for D+ again. I'd only use charge backs as a final resort if I can't contact the company and/or I never want to do business with them in my life.

You're forgetting that Chinese people can still sign up for Visa/Mastercard/Amex cards in China, it's just not popular. On the other hand, a foreigner can't sign up for Alipay/WeChat Pay.

It's not yet solved for people living in Hong Kong, as they aren't allowed to use the international version of these apps with an HK phone number. There are AlipayHk and WeChat Pay HK, but those only work with merchants that specially allow payments from HK wallets, which is not a lot of them.

Still have to rely on cash and credit card, or set up a Chinese bank account and get the Chinese version of Alipay/WeChat Pay.

Getting a new card doesn't necessarily stop recurring bills as trusted merchants can use features like Visa Account Updater or Mastercard Automatic Billing Updater. Though in practice, these trusted merchants usually have easy cancellation flows.

The hypocrisy is ridiculous. Try ordering something off AliExpress/Taobao shipped to HK/Taiwan and you're directed to "international shipping".

In particular, they should change Taiwan's entry in ISO-3166 before scowling at foreign companies for using a standardized country list.

Does this message only show in the release notes? It would be cool to display a link to this on startup, like with Vim and the ICCF-Holland charity in Uganda.

Writing a JS compiler in TS is easier than writing a TS compiler in TS, since TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript.

I didn't think this was a problem as I assumed most people with astigmatism (myself included) wear corrective lenses or glasses.

I think most people stick to 1-2 apps based on their culture and friends. But when you live in a culturally diverse society you end up having to install quite a few (e.g. WeChat for China, Kakao for Korea, LINE for Japan/Taiwan, Whatsapp for India/many other countries, Signal for the privacy expert in your life), etc.

I'd consider SMS as an "app" too, with the limitation of no group chats, and requires a roaming SIM card if you happen to go abroad.

Is SMS free in the US? I don't understand why it's still so widely used when almost every other country has moved on to WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, Viber, Signal, Telegram, Messenger etc.

> In the “stone age” days of the Internet ... You simply gave your username and password for one service to another so they could login to your account and grab whatever information they wanted!

I wish we left that in the past. I live in one of the largest financial hubs in the world and all the budgeting apps here still use username/password sharing for bank accounts.

I agree that unsustainable and user-hostile growth is a problem caused by overzealous VC investments.

However, I don't see the direct connection between adding telemetry to drive product decisions (e.g. improving conversion flows, prioritizing features/bugs) and pressure from investors. I think it was just bad communication and hubris on GitLab's part.

It's easy to avoid tracking users when you've got a 20-feature SaaS with a few thousand users. Trying to manage a product with millions of users, thousands of features and open bugs/feature requests is another ballgame and I think telemetry is fine as long as it's first-party (or opt-in), anonymized and explained properly (see Mozilla).

Foxconn is a Taiwanese company with close ties to the Chinese government. Not Korean

Kubuntu (KDE) has their blue/silver theme and Mint is a distinctive green. Ubuntu looks pretty drab in comparison.

I'm on an unrooted phone and F-Droid doesn't do auto-updates or even "update all". I have to remember to open F-Droid once in a while to click "Update" and then "Install" for each app, one-by-one.

I understand that it's probably Google's fault for not providing APIs/permissions but it's still terrible UX. I only use F-Droid when an app isn't available on the Play Store.

For ACID guarantees?

Are you in China? Perhaps it's only been removed for users in China.

That sounds like the perfect way to test stolen credit cards. In high-risk transactions, Stripe uses SMS 2FA so you're back to needing a SIM card.

I live in China and sometimes I buy made in China goods shipped from the US as it's cheaper.

According to the article, he had them in his bag and there's no evidence of him using them.

No fees and better UX are the main selling points.

It might shine for foreign transactions: no fee (usually 2%) + 1% cashback seems pretty good. If we're being realistic though, they'll probably have a terrible FX spread.