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by Wogef 10y ago
>you could just send a beautiful woman to seduce someone important and have a ton less loose ends and they're even advertising these days: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-qa-with-the-woman-who-des...
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by Wogef 11y ago
Unfortunately Nitrous.io does not work in China, neither does any other web based IDE that I know about. While it's true that it's a tough sell for Chinese companies, there are a lot of foreign companies here doing development.
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by Wogef 11y ago
I met Greg Fisher at a hardware meetup- very, very sharp guy. He is absolutely right about Process trumping Relationships BUT it can be very difficult to establish that process if you are only in China for a short while to get something man
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by Wogef 11y ago
I bought the Gear VR when they just said a Note 4 was needed. Once I got it I found out that of course, this was not the case with my HK bought Note 4. So useless region locked lenses and a piece of plastic. I'll never buy any VR hardw
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by Wogef 12y ago
>Nope. Immigrating usually implies permanent residence in the new country, not necessarily getting citizenship. I stand corrected- but expats in the countries they are referred to as such almost never have the option of permanent residen
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by Wogef 12y ago
Nonsense. Expat indicates citizenship status. An expatriate is a person temporarily residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. An immigrants on the other hand is a person in the process of changing their citizenship to thei
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by Wogef 12y ago
Love it. Would be great if you included cutting speeds and lubricants for different materials. Great (and low-conflict) way to quickly qualify new people for machines at Makerspaces.
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by Wogef 12y ago
The article sort of misses the real issue- the demographic. The PRD is very young, well educated and highly ambitious. Tokyo has the education, but it otherwise increasingly stagnant. New difficulties here in Shenzhen buying the required ma
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by Wogef 12y ago
This is already done, they have a huge bank fraud problem.
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by Wogef 12y ago
>This is not true. Wholly foreign owned enterprises have existed in China for many years, and their permissible activities have increased greatly over the last 5 years. The letter of the law is never the actual implementation of the law
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by Wogef 12y ago
Baidu translate works great in China and will translate anything you copy to the clipboard automatically. Requires the usual insane Chinese app permissions so Xprivacy or something similar is a must.
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by Wogef 12y ago
Neck- I fully agree. In a dress shirt it's very noticeable. Bald with a pencil neck looks pretty bad- bald with a thick neck is jacked.
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by Wogef 12y ago
Gmail is now very heavily used in foreign trade in China, by completely blocking it they just necessitated Chinese companies buying VPNs that would never have felt the need before. As a side note this does not really effect foreigners here
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by Wogef 12y ago
>What Chinese can't do very well in your opinion ? Would be a very long post, it depends in which cities, and which age groups (there is a huge cultural gap with far more risk-adverse older Chinese who grew up during the Cultural Re
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by Wogef 12y ago
>The West has a “broadcast” view of IP and ownership... China has a “network” view of IP and ownership Probably the best way I’ve heard it described. >You do have to read or speak Chinese to get it This statement kind of bothers me. M
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by Wogef 12y ago
Yeah, and if we use fonts.useso.com is slow outside of China.
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by Wogef 12y ago
We get a fair share of bullshit China speculation on HN- this article is absolutely spot on in every respect. The author deserves a huge amount of credit, it's very, very rare for even long time expatriates to be able to explain things
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by Wogef 12y ago
>Large parts of China are still a developing economy. If you’re illiterate, you can’t type, so enabling users to speak to us is critical for helping them find information. Baidu needs voice search because so many Chinese are illiterate?
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by Wogef 12y ago
The vast majority of Chinese I meet here have zero interest in democracy, the few students I do meet who advocate it generally have very little idea of what it actually is. They have no end of complaints about the government and are quite v
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by Wogef 12y ago
>Or just take your same machine tool and make a metal gun? Even in the infancy of the technology home 3D printers are already far more common than home mill/lathe setups and require far less skill to use. With the growing success of
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by Wogef 12y ago
If you are going for the "shell as a barrel" solution you might as well maximize the utility and make it either silenced (captive piston) ammo: http://www.sadefensejournal.com/wp/?p=1812 Or make it electronic
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by Wogef 12y ago
>Where's "here"? I lived in Shanghai 3 years I would have put that number pretty close to 0%. Shenzhen. You're right, 10% is being generous but a lot of long time expats pick up Mandarin not at work but through the &q
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by Wogef 12y ago
This is absolutely correct. Only about 10% of the successful long-term foreign businessmen I know here speak passable Chinese. Chinese love when you speak the language- but that does not unfortunately translate into the sort of tangible bus
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by Wogef 12y ago
I wish someone would make one of these that works consistently and reliably in China.
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by Wogef 12y ago
I used to volunteer teaching English to Chinese kids from migrant families (displaced within China). One of the ways I illustrated the value of English was to print several objects of differing size. Those sizes each represented the average
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by Wogef 12y ago
I'm in Shenzhen and we're getting a little news trickling in since there is a lot of back and forth daily traffic. They seem to be making some use of mesh-network (FireChat) for communication: http://www.pingwest.com&#x
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by Wogef 12y ago
Great to see someone going into detail on this- the Taobao experience is awesome. There are a few flakey carriers but over all- nothing even close in the US. It's become my favorite thing about living in China.
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by Wogef 12y ago
Just check my profile for an email, I think an HN in Shenzhen meetup would be cool. Anyone interested just let me know...
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by Wogef 12y ago
>Well, how would you be allowed to stay in China then? Only work for a foreign company in China if they can get you a legitimate work visa, but for just working online from home an M visa is fine (at least this year, until they change th
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by Wogef 12y ago
There's still positions like that- but yup, brutal.

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