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by forkLding 8mo ago
Club Penguin was sold to Disney for 350 million, it didn't die in the sense that money ran out
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Discworld MUD(discworld.starturtle.net)
17 points by forkLding 8mo ago|2 comments
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by forkLding 3y ago
Below are in Chinese: His blog: https://program-think.blogspot.com/ His github: https://github.com/programthink The data he collected on China's princelings among the CCP: https://github.com
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An influential Chinese tech and politics blogger disappeared from the internet(cnn.com)
5 points by forkLding 3y ago|1 comments
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by forkLding 4y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/japans-fate-could-be...
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by forkLding 4y ago
They say events in Japan often foretell the future of a highly developed and urbanized society, could be parallel to the old "Japanese people are not having much sex" news in the past, we're just catching up. https:/&#x
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by forkLding 4y ago
Or there are technological advances in artificial wombs and children are grown in incubators so that women are no longer as involved in pregnancy/child-bearing. We have research papers with animal fetuses being grown in artificial womb
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by forkLding 4y ago
It should be noted that Zhang was a math prodigy when he was young, around 13 years old, however because of the Cultural Revolution in China, school education was stopped for a decade and his parents were purged and he was sent down to the
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by forkLding 4y ago
Putin won't stop though, the war with the Georgians in 2008, 2014 Ukraine invasion and now this Ukraine war. Is it really peace when one side calls for peace? Don't forget WW2, when Nazi Germany under Hitler annexed Czechslovakia
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by forkLding 4y ago
You just explained it, imagine if one of your competitors (Tesla) now knows how much you spend on Twitter, its like a strategy game but now they know your advertising budget. Also they want to see the boundaries between Tesla and Twitter, a
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by forkLding 4y ago
Just a note: The money-laundering system this criminal is part of is called a 地下钱庄 in Chinese or "underground banks" ( https://fintrac-canafe.canada.ca/intel/advisories-avis/bank-... ), originally started
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by forkLding 4y ago
Arguably more an expansion of the original idea than a pivot, but Twitch used to be justin.tv which was just a single 24-hour livestream of Justin Kan, they later expanded it to allow other people to broadcast as well and then noticed their
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by forkLding 4y ago
Discord itself says this in their welcome messages but they used to be a game development studio that tried to develop an mobile MOBA game called Fates Forever back in 2014. However they found VOIP software to be pretty problematic and pivo
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by forkLding 4y ago
Nope they are hiring more, I'm working at an enterprise-level Saas so not sure how representative but it seems if your company has revenue and needs to grow, it's still hiring. Also I still get plenty of LinkedIn messages from rec
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by forkLding 4y ago
The Chinese call this "running" (there is a Chinese character that is worded the same as run in pinyin and is used to term as escaping/leaving from China), something that has been increasing with the iron fist of the CCP comi
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by forkLding 4y ago
Ah so something like Chinese Gaokao? where you spend 3 years of your life preparing for one exam? Or am I reading what you wrote wrong?
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by forkLding 5y ago
What if you put in strict identity verification and the uploader is identified but still decided to upload a NSFW or disturbing image?
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by forkLding 5y ago
The news of this women is being rapidly censored and angrily discussed within Chinese circles like on Wechat, this is another twitter post on it: https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1487463235930501124 Here is an
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by forkLding 5y ago
I think the hot take is that although these are best practices, not many companies actually do them.
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by forkLding 5y ago
"And the world's second largest economy now faces food uncertainties due to factors such as its deteriorating relations with the U.S. and Australia, which could drastically alter the import environment. In fact, this could be what
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by forkLding 5y ago
Coming from a private school where many of my friends went to Ivy Leagues, a lot of them took SAT Prep, which honestly does not teach much except for how to practice for SAT so that you get a high score, also its a bit of an unfair advantag
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by forkLding 5y ago
Mandarin or this kind of standardized written Chinese was formalized by a National Commission and chosen during the Republic of China era, this is the document from 1932 now digitally stored in the archives of Taiwan, see: https:/&#x2
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by forkLding 5y ago
I was born to an expat family in neighbouring Bahrain, it was a similar experience. Overall, I would say it is worth it if you are poorer or looking to make money. It's a place where you can grow rich but later on your family leaves fo
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by forkLding 5y ago
Zhang Gaoli is retired but censorship rules means that all news of this is pretty much censored in China
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Chinese athlete accuses former top Communist Party official of sexual assault(npr.org)
183 points by forkLding 5y ago|143 comments
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by forkLding 5y ago
Sebastian Thrun founded Udacity. Udemy was founded by other people.
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by forkLding 5y ago
I just bought 300 dollars worth of courses couple days ago on Udemy, I've used all these companies and I have to say Udemy is better than them. There is definitely a market based on teaching quality difference and the teaching tools pr
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by forkLding 5y ago
I find it hits the chicken and egg problem though. If you are starting out, most people end up on your business website/blog using keyword searches from Google or other search engines. Otherwise it is pretty hard from the get-go as a r
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by forkLding 5y ago
It is the same situation in China, or should I hazard by saying the entire world?
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by forkLding 5y ago
Probably Chan or Zen Buddhism, the word Chan 禅 means meditation. Zen is the Japanese pronunciation for Chan. Although they all belong to Mahayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism has meditation practices, the more modern formats that the West

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