germainelol

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by germainelol 3y ago
Declan here - appreciated your role/team description, looks like a great team culture. Applied :)
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by germainelol 3y ago
Looks awesome :) applied!
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by germainelol 3y ago
want, where is that setting?
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by germainelol 4y ago
wondered the same thing, are your remote roles location based for visa and salary purposes? I was always super interested to apply but I'm based in Asia.
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by germainelol 5y ago
You assume that they care if the public are provoked.
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by germainelol 7y ago
In Hong Kong, the only lockdown we've been in this entire time is forcing people from certain countries to go into quarantine. In fact, most of our cases recently have all been HK residents coming back to HK from places like London, Pa
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by germainelol 7y ago
Quite the opposite regarding Carrie Lam. There is a lot of anger towards the government over how they are handling the virus, specifically the insufficient mask supplies and not closing the border with China. Even the pro-Beijing supporters
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by germainelol 7y ago
The police are phsyically attacking the people, it's quite different. Yes, this app helps protestors, but it also helps the public avoid being treated extremely violently by the police.
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by germainelol 7y ago
Dude, in HK the police raise are legally obliged to raise flags to warn the public of things such as firing tear gas, dispersing crowds, illegal assembly etc. They will also post on Twitter to notify the public where and when they will disp
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by germainelol 7y ago
"For young Hong Kongers however, they didn't live during British rule. They were born into wealth, and now their own career prospects (like many millenials around the world) aren't great. So they protest." Everything her
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by germainelol 7y ago
As I already wrote, if things like FB, Google, WhatsApp etc. are all blocked and most Western news sites are blocked/censored...will you suddenly know they exist because you crossed the border and go scour them for news about these pro
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by germainelol 7y ago
You think mainlanders cross the border into Hong Kong and suddenly have a new found knowledge of where to look for uncensored information? Or that they suddenly have tons of friends to contact and discuss the news with on WhatsApp or Telegr
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by germainelol 7y ago
There may be negatives to this, but if you listen to any recent talks with Jack Dorsey, he is genuinely concerned about combating the amount of fake accounts on Twitter. Of course, it's both a moral issue and a business issue but that&
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by germainelol 8y ago
This was definitely a big thing I noticed when looking around. A lot of places thought I might be suitable from a technical perspective, but that I lacked remote working experience. I've worked in places where it's common to have
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by germainelol 8y ago
What kind of experience have the people here had when applying for remote positions? Did you guys find it difficult to get a remote job (that you enjoy!)? When I was last looking for a job, I applied to several remote positions in the hope
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by germainelol 8y ago
But how many people click the button to buy a license? :D
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by germainelol 8y ago
I guess ending up in a situation where you need cash to pay for something.
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by germainelol 8y ago
No bad experiences so far with Revolut, but will admit the customer support is pretty terrible. I had to enquire to the CS team about the top-up limit and ended up getting all of my answers from forums instead of the CS team.
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by germainelol 8y ago
Yeah, I definitely find myself buying from Amazon less often now. I shop around elsewhere as it's more user-friendly and only go to Amazon if I happen to search for a product and see it's cheaper on Amazon. Before, a lot of people
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by germainelol 8y ago
As others have said, try out Revolut. I believe it's only part of the premium package which sucks, but they offer throwaway cards for this purpose.
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by germainelol 8y ago
And there's me thinking selling online would be easy. I was planning to set something up with Stripe and Printful (drop shipping) to sell some custom tshirt designs I made as a learning experience.
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by germainelol 8y ago
> Shopify/Squarespace/Sellfy etc. are much cheaper and lower risk, at least to start with. From experience PCI compliance and tax rules are pains you do not want to deal with. Could you explain what you mean by this? I've
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by germainelol 8y ago
Have a link to anything supporting the NASA comment? I believe you, I'm just curious to read an article on it.
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by germainelol 8y ago
Interesting replies on changing jobs frequently. Personally, I have only been an engineer for around 3 years, of which I have had fairly valid reasons for leaving each time. - 8 months in a startup that burned out and failed - 18 months in
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by germainelol 8y ago
I definitely got sidetracked by the word "even" in the definition of hacker news. Even: Verb. Something that white girls can't do. "Oh my god Janet! Did you see that girl's dress? Like I can't even!"
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by germainelol 8y ago
I think they're already losing their influence. As people mentioned already, many people have their accounts but simply don't use them anymore. I only use it for keeping in touch with some friends via Messenger these days, and whe
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by germainelol 9y ago
i remember every time i went on line 3 for several stops, i thought to myself "damn, this is a long tunnel"
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by germainelol 9y ago
Really agree on the inequality point, especially in the West around Xinjiang. Some of the stories my friends have told me about growing up there were ridiculous. I think after you travel around China a bit, it's really difficult to see
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by germainelol 9y ago
Yeah, I much prefer the button-less touch ID approach. Was kinda disappointed the new S9/S9+ also went with face ID.
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by germainelol 9y ago
Was quite certain of this too. To cover something like this website is quite expensive too, and as this is a side project I highly doubt he's covered those costs.

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