josai

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by josai 10y ago
> Spotify - doesn't allow you to buy premium [..] if you have a non-US credit card Huh? I assuredly have spotify premium on an Australian credit card, and I know people with it in other countries too. Spotify isn't even a US co
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by josai 10y ago
But no-one said "kike". You guys regexed it out of a larger word, a totally reasonable word. My point is that no-one but you would even have that word in their regex, so it's wrong to get all upset about it.
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by josai 10y ago
Without wishing to otherwise get involved at all, I'd like to say that as an Australian native english speaker, I have never heard of the word "kike" or that it is apparently a slur against jews. Why would anyone else in the
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by josai 11y ago
Aren't you forgetting the small detail that China is literally ten times the size of Japan? Even if your claim is true, and you don't present any evidence to that effect, the order of magnitude size difference makes it rather a di
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by josai 11y ago
React is a library, not a framework. What's your router? What's your model? What's your buildchain, how do you deploy, how do you do ajax requests, etc etc etc? Facetious comments like this help nobody. There's not a sit
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by josai 11y ago
> > Apple invented the smartphone (and the tablet) > No they didn't While you're technically correct, the iPhone was such a leap over any previous effort that it basically redefined the meaning of the word. If you showed
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by josai 11y ago
The article touched on smartphones, but I think missed a point - a huge part of the recent "acceptability" of public transport is that people have got something to do during their trip. In fact I kind of get the feeling people alm
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by josai 11y ago
Interesting that no-one has mentioned weibo, the chinese "copy" of twitter (hint: it's not actually a copy). I think weibo is a fantastic product that's ahead of twitter in many respects. Just off the top of my head, wei
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by josai 11y ago
> I just don't believe global consumers will choose China over USA, Europe, Japan, South Korea That seems pretty short-sighted. Maybe you're quite young, but 15 years ago korean cars had a shocking reputation, and japanese 20 y
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by josai 11y ago
Quite interesting to see how different experiences people can have with Apple Music. Mine is that it's a disaster - even with the latest updates I have "synced" songs which simply won't play, synced songs which have been
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by josai 11y ago
> have you used Apple Music and has this feature failed you? Absolutely. I have a number of mix CDs (above and beyond, mainly) where apple music has apparently looked up the songs by title and artist only and replaced all the tracks in a
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by josai 11y ago
Really? Can I get a second endorsement from someone? I have had great luck reading books recommended on HN but am on the fence about this one.
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by josai 11y ago
Hm. I wonder about some of these results. That number for chicago is wild - that would be clearly visible, serious pollution. And my old haunt BKK, which I left specifically because of the awful air, 32!? The city where I would come home
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by josai 11y ago
Hey, thanks for sharing your local experience. I've only visited! I thought uber black runs audis in BJ but I only heard that from a friend. Maybe I or he was confused. Out of interest, why do you have issues sleeping with the window c
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by josai 11y ago
Hm, I've had people tell me that they prefer uber (or the other app you mentioned - i couldn't remember its name) because the cars tend to be better, and with better air filtering. Maybe that gave me the impression it's more
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by josai 11y ago
Oops, right you are. Corrected.
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by josai 11y ago
Pollution in HK is nowhere near as bad as beijing, though. SZ's better but does have its moments. It's not everyday, but when the 'Jing has a bad day, it's really something else. I don't know how people live there,
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by josai 11y ago
> Could this be used as initial propeler to raise a rocket high enough to use this technique as a "first stage engine" in flying object out into space? I don't really see how. You'd need some kind of gigantic and fair
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by josai 11y ago
Well, I agree, but I think that horse has bolted long ago. The article discusses the risk of extended loud listening with headphones, which employees buy themselves (I've never heard of an employer buying headphones). My point was that
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by josai 11y ago
A pair of Bose QC25's has been my most objectively productive purchase this last year. I highly recommend anyone in an open plan office to buy some, or something like them - they're expensive but worth every cent.
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by josai 11y ago
> have not seen one yet Perhaps that's because the kind of person who has this kind of attitude, and who'd create an account called "tddfuckwitz" to come and spout it on HN, doesn't make a very good impression on
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by josai 11y ago
Just because it's not yet the worst police state ever doesn't mean people can't voice concerns.
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by josai 11y ago
The guy I was replying to was arguing against SRP and proposing his own ad-hoc solution.
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by josai 11y ago
> ...Which is why I said "over a secure connection". ... and how do you set up a secure connection without a pre-existing password? Your solution has a chicken-and-egg problem.
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by josai 11y ago
This account doesn't have enough karma to downvote anyone :-P
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by josai 11y ago
Your comment was also a ridiculous over-simplification. My reply was a bit facetious, which was probably silly of me. But whatever. We both fail at arguing; I have not influenced you nor have you influenced me. Anyway, it appears that I&#x2
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by josai 11y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your experiences, I mean that. But I don't see how that has much to do with what we're talking about. I wish you'd step back from your personal trauma and look at the big picture. You say this &qu
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by josai 11y ago
I've lived and worked extensively in singapore, thailand and china, all with speech controls. They all have their pros and cons and I'd be hard pressed to categorically state they're better or worse than my home country of Au
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by josai 11y ago
I am sick of seeing "free speech" treated almost as religious dogma, as if it is axiomatically good. It's not - it's just a theory that unrestricted free speech will lead to a better society. Frankly, I don't think
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by josai 11y ago
> unlike the British or continental European sense of nausea, dread, anti-semitism, nationalism, requiring one's brother to be one's keeper, and so on What utter nonsense.

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