qeng-ho

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by qeng-ho 3y ago
After their acquisition by DigitalOcean in 2022, the biggest question anyone probably had was whether they would continue supporting now-competitors on the platform. We now have the answer. Expected, but disappointing.
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by qeng-ho 5y ago
Why do people go for pottery classes, watch tv, ride bicycles, run, read books, or otherwise do anything other than work? I don't mean to be antagonistic but I find your question to be flawed in the first place; why do we have to alway
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by qeng-ho 5y ago
Sell both properties and realise (perhaps pre-maturely) the capital gains?
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by qeng-ho 6y ago
As someone who is subbed to TAT, your newsletter has provided me with quite a few interesting reads, especially when some of the articles are years old, yet still relevant. Keep up the good work!
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by qeng-ho 6y ago
I'm from Singapore, and would fight you on your claim that Starbucks killed the local coffee culture. We have our own coffee culture, historically in the hawker centres, and it's most definitely still striving. Beyond that, there
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by qeng-ho 6y ago
Sadly, the stranglehold UCI has on organised cycling around the globe is not going to go away anytime soon, pandemic or not. The rise of "gravel" riding and races is proof that we can have more fun when the UCI isn't involved
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by qeng-ho 6y ago
I'm curious; are you studying Cantonese or Taishanese or some other variant? Asking simply because Cantonese is pretty mutually intelligible with Mandarin; I'm a native Mandarin and Cantonese speaker and barring some vocabulary (a
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by qeng-ho 7y ago
As someone who's monitoring the situation over in Germany because I have family there, Germany is definitely not doing "something right". There is a lack of direction in handling the situation, as well as information for the
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by qeng-ho 7y ago
I agree, especially with the uneasy feeling that it wouldn't last much longer; the challenge of the first 50 years of Singapore was economical, and the heavy-handedness of the government was a result of that. The challenge of the next
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by qeng-ho 7y ago
To quote what I replied to another user: If you disagree, try telling the police that they have no right to infringe on your personal freedom when they stop you for drink-driving. Or theft. Or even jay-walking. To be in a society, any kind
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by qeng-ho 7y ago
I cannot answer for most of the population, but I can hazard a guess — they do not care to think that far. We have our bread and ciruses, and that makes us complacent that our government will at least maintain benevolence.
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by qeng-ho 7y ago
It is deliberately reductive because I was hoping not to get into a debate about personal freedoms. If you disagree, try telling the police that they have no right to infringe on your personal freedom when they stop you for drink-driving. O
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by qeng-ho 7y ago
I'm Singaporean, and completely not surprised to see this appear on HN. As with many places, the situation in my country is a bit more nuanced than a simple "the ruling party has ruled the country since 1965". Civilisation is
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by qeng-ho 8y ago
Switch to using numbers for the quick links and you can type the text of the link to narrow down the search for the quick link.