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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
I have also seen this in public housing in Hong Kong. Government built housing for families in the 70s. Children move out. The remaining residents turn grey. The residents in the housing complex are aging along with the buildings.
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
The article is also missing an important context, Giant is a Taiwanese company. A lot of the world's high end bicycle are built by them in Taiwan.
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
This issue has been resolved over 30 years ago. The answer is no. I was born in British Hong Kong. I had a British passport, one that is in a special category (BNO) that was issued to non-citizen. It does not allow residency in UK, or even
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
If any utility work need to dig perpendicular to the trench, wouldn't cut the fiber right away?
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
At least Mark Gardiner has the integrity to reflect on his mistake.
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
"MANILA - A shutdown of Boracay Island could lead to job losses for 36,000 people and P56 billion in lost revenue, stakeholders said Thursday, as they appealed for a partial, instead of a full closure. Around P56 billion in tourism rev
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
How did this shutdown came about? It sounds to me it is a top down decision to shutdown basically the entire island and all its economic activities for six months. I wonder how many people gone bankrupt due to this. What exactly is the envi
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
Sad. I thought I saw it coming.
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by tungwaiyip 7y ago
One of the most memorable ride was a trip from Vietnam to Kunming in the 90s. I hope this old line is still running. The train travels along a canyon. The view is incomparably stunning. China rail have pretty bad hygiene at that time. The p
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by tungwaiyip 8y ago
It truly horrifies me when I learned there are groups who celebrate mass murder by posting video to Internet. They go out of their way to mutate their posting in order to evade Internet service's detecting. Who are these people? I neve
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by tungwaiyip 8y ago
Facebook's investor presentation shows MAU stay flat at 242 millions in Q4'18. I don't see a 15 millions drop. (The numbers for DAUs and MAUs do not include Instagram, WhatsApp, or Oculus users) https://s21.q4cdn.c
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by tungwaiyip 8y ago
Not really. I get a lot of spam from recruiters. I also get feeler from people I have worked with before. Last time I look for work, I got multiple job offers after one week. San Francisco's tech job market is hot.
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by tungwaiyip 9y ago
Do you teleconference your friends and family regularly? My guess is not. But it is always possible a new video app will comes up next year and gain wide adoption. Today some number of people use Skype to video chat with friends and family
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by tungwaiyip 9y ago
If people's understanding of social network is something similar Facebook, then this understanding is too confined. The key is to observe how people adopt the technology. My extended family are geographically dispersed. They have since
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by tungwaiyip 9y ago
Possibly. Like I say my mom has her social network.
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by tungwaiyip 9y ago
I.e. it is a social network.
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by tungwaiyip 9y ago
It is very much a social network. That's the place I go to for group chat, catching up with friends and share irrelevant stuff. It wasn't branded as such. But it is entirely social.
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by tungwaiyip 9y ago
The article is just not doing a very good job of identifying social networks. Whatsapp is BIG. There are also many non-US base social network, like WeChat, that was not on their radar screen. EDIT: I should explain myself more. For my mom,
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by tungwaiyip 12y ago
I'm really scratching my head. Does it mean load the item to the truck, find a buyer, then delivery to him without dropping it in a warehouse? I don't think this is going to work. What makes you think there will be an eager buyer?
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by tungwaiyip 12y ago
I carefully measured everything in my household. Nothing come close to a space heater. Most small electronics use negligible amount of power. We should not need to pay any attention to them. http://tungwaiyip.info/blog/
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by tungwaiyip 12y ago
Totally heating dominate energy use. I'm rather disturb to hear people pay much attention to so call "phantom power" from idle electronics and adapters. Adapters plugged in the socket do not consume measurable power. Wifi rou
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by tungwaiyip 12y ago
I've gone through a bunch reviews in the Google play store. 100% of them rated 5* for his inspiration effort. 0% rated it 5* because the app is useful. In fact many commenters say outright they have no intention to use the app and they
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by tungwaiyip 12y ago
I am disappointed about Eich's support of prop 8 and disagree with his view. But what is truly appalling is his critics pushing for ousting him base on his view. Isn't people allowed to have different value? This is not even a fri
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by tungwaiyip 12y ago
Yes. And this is a recommendation system implementing the book's collaborative filtering algorithm in 9 lines of code http://tungwaiyip.info/2012/Collaborative%20Filtering.html
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by tungwaiyip 13y ago
I was wonder about this. Does employer life insurance do anything to terminal illness? I pay extra to supplement my term life. But if I get too sick to work and lost my job, what good is the employer life insurance?
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by tungwaiyip 13y ago
Best wishes to Jonathan. I've chipped in my little bit. Agree about the importance of getting term life. One thing to add, the Internet (or the society) is a life insurance! Help some one in need. One day the karma will come back to yo
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by tungwaiyip 13y ago
The subtitle reads "In start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa)". WTF do the author get this observation from? Looks like an unsubstantiated assumption to me. Other than an making an allegation, there is no
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by tungwaiyip 13y ago
From the American Community Survey (ACS), $1,300 per month will put her in the 13% percentile in San Francisco household income. This looks like a decent safety net to me. http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservic
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by tungwaiyip 13y ago
You do. One change as one gets older is you become more accepting as who you are. A high pay senior engineer is not a bad place to be. I used to read about all these entrepreneur stories and wonder why I isn't one of them. Now I accept
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by tungwaiyip 13y ago
I'm in my mid 40s. I have been coding my entire career and I am still coding everyday. The startup I have worked for 3 year was not quite taking off. So a few months ago I decided to quit to look for something new. This is the first ti

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