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Comment · 1 year ago
Xiaomi in Chinese translates to "Little Rice"

Here is the meaning of the name

Described here: https://finance.sina.cn/tech/2020-11-26/detail-iiznctke33979...

在后来的讨论中,我突然想到了我最喜欢的一句话——“佛观一粒米,大如须弥山”。

Translated into English, it means:

“In the later discussions, I suddenly thought of one of my favorite sayings — ‘A Buddha sees a single grain of rice as vast as Mount Sumeru.’”

This expression emphasizes the idea that even something seemingly small (like a grain of rice) can hold immense significance or value when viewed from a different perspective.

Thanks to chatgpt for translating this

Comment · 2 years ago
Not defending google but I don't believe that Google is sending the passwords anywhere

This is how 1password does it for their watchtower feature (basiclaly same feature as your google example)

https://support.1password.com/watchtower-privacy/

The way it works is that instead of sending your password to their server to check (which they do not do that). They download known a list of leaked password to local to check.

Comment · 2 years ago
why were these emails released as part of the FTC's lawsuit against google.

How did the FTC get microsoft's email over an antitrust lawsuit against google

Comment · 3 years ago
I don't think you can just say that bout the last raise.

Depends on the exercise price. Exercise price is lower than the preferred price that the investor paid. Due to the fact that investors get preferred shares.

409a can often be 20% of the preferred valuation.

Comment · 4 years ago
I don’t believe 1 infers 2.

2 is useful information and additive to conversation

1 is just juvenile and belongs to Reddit not hacker news

Comment · 5 years ago
I recently started using hosted codespaces (because I bought a apple M1 and ran into a lot of issues with compilation)

I started with gitpod and then moved to GitHub codespaces after 1 weeks.

GitHub codespaces is just miles better in terms of features AND first class integration AND reliability (I gave up on gitpod after 2 consecutive nights of not being able to connect into my pod).

While I hope gitpod all the best and want them to do super well. It is hard for me to imagine going back

Comment · 5 years ago
Do we know what happened to the other 59 children?
Comment · 5 years ago
Can apple appeal in this case to a higher court not in Texas? (As I understand, a lot parent cases are brought to one small district in Texas)

And secondly can apple stop doing business in east Texas all together so that Rodney gilstrap no longer has jurisdiction?

Comment · 5 years ago
As a quick tangent, has anyone tried watching movies in VR?

If you haven’t, try it. I have been watching stuff in my oculus quest 2 and it is pretty darn awesome. I think this is the future, most definitely.

Oculus quest 2 still is not perfect. But I cannot imagine going to the theater with a few more generations of VR. (Oculus quest 5 maybe???)

Comment · 5 years ago
It is in the article "Mr. Thiel purchased his founders’ shares in PayPal through his Roth IRA during PayPal’s formation"

I am willing the venture a guess that the initial valuation was far greater than 0.001 per share. And this was all an accounting trick to exploit IRA

Comment · 5 years ago
I don't think that's true right. Peter Thiel purchased shares in Paypal at $0.001 per share, which is far below fair market value.

The "theft" here is the undervaluation of the shares with which he purchased at

Comment · 5 years ago
I mean cryptocurrency is indeed what made ransomware possible.
Comment · 5 years ago
audible - the audio book app also does not allow purchases in-app.

Fanhouse can just let purchases happen on web

Comment · 5 years ago
This sentence ended in a very unexpected way
Comment · 5 years ago
Why didn't Microsoft go after this? it seems like an incredibly powerful community that blends really well with linkedin AND github

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