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Comment · 2 years ago
This seems odd. My experience visiting India was of software parks that are 24h operations. Perhaps this was in the Mumbai sticks. The 50 phone lines and people coming to work in a bungalow not being a giveaway, perhaps something alongside the breakfast order was.
Comment · 2 years ago
If it's something your proud of having done, perhaps buy the <library name>.com or <>.io or whatever.

Also, while the code is under an MIT license, is the name or brand?

Comment · 2 years ago
Deng Xiaoping was not the successor to Mao. That was Hua Guofeng. An interim leader, but an important interim stopgap.

I have no idea who N S Lyons is other than a substack author. There are many other small factual errors and romanticisms of writing in the piece, as well as avenues left unexplored not least if Confucianism is but an excuse for authoritarianism as it has been used by past dynasties who've tended to flip from Confucianism to Taoism, and sometimes other, to justify themselves.

But that shouldn't shadow the subject at hand, which is casting some light on the limelight avoiding figure of Wang.

Comment · 2 years ago
There's a small minimise button located next to each post on HN.

It's easier clicking that than making pronoun-filled replies that revolve around personal norms of commenting outside HN guidelines.

Comment · 2 years ago
The Goldman guy?

UBS had similar? Perhaps.

Try searching for these.

Comment · 2 years ago
Requiring phone numbers for things is why I don't sign up.
Comment · 2 years ago
Look at industrial economics and shakeouts.

The advantage a first mover has is early access to innovation. With earlier customers and a slightly more mature product they're a step ahead. So, knowing this, can you leap frog it by second guessing what the customer/market really wants in a way that wins for you?

Comment · 2 years ago
That a point exists is an assumption, and dimensions constructed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Given you now live in the EU you could try exercising your right to account deletion.
Comment · 2 years ago
The kids have no choice. It might happen, or even be compulsory depending on social system.

Worth asking though. Your kids might end up at the equivalent of Aveling Park.

Comment · 2 years ago
Bootstrap, live the good life.
Comment · 2 years ago
My personal solution is to boycot companies that do this, and should they come up in conversation mention they arbitrarily block legitimate users from their services
Comment · 2 years ago
Veering on a tangent, I've been pretty happy with Netim as a French (not just .fr) registrar and replacement for Gandi.

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