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I think it’s okay. They can have “the blockchain”...

I would watch programming contests live streams.. Are there any available?

... And they literally just have to show you 280 characters. Thank God they are not building flying cars..

... "butter knives to unscrew things"... Savage! This is why we cant have nice things.

Maybe he is too busy with work related thinking to enjoy the actual moment and want to save it, so it can be enjoyed properly at a later time.

I agree. There is really just one smartphone OS out there now with Android gone. I don’t want to touch anything that has been near google.

I didnt....

Depends on the work you want done.

Sure, I can get a student to throw together a React frontend here also for very little money. If I want highly specialized knowledge about camera drivers, network protocols or low level programming, the story is different.

When the engineers start earning more in tech oriented cities like Shenbu or Bongai where ever, the shops and landlord charging more, houses become more expensive, living costs rise, which makes engineers start demanding higher salaries, which then starts a feedback loop of rising prices. It's almost like people in developing countries are real people with similar behavioral patterns like people in the west..

I dont think an engineer in China is cheaper than in Europe. Thats not my experience.. At least in the big cities, they cost more or less the same as in Europe.

I am on the standard plan at $5 per month. I feel it is money well spent and I can configure my own domains also for email - saves me the money on the Google Apps business thing, which I only had for the email functionality.

I clicked "I am 13 years old or below" just because I could and am now locked out because I am not old enough obviously.

I wonder if I come back in 6 months and try to revive my account by contacting Instagram they will still have the account on file.

I will find out and report back.

Fastmail.. Was a customer with them way back, when they started, but moved over to GMail, when I got my account there in 2004. Back to Fastmail since last year..

Isn’t dns hijacking a major problem? I could go to a Starbucks and setup my own dhcp server on my laptop. A certain fraction of the WiFi devices would probably pick up my dhcp given dns which would reroute requests to my own dns server. Nobody would ever know... or am I misunderstanding something about https?

Or if I was a malware writer I would discretely target hosts files or the local dns configuration - exploits in certain routers to try to reconfigure the complete local network and such.

Moved off google products completely. A few years ago I would probably have been excited about this but today I can’t shake the cynic telling me everything they do is to just spy more efficiently.

I find that I like to study the language implementation itself. Sometimes when I read the documentation for some method or function I will go look at how it was actually implemented and try to understand how it works.

Keeps me in the “context” of the moment also and i sort of have a goal with reading source code instead of just reading random implementations here and there. Once in a while I pick up a nugget or two that I don’t think I would have found otherwise.

Seems to work for me...

I agree. I was kind of hoping for a phone that just does call and SMS and browsing.

Hypnagogia.. Didn't hear that word before. I get that a lot and tried to explain it to other people, but nobody seem to understand what I am talking about.

It feels like I am dreaming while I am still awake in some kind of transitional state, where I am not conscious and also not asleep. It is not the same as lucid dreaming, which I had a couple of times also.

.. Or just being the advertising company they really are. Turns out it is really hard to be a tech company, when the primary target is to spy on you and not create actual useful products.

Yes...

I am interested in the 'almost' part. What are you missing?

It does change you for the better, I agree.

If you are in Hong Kong, you can get a 5 day single entry tourist visa for the Shenzhen area very easily at the Chinese border (Luo Hu border and Shekou border also last time I checked - at the Futian border, you cannot get one).

Go in the morning (by boat from the Hong Kong harbor, train or bus from elsewhere), get lunch in Coco park in Futian or Sea World in Shekou and go to the electronics market in HuaQiangBei in the afternoon.

In the evening go talk to armchair experts on Chinese culture in on of the foreigner bars or if you don't care much for drunk westerners lost in limbo maybe better get some hot pot in HaiDiLao or Little Lamb or Chinese barbecue in one of the street barbecue shops.

It was a prank...

Usually only works for me if I start building something myself and learn it by doing and then afterwards take a class to fill the holes I missed. Usually I will learn a new trick or some alternative way of doing something.

I get spammed by ICO offers every day almost from these people. Stopped logging in to claim my dollars since it is too much hassle to complete that captcha every time. Endless pictures of road signs and busses and roads...

Well, Google is an advertising firm run by social justice warriors, so ...

I might have visited those sites before, but thought it was some kind of new token bullshit.

Got a white paper link up at the top and some graphics of some decentralized nodes, so probably hit the back button faster than I delete spam from my inbox.

I remember trying it out, but it was so so slow. Thats pretty much the only thing I remember about it.