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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.

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.

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 guarantees the passport holder can enter UK at all. The issue of former colony subject coming to UK has been debated and settled. The answer is no.

If any utility work need to dig perpendicular to the trench, wouldn't cut the fiber right away?

At least Mark Gardiner has the integrity to reflect on his mistake.

"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 revenue will be lost if the island is closed for 9 months, based on the island's revenue during the first 9 months of 2017, data showed. This is equivalent to roughly 20 percent of the country's total tourism receipts."

https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/03/22/18/boracay-shutdown-...

Consider also the armed security comment, this really shows the way of a totalitarian government.

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 environmental rehabilitation being done? Why does it necessitate a shutdown? Would the return of tourists eventually undo all the "rehabilitation"?

Sad. I thought I saw it coming.

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 passengers freely throw their trash on the floor and out of the window. The attendants swiped the floor every few hours. Every time they pushed a mountain of peanut husk away. There was a peasant family on board with a baby. The baby needed to relief. So the parents held him up to have him shit on the floor. The attendant saw it and really lost it. She scolded the hell out of the family.

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 never know this dark side of humanity exist and it horrifies me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/18/inside-...

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.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2018/Q4...

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.

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 regularly. So yes, Skype is also a social network.

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 formed a group using WeChat. Now they are sharing stuff in the group daily. I get to know them more than ever. This is absolutely functioning as a social network.

Possibly. Like I say my mom has her social network.

I.e. it is a social network.

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.

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, her social network is a paper address book and her phone. That's the technology she use to get in touch with her friends.

Whatapps has the necessary technology and feature. What makes it a "social network" in this context is the adoption. If a large number of your peers are using it as a main way to get in touch, it is their "social network". You may not think of it as such because it looks different than Facebook. But this will become more apparent if you are aware how much penetration it has in some communities.

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? Used furniture is not a very liquid market. Sellers typically ask for more than buyers is willing to pay. It takes time to find a match. Some items will not find a buyer after a long time or never. That's why we need a warehouse.

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/2011/12/24/home_power_usage

There are probably a separate category of problematic electronics that really sucks power. I was offended to find my set-top box suck 18W. I am doubly offended by your array of Tivo boxes. For 40W, my laptop will be doing computation intensive task with the fan running loudly. My mac mini consume only 11W when idle. A big huge TV would use power. I only have a 32" TV and I use it only a few hours a day at most anyway.

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 router uses about a few watts. The worst offender is a set-top box that uses 18W irrespective of power on or off. It is piece of crap anyway so I unplugged it. All the electronics in the house probably use less power in a day compare to running a 1500W heater for 15 minutes.

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 only buy it for support.

This is not to be critical of Leo. By publishing the app and making the the promotion website and video he is ahead of even many professional developers. I'm more annoyed by the tech hype and the media narrative. The idea is any kid can write a mobile app and solve some of the world biggest problem just like that. Together they create some myth that disappoints if you really look into the detail.

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 fringe idea. Majority of votes has voted for prop 8. What is the moral to deny people the job base on their political believe? What sort of world are you really suggesting? Add a background check to bar 52% of voters who has support prop 8 from employment? This is far more chilling than prop 8 itself.

People need to speak up and stop this insanity about ousting Eich. This include the LGBT community and their supporters. Yesterday their were fighting for inclusiveness and accepting people with different values. They need to walk the talk themselves, even if it means to tolerate people whose value they disagree with.

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

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?

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 you.

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 reference to this through out the very long article.

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/tableservices/jsf/pages/...

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 accepted that I do not really have the caliber and leadership. I admire and I'm happy to work with those young entrepreneur who are so talented.

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 time I have quit a job out right without having a new job waiting. It turned out to be the best thing I have done. Once I broadcast the message that I am in the job market, my email box quickly fill up with requests (I'm in the San Francisco job market). I've spent the next week pretty much interviewing full time. Very soon I've received multiple job offers. The company I like the most did not make the highest offer. But I successfully negotiate up to a satisfactory level.

In terms of work and technical skill, I feel I am in the top of the game. I'm not sure where people get the idea that young person is better than more experienced. New knowledge often build on top of old knowledge. Fundamental skill like logic, math, data structure are just equally relevant. Plus experience is useful when you need to make judgment on where and how things are likely to change, and where things is more risky that deserve more attention for design and testing. That say the landscape of technical knowledge is huge and quickly expanding. There a new thing to learn everyday. I am aware that many people around me, both young and old, are really talented. There are always things I can learn from them.

In terms of pay, it is rising in absolute term. But I'm not in management and I'm moving mostly laterally. I don't believe I am making more than someone who are in their 30s. In this sense both my career and my pay is plateaued. But still I satisfied with the work and pay level. I think this is an excellent career choice for myself.