Hacker News: tinza123

New comment by tinza123 in "Scientists of Chinese descent leaving the US at an accelerating pace"

tinza123 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:17:01 +0000

…what now?

New comment by tinza123 in "iPhone sales drop more than forecast, revenue falls for third straight quarter"

tinza123 — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 23:35:33 +0000

I doubt most buyers of iPhone care about what port they use. It’s more likely due to really not much exciting things happening in recent updates

New comment by tinza123 in "Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption"

tinza123 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:21:30 +0000

No they are not. I talk to my family often on Facetime

New comment by tinza123 in "FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks"

tinza123 — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 16:29:43 +0000

By that logic 100m dashing should be abondoned after the invention of cars.

New comment by tinza123 in "“Takumi No Waza” – Japan's famous Green Bell Nail Clippers"

tinza123 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:51:44 +0000

So the material looks identical with other grocery store clippers. I guess the curved file was slightly nicer? I mean my $2 clipper has served me 2 years without hints of becoming dull anytime soon. I don't understand the appeal of this other than its exotic Japanese background.

New comment by tinza123 in "DuckDuckGo for Mac beta now open to the public"

tinza123 — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:31:46 +0000

What is this, a browser? Why do I need a new browser?

New comment by tinza123 in "Warren Buffett: Explanation for why he doesn’t believe in Bitcoin"

tinza123 — Sun, 01 May 2022 11:55:03 +0000

Old white man can be right some time too.

New comment by tinza123 in "Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?"

tinza123 — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:18:00 +0000

I did it early this year, finished on April 15th. I was not an avid runner by any means, onlyed picked up running around Sept 2020, started from daily walking only. You can absolutely do that, and it will feel awesome after you achieved it

New comment by tinza123 in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

tinza123 — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:34:19 +0000

Well assuming they do that, likely they will host websites on AWS or Azure. Then AWS is down, what are you gonna do?

New comment by tinza123 in "Fighting Like Taliban"

tinza123 — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 18:41:47 +0000

Your idea is the most Taliban idea I've heard.

New comment by tinza123 in "[dead]"

tinza123 — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 01:51:42 +0000

Misleading title. The official names the 4 potential reasons as "the theories to be investigated", not like these 4 reasons were conclusion of the investigation. Completely 2 different things.

Source: other articles on the same piece of news, including the ones in Chinese.

New comment by tinza123 in "Arrests of Hong Kong democrats shows why EU must reject China investment"

tinza123 — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 15:32:14 +0000

Enough of these political posts on HN. If I want to see them I would head to r/news or NY Times. Strongly opinionated conclusion supported by piecemeal information aiming to inspire meaningless online battles with strangers? No thanks.

New comment by tinza123 in "Xi Jinping's anti-corruption drive had a counterintelligence motive"

tinza123 — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 18:58:57 +0000

Since when is "democracy" the golden standard for every culture and every country? Politics are all about trade-offs, among efficiency, centralized power, poverty to solve, nationality and defence, and many other aspects. Democracy can be beneficial but it sucks at so many things, and it's normally short-sighted. Is Singapore, with less democratic system, not as "legitimate" as the U.S.? Your opinion sounds like a 5-yr old talking about politics.

New comment by tinza123 in "Xi Jinping personally halted Ant's IPO after Jack Ma snubbed government leaders"

tinza123 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:40:24 +0000

...that escalated quickly. Ant's business model is under the hood good old lending and banking, where their "innovation" excels at minimizing the barrier to spend your future money. This is not like Google or Microsoft, whose products are purely technology, this is a glorified financial company. And the more money they raise, the larger / crazier scale their lending will affect. Just to give you a hint, their "savings account" equivalent has way higher interest rate than the national banks, but with same level of account numbers if not more, that would need consistently piling money to sustain. Essentially they will become "too big to fail" if the IPO goes through, and you know how that went in 2008.

Yeah I guess Xi and co are scared, but for a different reason. Nothing about the foreign policies or whatever you think "freedom" is.

New comment by tinza123 in "China sharply expands mass labor program in Tibet"

tinza123 — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:30:05 +0000

You would think if China does something like this they might do a better job keeping it a secret. Any links to a credible source? All I find is "Hundreds of document" and opinions of some "Experts". And again, Adrian Zenz, who is by no means "independent", just check the guy's track record.

New comment by tinza123 in "India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China"

tinza123 — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 19:22:28 +0000

Heresay is always popular I guess. Unless you have proof.

New comment by tinza123 in "India bans PUBG, Baidu and more than 100 apps linked to China"

tinza123 — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:18:56 +0000

My take is that these markets can only take on China when the Chinese software is the significant player in the market, while they are non-essential for the fundamental functionality of a society. On the other hand, there are barely any significant Indian software on the Chinese market, while lots of American software provide non-replicable (at least not immediately) functionality (e.g. MatLab / Microsoft Office / Windows).

New comment by tinza123 in "Robinhood has lured young traders, sometimes with devastating results"

tinza123 — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 21:19:53 +0000

Most people are not trained to trade options with pressing a button. Many Robinhood users don't fully understand what the order they just placed mean, just look at r/wallstreetbets. Robinhood is pushing alcohol to minors in a sense.

New comment by tinza123 in "Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms"

tinza123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 23:23:28 +0000

I agree. A good portion of the 40m job loss are not gonna be fully recovered even if the situation improved a little, not to mention it is getting worse by the day.

New comment by tinza123 in "Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms"

tinza123 — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 23:08:13 +0000

Yeah Atlanta had a similar "dip" period earilier, with many offers cancelled and investors on the sideline. Maybe the "reopen" gave people confidence? I'm afraid it is still too early to tell so I don't want to jump in too fast.