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I recently learned about Piped - liked it so much that I've made an iOS shortcut [1] that replaces YouTube URLs with piped.video

edit: iCloud link

[1] https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d8ee1ef618da423e889272f9c0f...


Ethiopian here

Yes, Chinese contractors are having a big boom (banks, stadiums, airports & roads)

There's a shortage of foreign currency due to the mega projects underway - medicine, electronics, car prices have nearly doubled


> medicine, electronics, car prices have nearly doubled

What about salaries? Is the net result positive for you?


Salaries went up a bit also tax was reduced - needless to say the price spikes aren't proportional but it's a start


I imagine most or almost all of those jobs are going to chinese firms and citizens


> There's a shortage of foreign currency due to the mega projects underway

Could you elaborate? How is there a shortage if there's a ton of foreign investment coming in?


Not all mega infrastructure projects are foreign aid/loan financed. For example the 6000 MW Nile Grand Renaissance Dam is self financed by Ethiopia.

Beside there is a deficit between export and import leading to currency shortage.

https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-energy-idUSL6N0N91Q...


This sounds more like a case of rental values of locations increasing, as the price of prime urban land is bid up, requiring laborers be paid more to achieve the same standard of living, and inflating costs across the board.

Same issue that all booming cities face, whether it is New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, or anywhere else.

Some manage it better than others.


Genuinely curious: As far as you know, are the projects synergistic, or do the Chinese offer lopsided/predatory deals?


I still use on axios over fetch. Mainly because fetch doesn't have abort function. axios implements cancelable promise proposal that didn't go though TC39

Tho it has been a while since I checked TC39 status on fetch


Fetch is a Web API, not an ECMAScript language feature, so TC39 doesn’t have much to do with it. They do do Promises though and Cancellation is a Stage 1 proposal [0], so it’s more than a year away from standardization at best.

WHATWG handles Fetch and their spec[1] was updated seven days ago.

[0] https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/master/README.md [1] https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org


Fetch requests do support cancelation for a while now through `AbortController`. See: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/abortable-...


Which doesn't work even in Chrome.


I also choose Axios over Fetch for now. I had the following post that made the case - https://medium.com/@thejasonfile/fetch-vs-axios-js-for-makin...

Thoughts?


They worked with Hollywood mask makers. On the keynote they said it still knows you if you're wearing a scarf, sunglasses, grow a beard...

Touch ID: 1:50,000

Face ID: 1:1,000,000


Well everyone will need to wait for real-world tests to be sure, but I'd be quite surprised if they've got it good enough to work when someone is wearing a hat and sunglasses and yet still be secure enough to have a very low false-positive rate.


They generate a depth-map of the face with a pattern projector and IR-camera. Facial bone structure will be unaffected by superficial changes. I suspect things that obscure large portions of the face, like large glasses or a sudden thick beard will give it some difficulties.


That's what the marketing material says. I'd like to wait for some real world tests to determine if this works anywhere near as well as they say it does. My intuition says not, but I'd like to be surprised.


Those numbers don't mean shit if you don't say how you got to them.


Should be noted the _bundled_ SVG set of Feather on icomoon is out of date.


Thank you for your feedback

Added a link to the original tweet that inspired the app


Thanks, I didn't understand until I read the tweet. Very cool! Nice job.


Inspired by: https://mobile.twitter.com/errikkxa/status/84934921200542105...

PS: it's a weekend hack; I'll optimize it for mobile soon


It's now mobile ready


Angular 1.x was never meant to be an MVC initially. It was mainly for templating then they started adding stuff to it (services, directives, digest cycle, dependency injection...) leading to API bloat

By the time Angular 2 was released, Ember, Vue and React have devoured the market


[1] Pepsi: That was the biggest PR blunder of the week, year maybe.

United: Hold my beer.

Sean Spicer: LEEEEEEEEEERROOOOOOOY JEEEENNNNNNKINS!

Fickle indeed. Hopefully United learns from this incident, tho I think it's unlikely

There's also an episode of It's Always sunny in Philadelphia (S12E04) where they talk about the 24 hour news cycle - which pretty much sums up social media unforgiving nature

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/lance_bradley/status/851864862426...


> My understanding is that SnapChat's inscrutable UI is deliberate: they want you to have to be shown how to use SnapChat by someone already on it, to avoid the "My grandmother's on Facebook, how uncool is that?" problem.

Couldn't agree more

It's evident by most of the comments here

Instagram / Facebook / WhatsApp will not get that < 25 demography

I doubt Instagram counts this as success. They didn't get any new users - that was the main goal when mimicking Snapchat


In Argentina, IG is wayyy more popular than SC, especially in the < 25 demography. < 25 may not use FB, but they definitely use IG & whatsapp.


Same here in Vietnam -- population 95 million. I know tons of people under 25 using Instagram. I've never met anyone here using Snapchat.

No WhatsApp usage at all. Viber, Zalo, and WeChat all the way.


In the Middle East, most people have both an Instagram and a Snapchat account. From what I've seen, they are equally popular with both young and older users.


Maybe in US, UK and Canada. Instagram and WhatsApp dominates the 15-24 market in rest of the world.


Older people have all the money (in America at least) so Instagram may be ok with that.


Usually brand advertising tries to skew young (even towards children, if the FTC lets them get away with it) because brand preferences are usually set in the teens and early 20s and then people purchase things on autopilot.

This may be why SnapChat has targeted brand advertisers rather than the more targeted advertisements that Facebook/Google go after.


That's why toy companies don't spend a dime on advertising right ?


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