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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unicorn_startup_companies I wasn’t aware of that many unicorn startups from china. Turns out there are quite a lot.

Very often in old databases a timestamp column does not have the timezone info. This becomes an issue when the business gets bigger and crosses different timezones. [code] select bare_timestamp_field at time zone ‘Asia/Shanghai’ at time zone ‘US/Pacific’ from some_table; [/code] The above sample query assigns the Shanghai timezone to the bare timestamp, then convert the resulting timestamp w/ timezone to the US Pacific PST timestamp. The double ‘at time zone’ parts can be read as: from timezone #1 to timezone #2. This is due to the implicit syntax. A more explicit syntax is the following, which makes more sense similar to type casting. ...

Nice course with short videos that explains the history of our universe through many fields of study. https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home

ref: https://medium.com/@matteozago/why-the-net-giants-are-worried-about-the-web-3-0-44b2d3620da5

Good read about time in general in programming. https://zachholman.com/talk/utc-is-enough-for-everyone-right

Nice articles about how flexbox works. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/an-animated-guide-to-flexbox-d280cf6afc35 https://medium.freecodecamp.org/even-more-about-how-flexbox-works-explained-in-big-colorful-animated-gifs-a5a74812b053

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/03/en-plural.html