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by GuiA 9y ago
And you no longer have a room lit with incandescent to compare with the current, much improved offerings :)
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Pigovian taxes on a massive scale.
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The article interviews a restaurant manager and a construction site superintendent. Non tech workers are significantly more affected than tech workers, because they cannot afford to live closer to their place of employment, and do not have
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by GuiA 9y ago
This might just be what it is like to be in the middle of a curve that will eventually reach 0. Perhaps in a few decades the dowry will be flipped or gone altogether, but it takes a while to change culture - even when you have macroeconomic
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by GuiA 9y ago
All the things you describe could result in an amazingly improved experience for customers, letting them better control their finance, and understand where their money goes. Sadly, this is not how banks become rich. Banks become rich by let
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by GuiA 9y ago
http://archive.org/stream/The_Conscience_of_a_Hacker/hackers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto
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by GuiA 9y ago
I know students who have written essays, put together presentations, etc solely on their phones. If you really believe that the only thing “younger generations” do is post on social media, I suggest you spend more time around high schoolers
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by GuiA 9y ago
I’ve found WaniKani to be amazing for SRS for kanji. If you are diligent about it you can go through the jouyou set in 18 months or so.
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It’s important to point out that many people also helped usher in the next several eras of progress for humanity without following that path. Eg Charles Darwin, who seemed to work in 3 slots of 1h30 every day: http://dailyroutine
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by GuiA 9y ago
What you are saying is correct, with a few nuances: - as other commenters have pointed out, many employees who live more than a short drive from the office use shuttles. Not as good as public transit civically, but comparable ecologically.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Unless you can point me to otherwise, I believe it is still the year 2018 of our lord and savior Jesus Christ as far as China is concerned in all of its international business and political dealings.
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A friend of mine has a theory that as China grows in power, it will eventually push its own alternative calendar as an ideological statement, as the calendar we currently use is based on the birth of Jesus Christ, something the Chinese gove
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by GuiA 9y ago
> If there were any sensible way to quote on HN, I'd surely use that instead. Could you suggest an alternative? Surround the quote with asterisks, and prefix it with > to get the result above.
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The best way to get your work accepted in a peer reviewed venue (journal, conference, etc) is to voraciously consume everything that venue has published before, and make your work match the style observed + copiously quote works from that v
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by GuiA 9y ago
> If you want to be sure people don't try to organize things like this in the future, this is how you do it. If by “things like this” you mean poorly organized events, then yes, this is how we discourage companies from organizing
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This is very important to highlight. Mobile has tremendously changed the goal posts in terms of what are acceptable things to do on a system and what violates the privacy of the user, and no one noticed. Imagine a piece of software in the 2
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by GuiA 9y ago
That is already the case. Many Hollywood stars walk penalty free from repeated drug incidents, while poorer people spend many years in prison for one time minor offenses, for one example amongst many. You might argue that these people are n
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by GuiA 9y ago
I'm overall not that familiar with Chinese culture, so asking with genuine curiosity - why would the availability of 1984, a piece of Western work depicting the Western world with very little mention of China, be an interesting benchma
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by GuiA 9y ago
Heh, your food for thought is a cherry picked, fairly detached piece of speculation. Here's another equally meaningless "food for thought": we bring a native American from a thousand years ago to today. They go from a life of
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by GuiA 9y ago
That sentiment feels... misguided? The EU is an economic and ideological construct, certainly not religious. The fact that some key figures were deeply religious is completely orthogonal to that. Ie France has been deeply secular since the
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by GuiA 9y ago
I’m certainly glad the 3DS is pretty much end of life and they can focus on delivering titles for a single platform now. The Switch has been delivering great first party titles (Zelda, Mario Odyssey), and with things like Pokémon on the hor
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by GuiA 9y ago
Yes, this is important to realize. I work in a fairly reputable design studio, and we take in interns every year. This year, all of our applicants were Asian students from overseas (mostly PRC) attending art/design schools in the US. I
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by GuiA 9y ago
Oh I see. I didn’t get the “American companies in japan” subtext. Yes, that makes sense.
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When Japanese friends refer to me as gaijin, I never feel offended. When some teen punk at a metro station in Tokyo shoved me and yelled "GAIJIN" in my ear, somehow it upset me. Go figure.
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> My main gripe with Japanese companies is that they simply don't pay as well as American ones do. Fair, but Tokyo can be much, much cheaper than SF or NYC (in my personal experience, rent alone is up to a 2-3x difference. Same wi
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by GuiA 9y ago
Got a design meeting? Print high-quality printouts of the mockup for every person in the room. Then mark them up with pens, make the changes digitally, and reprint everything and repeat. I work in a design studio in Silicon Valley. We do
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by GuiA 9y ago
> Just remember, in the US the Supreme Court has ruled that it's legal for news publications to lie to their readers/viewers. Link please?
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by GuiA 9y ago
Can you elaborate what is discussed in "How to Travel with a Salmon"? The text is not available online, unlike the text that claims he did [0]. [0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3642577/H
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Ironically, Umberto Eco (quoted in the article) had a library of 30 000 books at his primary residence and 20 000 books at his vacation home. He probably hadn't read most of them :)
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I’m confused about your analogy. Indo-Arabic number representation enables one to mentally carry out computations that would be much more complex in Roman notation. The notation might not be the solution, but the notation certainly enables

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