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by Xixi 8y ago
For those looking for low-caffeine green teas: I recommend checking out twig teas. Twig teas taste awesome, yet because there's little caffeine in the twigs they have a very-low caffeine content. In Japan they are called karigane (or k
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For a while the trend has been towards smaller nukes (called tactical nukes), not bigger ones like in the 60s. The rational being that smaller, more precise nukes have a lower threshold of usability. Destroying Beijing and killing 20M peopl
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If I remember correctly the rule of thumb is that a house is built to last 30 years, a normal building 60 years, and a high rise 90 years.
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1) Until that announcement: impossible for regular people, and maybe possible for big enough customers agreeing to go through many hoops like dealing with a bank in Uganda (from what I've heard, not sure if even that was possible). 2)
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I can only speculate, just like you, but I think it has to do with Europe very recent history, in particular on the communist side of the iron curtain (think Stasi, etc.). Half of Europe knows first hand what it is to live in a repressive s
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Not the person you are responding to. It's a matter of point of view, but to me cooperative/preemptive is a property of the underlying scheduler, not of what the programmer is usually exposed to. As you correctly pointed out, it
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Microsoft was definitely disrupted by Google: by Android. Everyone used to have a Windows PC on their desk, now everyone has an Android smartphone in their pocket. Discounting the affluent minority of Mac and iOS users of course... Windows
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On European aerospace: until SpaceX came with its cheap Falcon rockets, Ariane 5 was very competitive, especially for heavy GTO launches (think telco satellites). Ariane 5 is overpriced, as brilliantly demonstrated by SpaceX, but the compet
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South and North Korea certainly do have the capacity and recent historical precedent of waging a war against each other. The last attack of North Korea on South Korea was on November 23, 2010 [1]: "North Korean forces fired around 170
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> That used to be the exclusive domain of the US and Russia. France detonated its first nuke in 1960, and put its first satellite (called Asterix) in space in 1965. So it has not been the exclusive domain of the US and Russia for more th
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2. Counter anecdote: I went from $700/month (80,000 JPY/month) to $3,050/month in rent for essentially the same size/location/convenience by moving from Osaka to NYC.
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The issue with number 3 is for the employer, not the employee. GitLab doesn't want demotivated/unhappy employees to stick around: they want them to actively look for other opportunities and leave. Sounds reasonable to me.
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Airbus planes have four modes: Normal Law, Alternate Law, Abnormal Alternate Law and Direct Law. In Normal Law the computer will basically override anything that would put the plane out of its flight envelope. In Direct Law there are no pro
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If think people put way too much importance into clock time. It doesn't really matter what number the clock shows when you wake up. The problem is to sleep early enough to be able to wake up. If you sleep too late you will have a har
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http://www.airliners.net/ - mostly about civil aviation
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That's looking at it from a purely technical perspective. A 20% better Twitter or Facebook (from a technical perspective) is certainly comparatively easy to do, but would still have an approximate value of nil. The value of Twitter or
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When AT&T was a monopoly and you had to rent your phone from them at an outrageous price, you could also walk away. But having to either walk/drive around or send slow mail to communicate was not very efficient. Perfectly doable, m
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Let's compare prices without sales tax then. US: 1,199 USD vs France: 1,124.17 EUR. 1,124.17 EUR translates to 1,275.31 USD according to Google, at the time of this writing. That's a difference of about 75 USD. Not great, but wher
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That's not an exchange rate issue, that's a political one. Presumably you get something out of these high sales tax, in the form of cheaper education, cheaper healthcare, better infrastructures, or a better social net. Why would A
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Indeed you are correct, I'm not using the term VAT correctly. But here in New York you still have to go through three layers of sales taxes to acquire your MacBook Air: New York City local sales and use tax rate of 4.5%, New York State
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You are comparing prices without VAT to prices with VAT. In France VAT is 20%, quite typical in the EU, so the comparison is not fair at all. There's VAT in many states and cities in the United States, although typically at rates muc
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I don't see how you could make a "sail" boat powered by reclaimed fuel from air, as there is no fuel in the air. You will need a source of energy to convert the CO2 to fuel. In nature the most common (to my knowledge) CO2 -&g
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Basically interests: they are certainly targeting billions of dollars (or at least several hundred millions) of assets in custody. Assuming the US Federal Funds Effective Rate (currently at 2.19%) it can add up quickly.
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I agree with the article. When I bought my MacBook Pro I was actually rather enthusiastic about the Touch Bar, and very cautious about the butterfly keyboard. Two and a half years later I love the Butterfly keyboard and dislike the Touch Ba
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Then go to Japan on your next trip, and you will realize that no, tips are not necessary at allow for excellent service. Not only that, but you will also realize that service in the United States is nothing to boast about.
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Until Stripe came to Japan, there was really only one solution to accept USD or EUR there: PayPal. The local equivalents were all JPY only. But for Tomotcha, since we are targeting an audience outside of Japan, we really wanted USD and EUR.
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A pet theory of mine: if everybody starts investing in passive funds replicating indexes, then the creativity will go into increasingly more sophisticated indexes. You might for instance want to make the bet that the market at large is syst
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I have to chime in and display my ignorance: what makes RPG or COBOL so special that git or mercurial could not simply be used for source control?
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It can be hard to compare actual tax rates as you have to also account for all the payroll taxes. For instance in France for a Software Engineer you would expect about 40~45% payroll taxes [1], and you will still pay income taxes (somewhere

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