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by ajdlinux 8y ago
My problem is what exactly you do with that data, beyond being able to scrape email or phone contact details - there's no competing social network that allows you to import your Facebook data export.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
"Human/bodily accident" / "jinshin jiko" in Japan.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
You can run specific night-time substitute buses that follow the train route between stations rather than the regular street-side bus stops.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Highly controversial opinion - if we need to shut down some services during the night hours to ensure they're well maintained, and it's not reasonably possible to do the necessary maintenance any other way, then maybe the populati
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
You need to boost other public transport services to provide at least some level of late night service. In Sydney, they run substitute buses between many railway stations from 0000-0430 - it's not great, but it's possible to use b
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo#Rai... ) says "There are 882 interconnected rail stations in the Tokyo Metropolis, 282 of which are Subway stations, with several hundred more in
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Electronic_Transaction was actually a thing once...
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Australian here. Within Australia, all credit cards are now PIN for almost all transactions (exceptions for stuff like running offline transactions).
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
The wording is highly dependent on the country. I don't think I've seen that in Australia in a long long time, on the rare occasion that I've had to sign rather than use PIN or contactless, but I've been in Asia for the
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
No they don't. Here in Australia, a lot of stores (esp. cafes) will ask before giving you a receipt for low-value transactions.
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Contactless payment is so widely adopted that it's given me no particular reason to use Google Pay or any other mobile payment system as they're not particularly better from just using my card...
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by ajdlinux 8y ago
Here in Australia I'm not even sure if my real estate agent would accept a cheque for rent at all - I'm pretty sure they told us from the outset that electronic payment was the only option they offer.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I strongly recommend Rome2rio ( https://www.rome2rio.com/ ) for searching through a wider variety of transport means (as well as its fantastic ability to plot out a full route door to door, with suburban trains/buses&#x2
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I don't make that assumption now that I personally know Westerners (work colleagues and such) who are apparently quite happy to make these arguments in in-person discussions.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
For work, 2016 ThinkPad X1, 14". Works great, would recommend, runs Debian just fine.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I returned a ~$150 item to Myer a few months ago, with nothing but a transaction ID provided to me over the phone by American Express (the account had been closed and I had no access to the credit card statements). It turns out that the cre
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The problem isn't with the universities, it's with the lack of vocational schools with any depth or rigour for intellectually-demanding fields like software engineering. Sure, my local vocational school does offer a certificate an
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Good freight rail and good passenger rail seem to be more or less mutually exclusive. Japan has one of the lowest rates of freight rail usage in the world, and yet the Shinkansen and the extensive urban metros and suburban railways with the
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
As a counterpoint - there are plenty of ThinkPads that run Linux quite well. My team at work is almost 100% ThinkPad X1s or T450s, with a variety of distros (Debian, Fedora, Arch) and we don't have too many problems. It's a shame
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
It's the latter.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Which isn't a very good way to get new customers to buy your tickets to begin with.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
You might have someone's phone number but not their full name or legal name.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I think parent is referring to Engineers Australia (formally, the Institution of Engineers, Australia), which is the professional body to which most engineery-engineers belong. Most "Bachelor of Software Engineering" degrees offer
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
That would be David Miller, discussed extensively in the rest of Rusty's post.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
"I flew myself around Australia visiting every LUG to convince them to come to the first Australian Linux conference." The story of CALU 1999 being funded on Rusty's personal credit card is legendary in the Australian Linux c
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Don't screw up your modelines lest you blow up your monitor! (I'm younger than the GGP poster here, but I was enough of a nerd in primary school that I got into Linux at about the time that distro installers' XFree86 autoconf
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I suppose the tradeoff here is when you get two non-Gmail users, johndoe and john.doe, who are legitimately different people, one of whom gets very confused and is actually unable to use their correct address. On the one hand, that's a
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Yes. It's also a legal requirement to wear helmets when riding a pushbike too, which is something far more controversial as there's research to suggest that the effect those laws have on reducing cycling participation has a more n
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I don't know about life insurance, but I know every travel insurance policy I've ever taken out specifically excludes skydiving and skiing unless you pay extra for a special policy. Also, motorcycles without helmets!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The upper bound is just as important for working out an insurance premium...

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