angled

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1. 151.▲
   by angled 8y ago

   Australia is taking this rescue fairly seriously (there were two Australian divers involved, along with others) and up until now, had had a fairly positive view of Musk thanks to his battery in South Australia. It remains to be seen what im
2. 152.▲
   by angled 8y ago

   I wonder how much of their business is a result of QF selectively giving membership to the Chairmans' Lounge? It would surely mean a lot of revenue is steered / kept their way through travel policies. Do any other airlines have an
3. 153.▲
   by angled 8y ago

   HKG, SIN would shut down if WhatsApp wasn't available.
4. 154.▲
   by angled 8y ago

   One thing I was surprised to learn this week is that Hong Kong doesn't have a tax treaty with the US! I wonder how that will go with any capital gains taxation on Bitcoin / cryptocurrency profits...
5. 155.▲
   by angled 9y ago

   And here I am, sitting during my 1.5 hour commute, thinking about how I should buy some more work-appropriate casual clothes because no one else wears suits at this site, and what free or inexpensive software we could use to make a project
6. 156.▲
   by angled 9y ago

   How quickly do credit card transactions appear in your account? In Australia (CBA at least) it is instantaneous, in Hong Kong, it is at least 3 days. CBA has also automated most of the account management through its netbanking - whereas in
7. 157.▲
   by angled 9y ago

   I've just started reading Robert Caro's "Path to Power", and LBJ's father took exactly this route to become a teacher: "He had to quit going to high school because of health problems, and his parents sent him t
8. 158.▲
   by angled 9y ago

   > Combining the two would make more sense, meaning put the airport farther away where land is cheap and the flights won't annoy people and run passengers too and from via a high speed shuttle. Bonus you can put security on the picku
9. 159.▲
   by angled 9y ago

   I assume OP is meaning p156 (title slide, author slide, +154). That said, is this not so new news? https://twitter.com/xoreaxeaxeax/status/888702029744324608?l... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015
10. 160.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    Two other reasons may be aesthetics, and the environment - Beijing gets sandstorms but it doesn't get typhoons. Per CLP (just across the border in Hong Kong): > More than 30% of CLP’s transmission network consists of overhe
11. 161.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    I am having difficulty creating a new keypair using ssh-keygen.exe and a passphrase - should this be working? I receive the error ``Saving key "[...]/.ssh/id_ed25519" failed: invalid argument''. It works fine w
12. 162.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    > Despite that, The New Yorker doesn't seem to have lessened at all in the rate of influential and newsworthy pieces it produces (Rowan Farrow's expose of Harvey Weinstein being one of the more recent notables [1]). OT - they h
13. 163.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    Eiffel? https://www.eiffel.com/values/design-by-contract/introductio...
14. 164.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    Suniva was in the news this week, and not necessarily in a good way: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/little-kn...
15. 165.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    > Sun was already on the way down by the time I left many years ago, but what had happened since Oracle bought them has been nothing but depressing. I wonder what this means for their big iron, such as SuperClusters? Those still run Sola
16. 166.▲
    by angled 9y ago

    Where I see the cashless innovation failing deliver is where there is a state-owned enterprise providing a service. I was in Shenzhen on the weekend and had to use cash to pay for a one-time use token to catch the subway. Lining up to pay t
17. 167.▲
    by angled 10y ago

    Is WorldLII not already a good start? http://www.worldlii.org/databases.html