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by asciiresort 4y ago
There’s a reason Toyotas sell like hotcakes. It gets you from A-to-B reliably.
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by asciiresort 4y ago
I averaged 16400 steps a day for the entire year in Japan. I don’t think walking is weird, but the route from Shinagawa station to the immigration office is weird. I’ve walked that route. It’s an industrial area and nothing to see.
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Japan would like to have a word with you
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> It's a "surrender today" kind of statement And Japan still didn’t.
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by asciiresort 4y ago
It’s especially ironic when Japan is the embodiment of what the average tech person in the West purports to be ideologically offended by: nationalism ( celebration of war criminals, denialism of crimes in Pacific Theater as a hoax ) , racis
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> This weakness is well understood by enemies like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has done everything he can to widen those divisions and has acted geopolitically at a moment when he thought the U.S. was too weak and self-preoccupied to re
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Options are priced commensurate to the risk. They are traded with supply and demand. They are priced at what people think the risk/reward ratio is. Hence, theta.
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by asciiresort 4y ago
I'm literally sitting at the Apple store waiting for my newly purchased IPhone SE to sync to the cloud, opened up my laptop and saw this. I was deliberating whether to buy the IPhone 13, but with the IPhone 14 coming out next month, th
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Isn’t VSCode based on Electron?
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Based on the package.json, this seems like a reskinned Monaco plus some bespoke extensions
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by asciiresort 4y ago
How has that worked out for San Francisco ?
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by asciiresort 4y ago
For a 1-2 bedroom apartment ? Those prices would mean a software engineer in Europe would not even have money for rent after paying taxes, much less anything else.
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Like this one? https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/11/24241910/this-is-how-you...
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> using small petrol engines is increasingly common (source: buying local seafood Right, because the locals have changed from fishing for themselves to fishing for others. This is market economy dynamics of engaging in activity that prod
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by asciiresort 4y ago
They need fuel because they need boats that go far. They need to go far because the supply of fish has decreased. Fishing is not a modern activity. Rafts existed long before people rode horses.
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by asciiresort 4y ago
I am well aware that Japan imports food. The point is not about whether a country imports at all, but whether it can mobilize domestic production of essential food crops in times of crisis. Even China import and has rice reserves. There is
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by asciiresort 4y ago
That’s my point about Japan. Rice, unlike tea, is a defensive measure for times of crisis. Even as Japan imports food, the point is whether the country can quickly mobilize and ramp up to essential food crops. The point is having options an
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> Without imports, many Sri Lankans will quickly find themselves hungry, stranded How did these island nations sustain themselves before ? In other words, what has changed that they can’t live off the land anymore? And by that, I mean t
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Recently Google’s barely able to find movie showtimes near me in Japan. It’ll work half the time in the megacity, but in the cities with several million population I usually end up going through each movie theater’s website and check from t
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by asciiresort 4y ago
All those fashion brands changed their logos around 2018, with the exception of YSL back in 2012. In 2012, Hedi Slimane took over the helm of YSL, notorious for the minimalist brand change dropping the Yves from Saint Laurent, but also revi
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Companies Interested in Using Deno(github.com)
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Japan's stance of war crimes has been a point of tension between Japan and its East Asian neighbors. These are matters of nationalism and affect forward looking geopolitical outcomes. Following WWII, a tribunal was held in Tokyo along
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by asciiresort 4y ago
Then it's ultimately not about personality or productivity, but ultimately whether person is of value to the company, org, team, or those in power, financially, politically.
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Ask HN: What has been your experience in SQLite in JavaScript?
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by asciiresort 4y ago
If it was average per moderator, I'm pretty sure the article would attracted more eyeballs with the headline $3.4m each, or $3.4m x N ( $3+ billion with n=900 ) moderators. Also in the first line below the header "$3.4m... labour
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Ask HN: Cloud Storage Service for Text Editor Web App?
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Ask HN: Is SQLite a good fit for text editors?
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> Depends on the country. In some, it's a certification that comes with responsibilities, in others it's just a job. In any case: Yes, this was a rhetorical question. Those countries that require a certification is not relevant
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> The FBI's Wray warned that if China was to forcibly take Taiwan it would "represent one of the most horrific business disruptions the world has ever seen". Even intelligence agencies thinks in terms of “business disrupti
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by asciiresort 4y ago
> So this is like the average American donating $2.44 to a cause. You’re making this sound like a bad thing. It’s a kind gesture nonetheless.

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