chasontherobot

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by chasontherobot 8y ago
Tokyo has no street parking. You will occasionally have someone idling their car at the side of the road for long amounts of time, but they have to be inside the vehicle.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
> In the case of a tie the winner gets 150k, the loser gets 50k. this literally makes no sense. In a tie, there is no winner and no loser. There was a winner and loser in this case, so there was no tie. I don't know why you keep ins
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
Whenever people say this, its always "based on what they've read". Real work culture varies from company to company here, and isn't that different than US work culture overall.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
SE Asia is a completely different economy though. Japan is a first world country, and the third largest economy in the world. Its not going to cost the same as someplace in SEA.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
about as much FORTRAN as C I believe
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
> $2.75 is roughly the maximum fare in Tokyo You don't know what you are talking about when it comes to Tokyo, mate. 600 yen covers a day pass for the Tokyo Metro only, doesn't cover any JR lines at all. And even then, it is on
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
wait, you think LOTR is too slow but you like Robert Jordan? I'm pretty sure there are entire books in the Wheel of Time where nothing substansive even happens.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
Robin Hood?
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
"American" is not a race, what do you mean by that?
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
Does the fact that my landlord has a copy of my front door key mean that my locked door is "not locked"?
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
From the article, he pled guilty in exchange for time served.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
The law is just a programming language for government, thus a lot of programmers are attracted to it.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
I don't trust anyone to make my burger when they talk about french fries like that.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
why go to r/all/ at all? Maybe we just use reddit differently but I only read the subreddits I'm subbed to, so I never see stuff from r/politics or r/TheDonald
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
This is the whole point of outsourcing your ads to a company like Google, since they do it at scale they are able to do the due diligence of making sure the ads follow the law. That's one of the things you are paying them for.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
I don't believe nautil.us is paywalled? Wasn't for me, anyway.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
A chilling effect on running an ad service, maybe. Following the law is a cost of doing business.
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by chasontherobot 8y ago
Why are they showing up on your home page at all? Are you subbed to them?
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Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities(theregister.co.uk)
545 points by chasontherobot 8y ago|311 comments
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Someone has entered an AI in a Japanese mayoral race(otaquest.com)
132 points by chasontherobot 9y ago|78 comments
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by chasontherobot 9y ago
Recently had to use Apps script to count the number of files in a number of Google drives folder, it was pretty annoying. The Drive API doesn't actually expose that information at all so I had to loop through the files with a counter t