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by dustintrex 5y ago
Uhh, no? They have a strong taste as well.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Most people in the US don't have contracts. Two weeks' notice is a convention, not law.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
In financial terms, it's even worse than that, because he ate the truffle instead selling it.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Matsutake are prized for their odor, not their taste, and to the non-cognoscenti they smell like urine.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
FWIW, some languages like Vietnamese don't really use pronouns in a Western sense, and it's common to refer even to yourself by name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronoun_avoidance
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by dustintrex 5y ago
During the early 2000s, the dot-com bubble coincided with a telco bubble, with everybody working themselves into a lather over the promise of WAP, basically dial-up modems for mobile phones: slow, underpowered, charged per minute and thus h
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Another Covid-19 bedside story(old.reddit.com)
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Not very easily: the capital expenditure required to build, say, an aluminum smelter (which is how Iceland converts excess geothermal into cash) is orders of magnitude more than some crypto rigs.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Eh, I doubt many people become hikikomoris because it's trendy. In Japan, it's usually understood to be a reaction to social pressures, basically dropping out of all the various societal rat races (work, dating, "adulting&qu
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Why not build a tricycle instead? Much more stable, not much more complicated, and the parts shouldn't be an issue since you'll have four wheels and two axles lying around already.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Editorial stances are one thing, but publishing articles maligning the "so-called normal distribution of statistics" (!) as racist (!!) is another.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The computing power (proof of work) required to mine Bitcoin scales according to the current hashrate. Since the supply is fixed, the only way to grab a larger market share of the hashrate is to spend more money on more computing power.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
As a rule of thumb, former British colonies like India, Australia and Singapore tend to favo(u)r British spellings, while other countries tend to go with American spellings.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Alas, it has become quite clear that whether the pandemic will continue or not has virtually zero correlation to what a certain segment of the US electorate does or does not do.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The single most popular dish prepared at home in Japan is curry rice. Most Japanese curries are not particularly spicy, but they definitely do have a chilli kick and chains like Coco Ichiban do a brisk business selling up amped-up versions
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The key is to have a regular interval timetable, with "pulses" to allow easy transfers: http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2017/09/six-benefits-of-regu... The Swiss are masters of this. I recently had a co
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by dustintrex 5y ago
False morels are also edible and commercially sold as such in several Scandinavian countries, they just need fairly elaborate preparation and even that doesn't get rid of all the toxins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Would you also support a total ban on hunting wild animals in the West? Or are the animals only "exotic" when they're consumed by Chinese people?
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The Moon at least has 0.16g, which is a lot better than 0g.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
In the 1980s, Japan was painted as a threat. "Economic Pearl Harbor", Japanese developers snapping up US real estate, Crichton's "Rising Sun", etc. Then the Japanese bubble economy burst and new bogeymen (terrorist
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Tokyo has an extensive network of raised expressways. They're just so extortionately priced (roughly $1/km) that nobody uses them unless they really have to, but since Tokyo is so crowded, they're jam-packed all the time any
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Genuinely curious: what do you find "hilariously bad" about public transport in Stockholm? I've never lived there, but as a casual visitor the T-bana, trams, ferries etc seem to work just fine.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Japanese houses are quite different from US ones. My in-laws live in a house in suburban Chiba well outside Tokyo, but it has literally no garden space and the neighborhood is so densely packed a taxi can't even pull into the little
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by dustintrex 5y ago
It wasn't the only place where this happened though, just the only one where it clearly happened every time. This was in the days of printed statements, so there was often a lag of several months until I would find out what was and wa
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by dustintrex 5y ago
And Adderall = amphetamines. What could possibly go wrong?
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Back in the 1990s, I was living in another country and noticed that sometimes, when I used my home credit card, the purchases would simply never appear on my bill. The "free" purchases were always small (no free airline tickets o
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by dustintrex 5y ago
I presume you haven't been to China in the last decade or so, since they most certainly did "turn the trick". Consumption as a percentage of GDP exceeded 50% back in 2009 and has been slowly by steadily growing ever since, a
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by dustintrex 5y ago
This is a pretty incoherent rant. Sample: > The death spiral begins for the global brands who are forced to give up the low end of the market and focus on the high end, resulting in loss of both economies of scale and profit margins fo
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by dustintrex 5y ago
https://archive.fo/2021.08.24-114617/https://notochina.org/h...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Intelligence does not necessarily imply compliance, or vice versa.

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