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by elai 16y ago
While i was on my long term trip I found it quite unproductive trying to find that stable internet connection, and a new place to explore provided much more of a distraction than home. Do find travelling decreases your productivity?
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by elai 16y ago
Guidebooks, smartphone map search, a prepaid cellphone & SIM and planning a day or two ahead solves all of that! Also staying more than one day. A few of these people aren't long term nomads although, they're more freeloaders or bums.
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by elai 16y ago
When a company is that big, people can push their own richard stallman mini projects through like that.
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by elai 16y ago
So putting your iphone on the dash where there is no cellular reception and using it as a standalone gps won't work like the typical car GPS?
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by elai 16y ago
Aircraft fuel energy is incredibly expensive. For example, for a four seater turboprop airplane, a 1 hour round trip can cost about $80 in aircraft fuel. A two seater electric powered gilder can do the same trip with $5 of electricity. I
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by elai 16y ago
You can start by getting rid of or significantly reducing zoning! A lot of municipal zoning designs end up with people having to live in one area and then commute to another. If offices could also be mixed with apartments without having t
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by elai 16y ago
You'll be taxed internationally as a US citizen/PR for an income over a typical worker even if you don't live there anymore, so do beware. The USA is pretty much the only significant country does that.
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by elai 16y ago
Whenever I've tried my iphone 3G's gps that had absolutely no gsm/3g reception from any carriers in the area, the phone cant get my location at all, even in a car or an open air beach.
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by elai 16y ago
Many universities have different prices for different faculties classes. What end's up happening is that business costs the most, sciences cost the same as any other class and engineering/comp sci. is only marginally higher. (450/500/680)
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by elai 16y ago
$50/dollars more per month causes that much discomfort?
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by elai 16y ago
Skype has a big 'it just works' factor. With most sip and other products you had to deal with arcane stun server setup, and other configuration that would confuse most people. And on top of that the quality was significantly better than
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by elai 16y ago
Ah what, $800 for a 4 bed 2 bath in total? The low end for a 4bed 2 bath is something like $1300 in west coast canada :(
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by elai 16y ago
Airports that limit wifi access are really annoying (like the one in kuala lumpur at KLIA for 2 hours), especially when you have a long lay over.
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by elai 16y ago
So if you have an open book beside your laptop that you don't look at that much or even are working on math homework you'll be chased out?
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by elai 16y ago
To be honest I'm glad that professors are doing more research and instructors are more pure instructors. The typical professor has 4 jobs: Researcher, Fundraiser, Teacher and Evaluator. They all have a conflict of interest with each othe
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by elai 16y ago
6 months with degree and a startup plan. Work visa while you wait. Revenue not made in Singapore and not banked/kept in Singapore is tax free.
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by elai 16y ago
Canada! Do you get prepaid data?
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by elai 16y ago
Just purchase anything from a street vendor for around 100 yen equivalent. Japanese food is 'prestigious' and costs about 300 to 1000 yen for a meal. Traffic is a nightmare in inner Bangkok. Subway, canal boat or sky train only if you va
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by elai 16y ago
I've seen thai school teachers spend $10s of dollars on facebook games. In thai school teacher wages, that is something like like 3% to 10% of their monthly wage, which is significant. Don't underestimate a market like china. Protection
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by elai 16y ago
They're too thick and have too much structure to be bag like. And now every wii controller you buy has one of them attached to it.
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by elai 16y ago
It's retirement from a hobby. He can do other things!
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by elai 16y ago
That depends. Sometimes you get stuck with 7 eleven food as a result.
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by elai 16y ago
Could you make it that the actual news articles show up in the RSS feed when displayed on google reader? I don't want to have to click the page and then click the article to actually view it.
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by elai 16y ago
maybe we need categories? Biz&politics, social, apple, math, IT, programming, and other as an initial set?
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by elai 16y ago
If you look at most people of the 'seduction' community, they usually have something in their history that stunted their sexual-social development and basically need instruction/a support group/whatever to help overcome it. Usually people
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by elai 16y ago
How much does it cost to own a car in san fran? If it's $X/month for gas, insurance and the amortized value of a cheap decent used car, you should just factor that into the rent cost and see if it ends up better.
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by elai 16y ago
How much is apple a charisma-kei company? The media and some customer segments treat it like that, but I wonder how it is as an actual employee?
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by elai 16y ago
Spoliers Draper isn't really sociopathic, you'd notice he's a lot more relaxed when he is with the original mrs.draper, and pretty much any sort of flashback sequence before his current job and marital situation. He is constantly living
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by elai 16y ago
You can do that if you want straight As!
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by elai 16y ago
Get romantically married, but don't sign a contract with the government! By not singing some paperwork you can both avoid of alot of problems (but not all). Frame it like this: honey, I want to get married with you, not sign a business c

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