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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Nice concept, but I'm not seeing any information about visa options? This is quite critical for anybody planning to live in a country. Update: found it, but it's hidden on a separate page behind a tiny "Visa" link up
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Thailand Sold Itself as a Paradise Covid Retreat. No One Came(bloomberg.com)
1 points by howlgarnish 6y ago|0 comments
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
$300? You can buy one off Aliexpress for under $5.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
They just put the text in a local equivalent to Google Translate and that's it, no proofreading etc. There's a famous restaurant sign in China that says "Translation server error" on it: https://www.seriousea
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
No, it was us realizing that somebody actually set us up the bomb, instead of it being an LPG canister explosion in a restaurant etc.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
That would be Zero Wing of "All your base are belong to us" fame, and no, that was just a bad translation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us Random anecdote: in 2005, when "al
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Top-level .th (Thailand) is very expensive, but .co.th is reasonable ($50/yr).
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2021 Cloud Report(cockroachlabs.com)
16 points by howlgarnish 6y ago|0 comments
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Not very much? California has plenty of vaccines now, they just can't work out the last mile to distribute them. If only there was a valley in there somewhere that had people who had thought about things like this before...
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Enforcing an absolute is much easier. In Singapore, you wear a mask at all times outside your home or face fines of up to $3000, with exceptions only for eating, drinking, and "strenuous exercise".
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
If you read Satoshi's original Bitcoin paper, it's very clear that it's supposed to be "cash" (a medium of exchange). All this "store of value" stuff came about afterwards, when people needed a justificat
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Ruby on Google Cloud Functions(cloud.google.com)
6 points by howlgarnish 6y ago|1 comments
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Comparing Wikipedia versions is not terribly useful, since formal written Chinese tends towards uniformity: previously 文言, now 普通话. Spoken Chinese does not, and an accurate transcription of colloquial Cantonese is quite different from collo
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Management Debt (2012)(a16z.com)
87 points by howlgarnish 6y ago|23 comments
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
How do HN readers, who I presume would generally support safe harbor provisions for free speech, common carrier rules etc, not find it deeply alarming that this is happening? Even if Parler hosted straight up illegal content, surely the pr
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Danke Apartment: China's “residential WeWork” leaves young Chinese homeless(bbc.com)
4 points by howlgarnish 6y ago|0 comments
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Many people would have said the same about Apple vs Nokia when the first iPhone came out.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I don't think Wikipedia ever seriously considered running ads, but Wikitravel did fork over this, and the ad-free fork (Wikivoyage) eventually joined Wikipedia's parent Wikimedia.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Good luck getting a gun in (say) Japan or Singapore. Possession of a single unauthorized bullet is up to 7 years in jail; using an unauthorized gun while committing a crime is punished with death.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
This is a temporary blip due to COVID depressing demand for transportation. That said, it's also a continuation of the long-term trend of the US replacing imported oil with domestic fracking, so it's not saving the Earth as much a
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
That's why I said "most countries", because in (say) the US the government couldn't pull that off even if they tried. (For one thing, it's hard to weld shut suburban housing.)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Aren't we in panic mode measures already? I'm not sure there's much more most countries can realistically implement even if there's a 10x more lethal variant.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, the loophole has since been closed: > The ambiguity was later resolved (at least for the United States) by an amendment to the Federal Criminal Code, which added a provision establishing federal jurisdiction when
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
For comparison, here's the data for 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_...
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Different person. The CEO has not been arrested (yet).
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
There are tons of third-party services like Cafepress and Redbubble that let you slap your logo on anything and handle all the ordering, payment & shipping logistics for you. (For a hefty commission, of course, but $1 is better than $0
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
This moron did: https://twitter.com/TreWardWBAL/status/1347226070085480448
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
> People must avoid using less mainstream languages in their coding interviews as it’s possible that your interviewer might not be familiar with those languages. As a former FAANG coding interviewer, I would disagree with this. Use you
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
But this is all transparent thanks to edit logs, and there are plenty of tireless editors patrolling to revert excessive agenda pushing.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
This is an artifact of first past the post electoral systems, which reward polarization. You can't demonize the other parties if there's more than one to choose from and your governments are coalitions that may require you to g

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