hudibras

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   by hudibras 9y ago

   My guess is there is a secret successor (manned or unmanned) to the SR-71 already flying right now.
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   by hudibras 9y ago

   I glossed over a few details, but the main reasons are that a.) current interest rates are lower in Japan than the U.S. to begin with (BOJ benchmark rate is 0%, vs. Fed rate of 1.25%) and b.) the most common long-term Japanese mortgage is a
3. 153.▲
   by hudibras 9y ago

   1.2 million new housing starts in the U.S. annually, though.
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   by hudibras 9y ago

   Couple points that are often overlooked with regard to Japanese housing: 1. Mortgage rates are far lower in Japan than in America. My U.S. credit union is offering 3.6% 30-year fixed-rate loans; the average for Japan is around 1.3% for a st
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   by hudibras 9y ago

   Excluding the value of the land, why do houses in the U.S. appreciate anyway? Nothing else I buy does, but somehow this wooden box that I leave out in the rain for 30 years becomes more valuable with time. (Although I have a sneaking suspic
6. 156.▲
   by hudibras 9y ago

   I tried a couple browsers, and I'm seeing the left and middle kanjis as being the same, with the right one different.
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   by hudibras 9y ago

   Probably goes without saying that there are as many ways to learn Japanese as there are students. The only really hard-and-fast rule is that whatever you're doing, you need to do a lot more of it than you think. That said, I've fo
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   by hudibras 9y ago

   If you're interested in what the other mentioned kanji with regularly-used non-standard forms mean, here are some rough definitions: 餌 - animal feed, bait 遡 - go back in time; go upstream 遜 - humble, modest 謎 - riddle, enigma 餅 - rice
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   by hudibras 9y ago

   I used this book (I see that it's now out-of-print, though) to improve my handwriting by using italic. You can see some examples inside the book. https://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Program-Handwritin...
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    I don't think he was that harsh, and he actually praised the "knowing what" subjects. He simply meant that at MIT , the "knowing how" is more important.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    Here is another excerpt from the book that this article is taken from, this one talking more about the disaster at Okawa Elementary School. Be warned, it might be difficult to read. https://www.theguardian.com/world/201
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    Don't try to overthink it: imagine the bookies having a dashboard that shows everybody's win rate (or alternatively, how much the bookie is losing) and then they ban or limit the top performers. Instant and legal profit for them.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    And, of course, the linkage between population growth and transit use could go the other way. Maybe more people are moving to Seattle because it has a good transit system (among other things.)
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    10 Minutes. 12 Gunfire Bursts. 30 Videos. Mapping the Las Vegas Massacre(nytimes.com)

    1 points by hudibras 9y ago|0 comments
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    GE has been in business for 125 years and is still going strong. Not unreasonable to expect the same for at least some tech companies.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    I think you just misread this. He did have an amazon affiliate account.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    Here's a link to the paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09380
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12678598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9915943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13702830 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    That last paragraph is brutal.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    This isn't a "oh, I waited for two hours for the cable guy to show up!" situation. This is some next-level incompetence.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    I use vim with a Dvorak keyboard. Made a few keybinding changes (about ten or so) but that's all.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    I would go so far as to say that playing time predictions are always on the low side.
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    A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich People, and Moby Dick(longreads.com)

    163 points by hudibras 9y ago|66 comments
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    A single standard that's already required by law. If enough people don't like the law, then they can elect politicians who will change it.
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    In Our Prison on the Sea(nytimes.com)

    1 points by hudibras 9y ago|0 comments
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    >Today in Western languages the same thing happens with blue and cyan. Italians will think of cyan (azure) as a colour while the French see it as a shade of blue, for example. The same thing happens in Japanese. When I describe something
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    Poker Tracker is the other major program. Both have essentially the same features. Holdem Manager is PC-only, however.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    And this one, also by A.J. Liebling: https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Science-J-Liebling-ebook/dp/B00... Probably the best book (ostensibly) about sports you'll ever read.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    And waitstaff.
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    by hudibras 9y ago

    A factor in the McCain collision will likely be the merchant ship's over-reliance on AIS and radar and not getting a visual check before turning into the path of fast-moving ship that a.) doesn't use an AIS transponder, and b.) is