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by jasonjei 3y ago
Got it. I was just wondering if other commonwealth countries had an equivalent of a US code or Code of Federal Regulations that documented law in a centralized store. IANAL, but law seems to have so many distinct sources—and more curiously,
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by jasonjei 3y ago
I’ve noticed in many commonwealth countries there is no official codification of case law, administrative law, and statutory law passed by the legislative body and receiving assent from the executive branch. The US being a hard fork of the
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by jasonjei 3y ago
This is one of the most articulate explanations of KMT. You hit it on the nail that KMT isn’t so much pro-Communists as it is pro China.
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by jasonjei 3y ago
But climate change will disturb all ecosystems. If solar panels help mitigate, I think it’s a small price to pay at the risk of messing with desert ecosystems.
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by jasonjei 3y ago
Actually Japan is significantly lower cost to live than to live in SF. The average salary of a college grad that’s 30 years old is roughly $30K. Their prices are roughly the same because wages are the same, and they can’t afford to increase
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by jasonjei 3y ago
If you have healthcare, I believe prep is required coverage.
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by jasonjei 3y ago
If that’s true how is the Linux kernel project so successful with collaborators from all over the world not even working under the same roof?
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by jasonjei 3y ago
I’ve heard to do plumbing work to convert office to residential would be so ridiculously expensive it would be easier in some cases to tear the building down and start anew
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by jasonjei 3y ago
For the Bay Area, the Olympic Club in San Francisco is famous for its burger dogs... https://golf.com/travel/burgerdog-how-picnic-table-hybrid-mo...
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by jasonjei 4y ago
Singapore is a republic with a large population of the Chinese diaspora. However, the control of government under its system has not changed parties since its independence from the UK (whether you agree or not, some have called it de facto
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by jasonjei 4y ago
This is an extremely interesting question because I’ve heard various viewpoints. The vast majority want to keep the “technical debt” (legacy code being “Republic of China”) of this uneasy bridge to China—that is trade and movement of people
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by jasonjei 4y ago
I used to travel to China all the time for work during my first job in 2008. Those times were super optimistic. Hong Kong was filled with Chinese pride, and it seemed inevitable that China would absorb Taiwan. China had just hosted the Olym
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by jasonjei 4y ago
This is a great process write up, but I was surprised how little was addressed about existing target company customer support and communication. There is ample support for internal stakeholders, but what about customers of the target compan
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by jasonjei 4y ago
On the flip side, aren’t Asians underrepresented in the NBA?
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by jasonjei 4y ago
> To take an analogy: bad voice recognition software abounds everywhere, not because it is better than what it replaced in terms of UX, but because it works just enough and allows massive cost-savings on hiring people to do customer serv
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by jasonjei 4y ago
I’m also a traditionalist and I think the classic K&R C Programming Language book is the best way to learn C—you also get an understanding why C and *nix-based systems seem to go so well.
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by jasonjei 4y ago
This doesn’t address the issue of banning and locking a parent out of a Google account from sending a photo to a pediatric medical provider during Covid telehealth: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technolo
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by jasonjei 4y ago
Even though the crowns are distinct, the crown resides primarily in the UK, no?
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by jasonjei 4y ago
An interesting question the article doesn’t address is the current state and fate of *.hk
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by jasonjei 5y ago
The only thing stopping me from using PHP is just I’ve been burned in the past by massive breaking changes going up in major and even minor versions. Granted they are major releases, but the amount of work to bring existing code up to “code
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by jasonjei 5y ago
Don’t forget the big problem China will eventually have to deal with: their single child policy is coming to a head with their aging workforce. When the chickens come home to roost, they’re going to have to figure out who is going to replac
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by jasonjei 5y ago
Is it bad that when I hear ITA, I think of the airline pricing optimization software system that Google bought?
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by jasonjei 5y ago
Will somebody lose a job over this?
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by jasonjei 5y ago
This is very interesting. I might use this. What is a good and reputable one that you’ve heard people using successfully? And also not too costly?
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by jasonjei 5y ago
They have to deposit unemployment premiums and payroll taxes to the state of the person they hired. Those rates vary depending on the legislation and regulations in each state.
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by jasonjei 5y ago
We’ve hired people in remote states with Gusto (I think they do most of the setup with payroll/unemployment tax), and we have a small business United Healthcare PPO plan that seems to work everywhere, even though we setup the plan and
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by jasonjei 5y ago
This is great, but wouldn’t it be easier to use a LaTeX ebook transformer since many books are already set in TeX?
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by jasonjei 5y ago
If you read scientific journals, they have dealt with ASCII names, sometimes with last names in all caps, with the given name.[0] For example, KANESHIRO, Takeshi, with the names of the authors of a paper. [0] https://reader.elsev
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by jasonjei 5y ago
My parents have adopted romanized names. My last name is 洪 which in Pinyin is “Hong,” but in Taiwan, they’ve been using a mix of romanization schemes. In America, my name has been romanized to “Hung.” And I’m fine with that. And I don’t exp
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by jasonjei 5y ago
Agreed

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