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by jasonjei 7y ago
Frankly, I think UBI is a much better solution than increasing federal minimum wage. I think the problem with increasing minimum wage is that employers will be less likely to hire or more likely to look to automation to decrease human hirin
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by jasonjei 7y ago
If the extradition law passes, anybody in Hong Kong (citizens and foreigners) can be extradited to face the capricious justice system of China. This is an existential crisis for Hong Kong. They can protest now, but they might not be able to
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by jasonjei 7y ago
Taiwan is a very democratic and open society, but evolved on its own from a dictatorship to a proud free society. I think many Taiwanese would be very proud to say they developed it with their own distinctive Taiwanese values (and bento box
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by jasonjei 7y ago
My question is if you had to pay for Google AdWords and your site was inaccessible due to GCloud outage, do you have recourse on SLA for paid clicks? Or is that money paid to Google AdWords lost?
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by jasonjei 7y ago
On the Uber app, they only provide the given name and not the full surname. I mistakenly thought my driver was surnamed LIU, when his actual surname is JIANG. Just pointing an anecdote when I was in Taiwan
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by jasonjei 7y ago
「劉」is being used as part of a first name in this case.
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by jasonjei 7y ago
Right. I am not disagreeing with you. I am pointing out that Chinese/Japanese both adopt Western name ordering for Western names in an effort to demonstrate that Chinese or Japanese name ordering should be adhered in English. Would you
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by jasonjei 7y ago
I don’t think it’s just a matter of translation preference. I think it’s also to be respectful to the people whose names are being mentioned. When Chinese or Japanese concert Roman names to Hanzi/Kana, they try to observe the FIRSTNAME
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by jasonjei 7y ago
Chinese and Japanese, however, usually adopts the preference of locale name ordering. For example, Stephen Paul Jobs is rendered from Roman to Kana as スティーブン・ポール・“スティーブ”・ジョブズ Suteibun Pouru Jobuzu In Chinese as 史蒂夫·喬布斯 Shidifu Qiaobusi
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by jasonjei 7y ago
I have seen emails from Japanese colleagues where the last name is capitalized for clarity. Capitalization is particularly useful for Chinese names where names are not written in Chinese symbols (hanzi/漢字) because the romanized names c
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by jasonjei 7y ago
In Japanese? It’s almost guaranteed to be LASTNAME FIRSTNAME if in Chinese symbols (kanji/漢字) unless the name is written in kana. 金城武 KANESHIRO Takeshi
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I think the most meta-thing here is instead of using almanacs, we’re here linking to a Wikipedia article on a pocket reference.
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I remember reading on Stack Overflow that the writers originally wanted for the human minds to be critical to a neural network, not actually used as a power source, but Hollywood executive producers didn’t think cinema audience could unders
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I’d also argue Apple wouldn’t be where they are without developers. Microsoft Office and early Macs come to mind.
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by jasonjei 8y ago
Totally agree about leaving luggage with the porter between early check in and checkout. On top of the predictable check-in, check-out, security, and elite membership benefits like 4pm late checkout, free waters/lounge access, keycard
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by jasonjei 8y ago
With hotels, I can get late checkout until 4pm, and sometimes check in early. Additionally, they’ll hold on to my luggage even when the room isn’t ready and they’ll hold on to my luggage when I checkout and I’m ready to leave the city. I ca
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I think, for me, the biggest fear is using an ARM-based Mac to build cloud-based software that runs on Linux x86. Much of my development environment emulates production in Docker x86, but an ARM-based development environment would have to e
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I think I remember reading Cathay Pacific has cameras in the first class cabin for a customer service reason—to attend to you when you were awake...
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by jasonjei 8y ago
Mead also seems to be very uncommon these days and is featured in The Hobbit . I’ve only tried one homebrew attempt of mead, but it tastes a bit like Western-style konbucha mixed with honey.
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by jasonjei 8y ago
He does have a choice—and he lives in Hong Kong. There are those Hong Kong citizens that have expressed their free rights yet are not able to enter the Mainland. Here’s the HK newspaper view on him: https://m.scmp.com/cultur
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by jasonjei 8y ago
That might be true, but I think HN readers are not commonly aware that he is one. He once said in December 2012, that “Hong Kong is a ‘city of protest,’ suggesting that demonstrators' rights in Hong Kong should be limited. The same mon
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by jasonjei 8y ago
Yes, it is, and I wanted people to be even more aware of something they might have glossed over in the article. Here is even more of his thought process: “Noting the strong tensions in Hong Kong and Taiwan, he said, ‘I'm gradually begi
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I didn’t say country “Taiwan.” I referred to it as “Taiwan,” just as you might say “California” or “Hong Kong” or “Singapore.” Those can be place names, right? And all three have varying forms of government. Surely a place known as “Taiwan
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Jackie Chan, though, is an apologist for the Mainland government, and even suggested that Taiwan, perhaps (as of now) the only Chinese-speaking democracy, has “too much freedom.”
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by jasonjei 8y ago
Shouldn’t they start younger than 10? I remember reading that languages are easier to retain the younger you are.
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by jasonjei 8y ago
Not to be pedantic, but I think 離 in this case is abbreviated for 離開 (to leave). So divorce means to leave a marriage...
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by jasonjei 8y ago
To give you some data point with regard to enforcement, my SO has a Japanese passport and acquired US citizenship. No issues entering/leaving Japan after acquiring US citizenship. Japan technically allows only Japanese citizenship past
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I wonder how Duplex would work if it rings a line powered by Duplex (for example, a business uses Duplex to schedule bookings). Would it just talk to the backend, or would Duplex talk to the receiving Duplex in the normal scheduling chat da
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by jasonjei 8y ago
The way I see this debate is very simple: some people in parts of the world drive on the left side of the road, and some people in other parts of the world drive on the right. I might argue there is only one “right” way to drive, but both a
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by jasonjei 8y ago
I wonder what the solution to a trolley problem would be for autonomous vehicles. Would a trolley problem situation exist if all cars are autonomous?

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