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by johnzim 5y ago
I had a similar situation with London. Ironically I moved to California as the new annual fires started.
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by johnzim 5y ago
The U.S. did nothing in the arrangement because their position wrt the CCP was one of engagement to balance against the USSR. It was the UK, which caved because, as revealed in now-declassified democratic cables from 1958, Zhou Enlai flatly
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by johnzim 5y ago
Doublethink is a skill that takes some time to learn. While you're still waiting to get up to speed, just understand and accept that all Chinese people are the property of the Emperor. It's much easier to make sense of things.
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by johnzim 5y ago
I loved lugging this computer to school. Definitely made good use of the rubberized edges with a few "drop tests". The only bad part of the design was in the power chord, which like many of those era's cables, suffered from f
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by johnzim 5y ago
I have no idea who thought this was a good idea. The trackpad is even off to the left to accommodate it. I'm not a fan of symmetry for symmetry's sake, but I do think some affordances for the human body might be a good idea. How d
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by johnzim 5y ago
Yes! It's one of the few things I can watch and understand reliably in Japanese. It doesn't contain lots of slang or fantastical words.
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by johnzim 5y ago
He absolutely disputes the allegations of, rape which are at the crux of the his larger cancellation. > So I wrote up a statement saying I had slept with women at events and sometimes I was a dick. The statement was heavily (and perhaps
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by johnzim 5y ago
This is DEFINITELY a feature. I bet users are copying and pasting values from the WordPress editor into a word processor and HATE seeing   so they probably asked for this solution.
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by johnzim 5y ago
This has always been part of how Bitcoin works and it’s been the reason I’ve felt like I’ve been taking crazy pills for well over a decade trying to understand its popularity amongst criminals. Do people realize how HARD it is to trace regu
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by johnzim 5y ago
To be fair, the reserves are largely a national security requirement given the risk of potential Chinese aggression (trade or otherwise). Given its remoteness, Australia is quite vulnerable to blockade. While the country is of immense size,
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by johnzim 5y ago
Copyright tends to run from the death of the author for a period (in the US is 70 years after death). As for where it's assigned to an institution, it'll still have a long time to run - decades!
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by johnzim 5y ago
More devs should know about Intl - it's a great resource for a HUGE number of tasks as well as being a great way to smooth localization. I only became fully aware of it in the last 12 months, so I'd wager there's a lot of oth
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by johnzim 5y ago
Well worth a watch - Abnett is the best writer in the GW canon by far and a significant asset. I remember when it was mostly Andy Chambers and Gav Thorpe writing the best stuff and Abnett was a new hand on the tiller. The Gaunt’s Ghosts ser
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by johnzim 5y ago
Lovely website and incredibly consistent. What a treasure trove.
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by johnzim 5y ago
Yep - your options trickle in over a vesting period. Typically there’s also a ‘Cliff’ at the start - a period during which no options are available to you. addendum: the ‘standard’ Silicon Valley stock option deal is: 4 year vest, 1 year cl
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by johnzim 6y ago
Plus we can rely on survivor bias! The stuff that’s still working was clearly built very well. The stuff that wasn’t isn’t working. “flight proven”
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by johnzim 6y ago
He uses a Psion! OPL was my first programming language after basic! I made some fun games in OPL. It was a really wonderful basic variant, perfect for the device.
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by johnzim 6y ago
This is great advice. I was in a similar position till we moved to the Bay Area, which flipped the financial calculus. Other than breast-feeding, Dads can do everything that's required and pumping works out great for everyone.
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by johnzim 6y ago
Canada's defence spend last year was $22.2b As they only met 1.31% of their 2% spend (which would be $37.5b) the shortfall is ~$15.3b annually. Still sounds like a bargain.
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by johnzim 6y ago
This argument would be more persuasive if more countries actually met their recommended NATO spend. In reality it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Take for instance Germany. The federal republic increased their spend to $63.8b last year bu
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by johnzim 6y ago
I agree, but I'd note that as you've pointed out, Germany essentially has systems in place to mitigate the default behavior that arises out of the 'few players' problem. Almost all countries do. The US has plenty of heal
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by johnzim 6y ago
Extremely high barrier to entry + (necessary) complex regulatory structure = industry with fewer players. And in that situation, you've basically got breeding grounds for cartels and price-fixing. Even if not all the players hold the l
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by johnzim 6y ago
It's almost as if the people who voted for it held some ideal up as more important than wealth. Here's a Nuffield College survey on the subject: http://csi.nuff.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05&#x
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by johnzim 6y ago
I agree in some respects but comparing the nature of the internet today compared to the internet we remembered back in the 90s, it’s abundantly clear that consolidation and centralization are significant forces. We’re not really making the
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by johnzim 6y ago
You definitely could do that to my recollection, I remember doing so to ferry files around. Here's an apple support doc showing how: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201544
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by johnzim 6y ago
The headline isn't too stupid, it's the follow up that's dumb, talking about the massive value being distributed. All that would happen is the price of those metals would rapidly approach $0. There wouldn't be inflation
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by johnzim 6y ago
You end up with a situation where say 20% have shifted and 80% haven't. Then over time, like planets falling into a ring of orbits, everyone ends up shifting back because too many other people are on the other schedule. These sorts of
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by johnzim 6y ago
Germany has 2 advantages: 1) A deliberate political aim to maintain a manufacturing base, prosecuted over decades; and 2) A currency which is deliberately kept cheap by use of ballast (the PIGS - Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) - countri
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by johnzim 6y ago
The big issue has been with the labelling for these thicker bags. The marketing term has been "Bag for Life" - but the goal of that term was that this bag could be replaced for free at the supermarket so that they could be recycle
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by johnzim 6y ago
It's the latter that really bugs me. I'm willing and even happy to pay taxes for commensurate benefits. I don't really feel like I get that in CA. It's like an extremely inefficient engine. Ironically there is one way in

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