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Querying the Stars with BigQuery GIS(cloud.google.com)
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Can you name a European city that has anything approaching the homeless problem of SF, Seattle or NYC?
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The agreement is about "property and claims" between the two states. Of course, individuals can and have sued various Japanese entities, some successfully.
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> Zainichi Koreans of any generation are not citizens That's a bit of a tautology: if they nationalize, which they can if they wish to, they become citizens and stop being counted as Zainichi. They're also granted a number of
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Japan and South Korea signed an agreement in 1965 that was supposed to settle all financial claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_betw...
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Actually, Japan has apologized repeatedly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements... However, Japan has more than its fair share of far-right fruitcakes who deny everything, and in both Korea and
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Historically, Korea was repeatedly invaded by Japan. More recently, Korea was a Japanese colony between 1910 and 1945, during which the Japanese ruled with an iron fist and did their best to destroy Korean identity by forcing people to tak
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Both countries have low birthrates, but Japan is far enough along the labor shortage curve that unemployment has been essentially eradicated in Japan. From the friendly article: According to Statistics Korea, the national statistics offic
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by jpatokal 7y ago
https://outline.com/WLYEMW
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Variable, but generally worse. It's much more tightly censored than Wikipedia: for example, edits are manually reviewed by admins before going live. Also, most community features (talk pages etc) have been removed, so it's const
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by jpatokal 7y ago
They generally cannot, which is why so many users resort to high-risk, high-reward ways to make money like prostitution, theft, etc.
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Because their site is relevant to the question asked?
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Melbourne is a mecca of coffee snobbery, and most locals wouldn't be caught dead in a Starbucks. (Although you need to try pretty hard even to find one.)
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Lavish and impressive is also relative. Your original statement about "these things are all rather unimpressive to those that actually have them within reach" is tautological: having a yacht with a helipad is not going to be part
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Australia is a stupidly uncompetitive place to manufacture anything. A friend of mine is managing a (rare!) factory expansion in Sydney right now, and costs of all inputs (rent, labor, etc) are 3-8x what the company is paying in Malaysia.
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by jpatokal 7y ago
The cloud market is pretty darn huge, why are you dismissing it? Aside from the public cloud vendors, containers are very much a thing in the private cloud space too (OpenShift, Pivotal, etc).
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Look at the photo, it's hard to describe that as anything but a barrel: https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/q_auto,w_634,c_fill,g_auto... In particular, it lacks any conventional boat elements like a method of propu
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Laws in Australia are already pretty loose: medical marijuana is permitted on a federal level (although in many places the legal hoops required to get a prescription are absurd) and in most states recreational use is more or less decriminal
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by jpatokal 7y ago
The Rising Sun flag remains the flag of the Japanese Navy to this day, and is appropriate to fly on any occasion where you'd fly a Navy flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_Flag
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https://outline.com/P5yRJC
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by jpatokal 7y ago
One factor not discussed in the article is the differing attitude towards exports, piracy and copy protection. Historically, and even today, it's extremely difficult to legally view lots of Japanese content outside Japan, yet Japanese
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by jpatokal 7y ago
This appears to be at least in part a reaction to the backlogs at service centers described in the original article: With hundreds of thousands more Teslas hitting the road, all those service visits—along with repair work—have reportedly b
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Since the name of founder Takafumi Horie may not ring many bells outside a Japanese audience, let's just say he's a colorful character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takafumi_Horie
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Did a bit of a double-take when I saw the large "18+" image: apparently this is a reference to having "18+ products", but that's not what "18+" means in much of Asia.
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by jpatokal 7y ago
India as a whole has never been communist, although the Gandhi-inspired self-reliance/import substitution/License Raj era definitely did cripple the economy in similar ways. Many "communist" countries in Africa and the M
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by jpatokal 7y ago
However, in this case, they're checking the electronics of a Canadian citizen who has every right to be in the country.
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by jpatokal 7y ago
The Mosquito Coast novel? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast_(novel)
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by jpatokal 7y ago
Yet the Tether price of BTC is only 6% below the USD price: http://www.untether.space/
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The commercial cities in question, Mumbai and Shanghai, have never been the capitals of India or China. Delhi was built as a new capital by the British Raj, taking over from Calcutta. Beijing's history is long and complicated, but it
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by jpatokal 7y ago
I recently had the chance to visit Jakarta after over 10 years away, and they're finally starting to get some things right. The recent emphasis on public transport is particularly promising: the first MRT (subway) line finally opened

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