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True, they will usually tell you the total cost. Amended.
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> Only almost formal, exceedingly polite and necessary conversations are part of the social norm This does not describe Finland at all. If you go to a convenience store in Japan and buy a pack of gum, the clerk will go through an elabor
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Looks like a big chunk of Menlo Park/Palo Alto is a designated OZ: https://www.policymap.com/maps?i=9964345&btd=6&period=2018&l... Including heartbreaking scenes of crushing poverty like this: https:/
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by jpatokal 8y ago
How else would you get a $20 million valuation for a porn startup? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/spankchain/ Obvious caveat: an ICO valuation is orders of magnitude more sketchy than a VC round valuation.
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> 1271.88 BOOTY belongs to users (~$9,300 total), and the rest belonged to SpankChain. Somehow my sympathy for anybody who invests in a cryptocurrency called BOOTY that's stored on a SpankChain is somewhat limited. Particularly s
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Not a lawyer (are you?), but I do maintain a keen interest in nationality law. Italics mine: "...the Department of State adopted the administrative presumption found in 22 CFR 50.40 that a U.S. citizen/noncitizen national intend
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Nope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relinquishment_of_United_State... Or if you want an authoritative source: https://fam.state.gov/FAM/07FAM/07FAM1270.html
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It's actually quite difficult to lose your US citizenship these days. Per U.S. Code § 1481, it's not sufficient to merely serve in a foreign military, you need to do it " with the intention of relinquishing United States nat
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The US military has plenty of professionals for this kind of thing. The grey area here is other countries hiring US civilians, particularly when they're notionally inducted into the other country's armed forces (= no longer civ
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That's just straight-up wrong. Legal ownership of a gun in Japan requires an extreme amount of bureaucracy, but it's entirely possible and most legal gun owners in Japan are (non-rich, non-well-connected) farmers. https:/&#
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Show HN: Tracking the collapse of Tether at untethered.space
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The fundamental problem with arbitrage -- and one of the major reasons why this moment has been predicted by many -- is that Tether will not redeem USDT for USD. So you can buy all the "cheap" Tethers you like, but you can't
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I built this site in February this year in anticipation: http://www.untether.space/ The spread between Bitcoin priced in Tether and Bitcoin priced in USD has been holding steady at <1% until now, but as I type this, the
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The Dikko affair, where the Mossad working for Nigeria attempted to kidnap a dissident in London and ship him back to Nigeria in a diplomatic parcel, comes to mind. The plot fell apart, but he would almost certainly have been killed if the
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Two F16s were damaged, although it's not clear from the article if the other one is also a write-off.
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I take it you've never flown Singapore Airlines. In business, each toilet is cleaned every time a passenger uses it , and economy isn't far behind.
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Worse than overdosing in the streets? This seems like a classic case of the perfect (being off drugs completely) being an enemy of the good (off the streets but on prescribed heroin).
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Your description sounds very psychological, which is exactly what the article is saying as well? In other words, you're not concerned with the specific cards (analytical), but what your opponent thinks about their cards.
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(2014), not that anything has changed. The article is about Australia, but the content applies to pretty much anywhere that accepts international students for money -- grade inflation is very much a thing in the US too.
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McDonalds has been in Japan since 1971, and occupies precisely the same culinary niche as it does in the US: cheap, fast and crappy. (Although, this being Japan, they're not quite as crappy as in most countries.) In my uni days stud
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At one point triple combos of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell ("Kentacohut") were common in Singapore -- and they didn't even try to hide it, there was a single shared counter for ordering. One in the US: http://www.d
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That's also because nobody is ever going to actually wear outfits like this: https://youtu.be/a1ew-tsk8KA?t=983
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2 to 6 seconds before the explosion, not minutes.
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The Chinese are excluded from the ISS. Their Tianzhou spacecraft is a direct Soyuz descendant, so it might be possible to dock it to the ISS, but this was not a part of the plan so it hasn't been designed for it, much less tested. Plu
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The restaurants are in the outer market, which is not going anywhere. Only the inner/wholesale market, which was largely off limits to tourists, is moving.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/technology/google-employe...
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You won't have any trouble finding IT jobs in the big cities. But ironically enough, the difficulty of getting a visa in Australia has also been ratcheted up recently, meaning that many employers who would love to hire can't spon
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The real problem here is that you can't stake your and your family's future on being "pretty sure" that a random immigration bureaucrat will see it that way, so the only sane thing to do is avoid anything with even sligh
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The nice thing about KL is that it's the home base for Air Asia, so there are dirt-cheap flights to anywhere in Asia, most of which (Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, southern China) can be reached in under 4 hours by plane.
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Why did Snapchat feel so strongly that it was necessary to separate them? Neither Instagram nor Twitter separate friends from influencers/celebrities/media, and that seems to work fine.

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