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by jpatokal 8y ago
One piece missing from the story is that Ethiopia is politically structured very much like China: an overbearing, notionally Communist [1] state that operates basically as a dictatorship and is mortally afraid of losing power. It's no
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GCP's status history would seem to disagree, unless you have unusual definitions of "outage" and/or "global": https://status.cloud.google.com/summary The last incident I'd personally class
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The impact on tech is mixed, as there are quite a few multinationals moving from London to Dublin to stay within the EU.
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Contrarian thought: if/when the tech bubble bursts, there's suddenly going to be 1000s of companies laying off software engineers in Silicon Valley, who will all be furiously competing for what jobs remain. By comparison, working
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Coverage at the time: https://www.geek.com/news/more-on-the-blackboard-hack-vs-dmc...
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Historically in Europe it was sugar that was super expensive, and honey was the only widely available sweetener.
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Well, not so ridiculous. Queensland extends for almost 3,000 km north to south, and they really don't need DST up in the tropics. (Although the vast bulk of the population is concentrated at the non-tropical end.) That said, I live i
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Yup, they figured the two-engine plane will be more efficient than the old quad-jet A340. But this time, too, there is no standard economy, only premium eco & business.
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But the flight was first premium economy/business only, then converted to business only, and then cancelled entirely because they couldn't make the economics work out.
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Well, there's also the fact that traditionally, if you quit a seishain (full time) job in Japan, you're seen as damaged goods (why else would you quit/be forced by your company to quit?) and it's exceedingly unlikely t
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Not necessarily white-collar: for example, restaurant chain Watami is somewhat notorious for (literally!) working their staff to death.
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Bad wording (surprise surprise, it's the Daily Mail), but they clearly mean that if you wanted to avoid having your beard forcibly shaved off, you had to pay the Beard Tax.
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Have any Chinese tourists found Miyazaki yet? Or are they just piling into Kyoto?
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Building an "Astronomy Town" in the middle of nowhere and expecting it to attract tourists permanently has echoes of Japan's bubble era written all over it. Random point of comparison: https://soranews24.com/
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I'm looking forward to your Show HN and wish you luck -- you'll need it.
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Severance applies when the company lays you off. If you're fired for cause (say, not showing up), you're rarely entitled to anything.
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At any tachigui (standing-only) soba shop in Tokyo, you can get a bowl of noodles made to order and customized to your liking from around 200 yen ($2) and delivered in approx 30 seconds: https://digjapan.travel/en/blo
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Not mentioned in the article, but Japan occupied/colonized large chunks of China before and during the war: there were close to a million settlers in Manchukuo alone, plus up to 1 million Japanese soldiers in the China Expeditionary Ar
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More than that, severance is the law in the vast majority of the world. Being fired without notice and without severance, losing your health insurance and having to fight for unemployment in court is a trifecta of unthinkable for the ave
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Serious Q: if you expect the stock market to crash (but aren't sure enough to start shorting it) and think housing is also overvalued, what should you invest in?
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You may be missing the point here: it's AI, so it doesn't "think" in terms of strategies or tactics like you do, it just runs countless simulations, figures out what works in those, and then blindly applies that. So if
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Nit: Finnish rock band Hurri g anes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurriganes Finns often confuse c, g and q (none of which feature in native Finnish words) and the band name itself reflects that! (And while they prob
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You can open a bank, and then this might happen to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus_Federal_Savings_Bank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus:_Small_Enough_to_Jail (an excellent documenta
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Oddly enough, the final output rather resembles a pixelated version of traditional Mongolian script, which in turn originates from Arabic written vertically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script#/media&#x
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South Korea needs to go upmarket and specialize. Shipyards in Finland and France, the very opposite of low-cost manufacturing destinations, survive because they build things like the world's largest cruise ships now: https:/&#x2
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That's because the town is on the Stuart Highway [1], the main road connecting Darwin with the rest of Australia. There's also very little other habitation in these parts, meaning any pitstop will get some passing traffic. Also
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> "Edge Caching" it simply refers to the Amazon datacenter closest to whoever requests the site I can't speak for AWS, but for GCP there are many more Edge and CDN points of presence than there are datacenters: https:&#x2
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China's total fertility rate is already well below replacement level, their population will start shrinking around 2027. They're just attempting to boost the birth rate so the dependency ratio (number of people who work to suppor
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My commute choices are personal bike directly to work (long and hilly), or bus and a long walk. Taking a Mobike from the bus stop shaves 10 min off the walk each way.
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In Singapore, importing tobacco is illegal full stop (no duty-free or duty-paid allowance) and all legal locally sold tobacco is stamped "SDPC" (Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarette). If you're caught by police with an unstamped ci

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