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by jpatokal 8y ago
No, the article says they had great difficulty hiring new people at the lower wage (plus benefits), which they did not at the higher wage (without benefits).
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I read that as each pay period being scaled by 26/24, which means the yearly total cost is the same, but the monthly/weekly cashflow is going to be off every now and then.
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Thought of the day: in the same way that Uber succeeds by exploiting the depreciation of its "driver-partners" cars, Zirtual failed because people value a larger paycheck but no benefits over a pay package with benefits but a smal
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's similar here in Sydney, where Mobike is the last company standing on the wreckage of ofo, Obike and ReddiGo. The local lunacy is not $50 fees per bike, but a requirement for cyclists to wear helmets or get slapped with $300+ fine
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Japanese continues to have plenty of "ultrapolite linguistic elements". However, there are many formerly polite pronouns for "you" that have, over time, become blunt or outright rude: omae , temae > temee , kisama
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by jpatokal 8y ago
This includes most blog integrations, eg. being able to configure Wordpress to post a plug on your personal FB when you write something in your blog.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That accident happened when the escalator was in motion when the mechanical failure occurred, and the brakes had been incorrectly installed. If it had been stopped and brakes correctly applied, the escalator would have functioned fine as s
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you read the comments, you'll see that the "wasteful" method is actually the cheapest computationally.
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That's true if you assume a while pending on rand() is constant, but that wasn't covered in my CS 101 on complexity analysis...
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Does he need to? All algorithms given except the first appear to be O(N), and their performance is going to depend almost entirely on how fast the local implementations of trig operations involved are.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
"We Japanese" -- that's the key phrase that indicates this is the latest in a long line of Nihonjinron (Japanese people theories), about how 110m people all share an ineffable characteristic that makes them oh so very diffe
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by jpatokal 8y ago
While I disagree with much of the article and find the Shinto connection dubious, it's an observable fact that anthropomorphism is way more common in Japan than the West. Every megacorp, city, and police department has their own man
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You mean "this message has been brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department, which has brought you this message", you mean.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Lounges often have wifi meant for guests only, and the bandwidth can't cope with everybody in the airport using it.
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Subtitling is really hard even at the best of times, especially when working off only a script without seeing the program. (This is, incredibly, apparently common practice, because it's faster.) Not only do you need to translate fait
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Yes there is! https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/map-aws-google-cloud-plat... Disclaimer: I work at GCP (but didn't write that).
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Oh, I used to use Amex here myself, but no-fee Amex acceptance really is limited to the thousand pound gorillas who can extract the best rates for themselves. Then the banks gutted consumer earning rates and I got tired of swapping between
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Including psychedelic ones, I presume?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
In Australia, despite the credit card companies and banks fighting tooth and nail against it, it's legal for merchants to charge credit card fees and the fees have to be proportionate to the actual merchant cost. https://w
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Animation: HTTP 1.1 vs. HTTP.2 vs. HTTP/2 with Push(freecontent.manning.com)
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I used to work in Indonesia, with Indonesian clients. Scheduling a meeting for 10 AM and not having anybody show up until 11 was normal; showing up four hours late and shrugging it off with "macet" (traffic) was not unusual.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That (amazing) doc is apparently not a parody, but a million dollars' worth of deadly serious. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pepsis-nonsensical-logo-redesig...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Tangentially related: "The start of a relay race" picture was not taken at an indoor swimming pool, but the open-air Dawn Fraser Baths, which are really just a fenced-off section off the Parramatta River. This is Australia's
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Japan's second-hand boom is not caused by a sudden spiritual uplift to not be mottainai , but by 20-30 years of economic stagnation and a growing underclass of poorly paid temp workers who can't afford anything else.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The tail end of your argument is the broken window fallacy. On every conceivable metric the vast amount of bureaucracy and paper-pushing required by the uniquely dysfunctional US healthcare system fails to deliver any benefit proportionate
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This seems to be common in the Philippines, home to many call centers. Many Filipinos are also prone to overusing Sir, to the point that one person I worked with used to refer to my colleagues as Sir John, Sir Bob etc (and no, this was not
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There are also many cultures where using someone's first name is outright rude. In Japan, this is reserved for very close friends; in Finland, calling somebody by first name in conversation just sounds odd, period. You already know
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Lofstorm's (rather messy) site: http://launchloop.com/LaunchLoop A 20-minute video explaining the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1MAg0UAAHg
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Just because a character is in Unicode doesn't mean it's supported in practice: it's missing from the font Chrome is using to render your text and is highly unlikely to be selectable from an IME.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Lightbulbs aren't all that standardized though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb_socket I had never seen a bayonet mount before I moved to Australia, but they're still reasonably common here.

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