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by jpatokal 8y ago
Um, the original comment wasn't mine.
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And then there's Japan: http://homeandawaywithlisa.com/blog/2013/1/31/taking-out-the...
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Three Japanese authors that are wildly different from Murakami: * Yukio Mishima. Prose is incredibly dense to the point of being baroque (there are pages of footnotes even in the Japanese originals), but there's nobody else quite like
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The point here is not the raise, but the promotion itself. It's leverage for joining other large companies ("I was a Senior SWE at Google, so you'll need to offer me a Staff SWE role"), and as the OP notes, it lets them
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It's operated by two for-profit companies, but the government paid the massive bill for the construction, sets the fares and even owns the rolling stock (trains) now: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transp
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One interesting counterexample: Bhutan. Open to all visitors, but they need to pay $200 per day for the privilege. This includes basic/3-star accommodation and meals, you can opt to pay more if you wish and Aman has a string of res
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Australia's floating hotel and its 14,000km round journey to North Korea(abc.net.au)
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What continues to weird me out here is that Tether's price is still basically $1, and there's basically no risk premium for those exchanges that trade BTC against Tether instead of actual USD. But when the two start spreading,
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I found it quite accessible and have read it end to end twice. It's not a Russian heavy literature doorstop a la War & Peace , but an encyclopedic one-man survey of every aspect of the camps, roughly in chronological order: first
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Kolyma Stories and Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago are an incredible pair. For Solzhenitsyn, the Gulag is deeply personal and his rage seeps through every page. Shalamov is the complete opposite, and his book is an inhumanly dis
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The tricky thing about depopulation is that it's uneven and has a major time lag. As a simple example, the average Japanese farmer is 67 (!), young Japanese won't do their jobs at any price, and no, you can't just replace
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Well, Japan's spiral of depopulation means they actually do need masses of people, and they're importing them too via all sorts of dodgy trainee visas etc to staff convenience stores, hotel front desks, construction sites, lettu
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The problem is that the points requirements are too high for the type of young entrepreneurial people Japan wants to attract, and Japan itself is not attractive for the high rollers of the professional or scientific world that would qualify
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And when it's the build server itself that's broken? No process can account for every possible edge case, and you need to have flexibility to handle the unexpected.
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How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price(blog.asmartbear.com)
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I suspect you missed the point earlier: GKE offers a free managed master, even if your cluster is a single node costing you $5/month. Disclaimer: I work at GCP, but not on GKE.
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When your capacity is limited, selling higher-end models with higher margin is the completely obvious choice to maximize revenue and profit. "Have a terrible quarter" is far worse than "get roasted" by random people o
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The linked image search result for "AI" actually consists primarily of brain-shaped circuit boards which, y'know, is actually not a terrible metaphor for artificial intelligence . Personally, I'm kind of partial to Goog
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You paid 20 euros, Danish taxpayers paid the rest. The 50k people in the Faroes are subsidized to the tune of 100m a year, which comes out to over $2k/person/year. Update: Math fixed. That's actually less than I thought...
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Troubleshooting tips: How to talk so your cloud provider will listen(cloudplatform.googleblog.com)
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"Dangling salaries of 10 million yen", or about $91k. The fact that this is considered unusually high tells you all you need to know about engineering salaries in Japan. (And yes, IT salaries are in the same ballpark.)
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It's correct for Finnish: 1 tunti, 2 tuntia.
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But it is a part of Australia, at least as far as the Australian Constitution is concerned -- check out section 6: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practi...
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While I share your skepticism, there's is pretty solid evidence that strong white/blue light is effective in treating seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_a
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Well, there is no "basic green tea", there are many different variants which are all quite different. Start by comparing a solid Chinese tea (eg. longjing) with a Japanese one (eg. sencha), brew them exactly as instructed (Japa
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Many Western aid projects are also thinly disguised subsidies for well-connected companies back home. The main difference with China is sheer scale and the fact that they tend to import their own labor as well.
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Mandaeans are heavily persecuted in Iran and much of the rest of the Middle East. Here's the story of a colleague of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gb5SoJdEnA (13 min, but well worth it) https://www
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Is that any different from the car not being there because it's been repossessed?
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Previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7671214
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Here's a video of Alex juggling 14 balls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6AlhTjUbY Even disregarding the terrible production values (black balls on a dark grey background?), as an uninitiated spectator it's har

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