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by jpatokal 7y ago
Baidu gives a better idea of what this looks like. Map: https://map.baidu.com/search/%E8%8C%82%E5%8D%8Euhn%E5%9B%BD%... Satellite: https://map.baidu.com/search/%E8%8C%82%E5%8D%8Euhn%E5%9B%BD%...
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Hertz Wanted a Cool Website: It Ended Up with a $32M Legal Nightmare(skift.com)
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by jpatokal 7y ago
The one month period was already a major concession by traditionalists: historically, the era name was announced the day it started. Then again, this transition is also highly unusual because the emperor abdicated, allowing time to prepare.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Part of that value prop is predictability. There are a lot of people who like to know exactly what they'll get, even when (especially when) travelling, and this is also why highway rest areas and airports so often have national fast
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Are you accusing Rocket of any of those? They're famous for cloning business plans, but I wasn't aware they went beyond that.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The big difference is that in Chinese, the written form of the poem is clear and unambiguous (if not terribly sensible), whereas in English that makes no sense without a detailed explanation of how you're supposed to parse it.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Genuine question: are there any foods that go bad in such a way that you can't see, taste or smell it, but it can kill you anyway? (Emphasis on "go bad": things like listeria were there from the start.)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Almost out of date food, which is commoly sold at a discount in the US as well.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
H&M, the global benchmark for disposable clothing, also hails from Sweden. And Ikea's cheaper particleboard furniture ranges are also pretty disposable.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The chain is based in China, but one of Miniso's founders is actually Japanese. I recently ran into a "Yubiso" in KL, meaning there's now a Malaysian clone of a Chinese clone of Japanese stores (Miniso is basically Uniql
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Pretty much, but Donki's main selling point is the incredible array of completely off-the-wall shit in no discernible order. For example, this pic has rubber chickens, an exploding hat, a helium dispenser for making your voice squeaky
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by jpatokal 8y ago
No discussion about Don Quijote can be complete without the theme song playing in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyYrrDKYZE This plays on continuous loop at all stores.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Illegal it may be, but there are many states in India where the sex ratio for babies is badly out of whack. https://scroll.in/pulse/834701/one-step-forward-two-back-ind...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Yes, but you'd think the university could find a way to directly support building the software.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
From the friendly article: Even the ones that do contain wasps can be considered vegan in my opinion. Veganism is about reducing harm and suffering, and these wasps aren’t being harmed. After all, no one is forcing the wasps to fertilize t
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by jpatokal 8y ago
A much more interesting story on the same topic: https://longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-caviar-con/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19153474
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Xiaomi is a luxury brand in the Chinese market. And rich by Indian standards doesn't mean they can afford to spend over $1000 on an iPhone: in India, a top 1% household earns only about $1000/month.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You're missing my point. All those factors are real, but they set the unit economics of taxi service , which in turn sets the baseline for Uber/Lyft pricing. So if the market price for taxi service in a city is X, already accoun
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There's also a map of Japan's rail system, which is a thing of obsessive beauty: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/53640/where-can-i... Unfortunately the pics of it are tiny, but as a sampler, h
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Yes, the baseline numbers will be very different, but the economics of ride share are pretty much the same anywhere: there's an existing market price for taxis, which is more or less inflated everywh
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by jpatokal 8y ago
No. For the next several decades, the rate of people aging out of the workforce will be much faster than the rate of people dying, but they will still need food, healthcare, etc. In effect, Japan's population pyramid has inverted: the
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by jpatokal 8y ago
https://openflights.org/ uses the Haversine formula (and much more!) to not just compute distance, but plot great circle flight routes on a world map: https://github.com/jpatokal/openflights/blob&#
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Most vacant jobs in Japan are the kind of thing that's quite difficult to automate: farm worker, health care, construction, sole person running a convenience store, etc. The comparatively easy stuff like repetitive factory work has ge
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You're mixing up eras and reigns. The "Edo period" refers to the years when the shogunate ruled from Edo (today's Tokyo), during which there were over a dozen (notionally) reigning emperors: https://en.wikipe
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The Cloud Billing Catalog API offers programmatic access to all GCP pricing. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-cloud... Re: pricing changes, I presume you're referring to the Distanc
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The only problem with that is that the resulting order would be useless for many applications. Say you're looking up your friend Tanaka Tarou, but you're not sure which characters his name is written with. If the sort order is p
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If all of somebody's contributions are removed, there's nothing to attribute to them.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That only kicks the can down the road a bit: what are the "solar system development" needs that would financially justify a Mars colony?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
For reference, Falcon Heavy's max payloads are 63.8T to LEO and 26.7T to GTO, so today's load was quite light. ArabSat would actually have (just) fit in a regular Falcon 9 as well.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If you can use cp to move files around, you can use gsutil to do the same for GCS. https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil

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