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by jpatokal 9y ago
For cheap fruit & veg, do what the locals do and shop at the wet market. Far cheaper than the styrofoam packs at the supermarket.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This sits rather oddly with the fact that the Malagasy are basically a bunch of Indonesians who landed on an island off the coast of Africa.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If you're dealing with a scammer who's not afraid to blow $40k a pop on chartered jets, there's nothing stopping them from creating a pretty website that shows fake portfolios composed of real prices of real assets they haven
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This marks the fifth time Bitcoin has "plunged" over 30%... during 2017 : https://twitter.com/charliebilello/status/944048619174457344... The only real difference is that because Bitcoin's value i
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> no one in their right mind Remember, we're talking about the same market and investors that brought us Dentacoin and Wu-Tang Coin. [1] https://dentacoin.com/ [2] https://www.wutangcoin.com/
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by jpatokal 9y ago
That's the point: it should be, but it's not.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Forking anything is hard and forking Bitcoin is designed to be particularly difficult, so regardless of technical merit, the odds were stacked against BCH being able to supplant BTC. To me it seems much more likely that another, unrelated c
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It's also a vote of confidence. Many people, including me, assumed that Bitcoin Cash would rapidly become worthless and sold it off immediately. Having the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world support it means it may actually hang a
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The key difference is that the Instant Pot is a pressure cooker, which ordinary rice/multi-cookers are not, they just heat the pot to boil water until the temperature reaches a cutoff point. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by jpatokal 9y ago
These days, in Queensland, it's illegal for children under 12 to walk to school on their own. (Although, for better or worse, both the letter of the law and its enforcement are unclear.) http://www.abc.net.au/news&#x2F
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Which is why monocultural, immigration-averse and hard-working China has such a safe and trusting society... or does it? (Spoiler: Nope, far from it.)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Possession of large enough a quantity means you're automatically considered a dealer, and we're not talking huge quantities either: 30g (1 oz) of cocaine translates to a mandatory death penalty. This extends to things like hav
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Not in a country where a Toyota Corolla costs upwards of $100,000.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Estonia was a part of the Soviet Union, and the Soviets had some pretty good crypto by Cold War standards.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Front running is, very specifically, when an exchange uses information about its own customers' trades to profit. Example: Customer places an order to sell 1 million shares of Apple. Exchange shorts Apple, sells customer's shar
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by jpatokal 9y ago
All the more reason not to call attention to it and instead tell potential competitors the industry is dying.
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A Cruise Ship Called “The World” Is a Luxury Home at Sea for the Super Rich(skift.com)
84 points by jpatokal 9y ago|66 comments
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Absurdly low by Valley standards: 6 million yen a year (~$53k) is normal, senior folks might pull in 10m (~$88k).
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Sounds like your employer is pretty shitty (and to be fair, Japan has more than its fair share of shitty employers), but that's an attribute of your company, not Japan itself. And if you're coming over on a startup visa, it'
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by jpatokal 9y ago
There's a great deal of variance among Japanese banks regarding their policies on issuing credit cards to gaijin, all of which are (of course!) undocumented. A random list of cards that are supposedly easier to get: http://
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Aussie here. The Australia Tax [1] is absolutely a thing here: for example, it's difficult to buy decent kids' shoes for under $100 (!), whereas you can walk into any Payless in the US and walk out with a decent pair for $25 or s
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Google for India: Building India-first products and features(blog.google)
139 points by jpatokal 9y ago|91 comments
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Can I interest you in Svalbard? https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Russia's population is shrinking and Soviet-era monotowns [1] are shrinking fastest of all, so housing supply exceeds demand everywhere except hotspots like Moscow and St. Petersburg. Norilsk is doing better than most because its raw
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by jpatokal 9y ago
"Startup nerd" (LOL) here. I linked to the article because I thought it was an insightful illustration of the life of the "motel homeless". No more, no less, no disagreement (with what, exactly?) intended or implied.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Whoah there, you're completely misreading my comment. The single sentence I wrote, "This recent story in the Atlantic does a good job of capturing the quiet desperation of motel-homeless life" isn't even directed at y
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This recent story in the Atlantic does a good job of capturing the quiet desperation of motel-homeless life. They thought it would be a brief stay, but they ended up staying in various hotels like the Red Roof Inn and the GuestHouse Inn fo
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Many Google APIs either offer paid premium tiers (eg. Maps) or are pay per use (all Cloud APIs).
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Open source projects are founded on self-interest , not altruism: "I can do this better than any existing solution"! On rare occasions this is true, and on even rarer occasions others agree and start contributing.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
In Chinese these are rare exceptions. In Japanese, having at least two (and sometimes four, ten or sixty) possible pronunciations is the rule, and it's the single-reading characters that are rare.

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