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by jpatokal 9y ago
Eh, this kind of thing is surprisingly common. Singlish, the lingua franca of Singapore, is loosely based on English but incorporates vocab and grammar from a slew of Chinese dialects (Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew, Cantonese, Mandarin), Malay an
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Sorry, not at this stage, but please tell me more about your use case & sign up to be notified: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7wl5eKTraibp0l6cS... And OpenFlights accepts donations ;)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Attempting price/earnings analysis here is not sensible, because bitcoin is not a stock: simply owning some doesn't earn you any "dividends" (mining rewards). A better parallel is gold, which is a store of value that pro
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Came here to post this: OurAirports seems to be much more comprehensive, does GADB have any advantage over this? Also, where is GADB's data sources from?
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by jpatokal 9y ago
OpenFlights maintainer here. Thanks for the kudos, although our airport data is primarily from OurAirports.com these days. Re: schedules, I've finally got a good lead on a way to obtain data without relying on the OAG/Innovata d
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It's been permanent off-season in the Sinai for quite some time thanks to Islamic State and friends, who killed several hundred people worshipping at the "wrong" mosque earlier this week...
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A bug that occurred only on Wednesdays: https://gyrovague.com/2015/07/29/crashes-only-on-wednesdays/
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The actual explanation is rather more boring: almost all butter in France is sold to supermarkets, who negotiate prices once a year. If world market prices are higher, dairy products sell elsewhere instead and French supermarkets run dry.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Gizmodo already updated their title to say "past $12000", but that was a short-lived spike. (For now?)
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Yes, the supply of rental is affected, but the previous poster's point was that demand is anchored by reality (wages) and not speculation (bank loans).
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...yes you can? Not all of them, but eg the Coles in Pyrmont stocks a healthy range of sangas for the convenience of nearby office dwellers.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Lonely Planet does cover Guinea? https://www.lonelyplanet.com/guinea That said, they used to pride themselves on covering the entire world, including countries that weren't really commercially viable, but with the deci
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Realtime Visualization of Black Friday Sales on Spotify(shopify.com)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> Cloud: A big networked oven that helps make your goods available all around the world at fast speeds. That's almost certainly the worst metaphor I've heard for explaining what the Cloud is. "Networked oven" indeed.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Oddly, this is likely to get way more press than the original interview, which seems to consist of deep revelations like "[I] enjoy making people happy and giving them the trivia they want" and "he’s had a woman ask him for
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by jpatokal 9y ago
For those untutored in the wild ways of Wikipedia, where even most admin namespace (Wikipedia:) articles are editable by all, this is an essay and not official Wikipedia policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:E
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Tokyo's subway turns 90 this year, and while the older stations aren't as flashy as new ones, it remains remarkably efficient & functional.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The victims of hit & runs in third world countries typically do received (some) compensation. The culprits just magically avoid prosecution. One example from Thailand, where even killing a cop isn't enough to get the wheels of
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by jpatokal 9y ago
160k is around 0.15% of Japan's population, and there's plenty of space for them to move to since the countryside is rapidly depopulating. Of course, it's not quite that easy to forcibly migrate people in practice...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Australian coinage is probably the heaviest in the world, particularly this monster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_fifty-cent_coin
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by jpatokal 9y ago
NFC & Android/Apple Pay is actually kinda amazing if you live in a country like Australia where tap to pay is universally supported. It's starting to get traction for transport smart cards as well.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Marissa Mayer resigned in July.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Is there any actual evidence of "winning" outside the headline? The best the article can muster is a single pending lawsuit that, if successful, would allow the construction of one (1) home in Sausalito.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Japan answered "Yes" to that question. Every river in Japan is dammed and concreted, ~all old growth forests have been logged and replaced with cedar plantations, and all native minorities (Okinawan, Ainu, etc) have been steamr
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by jpatokal 9y ago
English loanwords are only a tiny part of either language. The parent was pointing out that in Chinese 生 is always sheng , while in Japanese it can be any of sei, shou, san, nama, ikiru, ikeru, ikasu, umu and 50-odd more readings depend
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I also manage a support team. Phone calls are indeed not very useful for solving issues, but they are critical for reducing customer anxiety and ensuring that you've understood their problem correctly.
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Would you have that data then? Also note that neither Google nor Microsoft break out their cloud computing revenues, making comparisons difficult, although you can figure out upper bounds by the nearest business unit.
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While I agree that most cryptocurrencies are severely disconnected from reality, is your last paragraph really any different from how the stock market works short-term?
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by jpatokal 9y ago
I'm somewhat surprised to see Singapore mentioned as a paragon of social equality. This is a rich country where maids are treated like slaves (locked in apartment and on call 24/7/365, sleep on the kitchen floor etc) and man
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Do you work at Google, or what are you basing these bold assertions on? FTR, I'm a manager at Google. I don't feel qualified to comment on the research or the specifics of this article, but I can assure you Google takes buildin

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