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by jpatokal 9y ago
That may have been the case in the 1990s, but isn't 10 seconds an eternity in today's HFT world? You'd need to arrange the sale off the exchange.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The difference is deterrence: Russia would have thought twice before invading a nuclear-armed neighbour.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Well, that's the canonical Japanese breakfast, in the same way that a canonical American breakfast is eggs, bacon, baked beans, hash browns, pancakes etc -- but most people scarf down some cereal instead. Rice for breakfast is definite
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Totally random factoid: Cinnabon is huge in Saudi Arabia, which is one of the few places that gives the US a run for its money in having large numbers of wealthy and morbidly obese people who drive everywhere and get virtually no exercise.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This is a blog post on the official Percona blog by its "Chief Evangelist", and quite far from a neutral evaluation.
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That's part of the announcement, under "Pay in local currency": GCP now supports billing in INR. (Disclaimer: I work in GCP.)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
But the edits are not libelous: he's a convicted criminal and even the mugshot is (presumably) and actual one. I'm not sure a judge would grant a lot in damages for injury to his career as a con man...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The power user interface, which lets you specify all sorts of wacky constraints any other OTA can't handle. https://travelcodex.com/advanced-routing-language-in-ita/
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Money, power and prestige is a pretty attractive triumvirate of reasons to be a CEO.
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The key difference, though, is that fiat currency is easily debased because whoever controls it can print more, while Bitcoin does not have a single owner and can only change if the majority of miners agree to do so.
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You can if you're George Orwell writing 1984: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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The figures are specifically for newly completed supply , the vast majority of which is also in Sydney and Melbourne. They aren't building teetering 30-story apartment towers in Dubbo or Wagga Wagga.
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> there were basically no people of Chinese origin left in northern Malaya Citation needed. There are tons of Chinese people left in northern Malay(si)a, and cities like Ipoh and Georgetown are majority-Chinese.
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The sorrows of high-paid work(pisarenko.net)
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Which is why Singapore plans to roll out GPS-based road pricing from 2020. http://roadpricing.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/singapore-will-ha...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Airbus/Boeing are not known for quick delivery. It took >8 years to get the 787 from launch announcement to a customer, and that's after who knows how many years of internal studies and research.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The article uses local market prices for food, but in very poor countries, most people are subsistence farmers and grow what they eat. Also, yes, in South Sudan people are currently dying in masse, there's a vicious civil war in progre
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by jpatokal 9y ago
I'm a little surprised this doesn't mention the death by a thousand cuts (lingchi), which in 19th century China was just not a metaphor for poor change management in software development. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jpatokal 9y ago
That's "work to rule", and it's a common form of industrial action worldwide. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work-to-rule
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Malaysia probably also qualifies, although the local cars (Proton, Perodua) are crap.
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The sheer scale of Australia means that they're not about to get exhausted anytime soon though. Only something on the order of 1% of the continent has even been prospected yet.
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The service sector is pretty huge, particularly education and tourism. I'm more concerned about what will happen when the long-running property bubble pops, because this is propping up huge swathes of the economy (construction, banking
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Aussie here: Good riddance. This country is at the end of Earth in terms of supply chains and export markets, has a small local market and has extremely high labor costs -- all in all, a terrible place to build the kind of megafactory you
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by jpatokal 9y ago
For tuna, the color reflects the fat content. Maguro/akami ("red flesh") is red & lean, and stays that way even if frozen. Chutoro is pink & fattier, while otoro is light pink & extremely fatty. (It was fed to c
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The FBI is only a small part of the US criminal justice system. 90% of US prisoners are held in state or local prison, not federal ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Missing context: this is working as intended. Tiangong-1 was China's first space station demonstrator ("target vehicle", in official parlance) and barely larger than the Shenzhou spacecraft used to fly there, itself essentia
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Related: A Serbian flight attendant who survived a fall of 10,160 metres without a parachute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
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Australia, and in a big way. The local lunacy is "negative gearing": if you invest so badly that your rental income doesn't even cover your mortgage, you get to deduct the difference from your taxes!
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If your crystal ball can forecast future exchange rates accurately, you can ignore all other investment advice and make millions off forex.
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Coupled with an element of irrational nationalism. "Everybody's telling us to stop doing something pointless/counter-productive, but it's a part of our culture!" (See also: gun ownership.)

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