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by jpatokal 9y ago
This is a thing in Australia as well, and it's quite baffling. As far as I can tell, it's not even racism or genuine comms concerns etc, it's just that any work experience outside Australia gets discounted as "not real
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by jpatokal 9y ago
They do. There was a bit of a flap a few years ago in Malaysia when they attempted to ban non-Muslims (in practice, Christians) from using the word "Allah". http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/24/world&#
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The images make it quite clear these are not random patterns, but intentional.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
While not perfect and generally on the "liberal" side of the spectrum, the BBC is remarkably apolitical by US standards and I very much doubt they have any (Viking) axes to grind when it comes to Swedish politics. Disclaimer: I us
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Japan consists of islands, everybody there came from somewhere else. This is true in Australia and the US as well, the Aboriginals and Native Americans just came several thousand years before the next waves of settlement.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Most industrialized societies already have birth rates well below replacement level.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
All of the above (except lower costs, not a thing for anything in Australia). In particular, in essentially all (non-chain-fast-food) restaurants where you can get a meal for less than $10, nobody is making award rates. If you're luck
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If you'd like to know everything about opening a restaurant in equal parts gruesome and hilarious detail (at least when only reading about it), Tyson Ho's posts about opening Arrogant Swine in Brooklyn are a great read. http:&#
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> But very little is known about what occurs after month six. The symptoms may get precipitously worse in the ninth month, for instance, or they may level off. We don't know, and there is only one way to find out. Actually, there&#x
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by jpatokal 9y ago
That looks obsessively detailed. How well does the simulation scale? Can I simulate a Changi or a Dubai?
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The key thing is walking slowly to minimize energy expenditure. The Malays, in particular, have this down to an art, while the average New Yorker or Scandinavian will spontaneously combust after walking two blocks.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It doesn't? It's 53 min from Tuas Link at the extreme western tip of Singapore to Raffles Place by MRT, and you'd be hard pressed to find a place in Singapore where even a connecting bus would add more than 30 min to that.
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As Goes the Middle Class, So Goes TGI Fridays(eater.com)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Uhh, Singapore is very far from homogeneous. There are Chinese, Malays, Indians, Eurasians, over a million expats from all countries and in all social classes and four official languages to cater to them all.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Not really. Singapore is on the equator and surrounded by large landmasses (Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Java) on all sides, so it's never in the path of cyclones/typhoons and is shielded from tsunamis as well.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It's not that straightforward. In Thailand, compulsive snacking is a national obsession and you can't throw a rock outside without hitting five food vendors selling delicious food in small portions. Yet most Thais, particularly
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by jpatokal 9y ago
His mother changed their family name when he was a child. He was "outed" during his first election campaign, but this did him no appreciable harm, and the media made a bigger deal of his father having apparently been a low-level
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Yes. Which is why they no longer exist.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Not really: they're almost entirely assimilated now thanks to social & geographic mobility. Some prejudice lingers particularly around the Kansai area, but as one example, being of buraku descent didn't stop Hashimoto from be
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by jpatokal 9y ago
A poll where a majority of the population both votes and votes for statehood.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The PPP ranking reflects local cost of living, which is comparatively low in PR. In nominal terms, it's below NZ and Israel and just ahead of South korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(no
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Indeed. They should be discussing something everybody agrees is important, like the relative merits of various programming languages or vi vs Emacs.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Submitter here. Not my blog post, but glad to see this got some traction! Random memory of a Soviet control room: in the late 1990s, the rave scene was booming in Estonia and I ended up wrangling an invite to a party called "Beast Fea
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by jpatokal 9y ago
You can't fly NYC to Shanghai on a private jet (unless it's a 777 or equivalent, which 99.9% of private jets aren't). This is a real game changer in aviation terms.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
For a more modern yet still dystopian talking-train kids program, check out Chuggington. It's also British, but instead of the Fat Controller, there's "Vee", a disembodied GlaDOS-like female voice who orders the trains
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by jpatokal 9y ago
You can thank planning rules that require large amounts of parking for that.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It is, if you're a billionaire who can afford to buy it.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The FAA does, however, exercise very strict oversight in other areas... The FAA inspector looked at my random drug testing program to make sure that everything was in place. I [a one-man helicopter charter company] am subject to the same d
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by jpatokal 9y ago
> The bodies of modern DSLRs are jampacked with every kind of knob, control, button, dial, and dongle that you can possibly think of. ... But in practice, 95% of users aren't using 95% of these adjusters 95% of the time. Amen. I&#x
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Genuine question: As far as I'm aware, there are no cases where moving to per-second billing would increase your bills, so what would be the point of providing notice?

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