jpatokal

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by jpatokal 9y ago
I'm fairly sure this is the 2010s equivalent of the shoeshine boy offering hot stock tips. Time to sell... https://www.cnbc.com/2013/11/11/is-the-shoeshine-boy-indicat...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
License plate recognition would be harder if they used a proportional font.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
While convenience store food in Japan is far superior to convenience store food pretty much anywhere else in the world (except maybe Thailand!), it's actually somewhat expensive and not as good as what you'd get in Japanese fast f
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by jpatokal 9y ago
What stopped you from testing on yourselves anyway outside the study?
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by jpatokal 9y ago
1) It's already very common for taxis to operate two shifts per day with two drivers. Also, there's less demand in the middle of the night than there is at peak hours.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
That's odd advice- the selection and prices at Dan Murphy's (liquor retailer owned by supermarket chain Woolworths) are far superior to any boutique I've seen, plus they have regular tastings so you can decide for yourself. I
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Bitcoin transaction fees plummeting after SegWit activation(core.jochen-hoenicke.de)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
More precisely, there's a proposal to have a ballot initiative for this in 2018. That's a long way from it actually becoming law.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Emirates has them on the A380: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/01/30/guide-to-t...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Modern business class is a different world. There's space to stretch out, kick back, sleep, food is often served on demand, etc. On more than one occasion I've found myself at the tail end of a 14-hour flight and wishing we were
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by jpatokal 9y ago
"Lane change assist" is already increasingly common in high-end cars. https://www.autobytel.com/car-buying-guides/features/10-cars...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Not sure what's up with the downvotes: that's a harsh but accurate assessment of what it's like to work at the average large Japanese company.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Japan's primary problem, though, is not a lack of skilled professionals (although as someone involved in hiring bilingual IT professionals there, I can assure you that's a problem too), but a lack of unskilled/low-skilled wor
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Quite the opposite. Japan has never had more tourists than today: https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/embed/?s=japantouarr&v... Or more foreign residents: http://stats-japan.com/t/kiji/
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The haze in Thailand is different from the one in Singapore. In Northern Thailand it's locally generated in the dry season around March-April (forest fires plus farmers burning fields on purpose) and considerably worsened by the topogr
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by jpatokal 9y ago
As a data point, Thailand has long had an investor visa program that grants anybody who invests 10 million baht (~US$300k) in property etc the right to live in Thailand. The main catch is that working in Thailand is explicitly not permit
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by jpatokal 9y ago
One popular theory of bullying states that bullies are uncertain of their own position in the social hierarchy, so they attempt to bolster it by pushing down on those weaker than them. http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It's not clear that KYC requirements apply when you're not handling fiat money, which these exchanges aren't. Although I agree with other comments noting that it's pretty ballsy to make that argument if you're incor
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Actually, in most of the world money exchangers are required by law to state if they charge flat fees/commissions/etc on top of exchange rates, and having "NO FEES/COMMISSIONS" is an advertising point. So it looks l
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Because companies that sell advertising, like Snapchat, would love to have all their users stream everything they see.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The one famous non-native xiangsheng master being Dashan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iailMSUVenA
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Japanese humor consists almost entirely of puns. I still remember the first joke I understood on a comedy show on Japanese TV: Tired salaryman comes from after a long day at work, strips off clothes. His wife has prepared a hot bath, so h
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by jpatokal 9y ago
As far as I can trace it, this quote originates from the Illuminatus Trilogy and is actually " True communication...".
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Kanji are not commonly used for any of those words. However, they are typically rendered in hiragana, which is usually reserved only for native Japanese words. Tabako (タバコ、たばこ、煙草) is another well-entrenched Portuguese loan, with partic
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by jpatokal 9y ago
...and a Japanese manju 饅頭 is a fluffy, sweet confection filled with bean paste, close to a Chinese bao but quite unlike the Korean mandu. Mandu, in turn, comes from various Turkic languages, eg. in Turkish they're manti . But in Mon
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by jpatokal 9y ago
For a new grad that does sound kinda ridiculous. Stock is how you retain good performers, but new grads are usually unknown quantities.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This was elevated to meme status by a mention in Jaws , but neither the FDA or the National Fisheries Institute are buying it. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-09-29/entertainment/... https://sk
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The rich get richer: Loonie swaps and altcoin airdrops(gyrovague.com)
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You can apply on server-side restrictions on Google API keys: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/... https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#keysystem The most se
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The Degree Confluence Project is an interesting version of random travel: people visiting arbitrary lat/long intersections. http://confluence.org/

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