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by jpatokal 9y ago
The hard part is letting them be random instead of forcing them into Adult World schedules. "Johnny, stop having a blast in the beach with the new friends you just made, or their parents might invite us for dinner or something! We nee
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by jpatokal 9y ago
What does accidentally making a wrong turn into the bad part of town and getting carjacked have to do with the original article?
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It depends on the meaning of the word. Agent Orange is both a chemical and a weapon, so yes, it's a "chemical weapon", but its primary purpose is killing trees, not people, and its health effects were largely an unintended c
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The percentage of diesel cars in the EU, on the other hand, is huge: as late as 2015, many large countries like France and Germany had >50% shares. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php&#x2
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Western Australia is separated from farms in the rest of the country by ~1000 km of desert, meaning there are various pests in the rest of the country that they don't want to see introduced, and thus enforce strict quarantine measures:
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Google Cloud Platform in Frankfurt (europe-west3) is live(cloud.google.com)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Google does not censor search results in China and consequently remains largely blocked there to this day.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Not coincidentally, all the Nordics also take a hardcore prohibitionist line to drugs.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If you're planning to withdraw from Coinbase now, you may already be too late: they're implementing 72 hour withdrawal delays for transactions over some undisclosed maximum (4 figures USD?) unless you submit to some fairly intrusi
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The article says 7 venture-backed companies, but this awkward adjective was dropped from the title. Saudi Aramco is indeed much more valuable than the lot combined, but it's not exactly a startup.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
the amount stolen was miniscule (less than 00.07%) although the dollar amount was quite material So this ICO has a valuation in the billions? Sounds quite fishy.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Japanese and Korean are actually fairly similar as far as Asian languages go and may even be related, although that's controversial. Try eg. Japanese<->Chinese or Thai<->Malay for neighboring but completely unrelated langua
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by jpatokal 9y ago
No, that's the top 2000 of the people making over 120k. #2000 came in at around 510k EUR (~600k USD).
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Finland has the same system as Norway, and Finnish tabloids are full of the incomes & taxes of the rich and famous every year once the tax records come out. Last year, one of them published the tax records of all Finns earning over 1
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Did you even read the article? For corporate PR, it's remarkably free of utterly meaningless drivel.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Problem is, Tokyo is among the worst places on the planet to work in terms of both business culture and commuting if you expect to be at home by 6 in time for dinner.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
And what happens when the fixed line breaks, somebody kicks up a little silt and you get disoriented as well? (Which is exactly what happened in the article.) FWIW, I've done exactly one cavern dive, in cold water with low visibility.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The person was working as a marketing manager in her first job, so it was a "a run-of-the-mill professional job" from day one, and she's still in marketing, only with 5x more salary. Then again, her first job was at YMCA, and
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by jpatokal 9y ago
If you liked the story, you'll like this video of 40 years of Japanese street fashion: https://youtu.be/xmsxWmKz-B8
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Airplane interiors experience havoc within the first hour of a flight as the worst of us begin defecating into the seats, too lazy and weak to control ourselves Wait, what? The author seems to have problems with more than just self-drivin
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Excuse my French, but bullshit. Consider Thailand and Malaysia, two neighbouring countries in SE Asia. In Thailand, they opened up markets to car manufacturers and suppliers, with the result that Thailand is now one of Asia's largest
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by jpatokal 9y ago
It's not uncommon for a single avocado to go for A$5 (US$3.90) in Sydney. $3.50/each is the standard price in supermarkets, occasionally 2 for $5.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Did you know they're actually venomous? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus_venom
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by jpatokal 9y ago
They say $1.5M sales last year, so sounds like gross sales.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
My view is that SegWit is a bandaid, not a cure: while it would give Bitcoin some breathing room, it doesn't fix the underlying constraints and is not alone going to solve scaling, hence "muddle through".
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The opposing and (IMHO) ultimately greater pressure is that it's also in miners' best interest to keep Bitcoin alive and successful. It took a long time to hammer out SegWit2x and it's still not certain that it's goin
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The Great Divergence (aka the Industrial Revolution's impact on GDP) is the obvious candidate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence But the population of Europe at the time or even America is only a frac
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Unlike the UASF timebomb, SegWit2x won't activate unless there's 80%+ support, so it's not going to trigger a fork. (Well, technically it will, but if activated the non-SegWit2x rump will quickly be reduced to irrelevance.)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Well, that's a remarkably uninformative announcement. Here's an attempt at a neutral tl;dr from a Bitcoin amateur. Bitcoin is currently suffering from significant scaling problems, which lead to high transaction fees. Numerous p
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This is one of many insane places on Koryo's "Abandoned Russia" tours, which have long been on my bucket list: https://koryogroup.com/tours/84 From $7,300/person, but you'll need to wait until

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