jpatokal

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by jpatokal 9y ago
There are children being born right now in Cambodian garbage dumps, in North Korean gulags, with heroin addictions that immediately turn into withdrawal, to religious nuts that will knowingly give birth to horribly sick children that will
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by jpatokal 9y ago
No, see, the revolution created the one true revolutionary state that's a perfect expression of the People's Will(tm), so any attempt to have another revolution is clearly counterrevolutionary sabotage by lackey capitalist runni
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Monaco: Doing the math on an ICO where the house always wins(gyrovague.com)
1 points by jpatokal 9y ago|0 comments
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by jpatokal 9y ago
That's the conviction rate after going to trial . Prosecutors can and do drop charges if they don't think they have enough evidence to convict, and the police are also reluctant to record crimes they don't think they can so
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by jpatokal 9y ago
One other thing worth mentioning is that gaming companies work famously punishing hours, Japanese companies work famously punishing hours, so unsurprisingly Japanese gaming companies work really punishing hours... and Konami is infamous e
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by jpatokal 9y ago
You can request early access to any of GCP's upcoming regions: https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/ --> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc8eJiKN4tu6CNPyFpA...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Google has had a dedicated data center in Singapore since Dec 2013. https://www.google.com.au/about/datacenters/inside/locations...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This is a country whose diplomats sell bootleg liquor and use diplomatic pouches to smuggle crystal meth, so, yes: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11...
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Necessary context for the above: Tsukiji is old, decrepit, and absurdly located in the middle of central Tokyo -- it's easy walking distance to Ginza. For decades now, they've been planning a move to a larger site on reclaimed
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I have $12M in Bitcoin I want to give away(reddit.com)
63 points by jpatokal 9y ago|26 comments
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The Internal Conflict Threatening to Break Bitcoin in Half(slate.com)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.
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My workplace has eliminated e-mail and is asking clients to fax instead(reddit.com)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The article's point is that virtually all of this tripling was due to Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, not anything she did.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Last I checked, the reason India's coal power plants were running at 60% was not because of lack of demand, but because fixed prices make it uneconomical to produce coal and the government monopoly Coal India is utterly incompetent and
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How to lose $8k worth of Bitcoin in 15 minutes with Verizon and Coinbase.com(medium.com)
8 points by jpatokal 9y ago|1 comments
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Uber already has a partnership with SPG (Starwood Hotels). Catch an Uber, get hotel points; catch an Uber while staying at a SPG hotel, get even more points. https://www.spgpromos.com/uber/
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Sure, but that tiny portion still supports the bulk of the airline and hotel industry, and (I suspect) a very disproportionate share of Uber's business.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Where in Australia are you, and what company did you use? In both Sydney and Melbourne, all the hire cars I know of cost more.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Private hire cars are not a realistic alternative to Uber or taxis in most cases, since they generally have to be booked well in advance. In Australia, they're also significantly more expensive than taxis.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
You're ignoring that businessmen who travel all the time are very heavy users of Uber and similar services. I'm not even a frequent flyer, but I'd estimate that a good 80-90% of my Uber usage is travel-related. At home, I ha
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by jpatokal 9y ago
These used to be a highlight of the year, but this year's kinda falls flat. Even some of the stats are absurd: "94% of all cloud apps are not enterprise-ready per Netskope" (p190) What does that even mean? Apparently that y
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Um, Twitter is still not making a profit and their 2017 business plan seems to consist primarily of layoffs.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
This year's market for IT is around $3.5T, and the pie is still increasing. Public cloud grabbing a quarter of that by 2020 seems entirely feasible. http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3482917
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by jpatokal 9y ago
That exact anecdote is in the friendly article, with better spelling.
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by jpatokal 9y ago
The Siege of Malta or the Christan/Ottoman conflict as a whole is generally not considered a shining light of graciousness. During the Siege of Malta, both sides bombarded each other with human heads. A few years later at the Siege o
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There Was No ‘Golden Age’ of Air Travel(nytimes.com)
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by jpatokal 9y ago
Bitcoins are saving this Venezuelan guy's family from starving. I'm pretty sure that qualifies as value: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6d2w1b/bitcoin_is_... This is not to say that
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by jpatokal 9y ago
"POG"?
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by jpatokal 9y ago
His point is that people are investing in blockchain technology like it's the next Microsoft/Facebook (read: headlock on a monopoly source of thousandfold profits), when it's actually more like Canonical/SuSE/Red Ha

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