jpatokal

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by jpatokal 8y ago
Out of curiosity, why do your eggs come in polystyrene containers? Most of world uses cardboard.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I don't understand the bile here, nor the alternative. Today there are no .dev domains, so anything is an improvement: today you can't use them, tomorrow you can choose to if you think it makes sense. Re: price, say the .dev re
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Well, either it's a sockpuppet conspiracy (go ahead, check out my post history), or multiple people agree that your hyperbolic snark was not constructive. I'll freely admit we've come a pretty long from Amazon's HQ thou
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Not all farm animals in Australia are free range cows. For example, cage eggs and sow stalls are still legal.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There is indeed a Google Cloud Platform region in Sydney, but that's for GCP customer data only, not consumer Gmail etc. There are no "main" Google DCs in Australia: https://www.google.com/about/datacent
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Most people are quite happy to keeping buying cheap factory-farmed meat and dairy, despite vague awareness of the generally horrific conditions of the animals (and humans) producing it.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There are a bunch. This looks very low-tech, but is completely free and kinda fun for a while: http://www.airline-empires.com/index.php?/page/home.html This is much more slick: http://www.airlinesim.ae
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Heroku Postgres doesn't support external replicas, which complicates migrations out considerably. If you can't tolerate more than a few min of downtime for writes, you pretty much have to build the replication at the app level.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> *We can end poverty right now simply by making the rules of our global economy fairer for the world’s majority (I describe how we can do this in The Divide, looking at everything from wages to debt to trade). Well, that's a pretty
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by jpatokal 8y ago
For us Twitter casuals, can you explain what a "slam dunk quote tweet" is?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If accepting BTC was raking in dough for some merchants, you would expect more merchants to start adopting it. However, it appears that many merchants who did accept BTC in the past no longer do. Or put another way, can you point to some s
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Actually, foreign nationals on work visas can't exit even with a valid passport if they don't have an exit permit: https://www.justlanded.com/english/Saudi-Arabia/Articles/Vis...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Stripe, Steam, Expedia and Microsoft all stopped accepting BTC last year. What new mainstream merchants replaced them?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I'm the author of http://untether.space , so I'm well aware of that, but it's not clear to me what connection this has to increasing tx volumes?
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I was about to ask you to explain that upward trend in the light of bitcoin transaction volume collapsing... but interestingly enough, it's been on a pronounced upward trend again for the past quarter: https://www.blockchai
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Yes, that's pretty much what the friendly article says: > “If we’re already in the time-is-money mindset, we can reframe our leisure time as something that enables us to be more productive in the future,” says Whillan. “When we’re
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I was at the Hoover Dam recently, and I was struck by how Socialist Realist (read: Soviet) much of the original art looks: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GTQxcVtVKhgTURsG9 My favorite structure is probably the improbably Star Wa
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Wealth is not a zero sum game, but more importantly, valuations are not actual money -- they're just what the company would cost if you bought the whole thing at the same price as the last investment. If a company has a down round,
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QuadrigaCX death debacle gets even weirder(micky.com.au)
1 points by jpatokal 8y ago|1 comments
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Actually, this article sounds like a negotiating ploy to extract even better terms. "Give us more discounts or we won't come!"
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> Spoilers: Google has an interesting solution in the works. This appears to be a reference to Google's universal Noto font set, released in 2014: https://www.google.com/get/noto/
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Are you by any chance confusing premium economy and VA's Upper Class? (Which is basically business class on other airlines, if not first.)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Not so: while the 747 is notionally faster in terms of maximum speed, most modern large jets all cruise at March 0.85. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-truths/which-passe...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I'm surprised to hear you say that, since I find the two very different. 747s are much noisier (unless you're up top) and have less humidity & cabin pressure, making them materially less comfortable on long flights. Also, m
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The Igor Naming Guide: Creating the Most Powerful Name in Your Space [pdf](igorinternational.com)
1 points by jpatokal 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Out of curiosity, how (if at all) is the address you give when registering an .eu domain verified? What's to stop people living in the UK from giving a spurious EU address?
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Cloud market share Q4 2018 and full year 2018(canalys.com)
1 points by jpatokal 8y ago|0 comments
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by jpatokal 8y ago
I had the misfortune of eating here last week, with some colleagues visiting from mainland China at that, and unfortunately the food is Panda Express level crud. It's still very much American Chinese food for white people, just in fla
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That works if your target audience is English speakers. However, the main consumer of pinyin is Chinese in China, where it's ubiquitous for glossing the readings of Chinese characters, either because some people can't read them,
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by jpatokal 8y ago
But why are they paying him a cash stipend instead of expensing against receipts? Or is this meant to be more of a cap on how much he can spend on all that monthly?

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