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by jpatokal 8y ago
In Sydney it's also common for builders/management companies/etc to declare bankruptcy to deflect lawsuits etc, then set up a new company to continue business.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The building in question is in Sydney Olympic Park, a relatively sparsely populated area far from the city center that used to be industrial wasteland and is now mostly sports facilities (surprise!): https://maps.app.goo.gl/
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by jpatokal 8y ago
These are companies registered in Hong Kong though, where data like this is easily available, as evinced by the website in question.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Up next, "iron-free" becoming the next dietary fad after low-salt, low-cholesterol, low-fat and gluten-free.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's a good thing the English language is a different kettle of fish that doesn't hornswoggle us blithering idiots while we chew the fat and things go pear-shaped.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You can refuse to pay, but they can still send the bill to collections and wreck your credit. Also, the hospital did actually perform work here, the crazy part is that they're billing the innocent suspect instead of the police here.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
A quick listing of what most of these buildings are: * 1, 2: Edo-Tokyo Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo-Tokyo_Museum * 3: Tokyo Big Sight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Big_Sight * 4,
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Makes perfect sense, the vacancies stay vacant because the salaries are so low!
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If I'm understanding what Facebook did correctly, the Google equivalent would be that whenever you "Sign in with Google" to any website or app, that website/app gets full and permanent read/write access to your Gmai
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> Did partners get access to messages? > Yes. (o_O; ...and every time I think FB can't get any worse, it does. Serious Q: is there a way to find out what services I've ever authorized into using my Facebook account, and nuke
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Don't come to Australia: no opt-outs here, either you submit to the scan or you don't fly today.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
That's incredible. If you zoom in on the tippy top of huge building under construction across the river and then follow the crane cable down to the hook, you can see a construction worker in sufficient detail that you can tell what cl
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There are around 10 major car manufacturers in China, churning out products under a constellation of brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_China
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Yeah nah: Musk does so much off-the-wall shit that any putative PR wrangler would be having heart attacks on an hourly basis. Consider the whole Thai cave rescue/pedophile accusation saga -- do you really think this was a carefully
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by jpatokal 8y ago
And a drug war also encourages manufacturing and selling drugs that are as potent as possible, like fentanyl. The same happened with Prohibition: the underground market was all hard liquor, not beer.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
As a manager, it's far better for you to come to me with a problem than it is for me to hear about your problem from somebody else. (And if the manager is any good, they'll know about the problem already.)
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by jpatokal 8y ago
+1. The fact that HR's involved strongly suggests that OP was messing with something he had no business to touch.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's not about the tech, it's about the politics. If everybody agrees Redis is the way to go, sure, go ahead and optimize it. But what if there's a VP who's been arguing that using Redis is a mistake and you should be
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's worth noting that both France and Japan have a number of high-speed trains that run onto regular track -- although in Japan's case the different rail gauge made this difficult enough that neither approach (dual rails or flex
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> the Saudi government has placed huge buy orders, often in the closing minutes of negative trading days, to boost the market. This sounds quite exploitable. Buy low before the end of the trading day, sell high at the end.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
If this didn't ring a bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_Places
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Onions are pretty fundamental to Western cooking as well, but they're not a staple in the sense that people will starve if they're unavailable, the way potatoes or wheat are.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The Greens voted against it, and do not seemed to have suffered political disembowelment as a result. And yes, I know they're also not in a position to win the next election, but Labor's total capitulation to the Libs here was st
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by jpatokal 8y ago
You may be misinterpreting the sums a bit here. $10m being "comfortable" simply means you can invest that conservatively, earn (say) 3% interest, and spend $300k/year without drawing down your nest egg. And while $300k is o
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by jpatokal 8y ago
And why do you think those interest rates are "very attractive"? Are you by any chance picking up pennies in front of a steamroller? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleb_distribution
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by jpatokal 8y ago
And exactly which utility tokens have real usage today , as opposed to vague promises about tomorrow? As far as I can tell, the primary real-world use case for cryptocurrencies today appears to be money laundering.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Wikipedia's "Visa policy of X" articles should hit the spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Thailand
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Accessible, yes, but you can't copy that information into your own website without a license.
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The autobiography of Lonely Planet founders Tony & Maureen Wheeler gives a fascinating glimpse of this era, and turns into a startup story along the way. Highly recommended for Hacker News readers who also like travel! Unlikely Destina

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