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by nandemo 12y ago
Have you tried to get a credit card? It's easier than getting a bank account (some banks will refuse to open an account for you if you have been here for less than 6 months).
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by nandemo 12y ago
For what is worth, I'm not a native speaker but the only one I find hard to read is the top poster. The second poster's typography is stylized but not harder to read than the average handwritten sign or menu. It says 近代乙女心.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Posting paywalled articles used to be frowned upon on HN, but these days it seems to be acceptable.
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by nandemo 12y ago
There are 2 ways to read your question. 1) What's the case for small investors to buy bonds, whether by buying them directly or via a bond fund? In this case, I recommend reading up on Modern Portfolio Theory and Asset Allocation or, i
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by nandemo 12y ago
A company's valuation is roughly the estimated sum of all its future profits until it shutters or goes bankrupt. Most of those 30 trillion assets are deep into the ground, and cannot be turned into profits for free. If you need to spen
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by nandemo 12y ago
They could try and use an alternative form like Cash, Bond, or Banks.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Fair enough.
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by nandemo 12y ago
I'm aware that a lot of projects use perl for the build. But on runtime? I doubt it.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Performance is the least of my worries here. I'd be more worried about security, and plain dependency management. I mean, let's say this libc thing is supposed to be installed in quite a lot of systems, are we really sure that per
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by nandemo 12y ago
Yeah, but there's nothing particularly wrong about rent growing above inflation. A consumer price index is basically a weighted average of prices. Naturally some of these prices will be above the average.
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by nandemo 12y ago
"On Numbers and Games" is a great book but it can be tough. "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays" by Berlekamp, Conway & Guy is a gentler introduction to surreal number. It's also very fun.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Looking at an excerpt in another wikipedia entry, it looks like the metric is based on phonology only: > Demonstrates a comparative statistical method for determining the extent of change from the Latin for the free and checked accented
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by nandemo 12y ago
Lenders won't get their money back. > The government will not refund the companies for their losses.
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by nandemo 12y ago
No. > The government will not refund the companies for their losses.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Looks like that puerto isn't very escondido after all...
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by nandemo 12y ago
Presumably the target is existing haskellers. Basically, "if you use Haskell, here's something to help you use it for shell scripts too". I don't think it's reasonable to assert that Ada "failed" (e.g. it
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by nandemo 12y ago
Not sure about the US but this is more or less what happens in Japan: Brokerages are obligated to flag and report suspicious orders or trades to the [equivalent of] SEC. If necessary, the SEC then asks the brokerage for more information an
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by nandemo 12y ago
See the Bloomberg article linked elsewhere in the comments. In short: 0) the spinout will also run some (non-important) businness and so won't be a pure holding company 1) the spinout is less likely to sell the Alibaba shares and squan
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by nandemo 12y ago
> Most middle aged peole who live in Claifornia west of the I5 and own a house probably have a net worth > $700k. Well, yeah, there are lots of wealthy people in California. It seems like you're saying "it's so norma
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by nandemo 12y ago
Because the numbers aren't the same. In a given year, the number of taxi jobs is pretty much fixed. The number of Uber (or generally, non-regulated) drivers is not.
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by nandemo 12y ago
One of the meanings of "insist" is "persist in (doing something)". That's presumably the meaning intended by grandparent.
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by nandemo 12y ago
The real answer was given by simonh elsewhere in this thread: the comparison is moot since they aren't publicly traded companies. The market is not saying that Whatsapp is worth double of Spacex.
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by nandemo 12y ago
Yes, but they haven't made $4 billion in profits. That's "just" their revenue from the contracts. Compared to a software company, they have huge capex and huge operating costs.
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by nandemo 12y ago
> It reminds of when people were still trading shares in Genentech for years when Roche had an option to buy all GNE shares at a certain price, which they of course did eventually. Why do you think people would stop trading Genentech s
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by nandemo 12y ago
> they seem to be getting on just fine. Maybe they aren't. > Imagine that you've found yourself in Kashgar, the western-most city in Xinjiang, China’s western-most region. Your friend sends you a text message and tells you
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by nandemo 12y ago
Like tinco said, above TCP/IP it's pretty much the same as on your desktop. If you want to know about TCP/IP and below, I suggest this title: "From GSM to LTE-Advanced: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broad
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by nandemo 12y ago
Around weekends, it does matter. E.g., when it's Friday afternoon in California, it's already Saturday in East Asia.
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by nandemo 12y ago
There's a semi-regular HN meetup in Tokyo, but there's nothing scheduled for this week. You can take a look at the upcoming meetups, though unsurprisingly the majority are Japanese-language events. http://hntokyo.doorke
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by nandemo 12y ago
Many do, this one is in Tokyo, albeit not central Tokyo: https://www.google.co.jp/maps/place/Toyotamakita,+Nerima,+To...
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by nandemo 12y ago
The point is that "Japan University" is a mistranslation. The official English name of 日本大学 is Nihon University. A fairly reasonable mistranslation since 日本 is usually rendered as "Japan", e.g. 日本航空 is Japan Airlines.

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