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by princeb 9y ago
Depends. The most popular engineered wood for furniture is MDF, which from the name ("medium density") you can imagine is not too dense and not too light. The solid wood choices I thought were really beautiful for furniture (for t
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by princeb 9y ago
the article alludes to something else: > Humans violate the rules in a safe and principled way that there are a lot of unwritten rules when it comes to road behaviour that traffic regulations does not fully capture.
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by princeb 9y ago
the world is way more random than video games. in general most games reward effort with a small set of known outcomes, and for online RPGs and the like, the more effort (time) spent, the more rewards one can get. in real life you could spen
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by princeb 9y ago
ok hands up who actually enjoyed MVVM architecture?
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> The #1 deciding factor in the investment of films over $10M is not the script, not the director, not anything else - it's the actors that are involved. so you're saying actors are not commodities? > What matters in film is
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Are there no carbs in Europe? Wheat, barley, corn, rye?
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> it is not as diversified Singapore is not only more diversified than the US, it is the most extreme case of religious diversity in the world [1] [1] http://www.pewforum.org/2014/04/04/global-religious-div
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by princeb 9y ago
the downmodding seems a tad unfair, given that the article also made a reference to size being an advantage: > Singapore is also very small, and the population may be healthier in general than in some other countries. It’s a little easie
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by princeb 9y ago
short answer: no, China was not a partner to the TPP. long answer: getting a multilateral trade agreement with nearly all of China's trade partners in Asia-Pacific will influence trade standards in China, but not to the extent that Chi
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> I don't think they feel the need to project power and remake the world the way the US and previously the UK do/did they already do. China wields strong economic influence and pressure over her southeast asian partners, some o
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by princeb 9y ago
uber is pretty much useless in zone 1 since the roads are too narrow and the traffic too extreme. you could literally take a leisurely walk from the british museum down to leicester square garden faster than a minicab. black cabs have the b
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by princeb 9y ago
the Fed has an explicit dual mandate [1]. the two mandates are inflation AND employment. not all CBs have two mandates, and if they only have one, not all CBs target inflation. [1] https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=dual+man
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> Having to cater for only 8 million people surely helps why is having fewer people more advantageous? to take that to the logical extreme, does a healthcare system that only caters to ONE person make sense? will it be cheaper than a sys
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by princeb 9y ago
A number of Chinese businesses are setting up 100%-Chinese factory compounds overseas. These compounds are located in a foreign country, but they are fully financed by Chinese, built by Chinese, employ only Chinese, have accommodation for t
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by princeb 9y ago
> those companies you mean the people who work to build the structure, the teams, the lines of reporting, the buildings, the equipment, the products, the provision of sales and customer service, the management of all of these... they don
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by princeb 9y ago
i tried getting into it when alpha accounts went free to play. if all you have is about 1-2 unscheduled hours a week you could not find a worse game to play.
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they will create a rapidly evolving and flourishing entertainment industry, of which globally, america has the largest. this in turn boosts growth in related industries fashion, marketing, online retail, and of these the US is probably also
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by princeb 9y ago
when i'm in the office, i leave my phone on the bay to charge. i don't literally use my phone while charging, but i do pick it up from time to time to check notifications and then put it back on the bay. so it pretty much charges
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by princeb 9y ago
capital gains is the leftover of profit after tax. taxing capital gains is taxing profit twice. in my opinion, for a clean treatment of value taxation, either corporate tax or capital gains tax must go.
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by princeb 9y ago
This and the other MB announcement come at interesting times. Both these companies are slightly on the back foot in Germany. BMW supposedly took the strategic route of redirecting investment into electric a while back. they already have the
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by princeb 9y ago
Over the last few years BMW strategically chose to shift investment away from their current line-up into their electric line (and I think Germany's and Europe's charging infrastructure, which they have a standard for and are backi
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hmm... no? I think you can hit ctrl-d or some shortcut like that to go straight into the code of the function that you are interested in, and it can be functions written by matlab.
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the matlab documentation, imo, is the best technical documentation ever written for anything. if your background was more math-heavy then the docs provided easy to understand translation between recognizable mathematical idioms into code (i
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by princeb 9y ago
the #1 issue i have with py on win is having to download a million different C++ compilers esp for packages not distributed on pip, and esp the more obscure ones with no support whatsoever (e.g. data processing or math packages that were pu
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by princeb 9y ago
B2B is kind of an odd place. some B2Bs started out doing one thing and then end up doing all kinds other random crap that clients just decided they rather have one team managing a whole project rather than spread out over 200 vendors and co
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by princeb 9y ago
melbourne and singapore are also seeing these problems. long story short, there are twats in every country. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/obike-responds-to-crit... https://vulcanpost.com/60
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v interesting, from another article: > The insurance must be bought by homeowners with federally-backed mortgages living in the most vulnerable areas, called Special Flood Hazard Zones. ... People in those areas and near them have compla
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by princeb 9y ago
in these places, alternatives definitely exist. addison lee, hailo, ola, grab, didi, some traditional cab companies also have their own hailing app.
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by princeb 9y ago
yep. you can believe that you have a chance to never live to a ripe old age and then never make long-term plans. this means: not saving up for a family, not having a family in the first place, not committing to a profession, business, or a
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by princeb 9y ago
it will when afghanistan becomes the USA's 51st state. (or maybe 52nd after NK)

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