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by quant18 16y ago
Red is not a uniformly positive colour in any of these countries. For example, in China (and in Japan too, I believe), writing in red is traditionally associated with death threats. And I don't know of any social network using a reddish col
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Aladel.gov.ly: laws of Libya online (Google Translate link)(translate.googleusercontent.com)
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by quant18 16y ago
More relevantly than Sharia, here's the actual text of Libya's anti-pornography/prostitution law (in Arabic), Law No. 56 of 1970 "On the Protection of Public Morals": http://www.aladel.gov.ly/main/modules/sections/item.php?item... Nothing
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by quant18 16y ago
Women over 103 and men over 98 are not included in Japan's life expectancy statistics. So most of the fake centenarians will simply have absolutely no effect. This was repeatedly pointed out in the Japanese media when this scandal came to l
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by quant18 16y ago
Nosotek's price list: http://www.nosotek.com/pricelist.pdf Obviously someone out there thinks 1600 euros a month is a good deal for two guys who cannot IM you when they run into a mind-numbingly common blocker. Or that the internet conn
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Regulators Looking Into Role 'Quote Stuffing' May Have Played in Flash Crash(online.wsj.com)
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Survey Says: Genetics Affect Whether We’re Willing To Take Surveys(news.ncsu.edu)
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by quant18 16y ago
Is there really any language which completely lacks words for left and right? At minimum, people want to distinguish their good hand from their bad hand, or the side of the body that has their liver from the side that has their stomach. I c
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by quant18 16y ago
I get quite suspicious when a linguist claims that there's some language where you can't possibly give directions by reference to your body orientation. What's more likely is that giving directions that way is stigmatised very strongly, so
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KDD 2010 paper: Versatile publishing for privacy preservation(home.gwu.edu)
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by quant18 16y ago
Its analagous to taking pictures of people in public. Its in public . .. I know that laws may be different in these various countries - I'm saying that this _shouldn't_ be illegal if it is Well, since you bring up the photography analogy
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by quant18 16y ago
Hilarious timing by Yonhap (S. Korea's public news agency) --- they reported this morning, just as the raid was about to begin: "Google ranked #1 as foreign company people want to work for" (in Korean): http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/economy/
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by quant18 16y ago
The problem in Hong Kong is that business setup is not equivalent to residency permission. The Companies Registry will let you fill out your lawyer's office or even your friend's uncle's plumber's address on your business registration certi
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by quant18 16y ago
I got my job in Japan through the DISCO Career Forum while I was still in grad school in the US: http://www.careerforum.net/event/?lang=E It's primarily oriented towards current Japanese students who are trying to return to Japan after th
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by quant18 16y ago
I'm rooting for HKBN (the guys making this broadband offer); even if you're nowhere near Hong Kong, I hope it warms your heart too to see an entrepreneur taking on slow-moving, incompetent, overfunded competitors. The extended back story he
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by quant18 16y ago
My favourite Amex customer service story is closely related to this expat edge-case theme. I was flying back to Hong Kong from a business trip in Japan. I'm a citizen of a third country, but live in HK. The Japan Airlines desk agent, and he
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by quant18 16y ago
To be fair, the ActiveX encryption requirement only applied to domestic credit cards. If you were paying by foreign-issued credit card --- even if you were buying stuff from a Korean shop for delivery within Korea --- it was perfectly legal
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by quant18 16y ago
The nice thing about living in Hong Kong is that most of these stupid edge cases have been sanded out of the system already. Probably because they doesn't just affect immigrants, but "local" people too (the 10% of the population who emigrat
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Training Examples, a StackOverflow clone for machine learning(metaoptimize.com)
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South Korea stops requiring ActiveX for online banking and shopping(online.wsj.com)
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Rejoice Ngwenya: The folly of African entrepreneurship(nehandaradio.com)
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by quant18 16y ago
Answer: the article's author has absolutely no clue, so he's going to incorrectly repeat some irrelevant, half-understood anecdotes he got from people in his Rolodex, and pull the reliable old hand-waving trick of blaming it on poverty with
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by quant18 16y ago
Can't speak too well for other cities, but in Hong Kong, up until very recently, no one besides hedge funds and grad schools had interesting programming problems to work on. So if you wanted to be surrounded by good hackers, you either wen
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Dialect geography and social networks(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by quant18 16y ago
53% of the time, Hong Kong-based sources of pollution are to blame. Primarily cars idling in traffic, boats (which don't have to use low-sulphur fuel), and CLP's filthy power plants (which are worse than some in Shenzhen and Dongguan) http
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by quant18 16y ago
random link dump: Beijing air pollution statistics by district http://www.bjepb.gov.cn/air2008/Air.aspx
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by quant18 16y ago
Yep, it's similar over here in Hong Kong too, though a bit more complicated and the directions are different. When you go up north of the Kowloon Peninsula into the mountains, there's a lot of commuter towns built in valleys, where you can
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by quant18 16y ago
Not quite Snow Crash here. And is he really "first"? There must be a baby somewhere who swallowed a wireless flash drive.
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Richard Sproat's "A Computational Theory of Writing Systems" (ebook)(cslu.ogi.edu)
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Short list of web-based prediction APIs(mark.reid.name)
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