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by redcap 16y ago
I've heard of trucks being equipped with black boxes to ensure that employees aren't slacking off on the job, but that's the 1st I've heard about cars. Wouldn't surprise me though.
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by redcap 16y ago
My dad always said that "x is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure". I tend to take self-professed "experts" with a grain of salt.
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by redcap 16y ago
I read this on Monday and thought it would be of interest to the HN folks. There seems to be a real lack of information in English (either that or I'm not looking in the right places). I have seen people asking about this kind of informat
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Start-ups in Japan - some basic data (email newsletter)(japaninc.com)
3 points by redcap 16y ago|1 comments
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by redcap 16y ago
Will Power is my friend as well - water here too. I stick away from caffeine apart from the occasional tea. I figure that if I really need the boost it'll affect me more because I'm not a regular user. Only downside is that 2 teas gives m
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by redcap 16y ago
China has been stockpiling the rare elements for some time now. They're necessary for a lot of high-tech goods, and would be very useful as a trade lever. Regarding the embargo on Japan, it was seen as a response to the recent territorial
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by redcap 16y ago
Do you think that maybe the documents Jin had was perhaps confidential information that was not supposed to leave the office without permission? I'm sure ordinary businessmen don't need to take reams of confidential information with them un
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by redcap 16y ago
Completely agree - brevity of thought make for a punchy article that is better to read and more likely to have an impact. The three main killers are (1) passive voice, (2) long words and (3) jargon. If you can write something that avoids th
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by redcap 16y ago
Can you comment on your ability to successfully restore from backup? I know of organisations that diligently back up their data, but fail to regularly check that they can restore from backups.
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by redcap 16y ago
It's been a while since I've touched awk, but I've certainly got a lot of use from it when ripping data out of logfiles and using it elsewhere on the command-line. I can recommend this text file of awk one-liners: http://www.pement.org/awk
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by redcap 16y ago
It's not so much that it's an SQL injection attempt, more so that it's an attempt through paper, which is the same as the Little Bobby Tables one.
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by redcap 16y ago
The problem I see is that it was all spent on construction work, and in particular white elephant construction work, which just had a temporary input. I would argue the result would be different if the investment had been in new fields if t
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by redcap 16y ago
Feature request: a way to get to the original video so I can share it. Got an awesome video for "doctor who", but I can't find it on youtube.com
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by redcap 16y ago
I highly commend this article if you haven't read it. Utterly fascinating and well-wrote.
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by redcap 16y ago
And more pointedly, who remembers the name of the astronaught who stayed up in the command module? I think his name was Collins, but I was a science/history buff as a kid. I can't even remember his first name.
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by redcap 16y ago
energy := c^2 // convert mass to energy Looks like it's missing some mass.
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by redcap 16y ago
Do you mind if I side-track a little and ask people's opinion of 3D in general? I've seen two movies in 3D in the past year - Avatar and Toy Story 3. While Avatar was fun, and Toy Story 3 exception, I didn't feel that the 3D really added m
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by redcap 16y ago
Red meat certainly takes a lot of energy to produce, and may well be environmentally beneficial to cut it from your diet if that's your thing. Personally I stay away from beef because my genes have decided that I have more than enough iron
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by redcap 16y ago
What are you bagging your steaks in? Paper bag? What setting are you using? Cook or Warm?
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by redcap 16y ago
I'm getting marked down for no reason woot. I guess because I didn't really extrapolate? Fact is, software really hasn't spread as far here as you might think. Case in point: my home university in Australia was doing online class enrollmen
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by redcap 16y ago
Japanese companies are very good with hardware, but the innovations these days are more often than not in software - which they are explicitly not good at.
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by redcap 16y ago
I'll second that - in addition to my home university studies, I spent a year on exchange in Japan where pretty much all I did was study kanji and vocab - because we had at test on the 1942 kanji called necessary. As it turns out I aced the
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by redcap 16y ago
I'll upvote anything, me! Well, near enough to. It's a smaller list, sure but the first two pages only went back 29 days - I can remember a post several months back being very useful, no idea how long it would take me to find it again. If
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by redcap 16y ago
I think I get that - any story that I upclicked or commented is a "saved story"? It's nice to have I guess, but not really the stories that I explicitly wanted to save. I upmark HN stories that I think other people would be interested in r
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Suggest HN: Saving articles feature request
6 points by redcap 16y ago|10 comments
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by redcap 16y ago
I guess I'm OCD in the fact that my Gmail tab is always my far-left tab - I know exactly where it is. It's the only Google feature that I really use (apart from Reader on my phone), and I'm pretty fussy about where I type passwords in.
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Indian entrepreneur creates low-cost tampon(globalpost.com)
3 points by redcap 16y ago|0 comments
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by redcap 16y ago
That's the rule as it stands. As it's interpreted, small breasts = appears underage for the most part. The issue has been widely reported in the press as either a small breast ban or Australian demanding large breasts as indicated upstream
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by redcap 16y ago
For those who don't get it, women with A-cup breasts are banned in Australian pornography.
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by redcap 16y ago
Regarding nursing here, the video makes the point that Japan values racial homogeneity to the point that they will let robots take care of their elderly. The flip side of the racial side is that despite bringing in approximately 300 Filipi

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