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by sho 9y ago
The article doesn't mention anything about the author's visa? For indonesia you can get a VOA for 30 days free or 60 days for $50 but you can't stay longer than that without an APEC card or a KITAS (work permit - hard to get)
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by sho 9y ago
> Developers would rather die than spend a dollar on any product That's just silly. I'm a developer and I have spent plenty of money on good products that help my work. Hell, literally today I dropped $30 on a word processor. A
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by sho 9y ago
Well that's unexpected! I'm aware that Oracle has a few features pg doesn't, and replication is supposed to be easier, but at extraordinary cost and with the added bonus of supporting one of the worst companies in tech. I don
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by sho 9y ago
Your list makes no sense to me. PostgreSQL is a poor product with noticeably superior competitors? This is - how should I put it? - a niche opinion. And besides, popularity is its own quality sometimes. NPM might not be the "best"
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by sho 9y ago
Matt Barrie (founder & CEO of freelancer.com) wrote a far lengthier and more detailed essay on this a week or two ago, which has kicked off this latest round of navel-gazing: https://medium.com/@matt_11659/matt-barr
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by sho 9y ago
> some closely timed transfer from another source Often when different lines meet the tracks are organised such that the trains pull up together on either side of a platform: a so-called cross-platform interchange[1]. The passengers on e
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by sho 9y ago
> other than that which is necessary in a democratic state ruled by law Well the thing is that is open to interpretation. You can define anything as "necessary". From what I have heard the typical "foot in the door",
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by sho 9y ago
> (Every government on earth) plans to use face recognition to track (everyone) through airports Fixed it for you. I know for a fact at least 2 asian countries which are either actively using or trialling this, and not just at airports.
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by sho 9y ago
The number of people I know who would trust their domestic helper to do the kind of things the OP mentions is pretty low. They're maids, not PAs, and they are not generally here because of their outstanding educational attainment and b
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by sho 9y ago
The article specifically mentions the positive outcome of the arrangement - the young woman's confidence has improved, destructive behaviour stopped, bullying stopped, and she has the father figure she obviously needs at this critical
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by sho 9y ago
It's a very approximate list! But since you mention it.. the migrant issue is an outlier I think. It's shameful, but an outlier (I'm Australian btw). Generally we mostly do a decent job. Manus Island makes my blood boil, bu
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by sho 9y ago
You make good points. Encouraging closer two-way ties might indeed do what you say. It certainly might make your "death to america!" chants a little less enthusiastic if half your country's pension fund was invested there. &q
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by sho 9y ago
I kind of agree with you, but I think you muddy your argument by getting into the weeds somewhat. For me this whole thing is pretty simple - where do you draw your line? I mean, off the top of my head here's a rough list, in my extreme
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by sho 9y ago
> It's not actually innovation, if it doesn't work Well it's not going to be innovation even if it does work. The technological progress of a hundred years and hundreds of billions of dollars of continuous refinement in av
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by sho 9y ago
He's the guy for whom the Sapir-Whorf hypotheis - that the languages we use can themselves shape what we say and even how we think, an idea I think is 100% true. Which brings me to one of my favourite scifi epics - the Culture series,
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by sho 9y ago
> Surprisingly mathematical and theoretical knowledge was rarely discussed Sounds like some direct parallels there with the software industry. I think I have heard CS stuff mentioned precisely once in the last decade, ironically by someo
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by sho 9y ago
> you don't just walk up to people and strike up a conversation I'd like to know what world you live in where this is any kind of option. Maybe "my introvert is showing" but I don't even consider doing this. Is t
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by sho 9y ago
Indeed. Not to mention that the article entirely fails to make its case. The whole premise of the system seems to be to eliminate fraud in a universal hotel rewards scheme by tying points to payments by ethereum. Not only does that require
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by sho 9y ago
Chinese and Indian troops clash all the time! Most recently is the "Doklam" dispute [1] where they share a border with Bhutan. Last I heard they were literally throwing rocks at each other (not a joke). There's no love lost b
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by sho 9y ago
Taiwan could certainly be a flashpoint but it's something China would be choosing to do. And... well, I'm no expert, but I just don't see it happening, not in the foreseeable future. Not only because the PLAN simply doesn&#x2
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by sho 9y ago
> Military spending as a percentage of GDP is down to pre-WW II levels No it's not[1]. As a % of the total budget it's around 16%, which is huge. And furthermore the appropriations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are mostl
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by sho 9y ago
> A COE-type scheme introduced in a city without high quality alternatives (such as Sydney or Los Angeles) would cause the immediate fall of the government Well of course. It's a huge undertaking which would have to be executed over
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by sho 9y ago
> more fantasy than anything else You got that right. This will never happen.
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by sho 9y ago
I think that many asian cities have the right approach here. Treat cars as a luxury good in a space-challenged context and tax them heavily, while making sure to provide a world class public transport system so as to guarantee no-one actual
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by sho 9y ago
> the Chinese navy only has one relatively small, foreign made aircraft carrier You know what's better than aircraft carriers? An island!
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by sho 9y ago
> They're doing this because of the oil in the area It's not really about the oil, if it does exist. It's about control of their eastern border and access to the pacific ocean, especially in the context of all the neighbou
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by sho 9y ago
> Your characterization that the 737 is a 50-year old airframe and wouldn't compete with the CS300 is entirely inaccurate. Of course the 737 has been updated over the years but it's still fundamentally the same frame and has nu
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by sho 9y ago
In order to have a valid complaint, Boeing had to identify a "Domestic Like Product", which was indeed the 737-700 and 737 MAX 7, capable of carrying 126 and 138 passengers respectively, comparable to the C300's capacity. Tha
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by sho 9y ago
Boeing is playing an extremely dangerous game here and they just keep on doubling down. They have an awful lot to lose if other countries, especially the EU, start to think they've crossed the line. A lot of people think their manageme
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by sho 9y ago
> a way to start conversations around it and then upsell customers to one of Airbus' existing narrowbodies The USA, more than most other countries, has plenty of "thin" routes between minor cities that can only be profitab

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