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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
The only puzzle here is why the author of this story thinks these jobs are any good. Maybe because the journalism job market is so shitty that reporters actually think $50k/year is a great salary, and living in the midst of more chicke
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
As I understand it, insurance companies can't really offer plans that cross state boundaries. Best thing is probably just to buy individual plans for each employee. Or you can tell your employees to buy their own plan, and send you the
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
This type of language is called a Turing Tarpit: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
I lived in Cambodia for a couple years, and my wife and daughter were born there. It is, as you say, a different universe. I agree that most people in developing countries are not jumping to iPhones anytime soon (although they all want one,
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
Sort of. There are two other numeral systems I know of that are still being used: Chinese (used in Chinese, Japanese, and to a lesser extent Korean) and Khmer (used in Khmer/Cambodian, Thai, and Lao). Literate people in places that use
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
You don't mention buying an apartment, so I will assume you meant "rent a house or buy a house" rather than "rent an apartment or buy a house". I know that in some places, choosing whether to rent or buy also means
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
It's the same in the US.
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
There weren't any landmines at all in Cambodia until at least the early 1970s. Most of them were placed in the 1980s.
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
We kind of already do. For example, there is the INTO (interrupt on overflow) x86 instruction, which calls an interrupt if the overflow flag is set. Nobody ever uses it, though. Probably because it saves you nothing over just using JO (jump
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
The diversity visa lottery is worth a shot. The odds of winning are worse than getting hit by lightning, unfortunately. In the same vein as the L1, you could try the B1. For your purposes, both of these look kind of dodgy to me, though.
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
It's sort of an accident: the inventor of ML (which SML, OCaml, and F# are descended from, and Haskell has liberally borrowed from) is the "Milner" in Hindley-Milner type checking, and algebraic types are one of the things that make Hindley
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
So is there no string.concat or whatever in Go? It seems like the answer would be appropriate for some number of strings not known until runtime, but for two strings specifically it must be overkill. Is there specifically some standard libr
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by tsuyoshi 13y ago
I don't think this is entirely accurate. I used to live in Seattle, and my parents currently live in Redmond (about a mile from Microsoft), but virtually all of the people I know in that area have nothing to do with Microsoft. It's dominant
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
Well, for one thing, inflation doesn't cause bank runs. Even if you suppose that inflation is really an asset tax, this tax in Cyprus has just been evaded by anyone who's been keeping their money stuffed under the mattress. Greece, Italy, S
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
Technically, a B1 is what you would want rather than a B2. But I wouldn't worry about it. Entering at the border, don't say you will be starting up a company.
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
I lived in Cambodia for a couple years, and I strongly agree that most problems are related to education and health. Having grown up in the United States, where malaria, cholera, and typhoid were essentially eradicated before I was even bor
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
It's a nice sentiment, but I must quibble with one assertion: "Everyone knows how to behave in a library." I can say from experience in many libraries that not everyone understands library rules. There's an old stereotype about black people
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
I'm not too familiar with Python, but the semantics of Python described here match every other language that I can think of (including C). Can anyone give me an example of a language that is actually call-by-reference?
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
This article only covers the elite "specialized" schools, which are not the only decent option in New York. There are also the "screened" schools, where admission is based on grades and attendence, not to mention the "audition" schools, whi
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
I don't know what your criteria are, but I have some experience with this. I lived on Honshu Island for 5 months, Penang Island for 2 months, and Manhattan Island for 2 years. I recommend all three. The pitfalls: 1) the islands are somewhat
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
I never have hidden my email address, and I've never used a spam filter. I used to get a lot of spam, maybe 50 messages or so a day. Back when I got that many, I was sort of motivated to set up a spam filter... but I still never got around
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
If anyone else is like me and wondering what he's talking about, here's a description from one of the victims: http://bitcoinmedia.com/compromised-linode-coins-stolen-from...
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by tsuyoshi 14y ago
Actually, there was a Google site in 1997, at google.stanford.edu.
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
Some employers say they want a BS. But it usually just means they didn't consider that CS BA degrees exist. Hardly any employers ever actually verify you have a degree at all. Usually the ones that split hairs over this stuff are places you
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
It is not legal. That is precisely why Apple, Google, etc. are being sued.
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
Their service has always been poor, so I never used them in the first place.
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
Finance is a big draw for sure, but financial companies have a really bad reputation as places to work. Every hacker in New York understands that finance pays well, but otherwise sucks compares to every other place you might work - hours, d
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
You must live in a low cost area, because you're overestimating the rent in high cost areas. I live in New York City (Manhattan, even) and believe me, you can get a one bedroom for less than $2000 a month (in Manhattan, even!). And certainl
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
When I lived in Cambodia, even when I was in areas where malaria was not common I still used a mosquito net every night, because being bitten by several thousand mosquitoes is not conducive to sound sleep. And I got malaria anyway.
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by tsuyoshi 15y ago
Right, so energy can be substituted for arable land. But I wonder if the real limit to human population is mineral-based, rather than energy-based. Every person needs a certain portion of different minerals: calcium, iron, potassium, magne

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