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by z2 6y ago
For the associates at the firm, while not making 7 figures [1], their salary is probably OK to justify working weekends, compared to other similar-paying industries (investment banking comes to mind). 1: https://h1bdata.info&#x2F
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Cleaning Station(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by z2 6y ago|1 comments
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by z2 6y ago
Not saying the trend will continue, but brain drain isn't a new phenomenon to Taiwan specifically, with a reported one-tenth of Taiwan's semiconductor engineers not just working mainland companies but living there too. Despite ris
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by z2 6y ago
A 5-digit Bates Numbering Machine that I use to stamp all my notebook pages like a mad person! The machine was, from all I could gather, made in the early 20th century, near when plastic was invented and replaced shellac. Each notebook page
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by z2 6y ago
Similarly, in the US, most condo associations are restrictive, and would forbid hanging anything outside a window or balcony, on aesthetic and safety grounds. Installing things on the roof would likely be off limits too, unless you own excl
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by z2 6y ago
Yes and no on the language argument. Written Chinese, sure, but Taiwan's Fuzhou/Hokchew-based dialects are far from the Cantonese of HK and neighboring Guangdong/_Canton_. These dialects branched apart very early, about 2000
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by z2 6y ago
I've always wondered, does using a PIN make it both safer for the consumer and merchant, but also make it harder for the consumer to argue fraud? With my signature-only card, it's easy to receive the benefit of the doubt from the
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by z2 6y ago
Debt to me is just something that buys time by making things immediately available. I think it's healthy only if it supports real growth. For a person, if they need money now to buy an education, home, or other thing that will be put t
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by z2 6y ago
Same, despite what people have been saying on gaming reviews, I found the best coverage through Europe in terms of local reviews for smaller places. There were even heated arguments with the owners on how a particular dish was mangled or no
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by z2 7y ago
TTS aside, there's a Braille display integrator from Google called BrailleBack that could be used. Then again, many Braille devices have input support too. I'm sighted but I've considered getting one to play around with and l
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by z2 7y ago
From the armchair--I think China is rather hard to govern, and if you study its dynastic history, most existential challenges tended to come from popular revolts from within. Also, the Republic of China's Nationalist Party-led governme
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by z2 7y ago
> when china shutdown domestic movement into/out of Wuhan they kept open international movement into/out of Wuhan The first result I found on Google says the airport was shut down to all departures, along with all public transi
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Genomic Epidemiology of HCoV-19(gisaid.org)
2 points by z2 7y ago|0 comments
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by z2 7y ago
I currently do something like this with a cheap thermal printer. Aside from apparent environmental issues of thermal paper, it is really great to print out these short, portable, and disposable materials on a whim from my phone (Bluetooth)
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by z2 7y ago
Can't speak to 2-4, but on 1., there seems to be research suggesting early epidemic growth can actually be quadratic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27266847 Specifically, it notes that "Sub-exponential
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by z2 7y ago
Agree, and if I may add, I think cars are worse because their primary function (transport) hasn't changed nearly enough compared with that of phones (voice calls into computation/information-at-fingertips). Therefore, it's ha
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by z2 7y ago
As a casual cyclist commuter, I can coast probably 100 meters after stopping pedaling. It's not the slowing that is hard though, it's the anxiety of needing to exert a lot of effort to get back up to speed. From that angle, I&#x27
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A Uniquely Japanese Take on Nostalgia(bbc.com)
1 points by z2 7y ago|0 comments
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by z2 7y ago
Interestingly enough a video was just uploaded today on a printed Tesla pulsejet engine that incorporates a Tesla valve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28XbT11lL24
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by z2 7y ago
I'd give the fingerprint guy the B-Unit Android App, which only takes a static QR code as input. Others could send him a screenshot, and get the log-in approved remotely.
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by z2 7y ago
The Chinese name 港幣 may be confusing for Chinese speakers as it's already common short hand for HKD, e.g. the "二十塊港幣" shown on the Kong illustration already means "twenty HKD bucks," not some new currency like &quot
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by z2 7y ago
My understanding is that Mr. Zhang is a different person from Mr. Chen.
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by z2 7y ago
According to Chinese nationality law, dual citizenship is impossible for people who naturalize under another country. As a matter of law to the Chinese government, they would lose their Chinese citizenship automatically, to be enforced any
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by z2 7y ago
Good point, the ones at airports could more readily support passports, as opposed to a street-side authorized (or grey market) shop. More recently I've used Google Fi, which has the benefit of roaming on both Unicom and Mobile dependin
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by z2 7y ago
Always roam when in China for short trips. The way cellular networks work is that roaming plans tend to route back home, so that your access is unfiltered. The plan could affect foreigners but it was hard for years already, in that most cel
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Quality of Nationality Index(nationalityindex.com)
2 points by z2 7y ago|0 comments
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by z2 7y ago
Surprisingly it isn't mentioned what the characters mean at all. Most of the non-decomposed characters are martial arts related: 功夫 kung fu, 武術 martial arts, 空手 karate, 道場 dojo, 氣 qi/ki (air), 流 flowing, 安 peace, 康 health, 極 the &
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by z2 7y ago
I think their understanding would be focused on the encoding for their language and a relatively narrow set of problems. I've encountered name issues in CJK countries that keep names in native encoding due to an assumption that full na
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by z2 7y ago
Also don't assume people can't have the same first and last name (Norwegian Air...). When their website failed to book my ticket, a customer rep told me to put NAMEMR as my first name. This then led to my ticket showing NAME MR MR
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by z2 7y ago
UChicago 2011 here as well, except actually class of 2010 because I couldn't afford to keep paying the tuition as my parents were both unemployed due to the financial crisis. I remember the financial aid office saying they could use th

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