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by xya3453 9y ago
The artificial islands are in response to the US holding the first island chain [1]. Without a foothold in the South China Sea, China's military and economic access to the outside world is at the mercy of the US. This is the same reaso
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by xya3453 9y ago
Van rental is $40/day. Leaves a budget of $60/day for fuel, food and fun. Quite easy if you prepare most meals yourself and limit purchases that are prohibitively expensive in Australia, e.g. alcohol, cigarettes, taxis, restaurant
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by xya3453 9y ago
Thankfully affordable co-working spaces offering a quiet environment with high speed internet and dedicated work spaces are abundant.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Seems ingenuous to compare digital nomads that are flying around the world several times a year to commuters who never take vacations or fly for business.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Both countries are still incredibly culturally significant, they've just traded their authenticity for whatever tricks draw dollars. Thailand for example has been a hedonistic paradise for several decades. Full moon parties, rampant pr
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by xya3453 9y ago
That is Roam's entire value add. The large majority of digital nomads are looking to find likeminded individuals with the same constraints in the same foreign city as they are. Similar to hostels when backpacking. If you want to be int
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by xya3453 9y ago
Neither Portugal or Thailand have been authentic cultural destinations in decades. What you see as "gentrification", they see as "progress" and a prerequisite to future tourist dollars. Borneo, Myanmar and rural Cambodia
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by xya3453 9y ago
Out west (the outback) is used on the east coast, but unlikely linked to the the cardinality.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Europe does not value software or developers anywhere near the levels the US does. Other developed economies e.g, Australia, Canada and Singapore are closer to the US but still trail behind.
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by xya3453 9y ago
It's a perfect example of "doing things that don't scale", an immediate UX improvement and differentiator in the sea of password managers.
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by xya3453 9y ago
The enormous value that the technology provides is anonymous, distributed consensus. It enables digital asset ownership. It enables self-organising permissionless networks. It enables humans to organise and transact without any central auth
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by xya3453 9y ago
While facilitating buying goods and services is a positive, the largest benefit to global welfare is in the invention of the blockchain.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Taxis are only quick in the UK because everyone else is using public transport. In any undeveloped capital you're forced to use a taxi (or unregulated alternative) to travel any significant distance. Getting anywhere can take hours (tr
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by xya3453 9y ago
The cities are where all the autonomous weapons of mass destruction are.
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by xya3453 9y ago
The US public sector is actually middle of the pack [1]. 1. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/PublicSe...
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by xya3453 9y ago
> Social Justice Unicorn. Genderqueer. Intersectional feminist. Work for @Google but opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/them/their This is Alon Altman's (@epsalon) current Twitter bio. How would you read the original inte
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by xya3453 9y ago
It's not unrelated, to quote your original comment: > If you're a white male conservative Google engineer who feels oppressed and leaks such details, maybe the best thing for you to do is question your belief system that's
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by xya3453 9y ago
To be fair, promoting gendercide is not even in the same ballpark as only supporting heterosexual marriage.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Sure it can, if a vegetarian friend of yours said "If you want to increase your health remove all the disgusting meat from your diet", would you read that as them saying that all meat is disgusting or just the occasional piece?
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by xya3453 9y ago
I believe the original text was "If you want to increase diversity at Google fire all the bigoted white men" — this can be read as either all the white men at Google are bigots, or that Google should only fire bigots if they are a
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by xya3453 9y ago
Welcome to SV. It's becoming increasingly common within tech, even more disheartening is the complete authoritarian shutdown of discourse around the issue. See your sibling post for a perfect example.
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by xya3453 9y ago
No, but it does lead to the incessant infighting as described in the article. That behaviour then leads to firing people.
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by xya3453 9y ago
This is what diversity looks like. Diversity of political and social ideals.
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by xya3453 9y ago
https://as.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/7s9b9p/tesla_al...
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by xya3453 9y ago
Apparently the driver of the Tesla didn't have time to react to the firetruck as their field of view was obscured by a large pick-up truck that changed lanes seconds beforehand. If Tesla's autopilot can't detect upcoming stat
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by xya3453 9y ago
In the countries you mention, individual apartments don't have numbers, but are rather identified entirely by the name(s) of the occupants. If the parcel is not addressed with your name you won't receive it.
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by xya3453 9y ago
Plausible deniability.
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by xya3453 9y ago
A marriage isn't comprised of gender-neutral actors.
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by xya3453 9y ago
This is rising equality in effect. The path to financial independence has opened up to average American women over the past 40 years. Marriage rates falling suggest that American women tend to exhibit (or feel pressured to follow) hypergamo
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by xya3453 9y ago
> It's a cash grab which will expose their users to poorly-understood risks and will likely not put anyone on a more stable financial footing. That's already the case. Their entire user-base is comprised of naive stock market i

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