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There is (used to be? I'm not sure anymore) a Maps office in Tokyo too.

AIUI it's owned by Chris, and Kenji is a fan, but doesn't have any ties other than that.

I desperately wish there was a "Turn off for five minutes, I'm dealing with dumb corpsec auth stuff" option.

>Is it standard practice at both Apple and OpenAI for employees to use their personal icloud account for work? Yes.

Perhaps the fact that we’re having this discussion on HN shows the kind of media I’m likely to consume, but I’ve never seen it used in the latter sense. TIL, I guess!

"Public company" is a very specific thing; the BVG is state owned, but very much not a public company.

I didn't read that post as saying "there is no racism in France/Britain/Netherlands thanks to their past"; I understood it as "the _kind_ of racism there is _different_ than the on…

They're usually private companies owned by the cities.

Or you became a Berliner. (There's a small part of me that wishes I could've naturalized as a Berliner, not German — many (though obviously not all!) things I love about it are rea…

There's no way to say this without sounding like an old crank; but I think putting down your phone when on the U-Bahn and just reading the news and/or ads on the little in-train sc…

It's both true and untrue. It's true that finding appointments can be difficult if you just open the website once and see a calendar with no available slots for months; _but_; ther…

Good thing it has a three digit price then!

Did you actually read the license? > If the Licensee or any of its affiliates operates a Model as a Service business, and the aggregate revenue of the Licensee and its affiliates e…

You might get more helpful responses if you ask a more specific question.

I genuinely can’t tell - you’re aware that this is a standardized form factor, and they didn’t invent this just for this particular device, right?

The bath intercom always cracks me up. I’m sure it makes sense in bigger, maybe multi-level houses; but I can’t imagine myself ever using it in my 2LDK.

This is… literally the only surface that stoves in this form factor have?

“A whole earthquake” is a very funny way to phrase it when it comes to Japan. That building has withstood tens of smaller ones before that big one, they’re just _incredibly_ common…

I can personally guarantee you that the average Japanese コンロ does not have a heat output that would require 15kW of power to match using IH. And that’s before we get into the safet…

I’m genuinely asking here - is climate change thought to have influence on earthquakes? I wouldn’t have expected so, but maybe there are some non-obvious pathways for it to be the …

It started as a Twitter account during the Tohoku 2011 earthquake, and then subsequently became a “real” service; the IP owners for the Eva agreed to let them use it going forward.…

They could have been further away from the epicenter of the previous ones, or the previous ones weren't strong enough to cause that specific structure to collapse, the previous one…

For a long time "live with earthquakes and build accordingly" meant "make it easy to rebuild", not "engineer the structures to withstand the earthquakes".

There's plenty of old buildings here that are not built up to the latest standards; increasing exponentially the further you get from the core of a big city. Japan is _very good_ a…

Pretty funny that I off-handedly used Malbolge as a random pull from my brain for “an extremely weird and not-really-but-kinda programming language” without even really remembering…