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The guide has a section on accuracy but doesn’t talk about having punctuation outside of quotation marks. There’s a world of difference between 1. Please enter the text “foo bar.” …

It’s possibly competition for ASML if it works well. If it makes sense for them, TSMC could buy it and use it to keep doing what they’re doing. The key point is that it’s equipment…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scottish_play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth#Superstition_and_%22Th...

I don't know how much rice you eat, but my experience has been that 1 rice cup cooks enough rice for a modest serving for 2 adults - in our household at least.

In that case I would suggest that Olive Garden Canada didn't "go out of business" (i.e. naturally through business dying off), but was killed intentionally. It didn't die as a resu…

"The mining of rare-earth minerals was at one time dominated by the United States. The People's Republic of China has since come to dominate the market." https://en.wikipedia.org/w…

I listen to Youtube fairly extensively while working, but don't get any ads because I have an ad blocker. I don't even get "you have an ad-blocker installed" warnings...

Rather than the abstract, the legality of a patent is based primarily on the claims. That's what you should be looking at to see if there's prior art. Here's claim 1: 1. A virtual …

You realize the NIMBYs have had the law changed for their benefit? Why did that need government intervention?

The Liberal party is the conservative party. No Conservative party in Australia AFAIK. The Liberal party is broadly social-conservative, pro-business. The Labor party is broadly sp…

the algorithm may be nigh-on unbreakable, but the implementation can always have flaws. Getting crypto right is hard.

One of my Japanese teachers really stressed reading out loud as good practice - you practice reading the piece, you practice saying the words, and you get some listening practice t…

Japanese train drivers have a system that's called Pointing and Calling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling…

#1 There's nothing wrong with TODO comments. Often you don't want implement feature B in full so that you can focus on feature A. Of course you've told your customers that you'll d…

Try accounting for population size before touting universities as a good measure of anything. Try looking up cost of tertiary education and maybe cost of medical care and see who e…

I'm currently working in a patent law firm in Japan, and we make heavy use of Notes to manage work we bill and to manage all the information relating to filing cases and managing t…

The warning in Japan is for as high as 3m tsunamis: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20161122_12/

While the Liberals (conversatives in Australia) have the lower house, they don't have the majority in the upper house, making it more of a house of review than a rubber stamp. The …

There's a lot to be said for going for a 3-day hike in the wilderness, even if you're accompanied by a parent. Going with a scout group usually means that you wont be relying on th…

I presume there's a difference in manufacturing between these tiles and normal tiles. I also presume there's CO2 costs involved in manufacturing solar cells that aren't present in …

2) Does that include the carbon cost of manufacturing, distributing and installing the tiles?

I've always thought of it as playing second fiddle to JAL. That's changed after JAL had to go through a lot of restructuring, but it's mostly been these two companies. There could …

> On March 10, 1945, one of the last paper balloons descended in the vicinity of the Manhattan Project's production facility at the Hanford Site. This balloon caused a short circui…

CSS is only 40 bits, which is ridiculously easy to crack. 56-bit DES keys are pretty unsafe these days, so you want at least 128 bits if you're talking private keys. If it's using …

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