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lazylizardon Shwe Kokko is accused of being a city built on scams

???

singaporeans are definitely not "not permitted" to gamble.

i suspect you mean the thing with the casinos. singaporeans can enter, though they have to pay an extra fee. and besides the casinos, singaporeans also bet on 4d, toto and football in betting shops all over the island.

lazylizardon Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese

how to quantify "by and large"? there's not many chinese people outside china and most of them left china in the last 100 years in search of better lives.

and usa and singapore are rich?

lazylizardon Japan plans to sell rice from emergency stockpiles to cut prices

lets count!

Japanese ppl eat 50kg of rice per capita per year?*

price of 1kg of rice in tokyo $4.33**

so rice expenditure was $216.50/year? now up 60% to $346.40? a $130 increase?

the poorest 7% of households made under 1m yen?***

so thats about $6500? so a 2% or less hit to all but the poorest 7% of Japanese households. median is 4-5m yen..lets pick 4.5m for convenience..so around $30k..n $130 is less than half a percent of household income.

i don't know where's the threshold for rounding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228187/japan-per-capita...

**https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/prices_by_city.jsp?ite...

***https://www.statista.com/statistics/614245/distribution-of-a...

lazylizardon Free Web Hosting Area

oracle gives 4 cores 24gb ram 200gb disk and 10tb egress free?

gcp gives 1 core, 1gb ram n 1gb bandwidth?

azurewebsites.net is free forever? php only no db?

fly.io supposedly 3 x 256mb instances free?

lazylizardon Free Web Hosting Area

5gb infinityfree

1gb awardspace

1gb zettahost

1gb googiehost

512mb x10

5gb profreehost

1gb freehosting

250mb freehostia

lazylizardon Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers

theres 2 kinds of hotels?

hotels that overcharge bay area customers, and hotels that overcharge other customers?

lazylizardon Singapore is turning to AI to care for its rapidly aging population

it still costs less than 10yrs of median income though..

lazylizardon Ask HN: Best way to keep a legacy website?

ipfs

lazylizardon The trap of "I am not an extrovert"

it is work. i have to think very hard. to talk strangers.

not least i prefer to write.

and so its a choice.

lazylizardon Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

isn't syncthing on android dead?

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-androi...

lazylizardon Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees

raising a kid to 18 costs how much?

stopping a career and foregoing 18 years of promotions cost how much?

governments are just mucking about with the garnishings and ignoring the meat of the matter.

but then maybe they cant afford it, either. hah.

lazylizardon Australia Struggling with Oversupply of Solar Power

why not shutdown the GPU clusters training large models at night or when its cloudly, and powering them back on when its shiny and windy?

lazylizardon Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

abs is really a quite weird choice as a cooking spatula material?

Its glass transition temperature is approximately 105 °C (221 °F).[4] ABS is amorphous and therefore has no true melting point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styr...

lazylizardon Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

ok this is far more informative n coherent

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004565352...

"This study sought to determine whether black plastic household products sold on the U.S. market contained emerging and phased-out FRs and whether polymer type was predictive of contamination."

and they do say its mostly abs, followed by hips , then pp; and do not say anything about other colors and other materials, plastic or not.

lazylizardon Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

so black silicones and rubber don't use the same pigment or flame retardant? or they don't leach out?

lazylizardon Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

its clearly a plastic? polyamide?

lazylizardon Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid

im lost. whats a plastic? silicone is not plastic? why specifically black plastic? which black pigment? all black plastics use the same pigment?which plastic? is black silicone ok? how about rubber? other colors with same flame retardant is ok? or somehow only black (all plastics?) use 1 particular flame retardant?

its strangely specific yet strangely vague?

lazylizardon When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective

the question then is how many sd are you away from median?

lazylizardon Carbon Sequestration by Recycling Cement, Aggregates, and Concrete

why not plant trees then build wooden houses with them?

lazylizardon Using static websites for tiny archives

https://linux.die.net/man/1/tree

will list your directory tree as a html file..helpful?

lazylizardon Secureblue: Hardened Immutable Fedora Images

opensuse..tumbleweed..transactional server

lazylizardon Tell HN: Firefox has madea lotof progress. Let the browser wars continue

how can i install plugins for any/all the users as root on my computer, instead of installing them per user?

or for that matter set default settings? like use of doh or proxies?

for any browser actually.

lazylizardon Japan loses No. 1 spot in powerful passport rankings

um. singapore is small and rich. its easy to give access to any and all.

if u got 1.4b population and...er...lower gdp/capita... then its harder to convince people to let you in.....

lazylizardon Singapore plans to execute man over 1kg of cannabis

and the risks and difficulties and higher prices result in the vast majority of the population not dabbling in drugs. thats good enough of an outcome.

lazylizardon China’s BYD is overtaking Tesla as the carmaker extraordinaire

re: nokia vs apple

lazylizardon Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in intimidation scheme

russia? dunno

china? easy. 1 billion people lifted out of poverty. life is good now unlike 30yrs ago.this is the best government in generations.

lazylizardon Bosses want hard workers, so they’re hiring older people

we also like to hire people who can..er..hit the ground running..need less coaching less supervision and so on. everyone has their own shit to deal with and nobody wants to manage kids.

lazylizardon Is it my fault if you can't handle the truth? (2019)

on occasion i give up trying to impose truth and instead give them enough rope to hang themselves with. encourage them instead. but it feels to me really bad form to say “i told u so” after shit hits the fan..so i avoid doing that.

lazylizardon The lights wink out in Asia

i mean.

china hasn't finished its paused independence war yet...

china is still butthurt over the burning/looting of its buckingham/versailles/whitehouse...

maybe it just took a pause from the tang/song/ming dynastys? and does think the 9-line is its pond...

it might be like...what would congo do to belgium if it could?

lazylizardon Less Than Nine Percent of Western Firms Have Divested from Russia

all that the eu and usa have achieved is to enrich the arabs.

whats ridiculous is they're trying to force everyone else who is not european or american to do the same.