So, are wealthy foreigners allowed to build their own house in Canada (after procuring the land, permits etc)?
(Just asking whether it's theoretically possible).
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yeah why not just store those here :)
(Just asking whether it's theoretically possible).
Based on my understanding, RPM is directly proportional to the amount of money you make.
So, how does a lot of views from India cause a lower RPM?
In the post the author even says this:
> When I see my RPM drop suddenly, it is usually because my videos are being watched a lot in India
Like, say you have a billion views, and 200 million of those views were from India. Would your revenue be higher if those 200 Indian views never happened and your total views was only 800 million instead?
Why does Indian viewers cause this? I mean, they too see ads, right? Or is it because in India it costs less (??) to put up an ad?
What's winter like in Japan? Is it freezing?
What I use for a similar purpose is something I hand-rolled myself that does what I want. It isn't as feature rich as yours, and I could never have come up with a polished UI.
Excellent work!
Just a couple of things:
1. I don't think there's any official conspiracy by Indians in general to screw over Americans.
So kindly don't put out poorly thought out responses calling for blanket ban on Indians or things like that.
2. Indians themselves get scammed by these scammers.
That's all. Carry on.
> Alas there doesn't seem to be any in Asia
Abu Dhabi — a place with pre-clearance which I've been talking about — is in Asia :)
However, if you intend to travel to Eastern part of Asia (Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan etc) going via Abu Dhabi is inefficient; from LAX it's 15 hours to AUH, and then 10 hours to NRT. Direct LAX to NRT is just around 12 hours.
Okay, my post inadvertently makes it sound like AUH is the only airport where those facility is available, but I'm aware it's not :)
Actually, I just searched and found a list of airports outside the US with pre-clearance facility at https://www.cbp.gov/travel/preclearance
Also, I think similar strategies have been adopted for verifying the contents of containers (as in, container ships) to ease the traffic at destination ports in the US.
Like, they verify the containers at the source port and lock it (using some kind of high tech mechanism to prevent tampering).
Don't know too much details though.
For my specific situation, Etihad usually ended up having the most favorable travel duration, connection time, arrival and departure time, price etc. With Etihad, it's about 4 hours from my hometown to Abu Dhabi (AUH), and 15 hours from there to LAX.
It only took me a couple of to and fro journeys to get the silver card status. And by next year I was a gold card member, with lounge access in Abu Dhabi and Los Angeles. It was hilarious because I was only making a couple of journeys a year.
Also, I see comments here about the TSA screening situation.
Did you know that there's a US customs & immigration + TSA counter at Abu Dhabi?! If you're traveling to the US from Abu Dhabi, you have to get all the immigration processes (passport/visa verification and other stuff) done from the American consular officers at Abu Dhabi [1].
On your passport, the port of entry will be marked as AUH.
And the aircraft will fly as a domestic flight into the domestic terminal of your destination in the US. No immigration procedure in the US because it's already been done before the flight.
Multiple advantages to this:
1. If you anyway have a connecting flight to the US at AUH and have a couple of hours of waiting time, you can get the immigration process done whilst waiting for your connection.
2. (Convoluted logic follows) If for whatever reason you're denied entry to the US, in my case atleast, I would only have a 4 hours return time back to my hometown, as opposed to a 24+ hours of return time if I were denied entry once I physically reached the US. That's after traveling 24+ hours to get there in the first place. Cheaper and more convenient for everyone involved.
3. After your 15 hour flight to the US, you can take your luggage and walk out instead of having to go through the US immigration and customs processes when you're tired after the long journey.
[1] https://www.abudhabiairport.ae/en/services-and-facilities/us...
My employer uses Google Sheets with app scripts [1].
It automatically reads emails, updates a bunch of spreadsheets, makes other API calls, creates entire report documents etc.
The initial setup might take a while though.
A few years ago while casually wandering YouTube I stumbled across a video [1] of a young girl explaining that her cancer is at a point of no return.
Her name is Sophia Gall and she's from Australia.
Apparently, she had cancer previously and underwent treatment. Unfortunately the cancer recurred.
In the video she's pretty much scared, crying and hopeless.
She did mention she'll be traveling around. Eventually, there were videos of her from Paris and a few other places. She seemed pretty cheerful then.
Months — maybe a year — later I remembered her and seeked her YouTube channel. From the comments on her latest video that was released several months before, I learnt that she passed away.
In her last few videos, apart from the physical pain she was surprisingly composed. Like, she had accepted her fate.
I don't know why I said all that here. That whole thing about Sophia had thoroughly moved me.
[1] https://youtu.be/yWiIyvQaNiQ
(While searching for her video, I discovered that there's a whole bunch of youtubers with cancer.)
I'm highly familiar with India. So, keep the following in mind:
(All of this is w.r.t European cars in India; situation is different for Indian, Japanese, Korean, and American car companies)
1. Cars manufactured in India (including Mercedes/BMW/VW/Skoda etc) are set up for right hand drive (steering wheel is on the right, and cars are driven on the left side of the road).
2. For high end brands you don't get as much configuration options as in Germany; limited choices with interior materials and colour. The flip side is, the time from booking a car to its delivery is relatively short, provided you buy a model that's relatively widely sold. ie., a Mercedes C200 shouldn't take too long to deliver. But the AMG models might take longer.
3. German cars are crazy expensive in India.
4. For most German brands, the parts are imported from Europe and assembled in their plants in India (this is called the "CKD - completely knocked down" route). Would be inefficient to then move that car back to Germany.
5. Higher end German cars (like, BMW M models, Mercedes AMG models etc) are directly imported into India from Europe. Direct imports have extremely high taxes. Again, would be inefficient to ship it back to Germany.
However, I find subscriptions super annoying for things that already exist in its entirety and doesn't cost the service provider anything to give more of.
Something I find unacceptable is the subscription situation coming up in the car industry:
Some examples include:
* BMW heated seat subscription [1]. The entire hardware for the heated seats is already in the car!
* Mercedes horsepower subscription [2]. Again, the entire capability is in the car. It's not like Mercedes sends the souls of horses OTA into your car after you subscribe.
Other manufacturers are also guilty here.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/12/23204950/bmw-subscription...
[2] https://www.kbb.com/car-news/mercedes-launches-rent-a-horsep...
> how to remove?
Consider switching to Linux.
Upon reading your comment, I casually looked up its economic stats and on first glance nothing jumped out at me.
So, what's wrong with Portugal?
Curious about this. Could you please elaborate?
Like, the differences in lives of a software developer in, say Toronto and San Francisco (other than salary)?
Just curious.
What matters is where these competent people want to go.
When people want to leave, that means there's something lacking at where they are currently.
My opinion is that every place must create an environment where their best brains want to stay there (without being forced to, of course!). The whole world could be better due to that.
You're correct. It's straightforward for pilots. They can quickly read a NOTAM and understand everything.
Also, it's pretty standard and unambiguous worldwide.
As for the specific example you provided, today is your lucky day! That exact example has been decoded on Wikipedia here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR#North_American_METAR_c...
So he probably didn't sign up just to make this video.
Clueless about the Amazon Flex part (never heard of it, and I'm not in North America).
It's artificial, no matter how good it is.
When people die, I accept that they're gone and move on. I don't want to cling onto what is effectively their ghost.
Not the worst thing to complain about.
Things that ought to be easy should be easy, so that time can be spent on solving hard problems.
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is an example of something easy made deliberately hard. Thousands of people had to search for it (it adds up in the aggregate).
And not only that, now there's mundane debates around whether or not it was a bad idea (such as right here, but also in the linked article). Further waste of time.
Could've all been avoided.
Pretty sure every year there's thousands of unnecessary search requests for this nonsense.
Programming languages are tools. Make it as easy and straightforward as possible so that its users can build whatever it is they were building with the least amount of friction.
> There are two reasons this term will stay. It is a tip of the hat to the amount of PHP work that came out of Israel
Funny because PHP — particularly theearlier versions — isn't exactly considered an example of good language design (though it has vastly improved recently).
> but you google it once in your life and then you ‘forget’ about it.
Negative. I had forgotten what it meant. All I remembered was that I've seen it years ago and was annoyed back then.
> And if you can’t remember the meaning of something like that, I hardly doubt you’d be a decent programmer anyway.
That's just, wrong on so many levels. Anyway, I'm just happy they didn't say anything like "people who screw up colons shouldn't be coding"
Globally, I'd say Japanese cars had a pretty good run.
However, they — Honda and Toyota atleast — seem to be hesitating with the EV transition. It's not like they don't have the engineering prowess.
For a person like me, is HTDP worth it? I had started with it previously but I found it a little boring. But I know the book is well regarded so I'm wondering if I should take another shot at it.
Or should I go straight to SICP?
I'm not that close to Qatar, and I suspect not that close to you either.
I'm in Asia btw.
There's plenty of wealthy stealthy people around, who put a lot of effort into their business and not necessarily into themselves.
They'd fly right under the radar.
The following may not be a perfect example of the above, but just read up on the late Thomas Murphy and Daniel Burke ("Tom & Dan") of ABC. I find their no-nonsense no-bullshit down-to-earth frugal approach to business inspiring.
Target is a supermarket chain in USA. I assume Bestbuy is also something like that.
In my browser (Firefox on Android) if I type "tar" it auto-suggests completing the url to "target.com". Useless to me because I'm nowhere close to USA and there's no Target in my country.
Speaking of which, maybe they should have a separate list of autocompletable sites based on the user's location. However, I'm not sure of the privacy implications of that.
Anyway, I think I'll purchase the book and see how it goes.
> For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org
I already have over 4 years of professional software engineering experience (mostly backend web development). And before that I've been coding as a hobby for like 8 years prior to that. I'm pretty good with C, python, and PHP, though I'm familiar with plenty of other languages. I also know a little bit of Haskell.
For a person like me, is HTDP worth it? I had started with it previously but I found it a little boring. But I know the book is well regarded so I'm wondering if I should take another shot at it.
Why would a superficial similarly to "MIT" be any be useful?
Any potential student should be able to look past that.