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All the best to you Jake


btw, there was once a consular official who worked at the Japanese embassy in Kenya, whose name was Mr. Kuma Moto. Every time he was introduced, it was hard for folks to suppress their laughter as the name literally meant "hot vagina" (in Kiswahili the noun goes first)


I guess Kumamoto prefecture is popular with Kenyan tourists then?

I guess it'd be like if there was someone who worked at the Russian embassy in Japanese and was named Mankovich because it would be rendered as マンコビッチ pussy bitch.


In some varieties of Spanish Mr Kuma Moto would be Mr. Machete Motorcycle”


seems like the Kumamoto oysters might prove a popular appetizer there


Rabin-Karp algorithm is also a fun one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm


Notice how this is stolen content? Nigerian blog stealing The Economist content.


The Economist is a Veblen good; most people can only afford knockoffs.


I once had the delivery list of the subscribers in my city, because the postman accidentally handed the list to me, and it was the wealthiest families of the city, a university and the embassies.


Yikes - fixed now. Submitted URL was https://businessday.ng/life-arts/article/the-secret-economic.... Thanks!



where's the black bar on HN @dan?


Apparently he passed away on February 26th, so the black bar could be misleading.


I second the call for a black bar. We wouldn't have any of this (gestures vaguely at everything) without this dude.


But you can only put in $10K


You can only put 10k into I bonds (current rate 6.89%)

You can put massive amounts into TIPS


“You're not a wartime consigliere, Tom. Things may get rough with the move we're trying.” --Michael Corleone, The Godfather

Said to Tom Hagen when firing him.


Not Microsoft BOB? :)


Microsoft Bob sold around 58K units, or a whopping 500K% more than the subject of the article. Make of that what you will...


I was also wondering why the date says 11/24. Feels like old news.


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