>Prices feel like a middle income country, but that is just the Yen sucking
No it isn't. In purchasing power terms Japan has been, or is about to be overtaken by Poland and Slovakia [1]. This is largely due to demographics and the declining share of the working age population. There is nothing that impoverishes countries more. Gradual decline feels fine for a while, until it doesn't when the bulk of the workforce ages out.
Japan demographic crisis is due to a mismanaged economy where many Japanese leave the country to find work. They are also not interested in mass immigration.
Does this not speaks to the rapid growth of Central Europe economies rather than a decline of Japan? I have read similar comparisons for both the U.K. and Germany vs Poland.
Also, a quick googling suggests both Poland and Japan both have fertility rates around 1.2. Working age of Poland is 65% of the population vs 60% for Japan. So a bit worse.
They are however incredibly loud. Being close to someone shooting 556 with a brake is a really annoying experience and I would not be shocked if there were follow on effects.
“Introduced in 2013, HBase was Pinterest’s first NoSQL datastore.”
I don’t think this is correct. When I started in late 2013 Redis was being used as a persistent data store. And what pain it was. I convinced leadership in late 2014 this was a bad and they had me keep it alive until it was replaced by MySQL in mid 2015.
HBase was nothing but pain at Facebook where it was supposed to replace MySQL and then Pinterest where… I think there was hope it would replace MySQL. Once I automated MySQL at Pinterest I think it wasn’t so bad, particularly given the absurdly limited staff they gave the problem.
I had a (low traffic) app with Redis as the only data store, that we'd periodically dump to disk and copy the dump off for backup. It was... not great for anyone who was used to maintaining a normal web app. And it broke down because the underlying relationships we mostly cared about were, in fact, relational. So you got a lot of duplication / nesting, homegrown hierarchy, or pointers to other areas in Redis...
It's both a particle and a question mark word. [Ta]是外國人嗎?
This is how the question would be asked in the mainland or in the regional diaspora of Chinese speakers where foreigners are few. Where foreigner often is a substitute for the most prevalent non-regional foreigner (i.e. it's not typically used for Malaysian or Thai nationals in China) So for those who come over state-side they don't modify the phrase, they keep using foreigner [外國人] for any non-Asian, even when those "foreigners" are natural born.
They clearly knew that, but was joking about the dual meaning of the question mark and mā as in 妈/mother, which is ambiguous when written out in an English comment where it's not a given why there isn't a tone mark (or whether or not they intent the English 'ma', for that matter).
Before I joined in late 2013, they had not known how to run schema change without downtime. Once we fixed the kernel the db’s were nearly completely untaxed in terms of performance. They did however need large instances due to disk usage.
I am getting a Sub-zero in a few weeks which is damn near the most expensive fridge. It does not have nice pull out shelves or the veggie compartments.
I expect the sealing and ethylene scrubbing will keep veggies fresh linger.
Why does everyone keep their veggies in the fridge, do you buy them in bulk? Basic veggies like onions, tomatoes, cucumber I eat fast enough to just keep on shelves and in regular rotation, and all more special plants are anyway bought for a certain meal in mind so they're used within a day or two.
My fridge does have a veggie section but I use that for beer.
1. Ants, cockroaches, and flies invade one's apartment fairly regularly, and will stay if you leave food for them.
2. Inconvenience of going to a grocery store every day.
3. Unavailability of non-basic ingredients within a short distance of one's home. I can walk to a nearby store to get some carrots or cabbage, but if I want bitter melons, black radishes, or oyster mushrooms, I have to drive to a different neighborhood. And once at a store there, may as well load up and buy in bulk to reduce the number of trips.
3a. Unavailability of affordable ingredients within a short distance. Buying in bulk at a big store gets very tempting when one notices how much cheaper it is per pound. (Alas, one forgets that some of those bulk pounds will wilt.)
4. Unpredictability of consumption. Maybe the toddler really doesn't want tomatoes on the table today. Maybe there is a production outage at work, so you don't have time to cook.
Good points, although you don't have to go shopping every day in any case. Tomatoes last a few weeks, onions and garlic a month or two. Carrots and cabbage are rare enough that I only buy them for specific meals.
I live in a city flat where there is no risk of ants or cockroaches, and even fruit flies are only around in the summer months. So I guess I just don't have the same problems as others.
Yeah, I think both the "why would anyone put vegetables in a fridge" stance and the "how could anyone not put vegetables in a fridge" stance are probably mostly based on lifestyle factors. I walk past two supermarkets plus a greengrocers on my way home from work, so I don't think I've ever put a vegetable in my fridge. But I know people who live in rural areas and go to a supermarket once a week or less frequently.
Also interested in this and also very sad every time we need to leave Taiwan! I've always liked the idea of moving to Taipei though the summer weather does dampen my enthusiasm :D
Prices feel like a middle income country, but that is just the Yen sucking. Otherwise it feels very first world.