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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Anyone having problems playing Chinese podcasts?

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

The Elder Scrolls Blades – E3 2018 Trailer (iPhone X Demo)

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www.tolonews.com 8y ago

Girls Robotic Team Wraps Up Successful Tour Abroad

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

100 stories that shaped the world

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www.japantimes.co.jp 8y ago

Monk sues temple at Mount Koya World Heritage site over heavy workload

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www.japantimes.co.jp 8y ago

Evidence that Malaysia’s Najib received 1MDB funds was ignored, panelists say

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github.com 8y ago

List of diversity (mostly gender) articles, websites and resources in tech

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www.cbc.ca 8y ago

Deep-diving 'sea nomads' have evolved an internal scuba tank

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blog.oursky.com 8y ago

How many dev shops do code diagnostics as a service?

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whatkillsinnovation.com 8y ago

Soul of Design-Thinking

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Video showing Tokyo's JR Yamanote Line trains during rush hour

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger

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m.oursky.com 8y ago

Lean project management

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usa.streetsblog.org 8y ago

Why Sweden Clears Snow-Covered Walkways Before Roads

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

Bari Weiss and the Left-Wing Infatuation with Taking Offense

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joel.is 8y ago

I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing

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longreads.com 8y ago

The Great Stink

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catapult.co 8y ago

Adventures in Coffin Making

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roadmunk.com 8y ago

Ellen Chisa on how product prepares you to be an early-stage startup founder

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www.theatlantic.com 8y ago

The Social Contradictions of Japanese Capitalism (1998 June Issue)

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randomwire.com 8y ago

Why Japanese web design is so different (2013)

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www.nytimes.com 8y ago

Iceland Makes Companies Prove They’re Not Paying Women Less

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www.nationalgeographic.com 8y ago

What's in a Lichen? How Scientists Got It Wrong for 150 Years

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sadhedgehog.com 8y ago

Practically Redesigned: British Train Ticket

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

These kids started a book club for minority boys. It’s the most popular club

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m.oursky.com 8y ago

This email helped me turn my internship at a startup into paid employment

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Hong Kong and Japan has a directory too. The best way is to have LGBTQ colleagues say you are. Voices from trans, women, people of colour, and folks with disabilities will count for more.

Show actively that you have policies such as gender neutral washrooms or benefits for same sex partners.

And if you have no lgbtq colleagues and are a really open company, It should reflect in your language. The really inclusive companies are obvious to those who are looking, such as what terminology you use, how your recruitment team phrases hiring copy, what Twitter accounts share.

I've spent the better part of the last ten years relocating.

The list of things you learn can grow long and every country is different.

My big tip is brace yourself for the admin and settling in. Admin as in basic things like getting official ID, social insurance registration (if applicable for that country), registering with the local city office. These are tedious, confusing, and sap all the excitement out of moving. Settling in is simplified with the tip below about moving with less.

But nonetheless, every little thing becomes big; for example when you get a flat, do you need to notify the various utilities departments to turn things back on? Where do you get furniture?

As boring and frustrating as it sounds, and hardly a welcome to the city, just take it in stride and every new way of doing things as a learning rather than "how much something doesn't make sense here". It's a one-off setup (at least if you stay), and you'll have plenty of time to make friends after. You might even be making friends with colleagues pretty quickly if you ask them for help moving furniture.

Good luck with the move and adventure!

> In practice, they're often frustrated for years by the lack of infrastructure to work on their ideas, but live with it because life is good.

Definitely heard this problem for Silicon Valley returnees to some smaller markets.

Correct. I've used Netflix accounts in Canada, the US, Taiwan/HK, Japan, and the UK. They all have different content. But access the content is tied to the account's home region rather than your location (at least for the short term on trips).

Wow. Love the Ctext categorization. Wish I'd known about this during undergrad. Wengu's nice too with the line by line translation.