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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 ("The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf",
by astrange 3y ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20237878 ("The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf", 118 comments)
All the comments here attributing Japan's ability to have a chalk factory to basically Orientalist culture reasons are disappointing.
(In most of the reasons Japan and America are different here, America is the weird place, not Japan.)