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by Grue3 7y ago
Back when we didn't have good hygiene, we had Spanish Flu and Black Plague. It's hard to imagine such massive outbreaks these days in developed countries.
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by Grue3 7y ago
Except Hachiko exit is nearly impossible to find because Shibuya station is so labyrinthine. Once I followed the signs to it and ended up in a large hall with signs pointing in 4 directions, neither of which mentioning Hachiko exit.
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by Grue3 7y ago
Japanese logos tend to be quite "timeless", mostly because they're so minimalist (think Mitsubishi logo). Even towns and prefectures have very simple emblems instead of a complicated coat of arms. https://commons.w
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by Grue3 7y ago
Except the list doesn't show more than 200 tweets (unless there's some trick to avoid this). If there's a sudden spike of activity, or you check it only once a week, it's easy to miss something important.
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by Grue3 7y ago
I'm not American so I don't really support any candidate. I have my own preferences, and neither is Yang my preferred candidate, nor is Bernie my most disliked candidate.
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by Grue3 7y ago
Looks close to UPS van color. Ugliness is subjective, some people might like it, especially those who would use tobacco products in the first place.
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by Grue3 7y ago
>I've seen so many ...."Bernie's people are horrible" posts on the Yang subreddit which has turned me off the yang gang Well, Bernie's subreddit literally bans every single person who makes a post containing the
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by Grue3 7y ago
People always bring up Japan when describing how nice public transportation is, but almost all "public transport" is privatised over there. Meanwhile everyone's complaining about municipal transport in the USA.
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by Grue3 7y ago
>have a significant chunk of land that is unlivable now It's not that significant (you won't be able to name a single settlement that's currently "unlivable" without looking it up) and it's shrinking all the
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by Grue3 7y ago
>annual carbon footprint of an average UK citizen However annual carbon footprint of a regular citizen is completely meaningless in the greater scheme of things. Stop shifting the blame onto regular people, we're not going to give u
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by Grue3 7y ago
I dunno about free transportation but I've been thinking of creating a 1 day Moscow sightseeing tour route that requires only a ticket for 1 subway ride. Since it's possible to transfer from subway to some suburban trains/mon
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by Grue3 7y ago
I remember when people were claiming Common Lisp community is toxic, but I find that it is the languages which tend to focus on "building community" with Community Managers and Codes of Conduct that end up becoming truly toxic ces
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by Grue3 7y ago
Just because a service exists doesn't mean the same service can exist and be financially viable for every employee. There are many businesses that are inherently unprofitable. It can be argued that such businesses should be subsidized
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by Grue3 7y ago
A train has less seats per door than a plane. Way less seats. It can also start moving before people have fully finished boarding (e.g. storing their luggage in overhead compartment).
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by Grue3 7y ago
Momondo is my shit. Found lots of cheap tickets on it over the years.
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by Grue3 7y ago
It's called a "danchi". Basically a company builds a little town and settles its employees in it. Usually they are pretty boring, but I guess Toyota decided to spice it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by Grue3 7y ago
I can see several problems with this. 1. Japanese subtitles are completely different from what is said in Japanese dub. Subtitles are optimized for readability and use completely different phrasing, or even terms (for example dub says クイーン
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by Grue3 7y ago
I live in Moscow and far more people use docked bikes than docked scooters. There aren't that many places where you can ride the scooter smoothly so they're only available in the very center of Moscow where a lot of sidewalks have
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by Grue3 7y ago
My algorithm ( https://ichi.moe/ ) assumes almost nothing about the grammar and simply divides the sentences into the most valuable chunks (based on the word's length and how common it is), and then some sequences get
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by Grue3 7y ago
And yet how many people die from being hit by bikes? It's barely even an issue. Even in European cities where you can step on the wrong side of a sidewalk and instantly get smashed into. It's an imaginary problem. >Add to that
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by Grue3 7y ago
> it's hard to argue with a measure designed to save lives. No, it's easy to argue because cars inarguably cause way more deaths than bikes. So when people switch to cars from bikes, it's indirectly killing more people. An
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by Grue3 7y ago
I take it Youtube didn't make the cut.
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by Grue3 7y ago
There's Unified transform tool in GIMP 2.10 which does what you describe (the default shortcut is shift-T).
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by Grue3 7y ago
Wind and solar are not at the scale we need to replace all the coal and gas plants. Nobody has build enough wind and solar at this scale so we don't know how much it costs to permanently maintain that setup (a lifespan of a solar panel
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by Grue3 7y ago
Yeah, let's bring down one of the few candidates who is actually treating climate change seriously with a bunch of nitpicks. Nevermind Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren wanting to shut down the entire nuclear power fleet.
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by Grue3 7y ago
Should've just called it a Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) hat. It's a Russian version of Santa Claus who is completely secular.
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by Grue3 7y ago
They had time to deal with the santa hat issue so clearly they have a lot of free time on their hands.
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by Grue3 7y ago
>renewable energy sources to replace all its aging atomic facilities Name one nuclear power station that has ever been successfully completely replaced by renewables.
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by Grue3 7y ago
Nah, Google Reader was better than alternatives when it existed, and is still better than every single alternative existing now. I just can't get used to Feedly's interface even though it's the best one I've found (don
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by Grue3 7y ago
It's definitely not the hardest aspect. Just learn each word and its pronounciation independently. The spelling is just a mnemonic. If you can remember the gender of each word in your native language, or where the stressed syllable is,

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