KorematsuFred

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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
IBM was at no fault to work with Nazi Germany. What appears wrong in hindsight may not be that clear during those times. Note: US government funded and fueled Taliban that eventually resulted in 9/11.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
When I had come to USA I had only heard about bald eagle and never seen one. San Diego Safari park had one caged bald eagle which had hurt its beak and wings so badly that it could only survive in Captivity. It was a holy F** moment for me
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
- Google is a monoculture. It is just boring. - Promotions are hard and work is boring. - A lot of time is spent on red tape. - Perks are excellent. While I despise the work that is the only thing keeping me here.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
It is none of Apple's business nor American people's business. American people if their heart bleeds for Myanmar's people are more than welcome to send planes to give asylum to Myanmar's people in USA. Put your money whe
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
They are supposed to be complaint with whichever country they are operating in or simply get out of that country. Anything else is basically white people projecting their virtues on other countries.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
It is not apple's responsibility to fight totalitarian governments nor is the business of Americans to meddle into foreign governments. For all we care the democratic government could be a puppet in the hands of CIA or PRC.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Not just blue screen but these new AI actors would do things that no real human being could do. One reason why Game of thrones had only 8 seasons is because crew got bored and kids grew up. With deepfakes you can have peter pan like actors
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
$$ casts is no big deal. It also saves you cost of location and probably 100 other people involved in movies.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
While the title of Tim's essay (which is not all matching with the title) is wrong so is your conclusion. > Silicon Valley will never die. Silicon valley is already dead in many sense. It has long stopped being the place where bunch
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> I have seen about her in the last 2 weeks,so either some people is using her to "celebrate diversity" or she has a PR working efficiently to prop-up a future endeavor. I think celebrating diversity for the sake of diversity i
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
These transactions may not be on the chain transactions. You basically buy Bitcoin from Visa, visa pays bitcoin to Merchants (which remains in Visa's wallet) and you and merchant will settle your accounts with Visa in future at which p
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> struggling to survive demographic are the ones giving devices to their children. You will be surprised. It is common for India to own a smartphone but not a toilet. IT is also common for the entire family to use the same smartphone and
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Note : This comment is unrelated to the link posted. While HDFC's IT systems remain a bit problematic (though not as bad as YES Bank) the bank itself is pretty good. There is a saying in Mumbai that if HDFC is funding your mortgage you
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> Justifying the actions of cow-vigilantes who go around killing people over cows. This is just ridiculous claim and you are projecting your own thoughts on the media. Cow smuggling in India is very much real and cows are stolen and kill
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
I think you are confusing OpIndia with Swarajya. > Swarajya and why it is blacklisted by Wikipedia as a source Wikipedia is barely a gold standard of anything. It is well known that it has left wing bias and especially much more prejudic
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
India practically invented idea of "Hawala", so there is no need to be surprised that millitant groups active in Indian border region might be using bitcoin. The article provides very little useful information. The militants might
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
As a person writing regularly in Swarajya, I should flag this comment for not adding any value to the discussion and engaging in flamewar. Swarajya is a classical liberal magazine (like USA's Reason Magazine) with a long history and to
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
I do not know about 2021. But few years ago this was definitely a problem and especially in border towns of Texas and Arizona. But not just about brith certificates. You can look at legal immigrants. A lot of them are forced out of job beca
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> mostly american concept True. It is an American experience. Different admins have harassed different Americans at different points in time. Jews, Blacks, Chinese, Indians (India) and so on. Donald Trump showed us just how much evil US
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
This only gives more power to government to harass people whom they don't like and who are poor minorities. > having a central ID for each citizen at birth, and then a way to prove that you match that ID This seems a trivial and no-
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
While the intentions behind this could be noble, these sort of heavy handed moves are anti-minority and hurt some of the poorest people. Lawn and Gardening jobs are mostly done by immigrants and other minorities in and around Oakland. For t
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Just to put these claims in perspective using the paper you have quoted. > In 2011, approximately 26.7 million tons of pollutants were emitted by GLGE (VOC=461,800; CO=5,793,200; NOx=68,500, PM10=20,700; CO2=20,382,400) To quote other so
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
I think state of PA tried to ban automobiles by saying they were too dangerous. They said in order to drive a car it should be manned by a driver, a mechanic, one guy to run in front of the car and one guy to walk behind the car and god for
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
>daily drive autopilot on city streets when it's ready Please note that it is not real autopilot and be safe. I can understand not being scared of automatic vehicles but Tesla isnt self driving yet.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Oh no. Moleskins are pretty bad for fountain pens. I use rollerball jel pens mostly.
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
I am not even white and I find this sort (slide content) of claims purely racist. Based on my experience if you normalize this for one group they are going to go after other groups soon. Workplace inclusion is not about being less or more o
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
If you have an item to sell and if people are willing to pay for it more than the price, if you do not increase the price someone buys it cheap and simply sells it to the highest bidder making a profit. This is a bit like low cost governmen
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Grammar is not rigid, it is just well defined. You can write a sentence in a dozen different ways, it is just that the meaning can be derived by a formal process. Imagine you had to pass down a Java program (through oral tradition) to sort
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
Buyers do not have a choice. It is either wait or don't buy. However if you create an auction system, you would know how much these people are willing to wait. > why is this dangerous? Economic inefficiencies lead to wastage. In th
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by KorematsuFred 6y ago
> Especially in the realm of luxury items. Especially for luxury items, it makes sense to keep the price pretty high and supply limited (like Ferrari). I am from India and $150 is pretty low for the market he is targetting. For example I

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