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by Prickle 3y ago
Japanese doesn't really have separate words to denote villages by their size. There is only City, Town and Village. (市町村) And you would really only say "Small Village" or "Big Village", etc. The legal requirements a
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by Prickle 3y ago
Especially due to inheritance tax in Japan being very high. It can sometimes be cheaper to abandon inheritances, than actually claim them. Even if you do claim the inheritance, large expensive things like houses tend to be sold because the
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by Prickle 3y ago
It's not arbitrary, and I don't understand why you think it is. It's not even a mathematical issue. At it's core, it has always been an environmental issue. Fundamentally, the complaint is that the tritium water will cau
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by Prickle 3y ago
Ok, lets take this at face value. Does any, and I do mean literally any country on this planet, dump their tritium water in the local lake? Problem 1 : Water extraction Extracting large volumes of water, is naturally not a ecologically fri
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by Prickle 3y ago
For the former point, fair enough. For the latter, obviously yes. The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Association) has done it's own independent tests, as well as actively monitored japanese tests while on site.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Because that's not how dilution works? That part should be incredibly obvious. I keep seeing this nonsense about "why not dump it into the dirt", as if that ever made any sense. The answer is always simple, there is already a
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by Prickle 3y ago
Because it is filtered out by every nuclear power plant that has an inkling of basic morals? The only materials that aren't filtered out are Carbon14 and Tritium, if I remember correctly.
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Unfortunately, humans generally don't care about what they can't see. We can see pollution in water, on land, but not in the air.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_of_radioactive_water... Annual release of tritium: 2020: South Korea Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant and others Total: 365tbq or 1,022mg The total amount currently stored at Fukushi
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by Prickle 3y ago
You realize water is distilled right? "Drink-able water" is different from "One item is below safe drinking thresholds". Drinking salty sea water is generally not recommended.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Regaining trust is IMO, impossible with all current politicians. The government has basically designated the nuclear agency seat as a "Send the guy we don't like there" seat. Only incompetent idiots have been placed there sin
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by Prickle 3y ago
To be fair, TEPCO is completely and absolutely untrustworthy. There is evidence of severe miss-management, as well as 2 cases where they deliberately ignored safety warning from government agencies. As a Japanese citizen, I would feel safer
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by Prickle 3y ago
China and South Korea are making a big fuss about it, despite producing and releasing more tritium than Japan. Just a few minutes ago, The CPC (Communist Party of China) stated that it is suspending all imports of Japanese seafood to protec
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by Prickle 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_city_tier_system You can find the Chinese city "tier" classification system on wikipedia. It's not an official scale, but used commonly due to just how massive and v
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by Prickle 3y ago
Some MMOs you really need automated scripts to hit those 0.1s timers. And the majority are time wasters and not very fun. The game should incentivize you to play and enjoy, not farm activity #399 There are also legitimate accessibility issu
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by Prickle 3y ago
I don't think it is that unpopular of a take. Generally speaking, Ads and subscriptions pay for the website. The issue I personally have is: 1) When the Ads themselves contain malware. 2) Eat up all your bandwidth/mobile data. 2.1
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by Prickle 3y ago
You appear to assume all of china's cities are either Tier1 or Tier5. That's not how it works in any country. Obviously, the higher tier cities look nice. But that doesn't apply to the entire country. You take one step into a
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by Prickle 3y ago
Except that when it was first implemented, the government explicitly stated that the Social Security Number was not a valid ID. https://www.npr.org/2018/03/22/596180023/how-social-security... Due to this
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by Prickle 3y ago
I actually get around modern standby by simply replacing sleep with hibernate on everything. It takes longer to start up, but at least the PC isn't burning hot, or wasting battery. Waves is... incredibly annoying. Could be worse I supp
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by Prickle 3y ago
DELL uses pricing based on some unknowable calculus based on competitor products. So they show their monitor as a "sale" relative to competitor XYZ's monitor. Reality is that the product is just cheaper and worse than the com
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by Prickle 3y ago
I have a DELL laptop. Probably the worst purchase I made. The one saving grace is that SupportAssist actually works, and does make post-crash/post-windows-death recovery very simple and easy. But that's the thing. I can tell that
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by Prickle 3y ago
This is true, but if I remember correctly, Apple has a very similar issue with user locked devices. Employees have opened their own "stores", where they remove activation locks, or unlock iphones remotely for a small fee.
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by Prickle 3y ago
It helps that I live in Japan, so a non-online payment isn't too difficult to setup. I use one time use cashcards for the majority of online transactions.
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by Prickle 3y ago
Last I checked, annually , more people die from tobacco use and alcohol poisoning than illicit drug use. ~480,000 deaths annually from tobacco ~140,000 deaths annually from alcohol ~109,680 deaths in 2022 from drug overdose *Data is exclusi
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by Prickle 3y ago
Serious question. Am I the only person around here that doesn't do online banking at all? I don't trust the bank's website, so I always just go to the local branch. (Not that I need to do that much at all outside of withdrawi
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by Prickle 3y ago
"The road not taken" is a Science Fiction trope that generally explores that idea.
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by Prickle 3y ago
アルバイト・バイト Is probably the most well known example. The german "Arbeit" is used commonly to refer to part time work.
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Sure, the initial upfront cost will be high. But I think that the trade off in the longer term will be worth it.
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by Prickle 3y ago
I actually think the 15 options part is slightly worse. Convoluted menus tend to discourage interaction. Any sort of psychological traps to prevent cancellation should be explicitly illegal. And hey, if it wasn't a big deal, why did Am
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by Prickle 3y ago
Related Article & thread from yesterday: > FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418713 https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/

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