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by aikinai 1y ago
Multiple citizenships are absolutely allowed in the US.
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by aikinai 1y ago
Wow, yeah that's disappointing.
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by aikinai 1y ago
Once I had a rental car (a Nissan) that only had a screen instead of a mirror. It was absolutely useless since the resolution and dynamic range were too low, and as you mentioned, you have to change your focal distance which drastically inc
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by aikinai 1y ago
My children are Japanese-English bilingual and can read far more advanced books in English. Initially I took this as an imbalance and suggested they read the same books (or something very close) in Japanese. But their native Japanese langua
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by aikinai 1y ago
Wait, who are the "actual innovators" if not the valuable employees Apple hired?
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by aikinai 1y ago
It also affects the learning curve. English-speaking children can read far more advanced books earlier than equivalently educated Japanese. They probably don't outweigh the disadvantages, but there are some small benefits. Once fluent,
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by aikinai 1y ago
Almost always paper. The people who forget are adults who don't write anything by hand anymore except the occasional form or sticky note.
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by aikinai 1y ago
I never use flash and real cameras are still in a completely different league. There are tons of advantages, but I think the biggest different is dynamic range. Faces, hair, etc. look so dark on phone photos. And even if I try to manually p
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by aikinai 1y ago
You absolutely can tell from looking, and you don't even need to be trying. Whenever I show people photos from trips or of my kids or whatnot, they immediately notice the quality ask "You took this on your phone!?" (since I&#
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by aikinai 1y ago
It's still not going to come anywhere close to a real camera. Phone cameras with their tiny sensors have physical limitations that cannot be overcome, I guess until the day they are regenerating the entire image with AI based on what i
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by aikinai 1y ago
Why would they do that? And why would it be the end of the US?
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by aikinai 1y ago
I despise that phantom Share menu!
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by aikinai 1y ago
Can't believe no one has mentioned the Great Hall of Moria[0]. I always thought it was uncannily similar. [0] https://imgur.com/a/OHKifqj
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by aikinai 1y ago
Wow, this is an extremely long-winded and self-indulgent "well actually" comment. I read the whole thing hoping to find the point, but it never came. Who cares if it was an actual honeymoon or another trip decades after he was mar
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by aikinai 1y ago
I’m not the parent but I was going to read that article to see contained evidence of the above. I couldn’t make it past the hyperbolic first paragraph though. I’m not familiar with TechDirt, but is it intending to be tech news or a politica
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by aikinai 1y ago
It's cost, not competence. These days making a touch screen is easier and cheaper than manufacturing and assembling lots of little buttons and knobs.
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by aikinai 1y ago
Agree. I am American and I live overseas. I haven’t seen any change in how I’m treated.
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by aikinai 1y ago
Steve knew he'd dead by the time the next CEO's results were in. Do you really think he'd prefer Apple to stagnate rather than continue to soar with a great CEO after his dead?
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by aikinai 1y ago
Oh, I see. I live in Japan where self-checkouts are extremely common and have no particular security, so I’m not familiar with those systems.
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by aikinai 1y ago
How does self-checkout make you feel like a criminal? I didn’t follow that one.
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by aikinai 1y ago
What moonshots has Twitter gone for in the last decade? Feature velocity is also higher since the acquisition.
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by aikinai 1y ago
That doesn't make any sense. It's supported on local phones for both iOS and Android. What iOS does that's special is enable FeliCa for all regions globally. It only affects people from outside Japan traveling there.¹ Since i
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by aikinai 1y ago
The comparison video is kind of pointless since they're both at very slow times. If you see a Tokyo gate at rush hour with people packed wall-to-wall but moving quickly, that's what the latency was optimized for. And as others hav
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by aikinai 1y ago
The iOS and Android part was hard to follow, so I'm not sure if the article is wrong or just unclear. All iPhones since iPhone 7 support FeliCa regardless of the phone region. This is incredibly convenient for visitors to Japan. On the
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by aikinai 1y ago
Your perspective of “popular” is incredibly far off. Popular among people in your circle of socioeconomics and interests is not that same as popular among the general population.
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by aikinai 2y ago
I’m not half the country, but I can explain it to you. Billionaires already pay tax on investment income. Universities are exempt but now the proposal is that they pay as well, just like individuals (including billionaires) and other profit
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by aikinai 2y ago
Yeah, that’s just the start. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This demonstrates an intentional effort by the
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by aikinai 2y ago
Those don’t have a monopoly.
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by aikinai 2y ago
This started out as an interesting and fair take until “…enough to supplant it”. Freedom from the government is the original vision and one of the core principles of America assuming that anybody that wants smaller government just wants to
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by aikinai 2y ago
They might have used some middleware, but GBA had no SDK I believe.

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