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by aikinai 9y ago
To play with it.
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by aikinai 9y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I had the exact opposite assumption when I saw the headline. I assumed it would be about the different ways of thinking to play jazz or classical strengthen different pathways and parts of the brain.
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by aikinai 9y ago
That's not a sneaky feature; it was the primary selling point when Google launched the new Photos product in 2015.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Where has Google claimed they don't index certain terms?
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by aikinai 9y ago
Do the UK authorities have to post agents all around the embassy 24/7 to be sure he doesn’t just walk out?
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by aikinai 9y ago
I’m pretty sure Waze never had their own maps, so that wouldn’t have helped Apple at all. And it would have only been a small aquihire since the Waze UI is too opinionated and non-Appley to be the default maps app anyway.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Cars do get weaker over time as the parts wear. And I would certainly expect the microcontroller to adjust to provide the best performance possible under the new limitations. I assume most well-made, modern cars already do that.
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by aikinai 9y ago
I had the exact same reaction reading this. I couldn't enjoy the story until I knew there wasn't an ongoing manhunt. And even then, I was sad that I had to worry so much about the overreaction so still couldn't enjoy it.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Wow, clicked on the Lisa McIntire Tweet linked in the article[0], and that thread is gross. Sure, the company sounds like a terrible idea, and making fun of the concept is fine, but half the replies there are assuming and ridiculing the fou
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by aikinai 9y ago
I’m really excited to hear it’s still under development. I’m a user and honestly thought it had been abandoned for TaskPaper. Looking forward to see what’s coming!
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by aikinai 9y ago
Google did make Android free to head off Microsoft, but it was already very clear Apple was the primary competition. They were trying to take Microsoft’s place in the new Duopoly.
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by aikinai 9y ago
They didn't abandon the old business. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n09/hana-kabu_items/
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by aikinai 9y ago
Weird that this guy has lived in Japan for ten years, but he groups a bunch of culture aspects in with his evidence of poverty. Preparing a lunch box, recycling bath water for laundry, using kerosene heaters? These are just how things are d
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by aikinai 9y ago
I'm not familiar with Korea, but I don't think there's anything particularly weird about Japanese social media. The obsession with privacy is eroding over time, but still relatively strong. Mixi basically died and was replace
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by aikinai 9y ago
The only thing that's going to be under-reported is sexual harassment/assault by known acquaintances (to avoid making a scene). That's not good, but it's very different from whatever it is you're trying to imply. It
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by aikinai 9y ago
That's also how I explain it to people on both sides; Japanese society basically has the extremes pulled in on both sides, which results in a lot of benefits, but also some downsides. And it applies to a lot of aspects of society, like
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by aikinai 9y ago
Japan has very good glasses (non-Luxottica) and you can do everything out of pocket and fast even if you’re just visiting.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Here's an interesting paper on the economic impact of this custom: Obstacles to Affluence: Thoughts on Japanese Housing (pdf) https://www.nri.com/global/opinion/papers/2008/pdf/np2008137...
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by aikinai 9y ago
Yes, actually Google does have programs to let people work their way up on the inside. Barista is a bit extreme and not really internal since they're vendors, but admins, help desk, etc. do have avenues to move into other roles.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Soups seem to be pretty common in the winter. One time I had a hot corn soup from a vending machine somewhere out in the mountains.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Thanks for sharing all of these tools! Do you happen to know if any of these can write metadata to mp4 or mov files that will be recognized by Mac/iOS Photos? I've been trying to write location, camera, date, etc. to encoded video
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by aikinai 9y ago
It's a huge improvement, but still nowhere near the state of the art for Japanese TTS which has always been ahead of English (since the phonetics are much simpler). Listen to the samples here for example: http://voicetext.jp
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Bitcoin Bug Bites Japan and South Korea as China Clamps Down(nytimes.com)
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by aikinai 9y ago
Japan has this too now, but it's pretty new and not required so not everyone has one yet. If you do have it, you can use it to print super official documents at the convenience store and pay your taxes online (if you get a chip reader
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by aikinai 9y ago
As uiri pointed out, transporting a family by bike is very common in other countries so it's not unrealistic at all. Though with how heavily the US is built around cars, the first wave of people trying it will have to make sure to live
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by aikinai 9y ago
That probably has more to do with her nationality than her age. Many Japanese websites still look like this, in particular for small businesses.
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by aikinai 9y ago
Populations depend very much on how you count, but I'd think density matters more and Tokyo's density is somewhere between 14 to 36 times LA (allowing for different ways of counting), and 40 million use just the rail system every
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by aikinai 9y ago
There's also DASH, the MPEG streaming protocol.
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by aikinai 9y ago
As a counter-example, Japan is one of the best in the world at infrastructure while at the same time being incredibly thorough about safety and external impacts. They can do a complete overhaul of the busiest train station in the world with
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by aikinai 9y ago
I think everyone is misunderstanding the complaint. Google does not link phone numbers to accounts based on being added to he same contact. The poster is just complaining that it shows the photo from his Google profile (attached the the ema

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