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by anabis 10y ago
A book celebrating the advance of civilization is only sold in a physical format :( ? Or maybe it's coming later, or I am being punished for living in Japan.
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by anabis 10y ago
An anonymous blog entry titled 「保育園落ちた日本死ね」"Couldn't get slot for my child in nursery school, Japan should drop dead." got discussed in the Japanese parliament. The opposition party picked it up. I wish political discussions
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by anabis 10y ago
You can probably exhaust trails, mountains, biomes. But probably not human created stuff like raids and video games, because new ones will be made. Well languages maybe, because of consolidation.
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by anabis 10y ago
I think the TV's CRT to LCD conversion created massive economy of scale, so using 16:9 was way cheaper.
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by anabis 10y ago
Considering that a lot of current semiconductor demand comes from games, politicians would be hard pressed to come up with that channel of funding in the first place. Heck, I probably won't think to tax games to fund chip foundries.
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by anabis 10y ago
Probably a detail previously considered too minor for foreign consumption. Imperial Japan also made use of meths, called "ヒロポン" at the time.
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by anabis 10y ago
In any other job or social position, her temperament could have destroyed her life. It seems miraculous that she found her calling.
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by anabis 10y ago
I agree that the road to hard AI is still foggy, but the applications of the current technology by itself has only scratched the surface. For example, since Deep Learning has already shown great advance in the audio-visual tasks, the entert
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by anabis 10y ago
This has been mitigated to a large degree by phones. Even pre-smartphone, they were used to look up difficult characters.
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by anabis 10y ago
I wish they would at least put dates on the documentation. I find myself reading halfway through a outdated tutorial before some names or versions makes me realize it.
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by anabis 10y ago
I don't think that is the case. http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2016-08-06... > The quiet discussion reportedly started about five years ago, around the time he had health problems T
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by anabis 10y ago
There are also examples of retired Emperors (上皇, 法皇) wielding power. That is part of the reason why they now reign for life.
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by anabis 10y ago
Japan's Mizuho bank is notorious for struggling with the system update. Big mergers bring big office politics. They were in news in 2002, 2011, and also right now, where they are struggling to finally merge the 3 systems of their pre-m
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by anabis 10y ago
The video of a line of red dots moving northward reminded me of Cherry blossum front (桜前線) in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom_front
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by anabis 10y ago
If an adult wants to learn it, fine. But I will not teach my children a minor language as the first one. Otherwise, record few TB worth of speech and be done with it.
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by anabis 10y ago
We had X-ray film fogging after the Fukushima accident too. http://fujifilm.jp/important/article_20110322.html
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by anabis 10y ago
I second this. Who knows, maybe motion sensors can give us the same utility with less power and light pollution.
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by anabis 10y ago
Project Xanadu had something like that. Of course, it is barely working.
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by anabis 10y ago
Japan is 72nd, and their biggest beef is "記者クラブ" (Journalist Club) were established domestic media gets precedence in press conferences. It partly looks like political maneuvering to get more question time in them. I wonder how ot
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by anabis 10y ago
"Reporters Without Borders retracts Yasuda hostage comments" http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/29/national/reporte... I am starting to think of them as just another irresponsible N
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by anabis 11y ago
FYI, the 'kompu gacha' has been self-censored by the industry body, and they are also considering $500/month limit. Although, the "shutdown law" in South Korea has caused disproportionate shrinking of game sales, so
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by anabis 11y ago
10 years ago, VMWare did not fragment / reassemble packets for me, so I had to set NFS rsize option. Maybe I was just missing a setting somewhere, but couldn't find it then.
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by anabis 11y ago
Here you go: https://twitter.com/zpdldlfrkwl/status/707858454317178880
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by anabis 11y ago
Solve CAPTCHAs and Mechanical Turk tasks for AWS time, I think.
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by anabis 11y ago
And then you can have off-peak discounts, which may cause change in transportation timetables.
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by anabis 11y ago
As a Japanese, I recognize it as a brand. Bit snobbish naming I admit.
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by anabis 11y ago
Reminded me of the difference in airplane refueling. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2007/11/-quot-...
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by anabis 11y ago
I use the Uni Jetstream 3 Color Ballpoint Multi Pen - 0.7 mm. I bought several with different case colors.
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by anabis 11y ago
Ballpoint pens and erasers in the USA also felt rough to me, a Japanese. I don't know about the other 2 countries mentioned in the article (Germany and Switzerland), but maybe its the countries culture? Previously posted story of Hago
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by anabis 11y ago
Japan has a lesser but similar problem with hay fever. It is costing a lot in healthcare, but those Cryptomeria japonica(杉) remains standing. I cannot quite figure out why.

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