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by deciplex 11y ago
What the hell are you talking about?
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by deciplex 11y ago
A feature for who? I prefer precise language and being understood.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Maybe this is partly why Americans have such poor diets? It's no good if healthy food is being deliberately made to taste like shit.
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by deciplex 11y ago
To be fair, Japanese strawberries are heaps better since they actually allow the damn things to ripen before they try to sell them. Same goes for tomatoes. Most tomatoes and strawberries sold in the US taste like cold diarrhea in comparison
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by deciplex 11y ago
> You're right about "hate speech" as a legal term, but I don't think the CEO of a non-profit speaking to his employees requires that level of scrutiny. When you're talking about firing someone over a thing, it
576.
by deciplex 11y ago
Perhaps we have finally found the one thing that, apparently, is not good for Bitcoin.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Can you think of some ways that an economy where virtually all the demand for goods theoretically possible is coming from 400 people, would see a substantial drop in economic output? Assume everyone's participation in the economy aside
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by deciplex 11y ago
Regardless of whether the person who wrote that should be fired, calling that post "hate speech" demonstrates a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what hate speech is. It is not merely exclusionary speech, and it is not merely
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by deciplex 11y ago
Before drugs developed outside Japan are approved for use in Japan, as part of the approval process they will test the drugs on Japanese using "foreigners" as a control. And it doesn't really matter where the foreigner is fro
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yeah, whichever - point being he should let us know where not to send our CVs.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Let's say all the wealth in the world, minus a few percent, belonged to 400 people. Can you think of some ways that would wreak havoc on the economy, even without triggering a "proletarian revolution?"
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by deciplex 11y ago
Which company do you belong to?
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by deciplex 11y ago
> especially if you consider the age/condition of apartments But apartment buildings in Tokyo are terrible . Fifteen years is considered "old" and that's not due to high standards - it's because after fifteen ye
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by deciplex 11y ago
Yeah, there won't be any Japanese businessmen burning crosses on your lawn or whatever. Assholes like Shintaro Ishihara are about as bad as it gets (in "polite" company anyway), and you could probably have a 15-minute chat wi
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by deciplex 11y ago
> “It’s how we find killers,” FBI Director James Comey said last year. “It’s how we find kidnappers. It’s how we find drug dealers. It’s how we find missing children. It’s how we find pedophiles.” I want to find a book of logic and bea
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by deciplex 11y ago
It isn't "hateful", it is reducing the likelihood of someone getting an infectious disease from a blood transfusion, by any means necessary. Even if you wave a wand and improve testing, then remove the ban, you're still
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Given the loss of manufacturing in the 70s & 80s Loss of manufacturing jobs . Output has increased.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Since you were there: What effect does that churn have on their technology? If the average developer only sticks around for one or two years before burning out, subject-matter experts are going to be really scarce, and once you don't h
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by deciplex 11y ago
Global labor is not automatically a net win. If companies shop for legal regimes where labor protection is minimal or nonexistent, all you get is a race to the bottom where no one wins, not even the capitalist class, not after the economy
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by deciplex 11y ago
Large groups of people pool their resources to pay for expensive shit all the time. Just take the US military, as one example.
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by deciplex 11y ago
I don't hate China, but it's hardly a free market. The adjective "motherfucking" in this case was not meant as a pejorative.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Why is it that every time I read an article about some degrading bullshit, I also have to read a comment about the free market? (And in motherfucking China this time, apparently.)
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Have you ever tried to use a word you looked up in the dictionary, only to find out that no one has ever heard of it? This is so great. EDICT has so many entries that Japanese speakers have either never heard of, or would never use,
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by deciplex 11y ago
The human body is about 100W-120W, which is about 2000-2500 kcal/day. 20W sounds right.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Sadly, this one is probably an exception to Betteridge's law.
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by deciplex 11y ago
He absolutely did the right thing. But in the end I think he resigned because the media circus that followed the announcement meant he could no longer contribute effectively to the project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by deciplex 11y ago
Not totally relevant to the article, but: > Modha said his team’s goal is to build a “brain in a shoebox,” with over 10 billion synapses, consuming less than 1 kilowatt hour of power—the minuscule amount of power the human brain require
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by deciplex 11y ago
Didn't the guy end up having to resign because of the media circus? It was a pretty sad story IIRC.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Some industries are lobbying aggressively. You're right that, in principle, the negotiations should be kept secret from the public until the terms of the deals are ready to be voted on. However you are forgetting that 'the publi
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by deciplex 11y ago
In seriousness though, my hypothesis is that they are at least certain that they are not making the candidate pool any worse by their screening, i.e. they are not selecting for unqualified candidates. Even if their process is barely bette

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