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by getoj 4y ago
- If I were offered the choice to wind back the clock and have her not exist, I wouldn't choose it, even if it would make me happier on the whole. - If I were to travel back in time and convey that information to my past self, it would
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by getoj 4y ago
Becoming a parent means that you now have a person whose wellbeing is more important to you than your own happiness. I don’t think it’s a contradiction to say (a) that I’d be happier if my daughter had never existed, and (b) that I don’t ca
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by getoj 4y ago
From Bill Watterson's commencement speech at Kenyon College in 1990. I was lucky to read this when I was graduating and it changed my whole career path. I am now very happy and very boring: "Creating a life that reflects your va
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by getoj 5y ago
Though not dial-up, my internet at the time was still very slow and the servers were a very long way away, so I routinely played with a ping of 600-1000ms with no issues at all. WoW and Guild Wars were about the only online games that wor
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by getoj 5y ago
That’s your parent’s point; the article states that the Japanese other-initiated repair word is “e”, which it is. The article argues convincingly that “e” is “huh”-like, defining that as having an unrounded mid-front vowel with a glottal on
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The Star Gauge(en.wikipedia.org)
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by getoj 5y ago
> But nobody ever suspecting they're the actors in the story despite the process being fairly unique? In a past life I used to write for a local TV soap. I would constantly take personal events that my friends and family told me abo
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by getoj 5y ago
>Native English speakers generally don't accept translations done by anyone who's not a native English speaker as well Is it common practice in Poland (or anywhere else) for people to translate from their native language into a
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by getoj 5y ago
To add another anecdote from the perspective of living in two countries - the recommendations we get from doctors in each country are often polar opposites of each other. Drugs available over the counter in one country are outlawed in the o
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by getoj 5y ago
There's a massive regional variation in the effective minimum wage - in Tokyo the average hourly wage for an arubaito (a part-timer with no job security) is 1,203 yen. The average in Fukushima is just 948 yen [2], and the national mi
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by getoj 5y ago
Unfortunately no mention of the equivalent Japanese tradition of ama [1], identically named in Chinese characters (海女) though much older - the first records of female ama are from the Heian period, whereas haenyeo as female divers appe
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by getoj 5y ago
If you earn 20M yen a year, you're paying 41% of that in income tax, resident tax, and compulsory social security payments.[1] If you earn 200k USD in California, you pay 35.5% of that in total taxes.[2] I suppose the latter doesn&#x27
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by getoj 5y ago
"The scholar, having to encounter doubts and difficulties on all hands, [...] learns to take nothing for granted; least of all, to make an assumption of his own superior merits. [...] It takes years of patient toil and devoted enthusia
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by getoj 6y ago
Posting to a top-level comment: The productivity claim has been removed from the Japanese report[0]. An erratum at the bottom of the page dated November 8, 2019 says this: "In the announcement dated October 31, one of the listed "
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by getoj 6y ago
The productivity claim has been removed from the Japanese report you link. An erratum at the bottom of the page dated November 8, 2019 says this: "In the announcement dated October 31, one of the listed "improvements" from th
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by getoj 6y ago
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=145522 First result on google.
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by getoj 6y ago
For anyone interested in a correct translation, the Japanese reads: "Its purpose is recidivism prevention and rehabilitation for youth offenders; the usual process leading up to a decision is: Notice or report of the fact of the youth
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by getoj 7y ago
This has been folk knowledge in Japan for thousands of years. Rice paddies are traditionally planted in places with a propensity to lightning storms, a fact so well known that it reduces land values in suburbs built on old paddy land (there
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by getoj 7y ago
I can't find this particular quote, but if you can read Japanese there's an interview with this guy here [1]. For this example in particular, the grammar for reported speech in Japanese is pretty much the same for a 70 year old an
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by getoj 7y ago
Government stats for Japan are here[1]. While there is a stigma around suicide here (particularly families wanting a death to be 'accidental'), I don't think it's common enough to really affect the statistics. To quote t
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by getoj 8y ago
I can't speak for how it affects the data, but note that Kyoto city (京都市, the administrative area to which this data seems to apply) is about two-thirds mountains and small rural towns. See the satellite image here (there should be a r
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by getoj 8y ago
Except that almost nobody who hits a kid on the highway did it on purpose, and everyone who commits sexual assualt does it entirely on purpose. Sexual assault is unrelated to the victim's behavior because no matter how foolish you were
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by getoj 8y ago
In fairness to subtitlers (and speaking as a translator myself, though in a much more forgiving field), they have one of the hardest jobs in our profession. The range of topics is infinite, the required vocabulary is also infinite, there&#x
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by getoj 8y ago
The construction "out of need" is actually good old Latin - ex necessitas. Which I hope makes sense to a Spanish speaker. "Out of luck" is weirder. German has ausgehen to mean "run out" (as in "our supplie
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by getoj 8y ago
This question is also answered by the MHLW statistics [1]. On page 2, the line graph at the top represents the percentage of available paid leave days taken on average, with the absolute numbers below. So, the average worker in Heisei 25 (2
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by getoj 8y ago
A couple of people have made the point about full-time versus part-time work in Japan, which is actually covered by this [1] MHLW report on overwork. The graph on the right on Page 1 has an orange line at the top representing the total hour
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by getoj 8y ago
I don't think the parent's point is that she's "not really a librarian" but that she's not just a librarian. In the sense that Usain Bolt isn't just a runner. An extremely prominent person in any field
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by getoj 8y ago
https://goo.gl/maps/ggcc8ZQBwPr
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by getoj 9y ago
I think your example describes a type of jamais vu[1]. It happens to me (and presumably everyone else) too. [1]"A sense of unfamiliarity with, or of never having experienced or seen before, something that should be familiar." htt
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by getoj 10y ago
To answer your questions: >Where does "I" come from? The system has lost track of the subject (the government and ruling party) and put in "I" as the most likely candidate. This error is pretty dumb, to be honest, and

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