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by jbay808 6y ago
It's clearly a direct transcription, rather than a translation, of サラリーマン. I doubt any mockery is intended.
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by jbay808 6y ago
If you can count on stable employment for the next 20 years, you can make a plan like that. Otherwise your fallback might be to sell the house before it's paid off. From a HN perspective, this means it's hard to buy a house and do
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by jbay808 6y ago
Canada has nuclear power, but I'm pretty sure Canada doesn't have nuclear weapons.
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by jbay808 6y ago
You can write a letter to your representative!
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by jbay808 6y ago
With 14x the population, isn't the cost of a given mask-finder app like the one the OP pointed out amortized over 14 times as many taxpayers?
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by jbay808 6y ago
"Higher" is measured in dollars, so isn't a high stock market and housing price consistent with the US dollar simply decreasing in value? If wages haven't risen in proportion, then this doesn't seem like a win.
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by jbay808 6y ago
> Assuming equivalent machine costs I know of at least one automation equipment company that prices their machines in China at about half of what they charge to US customers, because that's the price point that the market will bear.
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by jbay808 6y ago
It's mostly being deployed in Asia, where the demand is high and the supply of complementary parts is also high. PCB manufacturing is almost completely automated, for example. Didn't move back.
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by jbay808 6y ago
https://thinklucid.com/ This is a new company created by a bunch of ex- Point Grey engineers who left FLIR. They're worth keeping an eye on.
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by jbay808 6y ago
> As soon as a professional has been paid to fight open source integration for 1-2 days, it would have been better if the employer had simply bought matlab. I'm a licensed professional, and in my experience it takes 1-2 hours to set
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by jbay808 6y ago
Especially since, if week numbering isn't common in the US, you might only be looking it up when you're trying to collaborate with someone in Europe!
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by jbay808 6y ago
I totally understand! I probably wouldn't have been able to play it at a desk either. And BotW is better suited to the portability of the Switch as well. I can't imagine trying to play Skyward Sword on the subway or in an airplane
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by jbay808 6y ago
Yes - but that house is probably affordable because of the savings they've accumulated in Seattle/SF.
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by jbay808 6y ago
> They did nothing and just ate through the resources until they were no more. Those resources they ate through -- when were they accumulated? I find it hard to believe that they became a superpower by just coasting on the wealth that ex
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by jbay808 6y ago
> complain about taking a 10% salary cut with their 35% cost of living cut Where do you draw the line? Do you think a 35% salary cut would be reasonable to complain about? At some point, in moving from Seattle to Winnipeg, if your salary
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by jbay808 6y ago
I guess I'll rephrase - if you can't understand a transfer function or a probability distribution without opening Matlab, then you've allowed your own expertise to be held hostage . Unfortunately, I know a large number of pr
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by jbay808 6y ago
It's my favourite. I really mastered the motion controls, to the point that BotW felt like a big step backward in being able to get Link to do what I wanted him to. And I managed to tune out Fi. I think if I hadn't been able to do
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by jbay808 6y ago
It's very encouraging to see Matlab losing ground in the educational space. I don't know why so many engineers let their foundational skills to be locked behind a proprietary ecosystem like that.
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by jbay808 6y ago
There seems to be a bit of a rabbit hole here. It starts with the magnetic field interacting with charged particles only at right angles to their motion, meaning that it cannot do work on them. Work is done by electric fields that are induc
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by jbay808 6y ago
I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the war in Vietnam may have contributed to tearing down that belief in duty, at least in the United States. In Europe, perhaps it started its decline at the Nuremberg trials.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co) makes pretty good money for themselves, too.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Western bookstores sell manga too, these days! However publishers change the format size for western audiences. Here's what it looks like when stocked here: https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/W4Jp1QrsdmGXmogVT
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by jbay808 6y ago
It seems that regulations are often a little more lax on products produced domestically. Can we trust states with major pharmaceutical industries to regulate pharmaceuticals? Major car production centres to regulate emissions? Major chemica
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by jbay808 6y ago
Even if it's still cardboard, just some carefully thought-out size standards that take into account packing small boxes to fit perfectly into large boxes, and large boxes to stack perfectly onto trucks/forklifts/shipping cont
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by jbay808 6y ago
I believe those are magazines on the left. (This photo appears to be Book Off, a popular second-hand bookstore chain).
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by jbay808 6y ago
From my experience they're a world apart, but your mileage may vary. You can also tell just by doing image searches for "Japanese bookstore". Or looking at how often US bookstores shelve their books sideways. But I agree that
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by jbay808 6y ago
Standardized interchangeable packaging for consumer goods. Ever been to a book store in Japan? Practically every book is the same size. As a result, bookshelves also are designed to be the right size to optimally fit books. This allows peop
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by jbay808 6y ago
Last time I visited Tokyo I bought a sleek little folding Bluetooth keyboard that fits in my pocket but unfolds to nearly full size and types very comfortably. By just unfolding it, it pairs with my Android phone and the on-screen keyboard
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by jbay808 6y ago
Yes! You shouldn't try to do them both at once. But while life is short, it isn't that short. See also this webcomic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-09-02
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by jbay808 6y ago
Age of Empires 2 lets you do this as well.

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