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721.
by jbm 15y ago
HN is no place to discuss emotionally charged questions of nationality and history. Your reply illustrates the reason why. Keeping aside the possibility that you are a troll, it simply makes no sense to bring up issues related to the Pales
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by jbm 15y ago
While I won't bother bringing this topic onto the forum, you should be intelligent enough to know that this is an exaggeration and slanted view of the more complex reality.
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by jbm 15y ago
+1. For a little understanding of the media "context" around that time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubsd-tWYmZw Real estate has always been somewhat manipulative and real estate agents are some of the most difficult people I have ever
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by jbm 15y ago
They do it in Japan, and I think they do it in Quebec. Don't quote me on the second one. They had to have rotating power outages for a week or two in Japan after the earthquake because of the need to replenish those reserves.
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by jbm 15y ago
My mother is originally from the Indian Subcontinent. She preferred Lipton as well. I wouldn't say it compared well to some of the more interesting teas I've had in Tokyo (I love Oolong tea as well), but she was probably correct from the p
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by jbm 15y ago
I take issue with the first paragraph. You know what keeps me up some nights? The idea that someone is going to go into credit card debt to buy some app that I put onto an app store. I'm betting the people who are more likely to listen to
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by jbm 15y ago
I should probably bring up a few issues. > Laptops It's hard to find a buyer for an expensive laptop. Furthermore, you can find people who buy Pentium 4 laptops for more than 50$ if the battery is working properly. Point being, a one-
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by jbm 15y ago
I think you are reading too much into the comment. I can throw out or resell a 400$ laptop with some ease; not so easy with a more expensive model. (My current laptop is a MBP that I got from work) I can't invest too much on a bed as I can'
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by jbm 15y ago
I find it callous for you to brush aside the suffering of thousands of people by "The situation isn't good". Just because all of Japan hasn't been destroyed doesn't mean that therr hasn't been significant damage done. Lies, corruption/amak
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by jbm 15y ago
hasenj > You seem to have a hard time understanding why being an immigrant or not from a majority group might be hard. While you say you aren't white, do you have any cultural habits that people from White European backgrounds might fin
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by jbm 15y ago
It's not about "rejecting" one's roots. My parents are from Pakistan. Or wait - my mother was born in British India before fleeing during the partition. So which am I? British, Indian, Pakistani, or Canadian? Canadian is the least compli
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by jbm 15y ago
(For what it's worth, I was a fan of the old Readability plugin, but I am somewhat concerned about it's direction now.)
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Readable: A more readable version of "readability"(readable.tastefulwords.com)
138 points by jbm 15y ago|92 comments
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by jbm 16y ago
Wish you had an email :/ jbm @ ordisante.com if you want to continue this. I feel like less of a foreigner in Japan than I did in Quebec. Does that blow your mind like it does mine? The politics & lack of hope in Quebec is stifling.
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by jbm 16y ago
Who are you? I don't mean that in an insulting fashion, I simply don't know. (Compay has a karma of 1426 for comparison, and I owe him for introducing me to the PIE library for IE CSS)
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by jbm 16y ago
Montreal, Qc => Tokyo, Jp. Never felt more liberated in my life. I can't describe in words how good it felt.
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by jbm 16y ago
At the risk of replying seriously to a flippant comment, it is a stretch to say that the IQ test is a rock solid method to identify intelligence. It's already common knowledge that African Americans, as a group, score poorly on IQ tests as
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by jbm 16y ago
Wouldn't the beneficial effects of using robots be like the beneficial effects of a broken window? You are still destroying industrial production and diverting other production into warfare / war-related devices.
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by jbm 16y ago
I have gone on record and said that I support Nuclear power. I think it is necessary. However, to simplify further, I think that Nuclear power supports hand wave deep issues of trust that develop because of the way these issues are treated
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by jbm 16y ago
Buy Fukushiman land. Raise your kids there. Feed them local produce. To thy own self be true. I am not defending coal or solar or whatever. I am referring to the closed attitude of the nuclear industry. There is a huge problem with nuc
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by jbm 16y ago
Great. I can't drink milk, had to avoid water for a day or two, having problem finding relatively uncontaminated meat, 20 km or so of this country is probably going to be left unlivable and so on. I find it incredibly offensive to see the
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by jbm 16y ago
Perhaps unfortunate, or inaccurate, but horrifying? If I keep acting inappropriately, I can't blame anyone but myself for rumors that pass around about other inappropriate behavior. It's life.
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by jbm 16y ago
I live in Tokyo dude. Not that it improves my chances to escape an earthquake though.
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by jbm 16y ago
Nuclear power is clearly unsafe, it's just a question of whether or not it is more unsafe than the other alternatives. This accident doesn't need to prove that, the fact was apparent the first time someone lit a match. However, Nuclear Pow
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by jbm 16y ago
Although none of us are enamored with North Korea, there was a fair share of atrocities that were committed by UN forces on the NK population and the South Korean government against communist sympathizers in their own country. The Wiki art
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by jbm 16y ago
I take issue with calling it "weak". EDICT is useful resource that needs sentence examples. It certainly is far better than any e-dictionary I could find for French back when I was forced (by law) to attend French class. It definitely hel
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by jbm 16y ago
This. No offense Patrick, you're a great dude, but I'm somewhat put off by that attitude. It's easy to say when you are in Nagoya; do you guys even have the electricity problem in the 60hz zone of Japan? To clarify, I am still in Tokyo, wo
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by jbm 16y ago
As someone who switched from PHP to Python, I don't understand why this is so controversial as a statement. I'd expect 58 comments on Reddit or Slashdot, not on HN. (Aware of the irony of commenting on this myself, but please forgive me th
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by jbm 16y ago
Can someone please explain to me why this was modded down? I'm curious, as I am unaware of the Apple multitasking history. (Had an 8086, and an Apple II at school; never encountered apple again until after I got an iPod and then an iPhone)
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by jbm 16y ago
Funny how housing wasn't a bubble. What was the old troll again, making fun of the way the press was rah-rahing the housing bubble? Oh yeah.. "It's a new paradigm, and everybody who doesn't buy, now, will be priced out forever. Anybody who

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