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by kochikame 7y ago
If it is found out, it is punished See the whole Unidan saga a few years back for how the mighty can fall once they get busted using sockpuppets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan
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by kochikame 7y ago
u/poem-for-your-sprog replied to a comment of mine with a poem a few years ago and it was like a brush with celebrity for me
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by kochikame 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/radiation/ This masterfully illustrates the relative risks of various sources of radiation, something that the typical person on the street knows almost nothing about but thinks they do I live in Japan
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by kochikame 7y ago
Yeah, it just means people are buying devices less frequently "Mobile" (however defined) is obviously not going anywhere. I think it's just a click-bait headline
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by kochikame 7y ago
I think they're usually called "no skins"
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by kochikame 7y ago
According to the MBTI it is not a spectrum; you have a preference for one or the other. This doesn't mean you can't or don't behave in ways outside your preference; we all do, everyday. It just means that, all other things be
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by kochikame 7y ago
Japanese people are reading ad-supported free manga on their phones and tablets constantly nowadays. There are several competing services and they seem to be spending a lot on advertising right now if the amount of TV commercials is anythin
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by kochikame 7y ago
China is barely capable of taking over Taiwan without enormous cost and material and human loss. Japan is far, far harder to "invade" and is barely even something they would consider. Even an "attack" (something short of
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by kochikame 7y ago
You must know enough of the politics and history f the region to realize how unlikely it would be for an Iraqi or Iranian of any profession to simply "go work in Israel"
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by kochikame 8y ago
Some people claim that gen known as DRD4-7R is responsible for wanderlust https://www.contiki.com/six-two/wanderlust-gene-travel/ Little bit different to what the article is talking about, but pertinent to the dis
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by kochikame 8y ago
Not a tornado, a hurricane (or typhoon as it's called in the Eastern hemisphere)
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by kochikame 8y ago
This is ridiculous. No one in Japan is afraid of the Japanese military. Utter fiction
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by kochikame 8y ago
Of course all the wartime stuff like kamikaze was awful, but no one is expecting that to ever happen again You have this idea that the Japanese military will become a runaway juggernaut subjugating Japan under its will, and this is simply r
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by kochikame 8y ago
Outlook
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by kochikame 8y ago
To this day, typing on a smartphone still annoys the crap out of me on a daily basis Dumbphones were better in this regard
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by kochikame 8y ago
I was so happy when I ditched iTunes a few years back It's entirely replaceable with other services and software now
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by kochikame 8y ago
I know the reason why, but I still get annoyed when basically everything I want to do with a PDF can never be done with Acrobat
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The Fake Surgeon: Why the “10x” developer cannot be a faker(approxion.com)
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by kochikame 8y ago
It really is one of the worst examples of a retailer anywhere. Shelf after shelf of semi-disposable, plastic tat, destined for landfill. Crap, processed food. Knock off cosmetics. Crowded, uncomfortable, unfriendly. If this is the future, I
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by kochikame 8y ago
This was brilliant. You rarely read anything (in English at least) from the Chinese view of Western civilization during the age of empire. Great writing, very cool.
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by kochikame 8y ago
Which is the upside of automation and AI "taking jobs away from people"; the adoption of new technologies makes things cheaper, easier and more accessible, so more people do it than before, resulting in a bigger market and more ne
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by kochikame 8y ago
Aliens
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by kochikame 8y ago
Exactly
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by kochikame 8y ago
> "5 Why" style analysis is really easy to steer toward whatever you want to blame. This is the big issue. Ideology, bias and self-interest creep in and you can easily end up blaming whatever it is that you personally disagree
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by kochikame 8y ago
The whole northern hemisphere is already experiencing things like extended winters/delayed spring, unusually wet and dry seasons, more intense summers and winters, more frequent and stronger typhoons etc. It's here, it's happ
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by kochikame 8y ago
The problems he wants to address (e.g. fraud prevention in charity money transactions) could be easily solved using conventional databases with basic security measures Blockchain in a nutshell
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by kochikame 8y ago
I get the pride but there comes a point when "Irish Americans" can no longer speak for Irish people, a point that I feel is much sooner than 4th generation Like the commenter above you, I am very suspicious of Americans with only
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by kochikame 8y ago
This is pretty cool Should be the kind of thing that is in new hire orientations and onboarding training (especially for new grad hires) but basically never is
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by kochikame 8y ago
If they'd marketed it this way from the beginning it would have been fine. AI is great at that kind of pattern-matching. The problem is that Watson was sold as a kind of "AI Doctor", which is pretty much ludicrous
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by kochikame 8y ago
The hype around blockchain is far more than just cryptocurrencies, which have done well by many measures. The person you're replying to is saying that all the hype around blockchain for contracts, identifiers etc. is most likely way ov

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