mahranch

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by mahranch 10y ago
You compared China of today to Japan of the 80s. That is laughable garbage, my comment was to show how moronic that thought process is.
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Regurgitated nonsense that cannot be considered anything other than dogma. It's a simple statement of fact with minimal subjective opinion on my part, as evidenced by the fact that you babble a gamut of excuses instead of answerin
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by mahranch 10y ago
95% of our technological jumps and innovation throughout history have happened within the last 100 years. Coincidentally, those are the years China has been a non-factor. You say China has been the world's leading innovator throughout
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by mahranch 10y ago
This is completely nonsense. Japan did not commit mass espionage and IP theft. Copying? Reverse-engineering? Sure, what country doesn't do that? That's the baseline . China is doing something completely different and on an entire
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by mahranch 10y ago
Not even close. You can't be serious. China and Japan are nothing alike and any comparisons would be entirely irrelevant. For starters, Japan is a capitalistic economy with a democratic government. That alone is enough complexity to ma
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by mahranch 10y ago
No need to downmod me (I was sitting at +1 until literally the moment you decided to comment), what I said was 1,000% factually correct. There ARE ghost cities in China, A LOT of them. Just because some of them are no longer completely va
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by mahranch 10y ago
There are no real estate developers in China. At least, not the kind you're thinking of. The government itself, the PRC designs and builds the cities. They are the alpha and omega in China. See here about ghost cities - "The unrea
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by mahranch 10y ago
China can't be innovative because they lack the cultural foundation for it. Innovation requires creativity, critical thinking, outside the box thinking, etc etc etc... All things which China's PRC sees as a threat to their power s
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Here's China's GDP growth.[1] 6.7% annually this year, down from 7.9% in 2023. The US is 2.2%. China is not "stalled". If you trust any numbers China puts out publicly, I got a bridge to sell you... China builds com
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by mahranch 10y ago
What is this, 1982? Japan's Yakuza hasn't been a thing since the U.S mafia was a thing. They have similar political influence these days; little to none. They've either all gone legit, gone into grey area markets (pachinko, p
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by mahranch 10y ago
One of my best friends is from a country without tipping. He's well-traveled and has something like 20+ stamps in his passport. He says he loves tipping. I was a little curious so I asked him why, he said in countries without tipping
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by mahranch 10y ago
Mobile games like puzzle and dragons have never had a month where they did not add to its player base. If it lost 10% of its players in a single month, everyone would be fired. I'm not joking. Now before you or anyone says that Pokem
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by mahranch 10y ago
Many other mobile games haven't had this kind of reaction. Gungho's Puzzle and Dragons is one of the most profitable games of all time; it was the first mobile game to break 1 billion in revenue per year. It was released to the NA
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by mahranch 10y ago
The sad part is that this is going to be used as a case study in the future on what not to do. I can guarantee it. Every step Niantec has made has been backwards. From removing tracking to making Pokemon harder to catch. The moves they ha
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by mahranch 10y ago
You say tracking was never an integral part of your game experience and then say you don't understand the complaints. Heh. That's what a vast majority of people are complaining about because tracking was an integral part of thei
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by mahranch 10y ago
> almost as if Niantic wanted there to be third-party mapping apps in the first place, and then changed its mind. Didn't they though? At the very beginning of the game, you had footprints you could track and use to "hunt"
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by mahranch 10y ago
Except that the older generation doesn't deny the fact that Millennials are smart, clever or innovative. That's never been the problem. On the contrary, they work hard to exploit those traits and take advantage. On the other hand,
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Jumping straight to corruption is unfairly stereotyping China, which, though it may have a problem, has many more honest cops/prosecutors than dirty ones. When your country ranks 100th on the world's corruption index, it&#x27
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by mahranch 10y ago
> I don't really understand your point. The point is the inconsistent enforcement of laws. And you can be assured that if someone was wealthy enough, the laws don't apply to them. I think that's what the author was talking
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by mahranch 10y ago
> obscenity The U.S doesn't enforce most of its obscenity clauses. With the exception of Child pornography, etc... And if you're asking what harm does that cause, well, it harms the kid getting sexually abused. Most of the ob
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by mahranch 10y ago
> England? Canada? Switzerland? Brazil? S. Africa? You feel those countries are strong enough, politically and even militarily to resist corruptive influences? England might be, maybe Canada since the U.S is next door, but Switzerland,
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by mahranch 10y ago
Well, except for the fact that you're attempting to lump the U.S in with countries like Germany who have what you describe. The U.S has "more free" speech. In Germany, you can't deny the holocaust. That isn't preven
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by mahranch 10y ago
> Taking control away from US does not give it to anyone else, instead it put into this machinery that is specifically designed to avoid requiring trust. At the end of the day, someone(s) will be in a position to "pull the plug&quo
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by mahranch 10y ago
I hate this statement because it usually means the person making it doesn't know very much about free speech laws. As another user points out, the limits placed on our free speech are all directly related to actions that can harm other
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by mahranch 10y ago
I'll say what people have been dancing around, or unable to say; The U.S is the lesser of the evils. Is the U.S perfect? Hell no. But they're the "least bad" country to be handling the system. Any other country or entity
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by mahranch 10y ago
As a heavy forum user (since the late 90s), I find reddit supplanted them. Reddit is basically every forum I've ever been a part of, all on a single website. More importantly, it's every forum I didn't even know existed, on a
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by mahranch 10y ago
> That community had one of the highest quality comments. One of the biggest differences between slashdot, and a site like reddit is simply size. Reddit is now the 8th or 9th largest website in the U.S according to Alexa, it's getti
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by mahranch 10y ago
He has it backwards. Our current physics allow for wormholes. They probably don't exist but if they were literally impossible, then we would need to rewrite our current physics. Wormholes are more than likely impossible because to hold
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by mahranch 10y ago
The article is better than I thought it would be (I typically don't have my hopes high) but it does skip over something in the pronunciation section: silent letters. When reading Japanese, sometimes the "u" is, or can be, sil
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by mahranch 10y ago
Stop treating Heroin like heroin. That's the very reason why we have so many opiate addicts. As a former opiate user who almost fell down the rabbit hole (unfortunately, my brother eventually did fall down that hole), by demonizing h

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