moufestaphio

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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Of course what they did is legal. A loophole is legal, that's the point. It's a way around the intent of the law legally.
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Yup I've heard the same, Yakuza leadership (also rank and file) has a lot of Zainichi. I also remember hearing about how Pachinko parlours are usually owned by Yakuza/Zainichi and they funnel profits into North Korea.
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
oh, I just thought of a good example of Hacker news favorite investor: Masayoshi Son. Notice his last name is Korean? But he was born and raised in Japan. And here's what he has to say: https://asia.nikkei.com/NAR&#x2F
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
They're referred to as Zainichi. After WW2, there was over 1 million Koreans living in Japan. Some went back, some decided to wait due to the war starting. Then the country they were going back to no longer existed, so they stayed. Ma
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin Or Zainichi Koreans, who are born and raised in Japan (there are a LOT ).
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Goes deeper than just that. There is being born in the wrong 'caste': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burakumin Or the many Koreans who are in 'limbo' (zainichi) after WW2: https://en.wikip
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
It's not exactly a secret. Japan is super racist. They outright will often refuse services to foreigners/non-ethnic Japanese. Here's a quick few results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_Ja
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
It's mandatory I mention: Old Boy. But you're right, there are a lot of great Korean movies. A few more of my favourites are: - New World - Welcome to Dongmakgol
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
The price puts it well within in the luxury car range.
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this. Mentioned at the bottom of the article about Canadian resentment: >Canada sought greater autonomy in international affairs. One I did know about though was mot much latter the Alaska border disp
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
>I fully support legalizing all drugs, but don't understand why the latest wave of criminal justice reform tolerates property crimes. This so much! You're not a criminal because you're doing heroin or whatever, you're
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
There was a good BBC doc that featured this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
>We can only be sure that we are witnessing the best basketball players in the world who are motivated by money, and the fastest runners who are motivated by fame. I think that's a pretty big stretch. First of all, not all basketbal
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Toxoplasmosis - a parasite cats carry that can change your behaviour. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-cats-responsi...
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Seriously, came to say this. Speaking wise it helps a lot. You stop worrying about the conjugation or sentence structure etc, and just communicate with the other person.
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
This was the situation for bicycle parking in Japan. ~$5 a day to park my bike legally. ~$25 ticket if my bike got confiscated for being parked illegally. It got confiscated twice in 3 years. Needless to say, basically everyone parked illeg
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by moufestaphio 7y ago
Did you read the article? >It's been reported in 24 US states so far, as well as Canada, Norway, Finland, and South Korea. But to answer your question: No. 0 known human cases, only possible in theory. Read the article for more inf
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
Yes, that was super annoying. Like I literally can't look at the graph the way you have it set up. Did they ever test this...?
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
> but that is more about clientele. Yeah, absolutely agreed. Most 'traditional cuisines' tend to be fairly healthy. My pet theory on this is along the lines of an evolutionary standpoint.. if it wasn't healthy, the people
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
I like that your link is to old.reddit hah
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
So I lived there for 5+ years, and my wife is Korea who lived in Japan. There is a very large and real anti-korean sentiment/prejudice in Japan. I mean a few years ago now, but there was a bunch of anti-korean protests in shin okubo.
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
>As I watch the news I can't help but think maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Is this a round about way of saying 'if all the white people died it would fix our problems'? I personally don't think it's a ve
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
Huh, I never thought of that. Only works if you're using basic/bad metrics. I believe google's stuff is a little more advanced than that and you can see your click-through all the way to buying rate etc.
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
For DP? Practice a couple on like HackerRank, CodeFights etc. It starts to make sense after you do a few. For Big O notation? Just think about how many times you're iterating through things (in the worst possible case). e.g. Got two
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
Obviously there are many factors that brought this about, but even South Korea's foreign minister specifically said Trump gets the credit for this: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/world/korea-summit-k
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by moufestaphio 8y ago
I'm assuming he was going from the OP article: >Bain, KKR, and Vornado will have to write off their investment, of course. But they did suck around $200 million in fees out of Toys 'R' Us over the course of their ownership
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by moufestaphio 9y ago
The actual quotation is way more reasonable than the headline: “How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?” he said. “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it wil
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by moufestaphio 9y ago
Japan has a pretty long history of autocratic rulership.. And has only really had once party in power throughout the history of its democracy (like 3 years or so without): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democrati
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by moufestaphio 9y ago
Yeah that bothered me as well. Would you write: "Site uses American characters to publish fake news." ?
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by moufestaphio 9y ago
Most of the replies are related to Roman stuff, but more 'recent' checkout the Moors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors They created some amazing architecture and culture in Southern Spain.

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