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by paulific 8y ago
And they play it at Takadanobaba station which located in the area where Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy, had his studio. (There is also a huge mural under the railway bridge outside featuring all of his characters)
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by paulific 8y ago
Can't resist the chance to recommend the Japanese comic Bunburyoutou (文武両闘). There is a free trial (in Japanese) at http://maoh.dengeki.com/try/bunburyoutou/index.html but that is geoblocked an image search u
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by paulific 8y ago
Occam's razor is better thought of as a method of choosing between alternative explanations of the same observed phenomena. It suggests choose the one that requires the least unproved theoretical scaffolding to support it. It is not re
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by paulific 8y ago
Don't know if they still make them, but it looks like they did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UygajWAbOVQ
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by paulific 8y ago
I missread that as "self driving crabs" and now I want to see that. :-)
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by paulific 8y ago
Well its a marxist magazine, so its essentially pushing a political line that the anarchists were wrong not to pursuing socialist goals.
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by paulific 8y ago
At the university I studied at it was still called "Government". I suppose the "science" is to make a distinction between the "practice of" and the "study of". If you study history you are a historian
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by paulific 8y ago
Yes, in Japan there is a custom of briefly tooting the horn to say thank you (for example when someone lets you in in front of them) and they still have problems when people have different ideas of what constitutes "too long".
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by paulific 8y ago
As a net user since 1995 I preferred it back then. Admittedly this is probably tinged with nostalgia, but I remember people just sharing information without needing to charge you for it. Maybe I just started with low standards, but when peo
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by paulific 8y ago
Well there are genuinely people out there who don't use the content. Our attitudes to media and who should be watching what haven't changed much from the broadcast era. "I'm not one Facebook" is the new "I don&
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by paulific 8y ago
Hope you're enjoying it anyway. I think the Japanese look on it more as a salad bar or smorgasbord "So many good deals!" but maybe I've been living here too long. Some of the variants have to do with JR being split up in
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by paulific 8y ago
Yes, I did some translation work for a global engineering company whose approach to achieving "zero fatal accidents" was exactly what you suggest. Instead of placing the blame on people for not following the rules, they identify t
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by paulific 8y ago
Reminds me of the Corey Doctorow/Charles Stross short story Unwirer: https://craphound.com/unwirer/
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by paulific 8y ago
That sounds like a great science fiction story though!
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by paulific 8y ago
So you were working on a lab proof of S.L.A. Marshall's Men Against Fire? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L.A._Marshall
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by paulific 9y ago
This was my one break during the year of my honors thesis! Once a week on Sunday morning I would stop work and play Dark Castle for a couple of hours. Good times!
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by paulific 9y ago
This sounds rather like Baron Wulfenbach from Girl Genius come to life http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040107 Hacker News recognizes the power of Mad Science!