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by sdrothrock 5y ago
That's why the comment is specific about what the writer wants to hear; his apology in Mandarin apologized repeatedly for making a mistake but didn't specifically say what the mistake was or say that Taiwan belongs to China.
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
The long intestine bit is a common piece of nihonijinron. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
> I still remember the "Duck hunt gun" on the Super Nintendo which was widely interesting. The Duck Hunt zapper was for the original Nintendo, but the Super Nintendo had the Super Scope. :) https://theoldschoolgameva
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
If you're ever forced into using Zoom, it's possible to add captions: https://webcaptioner.com/help/integrations/zoom
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
You didn't have to go to an office to get your COVID benefits. They mailed a brief, mostly prefilled form to your home and you put in your bank details and a copy of your ID to mail back. You may be thinking of people rushing to get th
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
I'd argue that "Team Leader" means "boss," though.
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
I'm not sure, honestly; there used to be a really long forum thread with random hacks that helped some (but not all) people and there were apparently a lot of conflated bugs that confused the whole thing, so I stopped trying to follow
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
Just a warning: Virtualbox with hard drive files on an external USB hard disk has been broken for me on Catalina on my both of my Mac Minis (late 2012, 2018) and iMacs (late 2012, mid 2017). That particular functionality worked fine on Moja
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
Sure thing! I had a blast when it hit the HN front page and it still sticks with me.
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
There are some correlations between BCG vaccines (especially the Japanese strain) and covid-19 doubling times[1][2][3]. But these are just correlations so far. There is also an ongoing study in Australia to try to find if there's reall
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by sdrothrock 6y ago
> The issue is that there's no spatial component to WeChat. For whatever reason, it feels different when you have an avatar in a world with some freedom to move around. I completely agree. My experience in Online Town was vastly dif
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
Great chatting with you, too!
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I've spent the last 2-3 hours in here and have talked to maybe half a dozen people about all kinds of things. This is just such a fun way to get together and have a conversation, and there are so many possibilities. Thanks a TON to Cyr
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
> Main thing we wanted was a minimap, or some way for new arrivals to find us. I was thinking a minimap would be nice, or maybe a dash option so I could get around a little faster. For helping people find each other faster, it seems like
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I actually prefer this instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/nipponnoiro/ It's the same concept, but one color for every day of the year. It's a lot more browsable/readable, though it's not s
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
Maybe remove the Japan option until you do support Japanese? It just seems to be an invitation to make yourself look bad. :/
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I tried it out and it doesn't seem to support unicode well. I searched for "学校" (Japanese: gakkou, school) in Japan and the results page was headed with "%E5%AD%A6%E6%A0%A1". Additionally, the actual results weren&#
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
He's mentioned working on Pokemon Go before, so I'd guess that.
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I read this and my first question was "Why?" He has a previous post titled "Thinking psycopg3" that shed some light on the issue: https://www.varrazzo.com/blog/2020/03/06/thinking-psyc
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
> I wish people would stop upvoting me though... Each one makes me cringe: another person who didn't read very carefully. I don't think upvotes mean something's correct, I think they mean that something (and the ensuing di
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
> We've worked with brilliant scientific and technical people who do not communicate their ideas well Alan Alda did as well and that was what gave birth to the idea for his book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Fac
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
Maybe you've already seen this one, but maybe there are some people who haven't... I get a kick out of it every time I reread it, anyway. :) http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles Edit: And the FAQ:
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
Different things, definitely. Better? Depends on what you need! I use Amazon Japan because I live here, though.
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
This is an offshoot discussion and I have nothing against DDG or bang commands -- just presenting another side of convenient searches. > I know Firefox had install-your-own search plugins forever, but the total lack of friction of typing
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
Ahh... a neat coincidence anyway. :) Thanks for letting me know!
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I wonder if the name "Nestur" is a callback to "Nester" from the "Howard & Nester" comics in Nintendo Power: https://hn.iodized.net/main.htm
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
> Doesn't pretend to be meat but is delicious. This is absolutely my favorite kind of vegan food.
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
> If you're a kid and do the cost/benefit analysis, going to school looks like a dumb decision and a huge opportunity cost for time that could otherwise be used for things with known reward (playing). Bullying, exams, homework,
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I can't stand them myself; they're rarely that uncrowded and many streets with cars/cycle traffic here also don't have setbacks while, at the same time, allowing private property to build high walls. This results in a la
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by sdrothrock 7y ago
I don't have anything to say about whether or not the article is anti-China propaganda, but I just wanted to address this comment because there's some underlying assumptions being made here about names and ethnicity. In this day a

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