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by skhr0680 5y ago
The solution is to collectively, clearly, and politely tell the Communist Party of China to get fked. A lot of companies will lose money and a lot of things will get expensive, but it’s either rip the bandaid off now or amputate a limb late
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by skhr0680 5y ago
It depends on the country. In Japan pedestrians have the always have right of way, no matter what.
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by skhr0680 5y ago
The social contract in Japan was that you’d give your life to your employer in exchange for a fair wage and stable employment until you retired. Neither of those things are true now. Wages are low and companies either ignore their legal obl
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by skhr0680 5y ago
They didn't have a choice. It was either rejoin China or get their water cut off.
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Assassinating the president is as old as Rome, but if there was a TV show from March, 1963 where the military-industrial complex, mad at the president for not escalating Vietnam, decided to kill him by hiding a gunman in a building along h
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by skhr0680 5y ago
I recall reading about workplace accidents where (inert gas) displaced oxygen and workers didn’t notice until they literally started dropping dead
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by skhr0680 5y ago
I once had a conversation with a coworker once that went like this: Me: There’s a theory that the US government remote-controlled the 9/11 airliners and crashed them into the WTC to fire up arms sales that have been slow since the Cold
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by skhr0680 5y ago
> I wish most of all that CIA would scrounge up their "lost" MKULTRA files and declassify them and at least tell us WHY they ran this brothel and secretly drugged Americans with LSD. It would be nice to have proof, but I’m 100%
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Zoroastrianism is the reason Mazda is spelled the way it is instead of Matsuda
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by skhr0680 5y ago
The Soviets would have needed friends if the Allies accepted German's surrender then immediately took control of the German military to destroy the USSR, and Japan was in a natural position to be that friend. Stalin only agreed to brea
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by skhr0680 5y ago
> the day (日) of the fire light (火曜). The fire light being Mars. > I don't know the modern Japanese word for Mars, but in Chinese it's 火星, not 火曜. 火星 is the same. I don't know about Chinese, but in Japanese 曜 can be a
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by skhr0680 5y ago
I recall Serbia having some success baiting anti-radiation missiles with tactical microwave ovens
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by skhr0680 5y ago
It’s explicit in Japanese that the days of the week are named after planets. 火曜日 means “Mars day” not “Fire day”.
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by skhr0680 5y ago
> I have a feeling they won't do this because they want developers to make ipad native apps designed for the smaller screen sizes and touch. This is a part that I don't understand. It is a size and quality of panel that is fine
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Prison sure kept Carl Williams safe. Safe from dying of old age!
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by skhr0680 5y ago
I'm hoping Apple enables dual booting officially. I don't see any reason other than "We want to price segment iPad Pros and Macbooks"
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Three examples off the top of my head: The Korean War technically isn’t over, and since both sides claim they won, you’ll have to pick a winner yourself. The US military’s extreme prowess in the first Iraq war was the last evidence the Sovi
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by skhr0680 5y ago
My point is that if there's a war with China then the US will seek to contain it to the East China Sea. Kadena is 700km to the Chinese mainland, which is well within the F-35's combat range of 1000km.
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by skhr0680 5y ago
By “in the Pacific” do you mean flying from US west? If things come to that, then the US is in deep trouble.
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by skhr0680 5y ago
the Japanese leaders who were US-educated (including Konoe and Yamamoto) absolutely knew that attacking the US would steel the Americans' resolve against Japan: > In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Amazon Japan used to be in a league of their own, but a mix of their home-rolled delivery service being objectively bad and them allowing their platform to be dominated by scalpers (転売ヤー) means that they've lost a lot of the trust I ha
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Back when screens were low DPI fonts needed to be hinted and adjusted to look good. Times New Roman went through that process. In the case of Arial, yes, computers existed in 1982
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by skhr0680 5y ago
I don't think it was just the colorizing that was the problem. He was changing their expressions into smiles!
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Was the Golden Gate bridge painted at that point? [1] says "some" of the steel came with red primer. https://www.npr.org/2011/04/26/135150942/the-golden-gate-bri...
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by skhr0680 5y ago
That’s like saying the automobile was only ahead in terms of propulsion, the UI was pretty shitty and not much better than a horse.
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Gimp is underrated in my opinion. Most of the complaints I've seen about it boil down to it not being a 1:1 clone of Photoshop
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by skhr0680 5y ago
You're lucky to have encountered such thoughtful people. Not everyone is like that. I'm not sure what your Japanese level is, but exact examples of what I wrote are a search of "町内会ルールトラブル" etc away. Who accused Japanes
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Something like booting macOS on an iPad Pro?
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by skhr0680 5y ago
Until about a decade ago, this was extremely common in Japan. RIP mobile email, another victim of smartphones in general and the iPhone in particular
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by skhr0680 5y ago
> To the Japanese person, the main question on their mind is is the thing the village council is telling them to do in the best interests of the community and their neighbors. I don't think so. I'd say 90% of the time they don&

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