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by suction 5y ago
Yes, with the important difference that in Japan, the "old families" are still holding their political power, while in Europe, they just kept their money.
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by suction 5y ago
If you're looking for books on the subject of organised crime in Japan, it's hard to recommend anything. Maybe this one: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762585.Yakuza To get a grasp of the darker sid
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by suction 5y ago
You are describing multi-ethical cultural relativism, which is a feel-good idea indeed, but if you think about it, you'll quite quickly arrive at the realisation that the worst atrocities imaginable could be excused with it: "But
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by suction 5y ago
"Liberal" in the US policy-wise is extremely conservative in most Western European countries, for example Merkel's party CDU is a "right of center conservative" party in Germany but would be far left in the US. Mayb
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by suction 5y ago
Oh yes.
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by suction 5y ago
I also wondered about that, must be an US thing.
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by suction 5y ago
This is unfortunately true. It's hard to find the books that will shake your world, apart of the obvious ones like the classic Russian authors. There are plenty of "if you like book x you'll also like y" recommendation s
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by suction 5y ago
His whole website looks fake to me, as in it's actually run by a corporation to market their product. Not unlike those affiliate "blogs" using stock photography and inspirational bs quotes to create the impression of a person
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by suction 5y ago
Would a Chinese one do?
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by suction 5y ago
I simply love every Japanese term starting with "Chin".
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by suction 5y ago
Lmao
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by suction 5y ago
Don’t care, got Retina, they still look better, regardless of nerd words.
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by suction 5y ago
A teacher in IT, so someone who didn’t have the chops to get a higher paying job and settled. Maybe because you spent too much time tinkering with your WM.
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by suction 5y ago
Your Dad is way ahead of you. "Just works" is the key to having a better life. I get it though, when I was younger I thought not tinkering with one's computer setup was a mark of the amateur, while customising was the mark of
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by suction 5y ago
Well, "every" can't be true because fonts look way better on MacOS.
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by suction 5y ago
I understand it wasn't meant to be "mindlessly", I don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth. Still, if you don't have the more accurate word in your vocabulary, then don't use it. It will sound stilted an
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by suction 5y ago
Thank you.
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by suction 5y ago
I couldn't disagree more with this piece, especially the idea of a "draft #4" where you go through what you've written and replace all "pedestrian" words with less common ones from the dictionary. I know these
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by suction 5y ago
Sorry, can't write emotionless about Western people getting Japan wrong.
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by suction 5y ago
I also find them interesting, but what interests me is why Japan, not China, Thailand, Korea, or Malaysia is the most interesting to "nerds".
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by suction 5y ago
Not to stray too far off-topic, but is anyone aware of any scientific studies on the exaggerated interest in Japan and Japanese culture among "nerds" and other social outcasts? By that I don't mean Cosplayers or Manga fans, b
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by suction 5y ago
...or what people think they want...
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by suction 5y ago
"Asian" - so in your mind, from Iran to India to Japan, all people have the same culture?
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by suction 5y ago
Does Tumblr have to be an app for any non-marketing reason? If your website allows upload of porn, let it live in on the free internet as long as we still have it and don't waste resources on making it an "app". Problem solve
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by suction 5y ago
Ah I didn't know that because I steer clear of all these platforms.
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by suction 5y ago
But he also "dunks" on Trump by saying he profited from his DC hotel, where the bacon was amazing. Yes, that's the worst thing Trump got away with, sarcasm off. How these obvious Trumpists make it to the top of Hackernews sho
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by suction 5y ago
Curious about his examples involving liberal politicians, Chris Brown, and one extremely mild one for Trump. He's not fooling anyone though that this is mainly a hit piece on "libruls".
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by suction 5y ago
Are you French?
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by suction 5y ago
I've sometimes read that Sails.js is the "Rails" of the JS world, but when "I did my own research" about it there were enough red flags experienced by real world devs that I never considered it for a project. For in
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by suction 5y ago
Absolutely mirrors my experience when our small company was acquired by a large multinational of French origin. Why is France significant? Because their corporate culture is extremely hierarchical and centralised, similar to how their count

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