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by suction 5y ago
The question which always comes to mind when some "papers" are released allegedly revealing how bad our politicians and other leaders are...why are we all so much better off than our ancestors just a hundred years ago? Less war, l
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by suction 5y ago
Japan isn't really safe for kids and women. And by that I don't mean mugging or robbing or violence, but sexual harassment like touching, flashing, etc.
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by suction 5y ago
May I add that inside the EU, the differences can be staggering? I worked in both German and French companies. The French ones were all much more hierarchically organised than the German ones. So much so that I started researching why, beca
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by suction 5y ago
Parker: A trillion dollar coin isn't cool. You know what's cool? A quadrillion dollar coin.
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by suction 5y ago
I'd never think of asking it what the time in my particular city is. I reckon that's how "normies" think time works, and Apple has tuned Siri to their needs? As opposed to the needs of people who may have some knowledge
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by suction 5y ago
That's where Siri absolutely and completely fails for me. It doesn't understand 90% of the song or band names I ask to play. Maybe it's good when all you ask it to play is "The Beatles" or "Kanye West", b
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by suction 5y ago
Setting alarms and timers is the only thing where Siri works for me more than it doesn't. Asking it to play a certain song or band or anything more than a 3 word command will fail or result in long stalling with an eventual "sorry
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by suction 5y ago
I like Apple in general, but using Siri is the most frustrating experience Apple has ever rolled out to the public. It's absolutely awful and useless in its current state for anything but setting a timer or alarm. Google Assistant is s
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by suction 5y ago
You're taking kids to Japan?
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by suction 5y ago
May I ask where you are living and how you support yourself? No personal details, of course.
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by suction 5y ago
If I was animal, I'd like Japanese people to stay away from me as far as possible, too.
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by suction 5y ago
Gruber has now spent about a week of writing fuming articles going after Chen because he dared to say the iPhone 13 feels like an incremental update. It's almost creepy how he tries to erase that (pretty harmless) criticism, and even f
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by suction 5y ago
"Big" is a very soft word to use in astronomy
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by suction 5y ago
Do they mean real censorship or the American right's skewed idea of "censorship"?
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by suction 5y ago
Yes, his work often does sound like a parody similar to SNL doing the stereotypical long-haired California 20-ish dude who's too much into psychedelics: "Hey maaaaan, listen maaaan, it's all connected, maaaan, you gotta wake
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by suction 5y ago
In France, you mostly see him as a caricature nowadays. In general, the urge to see people as war heroes, regardless of their abilities or achievements or who they thought against, is almost absent in continental Europe, especially compared
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by suction 5y ago
Ah, Beats, the black sheep in the Apple world.
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by suction 5y ago
When software companies switch to subscription-only models (see 1Password) you better not be invested in the software too much or you'll be at their price gouging mercy. I'll happily pay for software but I won't support subsc
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by suction 5y ago
He also called Germany "still a Nazi country" because one(!) Taxi driver in Berlin refused service after threw an entitlement fit. That's after he lived in Germany for many years and was supported by the government in every w
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by suction 5y ago
Oh, so image data? I got the impression they used a text-only description as input.
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by suction 5y ago
With Apple, you're usually getting a free replacement once they acknowledge the issue. I don't think they ever issued a $2 or other low amount in cash rather fixing the hardware.
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by suction 5y ago
This would be so much better if we knew the description fed into the "AI".
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by suction 5y ago
The currently popular idea of "setting precedent" is overrated, misused and an argument, and shouldn't be taken as "it will definitely happen all the time soon". The Japanese "set precedent" by bombing Pea
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by suction 5y ago
Of course! Especially in the "knowledge worker" departments, but the majority of white-collar employees and their families still kind of believes the "Japan #1" pipe dream. Japanese products are automatically "the b
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by suction 5y ago
Yes, because the economic slump started in the early 90s and was in full swing in the early 2000s. The book is really worthwhile, not dry at all. But it's very disillusioning, I've had very severe reactions from "Japanophiles
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by suction 5y ago
I'd recommend you read "Dogs & Demons" by Alex Kerr, which is specifically about land use in modern Japan.
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by suction 5y ago
I don't think this influx of Japan-related posts on the HN front page is a positive thing. The overexposure of Japan in nerd circles is understandable and well-researched, but it feels like a cheapening of this forum and descend into R
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by suction 5y ago
A short explanation is that they set it up once after WW2 by copying from the US and Europe, but since then the countries they copied from got wise to the IP theft and copycat manufacturing and blocked the transfer of later tech and process
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by suction 5y ago
Nobody wants to go there, may be why.
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by suction 5y ago
If you put yourself in the position of those neighbours, they do have a point though: New apartments usually means luxury apartments, hence gentrification.

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