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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I think you are looking for the old forum culture that used to exist before Reddit came along. Reddit is weak because it is either segregating people into subreddits and echo-chambers (making it just an over-moderated monopolistic forum kil
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I doubt anyone actually used the front page to discover things, most likely they will stick to a handful of subreddits.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
$5 per month for Reddit is silly though. Expensiveness is based on the value/return of whatever you are buying.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The main problem with Reddit is the moderation. It all hit the wall when Trump was elected and the Reddit directors decided to run around like chickens and clamp down on half the community. The website has become a far-left US-centric mass
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
A lot of the US tech industry was built on the backs of Indians. You'll find that the Indians were the second largest race involved in early computing after the Whites. The second point is that a lot of the problems in India do stem fr
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Tamils also have a similar concept.
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It does not actually say that it is taken out of the curriculum. It says that it is taken out from textbooks in a certain year. That means nothing in the context of Indian education considering how accessible a periodic table is.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
If everyone does it then maybe it isn't stupid? Your argument isn't a valid one.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
The article says that the bacteria uses plastic but does it actually eat it?
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I think one of the things I noticed about a lot of Asian tech newbies (both East Asia and South Asian) is how different they were to be in terms of money and wanting to "live it large" in a place such as Los Angeles. Obviously the
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
You could argue that other cultures have had similar impacts on Japan as well, including Western and Indian. What I disagree with is the idea that China is the "Greece of Asia" which is laughable at best. How exactly has the Chine
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I also studied Asian history in Asia. I am aware that a lot of Americans who study Asian history study it from an Sinocentric viewpoint, but overlook how the rest of Asia actually developed. I strongly disagree about Chinese influence on Ja
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I also studied Asian history as well, but I studied it in Asia. I often come across a lot of Americans who study Asian history from a Sinocentric viewpoint which is why I write strongly on the matter.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Half the words in modern Japanese is a long stretch. All Japanese words have two readings so obviously you can say that, but only one of those readings is used in daily conversation.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
But relative impact is low. Latin and Indian scripts are used throughout Asia as well, including Japan. i.e. to say that it is the "greece of asia" is a bit over-chauvinistic.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
But the relative impact has been pretty low, and its relevance to Japanese cultural development is also very low. Neo-Confucianism was mostly evident in South Korean culture, less in China, and basically down to very little in Japan.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
This is available in much of Asia actually. It is common to pay in "cash" in many Asian countries and this service is available through 7/Eleven.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
As someone who actually lives in Japan for over a decade, you are wrong about the idea that the filal piety in East Asia comes from China. It is common but incorrect of many Chinese to overstate their impact on East Asia, but in reality the
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
That isn't actually that true for Japan and most of South East Asia. It's only the greater China region, Vietnam and Korea where Confucianism was a big thing.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
"For example in an online forum, the most up-voted posts may be shown on at the top of the page." In the culture of the internet prior to 2010, usually whatever was the most recent post would get the the top spot, and I believe th
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
China only really had a strong impact in China and Korea - though a lot of Chinese people tend to overstate their impact for cultural chauvinism. Outside of possibly the Viet region as well, Chinese culture has had little impact. Imperial C
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Quora was going in a good direction until it decided to remove question details. It could have easily expanded its offering as a more high brow Reddit, but instead it has seemingly dumped the flavours in favour of mass market low brow conte
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I think Reddit and other social media share the same problem in that people don't naturally share the same piece of information with EVERYONE they know. Your girlfriend/boyfriend might be interested in your marriage plans, but you
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I think it all fell apart around the time of the first Trump election, whether you blame the Trump supporters or badly handled moderation, but the moderation has seemingly turned the website into an echo chamber with a huge American and lef
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
This is not really true for most long haul flights though, even the ones to Asia if you take economy class. At this point you are just paying for the speed of intercontinental travel over oceans and unstable regions, which obviously buses a
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Liberalism is right wing in most of the world.
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Flying in Europe is now basically similar to taking a bus, even for all the full service airlines as well. It's only on a handful of international routes to Asia where you can get a nice level of service if you opt for the higher class
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
Considering this is from the Economist, I think it is worth to mention the dire state of British railways. The main reason that Europeans fly (including Brits) is that it's simply the cheapest option, more-so that bus in many cases. Ai
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
A big issue that I have with the current discourse on environmentalism is the idea that individuals should do small things before the institutions do big things. For example using any gas appliances less without first converting all power p
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by witchesindublin 3y ago
I think it is a good sign that regulators are starting to break-up big tech. The internet world has become much more concentrated in the past decade than mainstream linear media ever was. You never had a small handful of media companies wit

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