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>Anime is not the dominant form of media in Japan, and is largely targeted at a relatively narrow age band But it seems very popular, out of the top ten highest grossing films in J…

Yes you are correct. Take something like the Super Nintendo, it typically displayed hundreds of colors on screen, however each graphical element could have a maximum of 16 colors (…

As I understand it, the reason for child separation is that they can't certify that the adult traveling with them is their actual parent, and given that child trafficking is a real…

>I don't think someone is free if they don't have the material resources to make their own decisions. So who is the one who is to be forced to provide them with said material resou…

Well, video and audio should be fine either way, right ? Downloading and running executable files from file sharing networks seems like asking for trouble no matter what the networ…

Anyone know what the state of the network is these days ? I haven't used it for at least 8+ years, I remember servers drying up but with kademlia that's not really a problem.

>In Finland we put Vitamin D in milk that’s sold on normal shops. I'd wager it's the same in all the Nordic countries, at least it's the same here in Sweden. A couple a months ago …

For good reason, this is an emulator for a current-gen system, and from what I've seen on Youtube, a lot of games are fully playable. Companies are likely not that bothered by lega…

Yes, correlation is not causation and all that, but when I was there I was struck by how very little obesity there was. I later learned that Japan has the highest life expectancy i…

I don't think so, I believe the worst case scenario is they might have to rename the project to not have 'Diablo' in its title. Only project that I know Blizzard shut down was a St…

>Why are calls to violence bad, but spreading misinformation about a pandemic How do you know what is 'misinformation' ? WHO claimed that face masks were worthless, now you are for…

Then why was this legislation introduced ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...

>Patreon became successful mostly because of the girls charging money for their nudes. Do you have any numbers to back this up with ? I think you are likely right but if there is a…

>A lot of prominent gatekeepers are all about the status quo. Who are these ?

>The thing that has put us off the last few cruises is realizing how workers on the ships are treated. I read somewhere that the main reason these cruise ships, including those own…

>Sorry, but look at how China, South Korea, Taiwan etc. are doing right now I'm taking China numbers with a LARGE grain of salt (basically I don't believe them at all given how the…

Very anectdotal, but the three Japanese persons I know have told me that people in Japan are generally negative towards holding an Olympics and think it's just a waste of resources…

Do new Android phones save photos in HEIC format ?

>Then HEVC isn't doing so bad Sure, but it was massively pushed as the successor of h264 as the new de facto video codec standard, after almost a decade in use it has clearly faile…

>They get slammed for being funded by Google I don't see that at all, I mean they've been funded by Google for practically their entire existence. On the contrary it seems to me th…

I've not seen any indication that users wanted it, I've also read that Mozilla developers agree that it should be an extension. Yet Mozilla buys this and puts it inside Firefox, wh…

>You can go back from XL to jpeg losslessly as well I don't think so, but I don't quite see the point unless you are thinking of using it as a way to archive jpeg's, but in that ca…

Yes, it losslessly recompresses existing jpeg's into the jpeg XL format, while also making the files ~20% smaller, key point being lossless. Thus it is the 'perfect' upgrade path f…

>Interesting. Where have you seen that adoption will be swifter with JPEG XL instead of, say, AV1/AVIF? Well, it's not finalized as of yet (though it is imminent), so rate of adopt…

>Likely the format with the best chance of overthrowing the jpg/gif/png incumbents is AVIF I used to think the same as well, however I now think Jpeg XL is poised to be the 'winner…