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Margh
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Comment #21329981
firefox (and lockwise) are very much on iOS and very well integrated with the system.
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Comment #12324953
A child/foreigner can point at "inconceivable" and ask: 'what does "in-con-ceiv-able" mean?' as opposed to 'what does "..." mean' A japanese beginner will see 照り焼き and say "uhhhh..…
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Comment #12324937
If you replace kanji with katakana and keep hiragana for particles and conjugation, you can call it a day. Easy to learn, no more trying to guess if it's on/kunyomi, immune to misp…
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Comment #12324775
Beatport? Definitely a lot easier to buy large amounts of tracks at once.
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Comment #12324759
That's exactly why you need more than just hiragana, it'd be too difficult to tell what each character was parf of at speed. Something like katakana replacing kanji and hiragana fo…
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Comment #12324737
Spotify seems to be partially gearing for that. A lot of reasonable sized artists' pages have an "Offers" section where they sell records and other merch.
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Comment #12324706
Spaces carry a lot of semantic weight, as do other components such as capitalisation and punctuation (most of which in use in Japan is borrowed from romaji anyway). iimagineitdgetp…
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Comment #11736260
fun fact: when the dagger you've used to indicate footnotes is attached to a person (the user), this typically indicates that the person is now dead. i thought you were applying so…
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Comment #11705003
Same, but I typically take that as a cue to stand up and go outside, sitting all day is also phenomenally unhealthy.
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Comment #11477415
> You're still going to jail when you buy something with a stolen credit card and have it shipped to your house Imagine me as the friendly neighbourhood trickster living on the sam…
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Comment #11446850
A prudent developer might make the expansions a mandatory purchase that adds the new content in cosmetic ways.
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Comment #11446834
And how do they continue to "farm" you for gold if you unsubscribe because you no longer feel a part of the world?
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Comment #11096267
The ad-blocker vs advertiser fight has just turned to total war, your target audience uses ad blockers more than any other demographic and you bet your profits on advertising. Brav…
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Comment #11057158
I also believe psychedelics can transform lives in a hugely positive way; since my first (and not last) experience with them last year my quality of life has been constantly improv…
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Comment #11052090
I mostly agree with your comment except for > benefit from ever improving medical technology As I understand it (not a US citizen) most of this technology comes with a mortgage siz…
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Comment #10730474
> there are going to be a massive amount of people who simply can't afford to use the internet that way In that case, they probably can't really afford to buy all the things target…
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Comment #10668316
> These are non-technical people who understand the importance of keeping their contact list private Do you take this opportunity to point out to them that they do away with this p…
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Comment #10613804
I really like this idea. Without knowing too much about bar associations I feel like a programmer association with a code of ethics similar to the ABA model rules (perhaps includin…
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Comment #10580639
West Germany had a similar culture to their occupant, the east not so much. Germany also became the centrepiece for a US vs. Russia proxy war, Syria would likely become the same an…
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Comment #10573255
The number of answers there are to that question is phenomenal. Here's one I just thought up: You stop going between A and B (home and work) for 6 months. You're now either unemplo…
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Comment #10559029
Not sure why you're being downvoted, the only thing that convinced me to use a Mac (for a while) was the BSD base on some nice hardware. Without it it would be like trying to devel…
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Comment #10277346
Google isn't responsible for software that could glitch out and apply your accelerator directly into a concrete wall. Like the GP said, physical devices that have a use that is in …
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Comment #10277250
Every bank I've ever been with has had a pathetic limit on its online banking passwords. One of them (NAB) was limited to something like 10 characters and only numbers and letters.…
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Comment #9967983
Rad is definitely not my experience. I've spent A LOT of time trying to get my site's appcache functionality to the point where it's barely usable. Probably more time than all of i…
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Comment #9786322
FWIW The Hurt Report[1] didn't find any link between motorcycle colours and crash numbers. I'd say that doubly applies to bicycles when you consider that even a small motorbike sti…