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The font issue is so challenging. Even Chinese developers (who obviously don’t think ASCII is fine) sometimes won’t understand why using a Chinese font to render kanji is an issue.…

Mohammed bin Salman’s public position is that global warming is real and dangerous and he has pledged that Saudi Arabia will be carbon neutral by 2060. I think if you wanted to mak…

I think a better analogy is the internet. Or phones. By any measure, either of those technologies have unleashed a torrent of scams and fraud, especially in the areas where they ar…

I think Japan is my favourite country for road trips. So many stunning mountain and costal roads. And hotels and restaurants in rural areas often have amazing food. However, gasoli…

Visas will be your challenge. Unless you’re married to a Japanese person, it will be hard for you to get a work visa without being employed by a Japanese company. Any way to try to…

…you know China has satellites and stuff, right?

I think it’s more than for some reason stories about Japan being super weird seem to be very popular in Western media.

> How much that productivity has increased due to automatization of laborous tasks ? For sure some of it. As well as education of the workforce and the changing nature of work. Eit…

Okay, but how do you propose the victims of Kiwifarms protect themselves from being kicked off the internet? And remember we’re not talking about their physical ability to connect …

But because of a vague memory about something you read sometime (which looks like it was wrong), the presence of short-haired elves breaks your immersion and damages your enjoyment…

Providing information about how to source drugs (and even encouraging people to take them) is not the same as drug trafficking. Erowid is not the Silk Road. As for the second alleg…

But if someone comes at you wanting to unplug you from the internet (in every meaningful sense), what possible recourse do you have? These are trolls, they don’t go away just becau…

> "Doxxing" doesn't restrict someone else's free speech. It just discourages them from conducting speech under their public identity. Isn’t this the exact same thing? Discouraging …

I think it’s interesting that so many people see the danger in a Twitter “mob” effectively running Kiwifarms off the public, visible internet, without recognising that Kiwifarms th…

I think I understand why you feel this way, but I personally find them to be a helpful format. For example, last time I had to figure out how to store addresses in a database I mad…

I’m gonna agree with everyone else. I’ve lived in Japan for years and never seen a sign like that.

I’d guess hard, as opposed to soft (dismissible/based on number of articles read), paywall.

> It seems like if you think cheese storage is arbitrary, you do not cook for yourself on a regular basis enough to think about ingredient storage/preparation. Eh, I love cooking a…

Email marketing is a behemoth and showing no signs of slowing down. It’s a fine market to be in. For sure, if your goal is to find some famous person and contact them directly, Twi…

I am in Japan, have been watching the news, and this is the first time I’d seen the Unification Church named as the motive. My impression has also been that the domestic media is d…

Ehh, I think that’s not correct at all?? Plenty of teenagers drink visibly in public here all the time. Normal bars, shops and restaurants never check IDs and drunk teenagers on th…

Just wait til we start optimizing for it ;)

I’ve done a bit of consulting in this space. It really depends on the union. Some are stuck in the 90s but some are doing all the fancy modern stuff you’d expect. And yes, there ar…

Agreed. I’ve seen the UN-led humanitarian system up close (albeit not in Africa). In my experience, it has many, many flaws. One of these is that it is resource constrained.