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Tetris wasn't that big before the Gameboy version. It was "big" in the tiny new computer/tech world, but it was gameboy which brought it into the mainstream.

Japan is the 10th most populous country in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... > Will China invade? Why would they invade? China and the rest…

This is just white people. Asians stick with asians, blacks with blacks, hispanics with hispanics, natives with natives. I love how people love to pretend that the US is some kind …

> Or look at America, the world's biggest melting pot. Oh stop it. We aren't a melting pot. We are nation with nearly 80% white population. And there has been tons of anti-immigrat…

What the fuck is with the shills on hacker news? > Your genetic data is nearly worthless, even to you, unless the aggregated database exists. Nonsense. There is value in individual…

Or people don't like their DNA being used for something beyond what they paid for? After all, the customers paid 23andme for a service.

> If both sides are equally evil in your view, would you say you are indifferent to which side ended up winning WWII? As an american, of course I'm glad the US won. All I'm saying …

>The allies had far less incidents of rape. And defently not systematic like Japan. Systematic? Is that a joke? Millions more german and japanese women were raped by the allies tha…

> I think that you will find evidence in both directions Most american POWs survived ww2 under japanese control. Almost no wounded or surrendering japanese survived ww2 under Ameri…

Yes. Myth is a few people dying. Hell more americans are killed on a slow weekend in chicago than in bataan "death" march.

What's even worse is that their prices aren't even competitive anymore! It is cheaper for me to buy floss refills at my local supermarket than it is to buy on amazon. WTF! The craz…

> After public protest and court ruling, it is now admitted it was the Japanese army which ordered people to kill themselves and even killed them: That's a bit of revisionism as we…

> Where is the American Treblinka Where is the axis hiroshima/nagasaki? Where is the axis firebombings of japan and germany? > the British Buchenwald? Go look up bengali holocaust …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_... Millions of german women were raped by the allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_... T…

> What's your source for the 'myth' of the Bataan Death March? "100–650 American prisoners of war died on the march before they reached their destination." https://en.wikipedia.org…

> Not even the German government, engaged in attempting to exterminate the undesirable population of Europe? They weren't more racist than the US/British. You could argue they were…

I guess you haven't heard of the mass rape of german and japanese women by the victorious allies. The allies raped far more women than the axis.

> Basically the Japanese were using perfidy as a normal war tactic (perfidy is a war crime, surrender and then, when your enemy's guard is lower, attack). The japanese started suic…

> For the japanese military in WWII, rape was normal. What racist gibberish. It was "normal" just like it was normal for the allies. The allies did a lot more raping than the axis.…

Sure, but you are talking about racist hatred trumping rationality and civility. There weren't a more racist and savage group in ww2 than the allied soldier in the pacific. Hundred…

> My impression is a lot of soldiers and contemporaneous sources said Japanese fought to the death, engaged in suicidal 'banzai charges', killed themselves rather than surrender, a…

> Without Scotland, no mines, no oil, less fish. England in itself, independent from the EU, cannot stand the test of time. England has canada, australia, new zealand and of course…

> As long a Germany and France are on board, the EU will survive in some form. They won't be on board much longer. The EU is nonsense at its very core. It is a corrupt cesspool whe…

> how much of Japan's conduct in WW2 (notably, the fighting until death) can be attributed/blamed to this misinterpretation of samurai history? Japanese soldiers' "fighting to the …

> Is Scotland going to be exiting the UK next? Guess we'll see in a few years. It's possible. The same with northern ireland. But more interesting question is which european countr…