skokage

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by skokage 7y ago
FTA: >"Japan has changed its strategy in combating the contagion, seeking to slow its spread and minimize the number of deaths." In my personal opinion living and working here, this society is very slow to change and things tha
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by skokage 7y ago
>But part of me feels an obligation to be informed to hold those in power accountable. I'm curious though, how does the average citizen hold those in power accountable? OK so you vote, but tons of other people vote and are often un
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by skokage 7y ago
>Maybe supply chains become a bit more distributed, or less centralized. This is one of the things that I've been wondering about the last few days. I recently read an article discussing how because China is essentially shut down,
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by skokage 7y ago
>North American (NA) schools have bullying, exams, homework, and sleep disruption but our system is still relatively intact. My impression from living here in Japan for a bit over a year, and having friends with children in the Japanese
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by skokage 7y ago
I guess it depends on if we are talking about enthusiasts or the average consumer? If we are talking about the average consumer I would assume in order of importance; Reliability, vehicle range, charging time, ride quality, available tech
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by skokage 7y ago
Any time these topics around weakening privacy or removing encryption comes up, it's nearly always presented with a save the children type of argument. I mean, who doesn't want to protect children from child abuse and predators?
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by skokage 7y ago
It's paywalled everywhere, not just for you. The easiest thing to do for almost any website that is paywalled is to just disable javascript through your browser: https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAA
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by skokage 7y ago
I disagree with this article that this is all about their ability to "tell stories", as much as management that's really good at identifying which company to acquire next so they can squeeze every last cent from consumers for
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by skokage 7y ago
>Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work. I can't tell if he was serious about that comment or not... Considering he builds rockets with fr
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by skokage 7y ago
>I have no doubt that some Americans legitimately dislike DST—not just the change of clocks, but the redistribution of sunlight from morning to afternoon. I don't really feel like most people complain about the specific time the sun
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by skokage 7y ago
Boy was that a depressing article to read. I felt bad for the individual farmers who go out of business and lose their livelihoods, the towns which suffer as more means of production are lost to either globalization or big business, the an
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by skokage 7y ago
>So you have countries like Germany that are effectively subsidized by poorer countries. Could you explain this comment further, or have links to stories that go in depth on how that works? Not saying you are wrong, but I don't und
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by skokage 7y ago
>Breja alleges that on March 12, 2019, in an executive team meeting, he learned that some batches of mint e-liquid had been found to be contaminated. Approximately 250,000 mint refill kits, the equivalent of one million pods, were manufa
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by skokage 7y ago
>now we're seeing the harmful health effects of whatever cheap materials they're using to manufacture the coils. This is the main part that I'm concerned about personally. There is a local place i go to back when i lived
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by skokage 7y ago
>How many Chinese will pay attention to "whatever those people are doing in Hong Kong" for the first time because of this ? Most of them are already aware, and due to state ran media and an ultra-nationalistic view, are in full
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by skokage 7y ago
I'm also a fan of SerpentZA, LaoWhy86, and their shared channel ADVChina. Same thing as your link, guys that have been living there for over 10 years, married to chinese women, read and speak the language, and can provide a lot of ins
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by skokage 7y ago
>What would have moved to Vietnam would have been more basic textiles and cnc/molding. And these are the types of jobs that provided a decent living wage for the middle/lower-middle class, of which a lot of people in the midwes
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by skokage 7y ago
Late to respond, but because outline sometimes doesn't work for me (for instance bloomberg articles), I've found it easier to just disable javascript in that tab via chrome dev tools.
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by skokage 7y ago
>If these companies wanted to they could mass produce and sell at 1/10th the cost. But that defeats the purpose of these cars existing. I'm not so sure if that would be feasible. In the case of say a limited edition Hurican I