mratzloff

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I live and work in NYC.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Latin characters are hardly alien to Japanese.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's very straightforward, and although typing speed is not quite the same as English (for me, at least, although I am not a native speaker), it's not wildly different.

Typing a Japanese word or phrase is just like typing in English, with the exception of selecting the appropriate kanji from a list (no mouse or stylus required). An experienced typist can do this very quickly, on a physical keyboard or on a smartphone.

For a word like "Japanese" (language), i.e., Nihongo or 日本語, it's actually fewer keystrokes than in English: 5 vs. 8, or 9 if you count the space afterward since Japanese doesn't have the same spacing requirements.

Comment · 5 years ago
Well, it clearly didn't take place in the US since she had an employment agreement that required a two-month separation notice from the employer.
Comment · 5 years ago
A 2x increase for battery storage would be game changing for a wide variety of use cases. Electric vehicles, industrial applications...
Comment · 5 years ago
Calling someone who has made himself remarkably vulnerable and open a "bozo" because he doesn't have the same values or life experiences as you do is unkind and uncharitable. We all experience things in our own time and our own way, and while I have my own thoughts about his experiences and areas that he might examine more closely, I'm also not revealing personal details of my own life for public examination.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Unnecessary? I think non-whites would take issue with that. Race hatred and violence certainly resulted in "extraordinarily dangerous" outcomes for them over the last 250 years.

In any event, the Internet changed things. Before, it was very difficult to light the entire country on fire.

With the Internet, and social networks in particular, that has changed. The reach is unprecedented; it is a difference of kind, not just magnitude. Anyone can reach very specific groups of people and incite hatred and violence through targeted propaganda campaigns. There's more than one reason rhetoric and mass violence has increased since the late '90s (on a national scale), but I believe this is one of the biggest contributors.

Comment · 5 years ago
Pick a point and draw a line in the sand. Then enforce it.

So many HN replies amount to "we all agree this is a problem, but we can't fix the entire problem perfectly, and it has some hypothetical drawbacks, so we shouldn't even try."

(Never mind that as a result of inaction in the face of disinformation and hate speech our societies are rotting from the inside, and many, many real-world atrocities are being carried out as a direct result.)

This is, by the way, a fundamentally conservative viewpoint. Cf. gun violence, homelessness, living wage, etc. Just because something is a complex issue with imperfect solutions doesn't mean we have permission to do nothing.

Comment · 6 years ago
How about "doesn't scam you"? Gandi is widely respected. I've registered all of my domains there for over a decade.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've never had this issue with Gandi.net. They are excellent.
Comment · 6 years ago
Early on (nearly 20 years ago) it was possible to register a yyy.name by itself. For example, I own the domain for my last name.
Comment · 6 years ago
What the fuck?
Comment · 6 years ago
I did. Contrary a point above, I vendored dependencies in Go in 2012 the old school way: copy them into a vendor directory. It worked fine for end-user binaries, and you didn't have to worry about painfully long builds like you can get doing that with C++.

The Go authors have explicitly stated they don't do things until they figure out the right way to do them. No language gets it all right out of the gate, but Go got pretty close with e.g. its standard library.

Comment · 6 years ago
Form editing is really poor in Preview.
Comment · 6 years ago
No, I'm saying I searched online and found nothing to corroborate your statement.

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