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Perhaps not complete bullsh!t.

Both my parents were in their early teens in Malaysia during the Japanese invasion and subsequent occupation. The both lived near (different) POW camps, and yes, they both agreed that the treatment of the British & Aussie POWs in those camps by the Japanese guards was brutal.

But they both say that when the roles were reversed and the Allies took back Malaysia, the treatment by Allied soldiers of the Japanese prisoners was equally as horrific. Call it 'revenge mentality' or anything else, but the truth is that it happened and they saw it happen with their own eyes. It is just not documented in the history books we read today.

My father had his bicycle commandeered by a Japanese soldier when the Imperial forces walked into Kuala Lumpur unopposed. The soldier politely asked to 'borrow' it and my dad's family knew better than to refuse. At the end of the war however, the same soldier knew defeat was coming so he actually sought out my father's family and returned the bike. It was a lot worse for wear, but he got it back.

Another Japanese officer gave my grandfather one of his ceremonial swords as a gift because he was going to go down to the river to commit seppuku rather than be captured by allied forces. Bushido or not, that sort of cultural belief was the norm back then.

My mother still speaks fondly of British POWs who she said were just young boys that she felt sorry for. She and her mother used to go down to the camp to collect the clothing of the POWs and the guards so they could mend them. Some of the English soldiers taught her to make toy bunny rabbits out of socks and she still remembers how to make them to this day.

She speaks of the sorrow of going down to the camp one day to return some uniforms only to find the place deserted. A remaining guard told her that the Allied POWs had been shipped off to Burma to build a railway. She cries even now when telling the story.

My mother actually still has some of the 'banana money' that was used by the Japanese in Malaysia during the occupation. Both my parents said that any actual fighting done by the Japanese forces was precise and directed against military installations in order to minimise civilian casualties.

My father's best friend lived among the labour camps on the ground of the KL railway station. When the initial Japanese air attack on the railway yards came, they bombed a few cars/buildings and shot out the clock tower (after dropping leaflets explaining that they would demonstrate their superiority by shooting out all the clock towers in KL). There were hardly any civilian casualties.

Conversely when the allied forces later counter attacked KL, they carpet bombed the railway yards, killing almost all the civilian labourers living there (including my dad's friend).

Perhaps it is because I heard all these first hand witness accounts while growing up that I always listen to any official war reports with a grain of salt. War is hell, and makes monsters of ALL the participants.
Not arguing with your decision, but seriously: you don't find the moderation patterns in these threads just a little suspicious?

You'll note I didn't accuse anyone specific of shilling.
I think the way the recipe goes is something like this: any non-dominant culture is unique and worth preserving (however, it may not be appropriated by outsiders) and any dominant culture is not only oppressive by nature but not worth preserving (should be diluted) except where its philosophy is to prefer non-dominant culture --and it may be appropriated, most naturally.
The online publications are replacing newspapers for people. I have a RSS reader. My parents found that they prefer getting the news online and on OTA broadcast TV. They used to get the paper daily, but now only get the Sunday paper for the coupons that it includes. They have it on a 99 cent a week promotion. That is a an order of magnitude less than the >$500 per year that they used to pay. They find having only 1 paper a week to recycle more convenient too.
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Yeah, I would think that the first step would be to do a survey of existing literature. Might take a while. It's a worthwhile endeavor, but definitely a difficult one.
No, but while all sides in war end up committing war crimes of one form or another, you definitely have systems in which this is a feature, not a bug. Large-scale massacres of civilians have been a regular staple of the Japanese armed forces during WWII (particularly the Army). And the pattern of abusing civilians of the so-called "co-prosperity sphere" and terrible treatment of POWs was not a case of isolated incidents.
This is true given that ride sharing is actually displacing under-used personal vehicles (and/or taxis), and not higher-efficiency public transit, or other alternatives. (Suzie goes across town to a bar every Friday night now because she can take an Uber. She used to just walk up the street to the one near her house.)

I don't know whether it is or not (and I assume the answer is different in different places), but it bears mentioning.
My parents do.
This is what I need. Phone in pocket and Bluetooth headset on neck results in buffer dropouts when I'm mid stride. I have to hold my phone in my hand to get stable playback. And I'm using Bluetooth 4.
They don't have to take it and run with it. Obviously the problem is with their editorial integrity. Never the less, we can look beyond the words and discuss the actual things.
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Might be the whole Ellen Pao harassment suit.

The firm had a big shakeup and departure of staff preceding that as well.

https://pando.com/2013/12/11/john-doerrs-last-stand-can-a-dr...

(I feel like KPCB had another harassment suit before Pao but I can't seem to recall the details.)
Actually, if all possible arcs are represented it is an even more interesting result, I think. Think about it, it goes against all the enumerations of story lines that have been offered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
I would be happy if either my Ceton InfiniTV 4 or HDHomeRun prime worked with OTA signals, but neither do. :/
>Is it useful?

"But compassion and moral principle cannot be the main motives for leftist activism. Hostility is too prominent a component of leftist behavior; so is the drive for power. Moreover, much leftist behavior is not rationally calculated to be of benefit to the people whom the leftists claim to be trying to help. For example, if one believes that affirmative action is good for black people, does it make sense to demand affirmative action in hostile or dogmatic terms? Obviously it would be more productive to take a diplomatic and conciliatory approach that would make at least verbal and symbolic concessions to white people who think that affirmative action discriminates against them. But leftist activists do not take such an approach because it would not satisfy their emotional needs. Helping black people is not their real goal. Instead, race problems serve as an excuse for them to express their own hostility and frustrated need for power. In doing so they actually harm black people, because the activists’ hostile attitude toward the white majority tends to intensify race hatred."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...
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Headphones are the big benefactor here, for me at least. I can walk to the kitchen with my wireless headphones.
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Pretty fun tool to play with. If you share it on reddit /r/internetisbeautiful, there will be more visitors.
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Bicycle weight only helps if you don't push yourself already. Going fast is fun, so why not go light?
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I need the range. I routinely grab my phone when I'm cooking dinner and walk to the living room causing my bluetooth speaker to make awful noises.
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Hm. Okay, perhaps a better analogy might be the way gun manufacturers are expected to ensure they're selling to licensed gun dealers.
I think a lot of the comments here could be attributed to the terrible Bluetooth software stacks that are around (Car head-decks, Android (all versions), Windows 8-10 default stacks).

I've got a brand new Plugable BT4 dongle that barely works in Win 10 because Broadcom haven't updated their suite so it relies on the default 10 drivers - you can't have a HFP and A2DP service running at the same time so a headset with speakers and mic won't work.
The other related concern being "if they know it expires in 5 years, they're unlikely to actually really quit their day job"

But still something of a worthy experiment, since it's at least slightly different than the yearly tax refunds.
I've found that microwave interferes very strongly with Bluetooth headphones
This Australian news report investigates one such enclave in Sweden, said to be one of dozens such zones across the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42jpuXJPk0w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_war_crimes_during_World...
>Well for adult bikes you are pretty much fixed at 700C. If making a bike pedaled contraption not so much.

For racing/road bikes, maybe. You're leaving out the 26" wheel adult bikes (which over time has encompassed 5 different rim diameters[1]) and 24" wheel bikes that are targeted at youth, but smaller adults sometimes prefer (well, those that have been give the option).

My bike pedaled contraption is a rear suspension compact long wheelbase recumbent with two real 20" (406mm rim) tires and they're spectacular.

[1] http://www.sheldonbrown.com/26.html
I studied Japanese history in a grad program for a while, and every professor I met agreed that bushido is a modern construct. There are plenty of academic articles about it, but you probably won't find many of them without access to JSTOR.
Also where does this prediction even come from? I don't think you can make extrapolations for 1/3 of the world's population.
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The use of the word in its modern sense is a modern development. It was used before, but to signify different things. In other words, while the samurai had concepts about the warrior ethos, which they may have called bushido (among other things), the concepts they understood and wrote about were different from the concept of bushido espoused by Nitobe Inazo, who was criticized for being ahistorical by his Japanese contemporaries.
How is this diesel-scandal the fault of the whole company and not of a few people who actively engaged in wrongdoings?!

Isn't this the whole reason for the invention of limited companies in the first place? It's considered a progress in human society to have developed limited liability laws. Besides, the good thing about not killing juristic persons is also true for not killing natural persons - it's considered an improvement by and large if a society gets rid of the medieval practice of executing prisoners.
That's a PAC I could get behind
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This is precisely what the new BBC computer education project should have been.

Not the BBC microbit - a useless computer with blinking lights, but instead the BBC should have designed a standard for other companies to build interesting and interconnecting computer bits and pieces.
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1Password for Teams?

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> Java JRE/SE/JDK... It's really not much more confusing than what others use

That's not saying much; "Java" means so many different things it's enough to make your head spin. At least these days it isn't a stock ticker symbol any more.
This sounds like an interesting project for YC research. Many of these questions are very open-ended and it will be exciting to see what comes out of it. However, one question in particular upset me as a Bay Area resident:

How can we make and keep housing affordable?

This question is frustrating not only because the problem is particularly acute but also because it is completely self-inflicted and solvable using what we already know.

Take a look at the 7 American cities with the highest rent: SF, NYC, Jersey City, DC, Boston, San Jose, LA
https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/national-rent-data...

Then look at the 7 largest American cities that still practice rent control: NYC, LA, San Diego, San Jose, SF, DC, Oakland, Jersey City
http://www.landlord.com/rent_control_laws_by_state.htm

Why? It's not a coincidence and it is causal. Rent control:
A. Disincentivizes new construction. Simply put, over time, long-term tenants might not be paying enough to make a keep a building profitable.
B. Causes owners to take recently-vacated, perfectly-habitable units off the market to avoid these same long-term un-evictable tenants (30,000 units are empty in SF alone. That’s 8.3% of the housing stock! http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2011/03/30/why-so-many-vac...)

These both result in less housing in total. A smaller supply coupled with the same demand will cause prices to rise as the few apartments that are available go to the highest bidder.

In a 1992 study, 93% of surveyed economists agreed with the statement "a ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available." http://www.factcheck.org/2009/02/when-economists-agree/
For comparison, the consensus that global warming is anthropogenic among climate scientists is 97% - just 4% higher.
We rightfully ridicule our elected officials for being skeptical of global warming. Why don’t we also ridicule elected officials who support rent control?

If the problem is keeping housing affordable, the solution is simple. We need to phase out rent control laws and remove regulations around the development of new housing. For now, in the Bay, rent control is not realistically going to be touched for a few years. For the latter, there is evidence that Sacramento is starting to understand that we actually need to build housing to bring down prices http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-brown-afford.... If we are lucky, they might take this new insight and apply it to existing housing for a complete solution to this man-made problem.

A good article on the subject in general: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
Short of something "going viral", I feel like it's likely an individual ex-employee's negative experience with a company won't become widely known.
What's copy protection? It's technology that protects against copying. The naive reading (as beagle3's store clerk said) would be that it's technology that protects a copy, or perhaps the process of copying. Protection and restriction might as well be synonyms. Unfortunately, you are right: the term "protection" has been routinely used to mean the forcible restriction of competitors from entering a market, as in "protectionism" and "monopoly protection".

The common theme here is that someone invented an abstract concept and applied a word to it that got its good connotations from the more concrete things it was usually applied to. Usually you can point to ways in which it betrays the original concept. In "copy-protection" and other kinds of business "protection", the thing being protected is not a business, or people, or property, but rather the ability of a particular group of businesses to make a profit doing what they're doing; the implementation of this "protection" may well involve sending police to forcibly shut down other businesses, arrest people, and confiscate property. For "intellectual property", the "right to the property" that the law enforces is not the right to the material integrity or full usage of anything physical; in fact, it's the privilege to prevent other people who have full ownership of physical objects from using them in certain particular ways. The digital "rights" are roughly the same: the right is not to own and have the full use of some digital object (which presumably means a group of bytes in memory or persistent storage somewhere), but in fact to prevent other people from possessing isomorphic digital objects.

The government can invent any kind of "exclusive right to do X", and make the privilege transferable. Then people can buy and sell it. Like taxi medallions. And then people can call it "property", which they "own", and the government "protects" their "right" to it. I think it's a debasement of the terms, which functions (deliberately or otherwise) to mislead the unwary into granting the practice legitimacy.
Hagakure was written during the Edo period (1600-1868), during which time there were very few battles fought, and samurai were mainly bureaucrats and government functionaries living on fixed pensions. The book is an attempt to maintain warrior culture in the face of the reality that samurai no longer had any occasion to fight.
Concerning the California La Raza Lawyer's Association (Judge Curiel belongs to the San Diego branch) and inflammatory comments by its founder:

http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/06/09/whites-go-back-eur...

Concerning the 2014 San Diego La Raza Scholarship Fund and Judge Curiel's participation on the selection committee that awarded a scholarship to Ricardo Elorza, self-described as "a boy from Oaxaca, who did not know English and is undocumented"

http://sdlrla.com/scholarship/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/La-...
I've never read any of their blog posts before now, but Tofugu makes another product called WaniKani, that I've been using daily for 6 months now. It's basically flashcards for Kanji memorization, but it creates a regimen and has great third-party mobile applications that give you reminders to continue making progress. Without it, I definitely wouldn't have the will power to keep studying.
That's really only half of it; Java is also a programming language, a bytecode spec, and a binary executable that sometimes points to a JRE and sometimes refers to a JDK, depending on how you installed it. Arguably it's also now being used to refer to the API of the standard library too.
> Usually the person applying thinks highly of their
> ability to identify a DK scenario.

This is a critical component of the DK epithet, often accompanied by a tacky link to the wiki page.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dunning%20kruger&sort=byPopula...
Figures. A German not laughing at a joke. Who would have thought? :^p
But.... it's really not. The WiFi issues you describe affect some people who most likely have 1) bad routers 2) poorly configured routers 3) tons of interference 4) Bad ISPs 5) Other clients on the network

I'm not saying that setting up a WiFI network well is super easy, and there are definitely lots of things that can impact WiFi connectivity, but for it's ubiquity, I'd say WiFi works very well. In my three story townhouse with fibre and a decent router in the basement, I have none of the problems you describe.
Yes, I'm aware of the socialization of companies in Venezuala. I just don't understand what that has to do with what I'm suggesting. Were those companies that were socialized killing people, and was that the reason they were socialized? (And, to be clear: I'm not suggesting government ownership of companies.)
No, you don't have to vote for the other side. But you're definitely voting for someone who is obviously going to be a poor leader. And he's demonstrated poor judgement over and over again. All the signs are out there but you choose to ignore them because you hate the other side so much. I cannot understand how a Hispanic can vote for someone who is so anti-Hispanic among other things. Are you HOPING that it's all an act? Really? This election is not a trick question. Many in the GOP have rejected him. Does that not count for anything?
Excel and Access are amazingly good products. The Jet SQL syntax is a little strange, but Access will handle substantial datasets. You can workaround the table size limit using views. It won't be fast, but it will work.
I'm surprised that this argument gets so much traction without any supporting data. It just plays on fear.

First, nothing you listed is an externality but rather direct results of poor behavior. An externality would be something like 'decreases property values of neighboring properties' or 'increased rents due to lower supply'.

Second, what data do you have that proves these scenarios are more likely in an AirBnB than a long term tenant? You're only supporting evidence is inference; if people are going to behave poorly then it makes sense for them to rent an AirBnB away from home. But there's an easy counter argument: pressure from neighbors will keep these incidents to a minimum. Sure, there will always be hosts are not sensitive to neighborhood pressure, but that same logic can be applied to long term tenants who have bedbugs, throw parties with loud music, litter, engage in criminal activity, etc. Simply put, all of negative scenarios you outline can occur with long term or short term tenants, and there is no evidence that these behaviors are more common from short term tenants.

Third, comparing all AirBnB's to skeezy motels is like saying all restaurants are roach-infested mold-filled 50-point scoring health hazards. This is a classic straw man argument. What about Marriot or Hilton? Embassy Suites or DoubleTree? Do they fulfill the reputation of "skeezy/short term motels"? This is an argument for better inspections and code enforcement, not prohibiting AirBnB.

No one expects neighbors to file daily lawsuits, but neighbors can notify the police if there is a noise violation, etc. Once again, there is no difference here between long term and short term rentals. AirBnB requires more identification than any hotel I've stayed at, so this argument actually supports AirBnB as a platform.

Lastly, your bank analogy is frightfully off base. First, a bank's intrinsic motivation for monitoring large transactions is fraud and not criminal activity. Second, banks are compelled by law to monitor and report specific types of activities that are likely to be criminal activity, but this is defined by organizations like the FBI, not the banks themselves. Third, you still have yet to prove, beyond casual inference, that AirBnB promotes criminal activity any more than long term tenancy.
http://jbpress.ismedia.jp/articles/-/44305. Despite official sanctions Germany and the US (!) continue to supply Russia. Just like the US sold to both Russia and Germany before WW2.

Here about 30% of export increase from Germany to Russia at Deutche Welle - http://www.dw.com/ru/экспорт-из-германии-в-россию-вырос-на-3.... I bet they did not exported beer. Its Siemens, Rheinmetall and alike.

Also look in Gardner Research. The World Machine-Tool Output & Consumption Survey
Or you have hot humid cities like Fukuoka and Taipei that move a lot of the pedestrian and retail underground. I think the best solutions depend a lot on the local weather conditions.
Agreed. I wanted to draw a circle, but I don't have the Ascii Art skills.
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I think one of the big problems with cities is how static their layouts can be. Many years from now, I like to imagine that cities will be made of movable parts that can be rearranged throughout the day to take match the changing needs of the people.

For instance -- there's no need for me to sleep in an expensive part of town, but there's also no need for me to be awake while my bedroom is shifted out into the outskirts. This would be something like Bruce Willis' character's apartment in The Fifth Element, but I don't think we have to wait until we're building cities in space to start working on this.

Similarly, if there's a diner that closes after 3PM, why should I ever have to walk past its empty storefront later in the day? The popularity of food trucks is evidence that there is value in being able to move supply around to find the demand and that we can reorganize our cities on a short time-scale. We don't even need to wait for the parts to be self-driving, as nice as that would be.
But all civilized countries have no death penalty for good reasons. No need to introduce them for companies.
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