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Also, money. It is not exactly cheap to just move to another country -- or another state in a lot of cases.

Well your "here" is clearly not Japan. Your confidence about inexperience is weird though.

Im not disputing the fact that nomikai exists. Ive been to my share. I was simply agreeing with the OP that it is more likely that most Japanese people arent working insane amounts of overtime and black companies arent in the majority. I provided a personal anecdote to reinforce that.

Most people are more than likely getting off at regular hours and going home or out for dinner and drinks (whether you consider that work or not -- they arent being paid). Otherwise the bars and trains wouldnt be packed full of people at 6pm and happy hour wouldnt exist.

Not sure why youre being a contrarian. It seems like you didnt bother to understand my post. But yah, start work at 8-9, knock off at 6 to start drinking heavily at the local izakaya, hammered by 8 or 9 and stumbling towards the snack until last train (or later if the company pays for cabs).

I see the same thing everyday.

The same could be said about going home at 6pm (except for the sleeping). Take the Oedo line out of Shinjuku or Roppongi between 6 and 8pm and tell me everyone is still at work.

I would guess they start around 8 or 9 in the morning.

That is my experience too. In my neighborhood, by 8pm, the streets are crawling with drunk salarymen (and women) stumbling out of izakayas on their way to a snack and/or karaoke -- 5 days per week. They clearly werent working overtime with how often I see them.

As long as hand grenades arent introduced, I could live with that.

So, hosting in Japan is more expensive than regions in America? JPY is in a horrible place compared to USD. That seems like a good way to push away Japanese users away -- make it more expensive in countries where the local currency is weak.

5 digits? early 2000s? Does not compute...

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I was really surprised when a recovery mechanism was launched many years ago. My account wasnt comprised. It still had the same dumb password from way back -- my first highschool girlfriends name and a number.

Obviously, I didnt mean that as some sort of solution. But more as sarcasm that they trying to stop healthy, consenting adults from having sex in the prime of their life when the news and older generations are up in arms about young people choosing to be childless and repopulate the planet.

Either way, everyone knows these "anti-sex" beds wont actually stop sexual activities. If anything, this will encourage them out of rebellion.

Its sad that these are even a thing. Is the world so repressed that consenting adults can't be known to be having sex?

In a more progressive world, we might do the opposite -- "pro-sex" beds for adults that are healthy, in great shape and have made good life choices to get to the Olympics. Many countries are realizing a potentially declining birth rate. Maybe we should encourage well adjusted young people to be hooking up.

I never used a C64. What is the difference between shift and caps? Symbol usage?

Just imagine if harm and healthiness were actually the determining factor for what is and is not legal. Your comment made me imagine what the political parties might look like in the US. Would conservative and liberals move towards meats vs carbs vs veg?

I wonder if big-Keto would push for harsh penalties to illegal bakers? Maybe a 3 (bread) slices law would rise?

This is the first that I am hearing about the reversal. I am a bit disappointed, but I did see news about the rollout. It was pretty intense and probably not much regulation. So, is this a reactionary response to minority issues or was there a consistent issue?

> Whilst the majority of users seem to be fine, it can absolutely and seriously ruin some people's mental health.

I never doubt that marijuana can negatively affect certain people with the potential for mental health issues, but are there any hard science about the affect on mental health? You mention "majority" vs "some". Is that 51/49? 99.99/.01? The former sounds significant; the latter sounds like a stat to push an agenda.

Ive never had a twitter account. And I was definitely not able to view most content during the pandemic.

from 2021: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pa6dra/twitter... and from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30615371

Twitter required a login long before the rename or Elon owned it. He actually removed that restriction for a while before reenabling it.

And with some simple div removal, IG doesnt require a login to view content. This is true about a lot of the paywalled sites.

Starlink was never meant for the urban masses. Its usecase (from the start) was for people in rural areas where low or no speed options are available. This is perfect for people like my parents living at the top of a mountain in rural SC. They just managed to get a cellular signal a few years ago. And their only choice of internet was dialup or DirectTV (HughesNet? -- slow, high latency and expensive).

Off the top of my head, it seems like a great way to give access to content (games, movies, etc) to those that may have been able to afford it on their own. It may not have a ton of educational value, but some mindless entertainment goes a long way towards happiness sometimes. A happy citizenry is probably a societal benefit.

Cloudflare has no markup or fee [0].

> You pay what we pay — you won’t find better value.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

> low morals ... behind their employer's back

Employees don't belong to their employer. There is nothing wrong with trying to acquire a potentially better job. The only real problem is they were using company resources to do so. Also, they were completely incompetent by running random executables.

> nor the attempted January 8 coup succeeded

What effect would this have had?

> I doubt it will exist as the cloudflare we know today

Well, I can't predict the future, but I think CF is one of the good ones. I bet on them more than most. They have been pretty consistent with being benevolent for the internet. But you seem to feel differently. Have they rubbed you the wrong way somehow? Why would they allow the US military to buy them out?

That's insanity. I would rather bet on Cloudflare to be around longer. They don't add any additional up-charge from the baseline ICANN price. Before, I was buying 10 years of registration for a bit of a discount, but, after 20 years, I've switched over to single year with CF. What value does Wordpress bring for $380/yr? That's crazy.

I played a ton of LMCTF too. The offhand grapple was such a game changer in terms of speeding across maps. The LMCTF community was also great: hours spent on IRC, competitive ladders, forums (nachos), etc. It was a great time to be into online games.

Alliance for q3 was also great too, but it wasnt quite the same.

There is a Facebook community alive for LMCTF. Last time I checked they have a few servers online and organize pick up games.

That wouldn't even make sense. They created hack/hhvm to scale and optimize the platform and codebase. Taking a step backwards and refactoring (hack != php now) would be a horrible idea.

The web codebase was once written in PHP, but they moved away from that a decade ago.

Why would he post a dishonest statement?

> How many content creators did Reddit lose by killing these third party apps?

Thats a good question. Are there any stats to show that Apollo users were significant in terms of content creation? Or that any small subset of users are significant (besides mods)?