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Thread: Japanese and E-book readers: A guide Post: Japanese and E-book readers: A guide I haven't done any customization on my Kindle (Kindle Keyboard, though what I'm going to say is true universally). Since it natively comes with the ability to open images -it's a hidden function thoug... |
Fadeway | Learning resources | 57 | 50,820 | 2013-03-09, 5:43 pm | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread So, my excuse first (for posting such an unusually long piece of text). I've been trying to install this VN for days now, downloaded it from several sources, in the end even stumbled upon the Chinese ... |
Fadeway | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,451,623 | 2013-01-14, 1:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Introducing philosophy Post: Introducing philosophy The way I got into it was Eliezer Yudkowsky's/LessWrong's "Sequences". It's a huge series of blog posts available in downloadable form - google and you can find them. On the one hand, all of it is se... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 32 | 5,688 | 2012-12-19, 12:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work vix86 Wrote:I think maybe you misunderstood my statement. I am not really saying anything about human vs other animals, but I think you know that. Within the context of my post though, where I was exp... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-09, 2:57 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Sorry about the driving analogy, but I don't get it, as I'm not a driver myself. I'm too risk-minded to enjoy it. vix86 Wrote:[...]How can you make a qualitative statement about how I experience real... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-08, 3:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work That's the thing though Jimmy, taste buds are very malleable. You can get the same amount of enjoyment from greens as from meat, after the adaptation period - as opposed to going to live as a hermit, ... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-08, 1:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Why, it doesn't work the same way as humans, even if you use the same materials. Sure, you can have sensors that send signals to a central system; but what it does with them is up to the programming. ... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-03, 10:03 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work IceCream Wrote:[...]If AI and animals are similar, animals and humans are still infinitely more similar. [...] I don't understand. I thought I presented a thought experiment where the AI is more simil... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-03, 9:33 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Exactly, the AI analogy is meant to show that you can have an organism that reacts like humans do to harmful stimuli without itself suffering. The pain itself is a burden - it hampers the organism's c... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-03, 8:56 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work The taste thing is mostly irrelevant, to me - the taste buds are very malleable, and it only matters at the start. Perhaps the distaste for vegetables is borne from our focus on bread and meat. Many p... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-03, 3:02 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Why is outsourcing bad? Companies earn more and are able to hire more laborers. The lower wage doesn't hit the laborers, as their living standard is less. Is it less utility to be paying 5 Indians ins... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-02, 10:27 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work I see, vegan's clear now. It's purely a question of suffering then. It should've occurred to me, but I didn't think enough about it. My general impression of nutrition has been similar - not so much ... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-02, 4:44 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Quote:It's no different from how cultural norms desensitize us to be okay with the abuses carried out in the name of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression. It's what allows religio... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-02, 4:00 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work Aijin, would your optimal diet healthwise be vegetarian or vegan or would it include something else as well? I'm not talking moral issues, just health, with a secondary concern being convenience/time/... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-02, 3:38 am | ||
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Thread: Your Tax Dollars At Work Post: Your Tax Dollars At Work I dropped Earthlings about a minute after they said Specieism for the first time. It's a ludicrous notion that tries to bandwagon on Racism and Sexism, two ideas which are more or less true - it's har... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 316 | 42,822 | 2012-12-01, 3:06 am | ||
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Thread: Doramas, seriously...? Post: Doramas, seriously...? How about anime? There's tons of that, and it's really good. Even if you aren't interested, you could probably find a couple you'd like among MAL's top: http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php (be careful... |
Fadeway | Learning resources | 58 | 14,927 | 2012-12-01, 2:37 am | ||
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Thread: Tackle N2 Grammar in order to get into Light Novels? Post: Tackle N2 Grammar in order to get into Light Novel... I'm not yet at the stage where I can read a novel (Kara no Kyoukai; Toradora) without a dictionary or tons of furigana; hence, I stay away. I find it far easier to read manga - the pictures help with... |
Fadeway | The Japanese language | 7 | 5,159 | 2012-11-26, 9:58 am | ||
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Thread: International Shorthand? Post: International Shorthand? I'm looking for a shorthand system that works independently on the language it's used for. I've set out to learn shorthand - I find it cool, plus it's a useful skill to have. I'll be practicing while... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 1 | 955 | 2012-11-14, 2:04 am | ||
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Thread: Kindle Manga Formatting Post: Kindle Manga Formatting I tried it with two different directories - one being a claymore chapter with med-size images, the other a tsukihime chapter with large images I have to read one fourth at a time. I also changed the s... |
Fadeway | Learning resources | 12 | 2,608 | 2012-10-20, 3:59 am | ||
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Thread: Kindle Manga Formatting Post: Kindle Manga Formatting That's what I tried yesterday right after my second post. I like how well it trims the whitespace, but for some reason in all three of my attempts it crashed halfway (meaning 40-60% of the images didn... |
Fadeway | Learning resources | 12 | 2,608 | 2012-10-19, 11:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Kindle Manga Formatting Post: Kindle Manga Formatting Some more googling gave me a good hit, thanks. Guess I was using the wrong keywords. |
Fadeway | Learning resources | 12 | 2,608 | 2012-10-19, 1:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Kindle Manga Formatting Post: Kindle Manga Formatting So, I've been reading tons of manga on my recently-purchased Kindle 3. All files I've used this far have required no formatting when it comes to their extensions - I just move them from my PC to the d... |
Fadeway | Learning resources | 12 | 2,608 | 2012-10-19, 12:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese torrent search sites? Post: Japanese torrent search sites? Perfect Dark is my main solution for raws. Nyaa is nice, except it's not really focused on raws (I couldn't find Death Note a few months back, and that's a huge show in terms of popularity, plus not t... |
Fadeway | Off topic | 21 | 10,776 | 2012-09-24, 10:32 pm | ||
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Thread: MD in Informatics in Japan Post: MD in Informatics in Japan Due to the low entry requirements common in Europe, I'm certain I'll be able to go the Germany route; the MEXT thing is less certain, but I was wondering whether I should even try for it (if I should ... |
Fadeway | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 6 | 2,002 | 2012-09-06, 3:21 am | ||
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Thread: MD in Informatics in Japan Post: MD in Informatics in Japan So, I'm soon starting my last year in highschool. For the past two years, I've always thought I'd immigrate to Germany to study Informatics, get a job there, maybe later move on to USA/UK/whatever, ma... |
Fadeway | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 6 | 2,002 | 2012-09-05, 7:46 am | ||
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Thread: Words you have a mental block about? Post: Words you have a mental block about? 乞食 - Weird readings; I guess most onyomi subconsciously at this point, and I always come up with some weird (wrong) answer to this. Always takes a few failures before I can send it off. |
Fadeway | The Japanese language | 38 | 9,771 | 2012-09-01, 1:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Post: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Nothing special really, I'm a highschooler. Almost everyone, including my parents, asks about random Japanese sentences from time to time; several of my classmates do the English dictionary thing (esp... |
Fadeway | General discussion | 30 | 6,392 | 2012-08-12, 2:08 am | ||
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Thread: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Post: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Sure, but people do that without the fluency keyword. Pretty much everyone I meet tells me to tell them "something in Japanese" merely when they hear that I'm learning it, even at a very early stage o... |
Fadeway | General discussion | 30 | 6,392 | 2012-08-11, 10:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Post: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Necrojesta Wrote:When I think of fluency I just think how easily I speak in my first language, and how fluency is close to that point, You know, this is pretty basic, but I've never thought of express... |
Fadeway | General discussion | 30 | 6,392 | 2012-08-11, 4:48 am | ||
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Thread: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? Post: Pet peeves regarding "fluency"? I've been pondering fluency for a while, mostly because this is one of the few things that can get me to actively start disliking someone (and I really shouldn't, but I can't help it). My uncle who l... |
Fadeway | General discussion | 30 | 6,392 | 2012-08-10, 11:51 pm | ||
