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Bookmarked to watch later but why have they struggled so much? With the extreme work demands of salarymen it seems certainly not for lack of trying... did they just focus on the wrong things? Overemphasis on hardware culture in the 80s so they were left behind as software took over? Is it a specific cultural issue that has South Korea, China and Taiwan beating them?
Bought a black coffee from Starbucks the other day... $3.45 before tax... when did that happen ðŸ˜
Feels like just yesterday it was $2
Excited about the real-time translation capabilities. Half of my patients frustratingly don't speak English and it takes 4-5x the time of a normal English encounter.
The ipad/iphone human translation services are so bad (take 1-5m to get one online, then they waste so much time introducing themselves.
Sad to know jobs will be lost because of this but I literally despise using the human services.
I find it amusing that men seem to love the Princess Bride but women usually don't for some reason...
Wow. Had no idea this was a thing for such a major city.
Looks like many other major cities are also at risk...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/0424--kinard-mexico-city-run-out-of-water/
anyone have any luck in the bay area? Is there a good site that shows where people can expect to be able to see these??
@lynaldencontact is awesome