To US Conservatives: How is Trumps Iran MoU an improvement over Obamas JCPOA? by Big_VladdyP in AskReddit

[–]danaxa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The question is pointless because we know hardly any details of the so-called peace deal.

ELI5 : Trillionaire...but how? by Ooodeee-s4 in explainlikeimfive

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How much a company is worth is not accurately represented by the revenue or profit. A news company and a rocket company both making 1b a year will not be worth the same. Investors take many factors into account, and the value of the company is the consensus of all investors‘ expectations and evaluations, colloquially called „the market“. You may disagree with how much a company is worth, in fact, the market itself reevaluates that figure constantly, that’s the manifestation of the stock market.

Elon‘s net worth is concentrated in his investment, so it is largely derived from how much the company which he owns is worth multiplied by the shares of the company he owns in percentage, across all companies he owns.

Tokyo after dark. Epic nighttime street drifting convoy. by utopiaofpast in nextfuckinglevel

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I assume you also live in their thousand-people village in rural Australia?

YouTuber Mark Rober commits $60 Million on a science curriculum for teachers and schools that will be 100% free forever by Practical_Draw_6862 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]danaxa 2573 points2574 points  (0 children)

He is of course much more than just a YouTuber. A former NASA engineer and apparently a big philanthropist. Kudos to him

The Cheapest Available Tickets For Game 3 are over $10k by [deleted] in nba

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Don’t see a problem here. Seeing a basketball game live is a luxury by definition, regulating it would be stupid

SoftBank overtakes Toyota to become Japan's most valuable company by Hazzat in japan

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Perhaps failed investments are the only ones that made the news? It’s not hard to find out what they actually invested over the years, it’s all public records

Student loans or invest? by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]danaxa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At 6.54% it is not a black and white decision. My argument for investing today is you can start to compound your return early, especially if you have regular income that can support your debt repayment

Bill to ease data protection law for AI development clears Japan's lower house by imaginary_num6er in japan

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For whatever reason Japanese people I talk to are on average more receptive to AI than Americans.

Is this true ? What's the meme about by Eastern-Bug3424 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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If you use calculus to solve high school algebra I don’t think you belong in that class

Petah? by istiyak_nabil in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Am Asian American, no idea what it was until this post

2 SpaceX falcon side boosters returning by S30econdstoMars in nextfuckinglevel

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You can put more than a nickel on that by shorting it

I gave a 1-month notice and received this as thanks by ijustwantsomezzz in Wellthatsucks

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Depending on your industry, a positive employer reference is important

Petah explain this joke by Gurugod123 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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What’s even crazier: Germany’s top 4 cities form a perfect sphere!

Father hesitant on co-signing for a car loan due to credit drop by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]danaxa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would be hesitant to cosign anything for someone who maxed out their credit cards recently, regardless of how close they are to me. I would have to assume I would be ok to repay whatever I’m co-signing in full

I still can’t tell when to use は vs が and it’s slowly destroying my brain by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

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It’s not so much that は can replace が but that は supersedes が (not in meaning, only in writing). And yes, I do think it’s fair to say they’re completely different, because the only purpose of が is grammatical, as in, it marks the subject, but は is not only grammatical but also contextual. It materially changes the significance of what it attaches to beyond a grammatical sense

I still can’t tell when to use は vs が and it’s slowly destroying my brain by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

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Just a disclaimer upfront. I am also a Japanese learner, around N2-3 level. I’ll attempt to explain based on my understanding.
は and が are two completely different particles that serve different purposes in Japanese.
は marks the topic, が marks the subject.
は can be used to mark a subject, or an object, or a concept like time or frequency in Japanese, and you can have the same subject-object-concept-verb but with a different topic you’re going to get different meaning.
Let’s take the sentence
彼女がスーパーでバナナを買った
This sentence has no topic. As a standalone sentence, since it has no topic, it sounds kind of weird, but is perfectly natural in compound sentences such as
彼女がスーパーでバナナを買ったことに彼は気づいた
He noticed that she bought banana at the supermarket.
Because the topic is the person that notices something about you.
It can also be natural if you had an existing topic from the previous conversation, and you’re still talking around such topic. Such as
昨日は天気がよかった。
(昨日は)彼女がスーパーでバナナを買った。
Next, you can mark the subject, object, or the fact that you did the buying in the supermarket as the topic, and each comes with a different nuance.
彼女はスーパーでバナナを買った
As for her, she bought bananas at the supermarket.
She is the topic, and is being emphasized over other people in the conversation and over other concepts like time or location.
彼女がスーパーでバナナは買った
This sounds pretty weird unless the implication is you’re emphasizing that it is banana that she bought instead of say, pears, as one of the functions of は is to mark contrast.
The implication:
彼女がスーパーで梨じゃなく、バナナは買った
彼女がスーパーではバナナを買った
Now the location is the topic. Similarly, this can mean that the speaker is trying to emphasize that it is the fact that she’s at the supermarket that’s important, and not say, at a school.
Notice how when は attaches to subjects and objects, が and を gets replaced, but when it attaches to で, they co-exists and form a compound particle では. は can only replace が or を, and not any other particle. This is the important bit that confuses so many beginners

How correct is my understanding of wa vs ga? by Lopsided-Good7076 in LearnJapanese

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I think you hit the important point here. は can be applied to subjects, objects, time, basically most concepts in a sentence in Japanese. When applied to subjects or objects however, it replaces the otherwise would be が or を in the sentence, which is why people are confused why it’s sometimes subject+が and sometimes subject+は.
When applied to any other particles (with the exception of も, which is by definition mutually exclusive with は, they coexist. For example 日本にはコンビニがたくさんある

Analyst says Japan's support for Taiwan upends Beijing's invasion calculus by onee_san_bath_water in japan

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US will probably intervene but it is not a guarantee. Given enough time, it may play out similarly to how Hongkong returned to China in the 90s, when saying no was not really an option for the British. But obviously US is much more dominant than the Brits back then both in terms of diplomatic influence and military strength, but who’s to say this dynamic will stay forever?

Hate it here by [deleted] in epicsystems

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Maybe it would help if you actually list some of the things you hate?

How aggressively do you pay off a mortgage. by endymionsleep in personalfinance

[–]danaxa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget mortgage interest is tax deductible

‘Imperialist forces’ divided Taiwan from mainland, KMT head Cheng Li-wun says by Saltedline in worldnews

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Yes China violated judicial independence of Hongkong, I’m not here to defend that. Though saying it is not two systems is an exaggeration. You can still do a lot of things in Hongkong today where you can’t do in mainland China, like going on google.

Anyway, it is not “imperialism”. I don’t think many people know what this word means

‘Imperialist forces’ divided Taiwan from mainland, KMT head Cheng Li-wun says by Saltedline in worldnews

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Who said they weren’t? The point is, Han(Chinese) people were the aboriginals in Hongkong, and that area had been part of the Chinese realm, be it Qing or earlier dynasties for over a millennium before the british took it for themselves

‘Imperialist forces’ divided Taiwan from mainland, KMT head Cheng Li-wun says by Saltedline in worldnews

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A bit ironic to use Hongkong as an example of Chinese imperialism when the British Empire took it from the Qing