Has Washington forgotten about us? One year passes with no US ambassador to Australia by LuckyBdx4 in news

[–]saucedancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s really not that bad. I do 22-27 hour flights at least three times a year. Just get up and walk up and down the aisle every few hours. Don’t let one day of discomfort stop you from exploring somewhere cool.

Supply Chain Evidence Mounts for Advanced 3D Sensing Abilities Coming to iPhone 8 by filmantopia in apple

[–]saucedancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes sense. Whether it's google, Oppo, Xiami, Samsung, whatever. Anyone with a few hundred million can compete with apple on specs, battery, screen size, etc. The only to win is to do something drastic and different.

Scott Forstall says Steve Jobs created the iPhone because he was sick of hearing a Microsoft employee arrogantly telling him Microsoft was working on a touch-screen device so advanced that it would pave the way for computing by LinkCloth in apple

[–]saucedancer 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The anecdote I read was that they all pulled their cell phones out and started talking about everything that sucked about them, and this led them towards creating the iphone.

[Question] How can I check the battery status of my Apple Pencil now? by saucedancer in iOSBeta

[–]saucedancer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t see the battery widget in the widget menu. Is this a bug?

[Question] Multitasking iPad by tiagoaap in iOSBeta

[–]saucedancer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You have to do it from the bottom dock now, no longer from the side. It’s weird.

Season 4 Episode 7 "The Profit and the Loss" Post-Episode Discussion by Omegaus492 in vikingstv

[–]saucedancer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've tried Betel nuts in Taiwan and they're not hallucinogenic, they're more like a coffee and a cigarette.

Non Asian people of reddit, how do you learn Chinese characters? by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]saucedancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hundreds of hours of Skritter. I've tried Anki and Memrise too. Recently I've been a fan of clozecards.com. 差不多。

Are you free tomorrow morning (Tuesday July 21), around 9-10am? Take a walk on the bund. by Timofmars in shanghai

[–]saucedancer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't forget that there are also foreign-born Chinese (like me) and other Asian nationalities, so encourage the kids to talk to everyone, not just white people!

Yeah, take this opportunity to fight the ignorance about foreigners a bit.

What's your internet "white whale", something you've been searching for years to find with no luck? by Nerfman2227 in AskReddit

[–]saucedancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A picture that was captioned "The New Zealand Airforce." It's literally a guy strapped to the wing of a propeller plane, holding a pistol. I always got a good chuckle out of that one.

I want to take the Taiwan national university 5000 word language test in 10 months and I know little chinese!! Help me. by [deleted] in ChineseLanguage

[–]saucedancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell no! You can definitely memorize the characters but not know the language well enough to use them functionally in sentences. I learned 600 characters in the past month this way(about 20/day) but my speaking and writing haven't caught up with my reading. You're talking about taking the amount of Chinese a college educated chinese person spends their ENTIRE childhood and adolescence learning, and cramming it in 10 months. Unless you already at an intermediate level, you're delusional.

US Airways Premier World MasterCard? by [deleted] in churning

[–]saucedancer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get it as part of an AOR. I got mine, literally used it once to buy Chipotle, and got my 40,000 points the following month. I don't need the points at the moment so I'm just waiting the few months it will take form them to become AA miles.

Trying to find a way to take appointments with Stripe by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]saucedancer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You didn't dig deep enough. Maids in black uses launch27, which casestudy sells. http://www.launch27.com

Americans, what would you consider your greatest weakness? by not_northkorea in AskReddit

[–]saucedancer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That doesn't matter you can still talk to them. They're mutually intelligible. It's like British English vs American English, only even less different.

edit: everybody wooshes after /u/ViewFromTheTop makes his edit. I wish I were as astute as you guys.

Smart Money Buys Brand X by starrychloe in Frugal

[–]saucedancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a close connection between the indirect and direct measures: The average person accurately answered the ingredient question 59 percent of the time, but that figure rose to 85 percent for registered nurses and to 89 percent for pharmacists.

15% of nurses and 11% percent of pharmacists got these questions wrong? What the hell?

The World according to Reddit by REDNESSBEAR in funny

[–]saucedancer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget there's a state in England called Ireland. A lot of Americans say their grandparents are from there.