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Re:Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) on Saturday May 09, 2026 @11:57PM (#48080874)
Only 650 units worldwide, according to The Verge.
The site allows the user to pick a font, but most of them are gimmicky.

A textbook font like Motoya Kyotai would be ideal.

> “The Air Force completed a replacement of the aging SACCS floppy drives with a highly secure solid-state digital storage solution in June [2014],” Justin Oakes, a spokesman for the Eighth Air Force, said in an email. “This replacement effort exponentially increased message storage capacity and operator response times for critical nuclear command and control message receipt and processing.”
It seems the developer has no plans to support MPEG-4 audio files.
Re:U.S. Fed accepts $756B in daily reverse repo operation on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:47PM (#27543048)
The immediate situation is a problem of money market funds having more inflows than they could allocate (without nominal losses) in a zero interest rate environment. It's not about inflation per se.
Re:U.S. Fed accepts $756B in daily reverse repo operation on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:42PM (#27542991)
> the fed is looking for ways to incentivize financial institutions to take money

Right, the current situation is a money market "plumbing" issue; there are more deposits than banks can handle due to GSIB balance sheet regulations.

Here's some background info: https://fsforum.com/news/fixing-whats-broken-the-gsib-surcha...

Re:The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:50PM (#27279948)
Sherritt International's operations in Cuba are well-known, and their cobalt products are not sold in the United States.
But you won't find 儿 in Japanese character dictionaries. It will come up if you type ひとあし in an IME, but most people wouldn't know that.
Re:Apple relases open source modules of Big Sur on Thursday January 07, 2021 @03:16PM (#25676753)
The word is spelled incorrectly.
I saw Dialpad
Re:I Bought Apple Silicon on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:07PM (#25472656)
He wrote "second hand, refurbished" so it's not entirely clear that it was Apple refurbished.
Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:30PM (#25051476)
Only the Pro has that option, not the Air.
Re:Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:32PM (#25038801)
The easiest way is to move to Puerto Rico.
Re:A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018) on Saturday October 31, 2020 @09:08PM (#24956528)
Read it by the implied phonetic component, 哥。

More broadly speaking, there are some true facts cited in this post, but the basic premise is horseshit, and the whole of it should be retracted.

As Andrew West has pointed out, these characters were not "made up" as they are real characters attested in Chinese texts. From a Unicode perspective, none of them is a "ghost character" at all.

The government of Japan is rapidly abolishing the hanko.

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13789927

Re:We Were Builders Once, and Strong on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:51PM (#24854705)
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young
In the early 1980s, truncated floating point calculations caused the Vancouver Stock Exchange index value to drift down for about 23 months, until it was shown as less than half the correct value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Stock_Exchange#Round...
※ grift
Tax agencies in the United States have criminal investigation divisions.

IRS-CI Special Agents are authorized to carry and use firearms.

This is why I block mobile messenger apps from accessing my contacts.
An oilman's constituents are his shareholders, so this is really an issue for Congress.

If businesses are not required to account for externalities (such as environmental impact) then they generally will not do so.

Re:Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:06PM (#24436019)
USPS was probably much more adamant about delivering lost mail in the 1950s. The level of service was higher, with twice daily delivery.
The circumstances of this case seem similar to Integrity Staffing Solutions v. Busk, which involved workers at an Amazon warehouse in Nevada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_Staffing_Solutions,_...

USPS regulations for day-old poultry: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
Re:Oppose the Earn IT Act on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @01:52PM (#23704336)
Some of the programs originally from the USA PATRIOT Act expired in March 2020.
That's because US federal law no longer allows credit card companies to forbid cash discounts.

The above poster was incorrect.

I grew up in the USA, and My hometown newspaper offered that service. I played the interactive games. I think the content refreshed every week.
Re:A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song on Saturday January 11, 2020 @02:03PM (#22021657)
That would be a royalty trust.
That would require vehicle tracking, and people in the US don't want that. Fuel taxes only work for vehicles that use internal combustion engines. A tire tax is a possible vehicle-neutral option.

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