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Re:Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women on Friday March 16, 2018 @08:07PM (#16604885)
I second this. Inflation is already happening in the form of shrinkflation, long work hours with under- or non-paid overtime (service zangyo), and increase in number of part-time workers with little benefits (but have the same responsibilities as full-time workers).

It is hard to see as an individual living in Japan because standard of living is not necessarily getting worse due to increase in productivities with some technological improvements. However, Japan's economy relative to the rest of the world is going down. In next 10~20 years, their standard of living will significantly worsen, but they will realize it is to late to fix their economy.

Re:A Comparison of Differential Equation Solver Suites on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:40PM (#15344220)
There is no good general-purpose PDE solver, as there are all these considerations such as elliptic/parabolic/hyperbolic PDEs, accuracy/stability, FEM/FVM/FDM, linear/nonlinear, numerical oscillation, steady state/unsteady etc... But I do recommend FeniCS PDE solver [1]. It is fairly easy to use if you understand the finite element method and type of PDE you are solving for.

[1] https://fenicsproject.org/

Re:Tools for Data Visualization on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @04:40AM (#7506858)
Or does anybody really use all these data visualization tools to compare?