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Temple construction happens also to be concern of the world’s 10th oldest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamura_Shaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamura_

Temple construction happens also to be concern of the world’s 10th oldest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamura_Shaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakamura_Shaji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies (Of course, since wiki page hasn’t been updated for the first, it might also have quietly passed into the ether)

thedailymail 2y ago
It looks like it is still a going concern - the company website and phone line both seem to be active. https://nakamurasyaji.co.jp/ https://nakamurasyaji.co.jp/
aebtebeten 2y ago
A recent SMBC* explores "what if religion was freemium?", but the existence of temples and sacrifices suggest that, whatever model deities may have had in mind, their worshippers have always been eager to sign up for a premium plan. * https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad-3 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad-3
- gradschoolfail 2y ago
  I love SMBC so much that i once suggested a joke idea to Weinersmith. Sad day for me and my ideas lol. In particular, to discover that my heroes Rao and Weinersmith selfidentify as hypernormies T_T [Cue yada yada the batman snowclone “live long enough”, eg you either die a batman or live long enough to become Batman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military)] [another source of hypernormie pro weirdos, from my personal anecdata, are psychiatrists, im guessing the sibboleth is the high neuroticism to __ ratio, which comes off as wisdom (after discounting for age).. weird pronormies would then be econs profs? This is prob why both trigger the So[Ha]Ri(veign/vian) Taleb lol] Also should have replied to alephnerd in a more timely fashion
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Finally someone who pronounces sibboleth properly! At one point I ran across a US book which noted that children of psychiatrists tend to wind up in treatment themselves, with the exception having been just after WWII (when the army's need for psychiatrists meant they retrained many people who had studied as regular GPs), and concluded that it may be a field many people pursue due to the attraction of self-diagnosis.
    - gradschoolfail 2y ago
      Sorry to disappoint if you didnt already guess i picked that up from you. However, its probably not a spelling i would practise elsewhere — too memorable.
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        Yes, I also appreciated the busniess manager mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442464 . Had the Athenians been speaking to the Melians on the subject of signal/call-sign analysis, would they have said "the boring are anonymous in their masses for they can, while the novel leak identity as they must"? (Novelty not referring to semantic goodness; I'm afraid just with the purely syntactic category of "number* of distinct code-points employed" my 'hand' would be extremal, both here and in Persia) * I think I owe the notion to you that as long as one has been given summation, recovering multilinearity from linear elements is easy?

thedailymail 2y ago

It looks like it is still a going concern - the company website and phone line both seem to be active. https://nakamurasyaji.co.jp/ https://nakamurasyaji.co.jp/

aebtebeten 2y ago

A recent SMBC* explores "what if religion was freemium?", but the existence of temples and sacrifices suggest that, whatever model deities may have had in mind, their worshippers have always been eager to sign up for a premium plan. * https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad-3 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bad-3

gradschoolfail 2y ago
I love SMBC so much that i once suggested a joke idea to Weinersmith. Sad day for me and my ideas lol. In particular, to discover that my heroes Rao and Weinersmith selfidentify as hypernormies T_T [Cue yada yada the batman snowclone “live long enough”, eg you either die a batman or live long enough to become Batman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(military)] [another source of hypernormie pro weirdos, from my personal anecdata, are psychiatrists, im guessing the sibboleth is the high neuroticism to __ ratio, which comes off as wisdom (after discounting for age).. weird pronormies would then be econs profs? This is prob why both trigger the So[Ha]Ri(veign/vian) Taleb lol] Also should have replied to alephnerd in a more timely fashion
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Finally someone who pronounces sibboleth properly! At one point I ran across a US book which noted that children of psychiatrists tend to wind up in treatment themselves, with the exception having been just after WWII (when the army's need for psychiatrists meant they retrained many people who had studied as regular GPs), and concluded that it may be a field many people pursue due to the attraction of self-diagnosis.
  - gradschoolfail 2y ago
    Sorry to disappoint if you didnt already guess i picked that up from you. However, its probably not a spelling i would practise elsewhere — too memorable.
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      Yes, I also appreciated the busniess manager mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41442464 . Had the Athenians been speaking to the Melians on the subject of signal/call-sign analysis, would they have said "the boring are anonymous in their masses for they can, while the novel leak identity as they must"? (Novelty not referring to semantic goodness; I'm afraid just with the purely syntactic category of "number* of distinct code-points employed" my 'hand' would be extremal, both here and in Persia) * I think I owe the notion to you that as long as one has been given summation, recovering multilinearity from linear elements is easy?