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by aikinai 5y ago
Wow, that sounds way more interesting that I've been led to believe! Did you just get lucky? What was your role?
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by aikinai 5y ago
That’s my dream too, but unfortunately the Google that took that path would have died long ago after being choked off by other large ecosystems from Microsoft, Apple, etc. First Chrome, then Android were critical, life-or-death maneuvers fo
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by aikinai 5y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvotes, Ori is a good recommendation as a modern take on a Metroid-like game. But I strongly disagree about the difficulty. I’m no pro gamer, but I am from the NES era and in Ori I don’t think I ever died? Or
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by aikinai 5y ago
The "Japan is no different from any other country" trope is just as inaccurate as the "wacky Japan" trope and in my experience has actually overtaken the original in online discussions (though news articles clearly still
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by aikinai 5y ago
Yeah, I had to sign the paper lease and various addenda probably ten or twenty places, which was a bit much, but I thought the process was smooth and reasonable. It's pretty neat the agent is required to explain everything you're
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by aikinai 5y ago
Japan's not a paradise in every way, but this is exactly why my family has settled here. The lifestyle possible in most of Japan is very difficult to replicate in other countries and invaluable to general quality of life even if you ha
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by aikinai 5y ago
How long ago did you live in Japan? Very little of this is true anymore. Unless maybe you're deep in the country and only dealing with businesses and authorities that stopped evolving decades ago? I recently moved and only communicated
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by aikinai 5y ago
There are plenty of people like that; most of the world actually. You’re just hanging out on a site basically target at people that want to ride rockets.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Replied above, but the staples are almost certainly more difficult. It’s just very secure without any studs and it doesn’t leave large holes.
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by aikinai 5y ago
You wouldn’t just be watching the news; you could be done watching a movie on your newly-mounted TV before I’d be done with the staples! I recently upgraded to a larger TV and used the large version of this mount that used 750 staples. And
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by aikinai 5y ago
Yeah, a regular stapler. It's meant for drywall.
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by aikinai 5y ago
The staple holes are so small you likely don't need to fill them in. This is designed in/for Japan where most apartments have this weird soft textured wallpaper that hides the holes quite well. But if you drilled bigger holes in a
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by aikinai 5y ago
They're regular, small staples not going in particularly deep, but the aggregate friction is enough to hold it very firmly. Here's a video of a guy pulling on it so hard his (admittedly thin) wall flexes[0]. I forgot if it was thi
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by aikinai 5y ago
I linked to the small-sized mount since the picture was clearer, but I actually use the large size[0] for my 55" since it's officially rated for 25kg. [0] https://kabebijin.net/products/detail.php?product_id=1
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by aikinai 5y ago
Everything you need comes with the product. You staple the plate to the wall using little plastic films and then there’s another piece that hooks onto the plate. Then you attach the TV to that piece with screws into the VESA holes. That co
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by aikinai 5y ago
This is missing staples! I'm not sure if there's anything similar available in other countries, but I swear by this staple-based wall-mount product sold in Japan[0]. Right now I have a 55" TV wall-mounted with nothing but sta
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by aikinai 5y ago
Addiction to finding answers online?
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by aikinai 5y ago
The OS (iOS) and the service you’re paying to modify (Google) are very different, so this analogy doesn’t make any sense. If Apple charged you to not use ScreenTime or something, sure, but that’s not the case.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Oh, I see what you’re saying now. Not that the real Chiba was ever an electronics Mecca, but that it was in the book and reality never matched up. I guess in another timeline Chiba could have become Shenzhen. That would have been cool.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Chiba is a rural/suburban prefecture neighboring Tokyo with a lot of rice farms, some beaches, and Tokyo Disneyland. I think you meant Akihabara, and yes it changed, but not into an office park. It went from hard electronics to video g
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by aikinai 5y ago
They hired Google’s head of Search and AI to run Siri and are investing a lot, so they care. It seems to be taking time for the impact to show, but his fingerprints are all over iOS 15 with on-device Siri, contextual awareness, Google Lens
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by aikinai 5y ago
Then Uber would have to decide who works when and for how long. Right now it’s controlled by supply and demand through pricing algorithms.
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by aikinai 5y ago
The share button works fine on any sort on location in Apple Maps, including POIs. https://maps.apple.com/?address=1-2,%20Oshiage%201-Ch%C5%8Dm...
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by aikinai 5y ago
Ah, I see what you’re saying. That’s an interesting way to look at it. Thanks!
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by aikinai 5y ago
You think those small business owners are packing away substantial profits they could use to pay staff significantly more?
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by aikinai 5y ago
Does that really imply any sinister motive? There are plenty of gay people working at Goldman; probably not many anti-capitalists.
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by aikinai 5y ago
You don’t need any cultural context. I’m not particularly familiar with boats, and different types of things “floating a boat” doesn’t even really make sense, but “Whatever floats your boat” never had an impact on my comprehension.
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by aikinai 5y ago
It’s only a small river, but Tokyo also buried the Shibuya river years ago and most residents forgot about it. They recently uncovered it and are still working around the development around it. Google’s new (from 2019) Tokyo office is besid
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by aikinai 5y ago
It sounds like you're not familiar with the US system. The employer isn't charging for smoking, the health insurance, which is mostly provided through employers in America, is charging a higher premium for smoking since you will c
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by aikinai 5y ago
Why can’t you do that on Facebook? That’s what I do and it worked great. Whenever I log in, there are only updates from people that post actual life updates that I likely care about. I’ve unfollowed everyone else and Facebook respects that.

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