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by aikinai 5y ago
This is the most blatantly ridiculous straw man, I can’t believe people on HN keep trying to make it especially against FAANG. Do you really think these companies are run by middle managers that just want to watch people work? At least at G
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by aikinai 5y ago
A freak heat wave doesn’t prove global warming any more than a freak blizzard disproves it. I hate that people do this every time. You might be right, but trying to claim this type of “proof by one data point” is just asking for a “certain
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by aikinai 5y ago
I know most people here are in the US, but for anyone in Japan, check out Yodobashi as an Amazon alternative. They have more curated products and deliver most items the same day in the Tokyo area for free with no subscription. It’s incredib
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by aikinai 5y ago
They’re supposed to ride in the street unless it could be agreed that it’s safer on the sidewalk, which is both subjective and often true, so riding on the sidewalk is de facto allowed. Edit: People are downvoting this; I guess because they
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by aikinai 5y ago
They do just fine on the sidewalks in Japan.
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by aikinai 5y ago
In case the GitHub Issues team is still looking here, I have a request! Can you put the name of the commenter somewhere besides just the name field in the email from? Currently it's something like, Poster Name <notifications.github.
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by aikinai 5y ago
> Yeah its like they sold them to people based on individual photos but people would never have expected them to be all crunched together and identical like that. That seems to be exactly what they did based on this photo of their brochu
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by aikinai 5y ago
I guess the insinuation is that Google’s trying to force people to sign up for Google accounts? Seems to me like the cohort of users trying to file or check on Google issues without a Google account is minuscule and absolutely not worth spe
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by aikinai 5y ago
> Apple is selling overpriced commodity hardware This hasn’t been true since the 90s. And the rest of your examples are similarly ignorant of the incredible pace of innovation coming from a lot of these companies. Google ads might not be
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by aikinai 5y ago
Someone looking for a 2,000 square foot house with a 7,500 lot is not someone who's prioritizing an accessible location or short commute. The median house in Seattle is 1,460 ft², the median lot is 3,893 ft², and the median home age is
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by aikinai 5y ago
Is tier one only Silicon Valley? There are plenty of people raising kids with short commutes in the Seattle area; you don’t even need a FANG salary. And Seattle’s still on the high end; people can also live in places like Austin, Portland,
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by aikinai 5y ago
Not compared to peer companies. If you’re already at Apple, you could probably get a job at Google with way less stress and more pay.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Why does everyone here just assume that everyone’s commute is as bad as theirs? There are many people in the current working generation that avoided the soul-sucking suburban commute from the start.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Your comment might make sense in a completely different context, but this is Apple! Everyone there could be making more money for less stress somewhere else, but they’re at Apple since they believe in or appreciate something else about the
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by aikinai 5y ago
As someone who's used Hackintoshes for fifteen years, it's very sad, but on the other hand I'm so excited about the potential of the Apple Silicon chips and Apple's renewed investment in Macs that I'm not mourning t
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by aikinai 5y ago
I haven't tried one and don't know if it actually works in practice, but it sounds like you want the Zeiss ZX1[0]. It has Lightroom on the camera. [0] https://www.zeiss.com/consumer-products/int/photograp
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by aikinai 5y ago
This is one of those factoids people constantly repeat because it sounds like it would be true. Japan is far easier to immigrate to them most other developed nations, especially the US, which most on this site will be comparing to. Also it
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by aikinai 5y ago
I think it was a year or two ago? It was a pretty big deal and in the news for a while. I get a combination now of Amazon's own service or one of the big third-parties. All of them are great I think. I might prefer Amazon's since
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by aikinai 5y ago
I wouldn’t say Japanese is hard to pronounce once you get used to it. Obviously without kanji it’s perfectly deterministic, but even with kanji there are enough patterns you tend to just have a sense how to pronounce it. Except for names. M
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by aikinai 5y ago
This is a great essay! Completely agree with all of his points and really wish well-crafted software got more respect.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Japanese is similar. Chinese-origin words usually sound more sophisticated than pure Japanese words.
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by aikinai 5y ago
> They're not ad blockers, they're domain filters, nothing more than a big hosts file, and they block absolutely nothing at the page/element level. I don't think this is true. I use 1Blocker and it seems to have tons
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by aikinai 5y ago
I think the only way anyone would not find it would be assuming it doesn't exist. If you search on the web, App Store, iPhone search box, etc. you'll find it right away. And the answer is, it's not installed by default, but t
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by aikinai 5y ago
iPhone has supported ad-blocking for six years.
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by aikinai 5y ago
Apple should be broken apart by the government because YouTube abides by the government’s copyright rules? Sure, the current situation isn’t what I’d want either, but this line of thought makes no sense.
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by aikinai 6y ago
They fixed this a few versions ago. Now if it sees a mask, it shows the passcode input immediately.
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by aikinai 6y ago
I live in Japan and visiting Americans do this all the time. Many people just did a find-and-replace on their speech years ago and never consider what it actually means.
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by aikinai 6y ago
Use a longer lens and you won’t have to show any of your tiny box! I hooked up my mirrorless camera behind/on top of my monitor and have a 35mm (APS-C so 50mm equivalent) which is perfect to just frame my head and show basically nothi
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by aikinai 6y ago
I completely agree with your first point; that's a good analogy. Japan is very successful and stable, but shows no signs of future growth potential. I wasn't talking about rebuilding after the disaster; I know they're doing t
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by aikinai 6y ago
Your point is orthogonal to the stagnation issue. Yes, Japan is still a wonderful place to live, the best in the world I’d personally say. But it is most certainly stagnating. There’s enough momentum, cultural advantage, and existing wealth

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