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by aikinai 8y ago
Maybe you're just speaking theoretically, but if you're talking about practical reading, you certainly don't need all the details. Just like English (where you can basically read with no more than a rough outline of words), y
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by aikinai 8y ago
Comment deleted since the parent was updated.
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by aikinai 8y ago
I think you might find the opposite to be more true. When I was younger I somehow got the impression we flew to the moon all the time, and was shocked when I learned how rare it actually was. That’s just my anecdote, but I don’t think it’s
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by aikinai 8y ago
What do you still connect to iTunes for? I think the iDevices have been standalone-first for many years now and if anything iTunes as a hub has been falling behind and losing functionality.
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by aikinai 8y ago
What you say is true in general, but in the specific case of Google it’s not relevant. Googlers, even down to individual rank-and-file engineers, have a lot of autonomy and self-determination. For better or worse, what they do is mostly up
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by aikinai 8y ago
Seems everyone's down-voting you, but considering the huge number of immigrants and international employees at Google, it'd be crazy to expect a Trump win to be treated neutrally when the foundation of his platform was antagonism
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by aikinai 8y ago
You're definitely right there's a spectrum and a balance each family has to decide for themselves, but I just wanted to share my anecdotal evidence that there are kids that are passionate about practicing. My son is learning an in
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by aikinai 8y ago
Oh okay, not my place to judge anyway, but sounds like a good plan.
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by aikinai 8y ago
Maybe better to first wait and see what he/she is interested in?
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by aikinai 8y ago
Definitely. JAL's business class is a cubicle with a full bed. https://www.jal.co.jp/en/inter/service/business/seat/skysuit...
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by aikinai 8y ago
That's exactly why tall and short people aren't allowed on amusement park rides.
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by aikinai 8y ago
The parent comment is extreme and ends in a baseless insult, so I definitely don't want to defend it wholly, but the gist is true. If you think Americans are competitive about academics, you're probably basing that on a very speci
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by aikinai 8y ago
America is definitely more anti-intellectual than Japan in my experience.
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by aikinai 8y ago
Severance is extremely common outside Silicon Valley and even outside of tech. Even people in (skilled) factory jobs usually get severance when laid off. It's mainly a hedge against getting sued rather than goodness of heart, but it&#x
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by aikinai 8y ago
Oh okay, thanks for elaborating! Yeah, most of the people I know looking for places work at a famous multinational, so I guess that explains why I haven't seen the issue even when self-selecting places from online listings. And other f
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by aikinai 8y ago
This issue doesn’t depend on conglomerates (unless you’re implicating all companies developing the Internet); it’s going to happen when these people get online whether it’s on Facebook or incel forums. It’s a very unfortunate side effect of
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by aikinai 8y ago
Just another +1. I lived in Japan many years ago, moved away, and live here again now. Before moving back I was assuming I'd have that awkward start to all interactions before they realize I speak Japanese, but I also haven't seen
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by aikinai 8y ago
What kinds of places are you and the grandparent looking for? I’ve visited tons of places in Japan and talked to plenty of friends and coworkers about their apartment searches and never heard of one place with a foreigner restriction (inclu
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by aikinai 8y ago
This is a weirdly anemic article. It could have explored so many interesting avenues like how the sport spread, what kept the "spirit of the game" alive, or how that jives with being a professional (and possibly olympic) sport. Bu
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by aikinai 8y ago
Reddit's incessant up-selling is completely unrelated to AMP; they do it on all of their pages. And just another anecdote, but I like Reddit's use of AMP. The pages load super fast, the top comments are all accessible, and there&#
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by aikinai 8y ago
That’s fascinating! Does the book have any insight into how Japan made the complete 180° in I guess a few decades? The Meiji Restoration was already incredible but I thought the work ethic was there throughout and helped make it possible. I
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Wannabe ninja swamp Japan town with job inquiries after viral mix-up(japantimes.co.jp)
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by aikinai 8y ago
Recall is definitely down, but don’t think penmanship has changed (at least in Japan). If anything wouldn’t it get better in a sense, since you write so rarely and develop less shortcuts which might be more efficient but less formal/el
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by aikinai 8y ago
This sounds like one of those things that's impossible to replicate since it so heavily depends on existing culture, but it's interesting to note that in Japan government work is seen as quite cool and it's a top choice for m
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by aikinai 8y ago
Yeah, it's a bit old, but here's an article about Backblaze not supporting metadata. [0] "It fails all but one of the Backup Bouncer tests, discarding file permissions, symlinks, Finder flags and locks, creation dates (despit
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by aikinai 8y ago
I really want to like Backblaze and they seem to do a lot of good work, but whenever this comes up, I also feel responsible to let people know the dark side so they're informed at least. I've written in more detail before[0], but
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by aikinai 8y ago
Because it’s intentionally obtuse to assume the only reason you would ever sacrifice upgradeability is for planned obsolescence.
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by aikinai 8y ago
That's my main issue with the touchbar as well, not this specific light issue, but the fact that it drags the rest of the computer down with it. I would have preferred buttons, but I'm pretty adaptable and can deal with the touchb
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by aikinai 8y ago
Because that's not how labor economics works. Also, why do you focus on Apple and Facebook (#33 and #42)? If you think employees should be compensated per revenue, then oil drillers are the ones that should be complaining; they should
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by aikinai 8y ago
This reminds me of the Versant test, which is a computer-graded test of speaking ability in various languages. A friend of mind had to take it and I quickly realized it was both inaccurate and highly gameable. The full story is that my frie

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