ausvisaissues

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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
With noise, with garbage sorting, etc... Japanese people tend to follow all rules, written and unwritten. I guess Americans follow only rules that can be enforced (cf. Uber, Airbnb, etc...) Probably from a culture of rebellion against Brita
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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
It is also culture that plays a big part. I've lived in very high density housing in Japan (20 floor manshion type apartment) and medium density in US (2 level apartment). Higher density in Japan is much more pleasant due to the cult
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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
Processing time for highskilled visa is 5 days guaranteed. It is a refreshing change compared to US h1b lottery.
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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
Perhaps that is true, but some incremental steps have the possibility of making driving infinitely better. Imagine cars that refuse to tailgate, drive at excessive speed, drive with drowsy owners, drive on the right-hand side of the road in
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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
If you have a highskilled visa with 80 points, it is 1 year (however, it takes 10 months after application to get it). High-skilled visas are not connected to an employer and there is no lottery system.beats the hell out of US policies...
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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
Most gates are automatic now in Japan (with a conductor sometimes checking tickets on Shinkansen after gates). When I was in the US there was a guy handing me a towel in the bathroom. That is an incredibly meaningless and superfluous job!
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by ausvisaissues 8y ago
In China, the poor living in rural areas cannot easily move to cities ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system ). In India the poor can move to cities.
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
The problrm is that Japanese journals are less competitive. So, second-rate researchers can continue to publish in these and "work" (i.e., look productive). The biggest problem with Japanese universities is not funding (there is t
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Just deleted AccuWeather. I am 100% convinced by the blog post -- but the DarkSky App is unfortunately not available outside USA. I really wish that the user could selectively switch on or off what permissions an app receives -- Instead of
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
I said "just" a rural urban thing. No doubt there are more leftwingers/liberals in cities. But it is not nearly as uniform as your experience would suggest. Polling also said that Hillary would win the election, and brexit wo
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Don't for a moment think it is just a city/rural thing (with a bunch of conservative country bumkins). Many people having non-leftwing ideas simply hide it. Since most workplaces have become politicised and hostile to conservative
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
I will immigrate to US in Dec. and think it is a vast improvement. H1b lottery is a broken system which is gamed by outsourcing companies.
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
The current H1b system has a cap, with more applications than positions. This is resolved via a "lottery". If you apply, you have a 30% chance of being selected. Indian outsourcing firms started to game the lottery (for every posi
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Japan has a backwards view of mental health, and one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Yet public places are immaculately clean. The fact is that western people and law enforcement tolerate vandalism, littering and antisocial behav
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
IMHO, Paris is fairly dirty (like 60% San Francisco dirty). Especially the subway is a mess, and there is no law enforcement (e.g. minor children begging during weekday and no-one does anything). Many of the trains are vandalized. St. Peter
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Japan has public pools (run by wards) and they are lovely. The only minor complaint is that sometimes they are overrun with old people ;)
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Two questions: 1. What is the harm for different drugs once addicted? (health, possibility to lead normal life) 2. What percentage of people addicted can successfully quit?
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Yes, Japanese people drink a lot, and it is a social issue. But there are a lot of functional alcoholics in Japan. > Japanese people also are major users of over the counter drugs Japan is much stricter with medicine than US. Several m
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
> whether drug abuse is what lead them to the behavior that you disapprove of. I am pretty sure the needles on the sidewalk is just there because everyone suffers from diabetes, right? I think that, fortunately for most IT people like us
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
> It's people like you who don't really care that millions have been imprisoned over a personal choice. Japan imprisons a very small percentage of people compared to the USA. Furthermore,it is a personal choice only if the othe
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
You are wrong: it is a big moral failing. Why is it impossible for Westerners not to use drugs, while the Japanese manage not to use it fairly well? Should we set the bar for behaviour so low? Even if drugs were legalized, the cost for trea
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Or they get harassed until they quit or kill themselves. Power harassment and maternity harassment is fairly common in Japan.
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
Zoos had quite big success at breeding back THE African wild dog.
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by ausvisaissues 9y ago
The "war on drugs" was largely won in Asian countries that have proper enforcement (Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, etc...) Just compare the streets of Tokyo to that of San Francisco and tell me it is not working! Also, compare driver (
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by ausvisaissues 10y ago
I am not completely following what you mean by "98% is of an unknown class, but pulled from a known distribution". Are you suggesting that: 2 percent of samples are positive, drawn from p(x|y=1) 98 percent of samples are drawn fro
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by ausvisaissues 10y ago
> And considering forgiveness is such a core tenant of Christianity, In civilization, individual members give up the right for revenge to the state, who punishes perpetrators. Individuals may forgive a perpetrator, but that doesn't
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by ausvisaissues 10y ago
It is not possible to block downloads of updates or to switch of daily update reminders on new iOS devices. This is a well known problem: http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/04/stop-ios-software-update-noti... The on
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by ausvisaissues 10y ago
> Providing simple access to the NFC antenna by banking applications would fundamentally diminish the high level of security Apple aims to have on our devices. This is what I hate about Apple. I am fairly certain that the customers b
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by ausvisaissues 10y ago
> If computers replace doctors, and I get better care for cheaper, aren't I better off? Doctors have a state-guaranteed monopoly that is created via lobbying. That is why, in many countries, doctors are extremely expensive -- even t
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by ausvisaissues 10y ago
> A poor attempt at obfuscation. Just because Russia is guilty of some things, does not mean that they are automatically guilty of others. > nothing to do with with Litvinenko's murder Probably the Russian government was involved

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