benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
In terms of market share, I'd say it's akin to a regional monopoly. But that's not entirely what I meant. In my view, phones are general purpose computers. Apple also takes this view, which is the reason they have opened up
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by benrbray 6y ago
If this isn't an abusive monopoly position, I don't know what is.
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A Costly Waiting Game for Inbound Foreign Workers to Japan(japantimes.co.jp)
1 points by benrbray 6y ago|0 comments
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by benrbray 6y ago
In my opinion this just hurts everyone, and requires us to make drastic changes to our work culture. Permanent DST is a simple band-aid fix that does a lot of good while we think carefully about solving the hard problems.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Most jobs don't depend on the sun, which is why most office workers don't get to enjoy windows. The jobs that do already have seasonally shifting hours. Permanent daylight time means that by default, everyone gets to enjoy more su
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by benrbray 6y ago
discussed already here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301672
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by benrbray 6y ago
broken link! also dupe, I beat you to it :) but no one is awake https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24301672
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by benrbray 6y ago
More information: [1] Japan Times, "How Possible Successors Stack up if Abe Resigns" ( https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/08/24/national/politi... ) [2] Japan Times, "Abe to Resign
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Prime Minister Abe Shinzo Intends to Step Down(www3.nhk.or.jp)
68 points by benrbray 6y ago|73 comments
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by benrbray 6y ago
In many discussions about "how things are and should be", one side often talks about the Constitution as an absolute source of truth, as if its authors were infallible. This is the reason why I believe slavery should be kept in m
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Rakuten CEO urges review of Japan's Covid-19 entry curbs on foreigners(reuters.com)
1 points by benrbray 6y ago|0 comments
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by benrbray 6y ago
I should have linked to the original source instead: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-... and some related links: [1]: http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13665907 [2
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Rakuten CEO urges review of Japan's Covid-19 entry curbs on foreigners(thestarphoenix.com)
2 points by benrbray 6y ago|1 comments
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by benrbray 6y ago
We still have a long way to go--my friend's bank called him up to say that his six-digit bank PIN was "too long" and that he should change it to four digits "for security".
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by benrbray 6y ago
> Leading the web to its full potential Meanwhile, that W3C logo is sporting a radial gradient + inner shadow + drop shadow combination straight out of 2004!
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by benrbray 6y ago
> if you see this as support, you can say that Apple is supporting Chinese totalitarian regime too. sure, I'm ok with that
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by benrbray 6y ago
The most recent season of Narcos: Mexico has an entertaining dramatization of this event!
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by benrbray 6y ago
but I have all this water vapor that I need to exhale through my stomata!
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by benrbray 6y ago
Well, this is as good a time as any then to try out Darktable [1]! [1] https://www.darktable.org/
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by benrbray 6y ago
Yeah, this is a pattern I see a lot. Rather than discussing solutions to an problem, there is a tendency from some people to just throw their hands up in the air and say "it is what it is, can't do anything about it!". When
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by benrbray 6y ago
what is the advantage over something more standard like JSON?
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by benrbray 6y ago
This is a dishonest argument. Compared to the United States, countries like Japan, Germany, and others in Europe have been much more successful at containing the pandemic, even with their extensive public transport systems. Our transportat
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by benrbray 6y ago
Americans spent $1 TRILLION on personal transport (cars + car insurance, mainly) in 2017 [1]. Imagine if just half that went to building local subway networks / high-speed rail across the country / expanding bus options. [1]: ht
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by benrbray 6y ago
We have Progressive because they gave us the best quote when we signed up (neither of us had a car insurance history.) We look every couple months or so for a better quote, but so far, nothing. Geico would have us paying even more.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Sorry others are downvoting you, I know exactly what you mean. My SO and I are age 24 living in a relatively high-risk area for theft and accidents. But we both live within walking distance of work, and since covid hit, we're not dri
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by benrbray 6y ago
Still technically renting, though :)
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by benrbray 6y ago
AmazonBasics is no better, they just slap the Amazon brand onto cheaply manufactured goods with no quality control. For instance, the sponsored AmazonBasics cable for the search "USB to USB C" [1] is an extreme fire hazard due to
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by benrbray 6y ago
> no one was buying but no one was renting either. As someone who was in eighth grade at the time, can you clarify what you mean by this? Every person either 1) buys property, 2) rents property, 3) goes homeless, or 4) dies. There aren
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think I should have been more careful with my "revised" statement, as I set up a straw man for my own position. You are absolutely right that both voter fraud and electoral fraud occur. We should take efforts to minimize both
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by benrbray 6y ago
Anecdotally I would say job satisfaction is at least as important a factor in retention, at least until employees are old enough to have started a family. Many young people (age 20-30) I know are in a situation where they are paid large sum

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