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by gkanai 11mo ago
You have a gift for writing. As for your job search, I would recommend that you look way beyond your home country if you haven't started doing that already. There are markets where there are jobs and while finding work overseas is not
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by gkanai 1y ago
I used to be first to try out new Apple products. Now I wait for OS upgrades and will let others try new Apple products or major software updates. Too many times Cupertino has let users down with poorly tested software. This problem with th
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by gkanai 1y ago
Acupuncture is widely used across East Asia for multiple issues. If it didn't work, it would not be used. But it does work, for some people, for some issues.
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by gkanai 1y ago
> I regret being born too late to work somewhere like Bell Labs, SGI, or Sun. For each of those firms there was a 'golden era' and then a time when the company coasted on their laurels, and then the slide to irrelevancy.
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by gkanai 1y ago
They never did afaict. Eventually smartphones became ubiquitous and I think most S. Koreans bank on their phones using apps. As for those who bank on computer, I dont know what happened when Active-X was deprecated. It was a poor decision b
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by gkanai 1y ago
Back when I worked for Mozilla, I had the chance to go to Seoul to meet with various companies and some governmental ministries. This was when Korean banks and ecommerce sites required Internet Explorer and Active-X controls for secure tran
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by gkanai 1y ago
> Today, no U.S. transit agency still uses BYD busses, because none of them managed a service live longer than about a year. This is a fascinating data point. This should be more prominent.
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by gkanai 1y ago
It's not that simple. China has supported key industries (like EVs, batteries, solar, semiconductors) that it views as strategic. Each country should do the same for their own situation. There is no such thing as pure capitalism- and w
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by gkanai 1y ago
> it would be great to be able to get one in the USA. Allowing in Chinese EVs into markets where there are important domestic auto manufacturers will be very bad for those domestic manufacturers. (US, Germany, France, S.Korea, Japan, etc
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by gkanai 1y ago
Japan has a digital national ID ("MyNumber" is the name). There was a lot of pushback before it passed but it did pass. It is now the main ID that is used for national health insurance and other government services. The rollout ha
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by gkanai 1y ago
I remember reading about Gutta Percha in Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board. "Wildman Whitehouse predicted that sending bits down long undersea cables was going to be easy (the degradation of the signal would be proportio
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by gkanai 1y ago
Why didnt the USGov/US military force their suppliers (Boeing, Lockheed, etc.) to buy from Intel? That would create some demand for 18A or 14A.
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by gkanai 1y ago
> More companies going public, earlier is better for markets and society. I would disagree. Japan is a good example of a market where there are a lot of small public companies and they're largely held by the founders. There is not e
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by gkanai 1y ago
That seems like a reasonable price premium to pay for having given up fabbing in the US previously and now paying to catch up.
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by gkanai 1y ago
That is... crazy. Would the CCP allow their cloud infra to be administrated by US staff in the US? Never.
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by gkanai 1y ago
Every day one step closer to the reality of Wall-e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E
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by gkanai 1y ago
> when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; America is a shrine to capitalism. Capitalism has driven most of the outsourcing that American companies did first to Japan (ship building, autos, then
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by gkanai 1y ago
Japan is similar in terms of moving on from environmental catastrophes. Due to it's geographic location, the number and severity of earthquakes and tsunamis not to mention the regular stuff like wildfires, flooding etc. there's ju
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by gkanai 1y ago
I cant imagine writing this having experienced the loss the author has.
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by gkanai 1y ago
Japan should qualify any future ODA to Myanmar requires the junta goes in and breaks up these scam centers and put the scam owners in jail.
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by gkanai 1y ago
An required in-person verification due diligence step would stop this, no?
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by gkanai 1y ago
Related to Kevin Kelly, if you want to hear from Kelly's collaborator in the walks, Craig Mod was recently interviewed by Tim Ferriss (episode #803).
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by gkanai 1y ago
> could some of this stuff be provided by the private sector? Yes, but the key man problem still exists. For instance, SpaceX could build/operate a network of weather satellites for various nations but the instability of the founder
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by gkanai 1y ago
I do a lot of product searches in Japanese and there is a ton of SEO spam on domains (.br but also many others) that are basically irrelevant to Japan. Google should be blocking all of that SEO spam but they can't seem to walk away fro
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by gkanai 1y ago
If this continues, will maritime insurance keep paying out for these total losses? It seem untenable. Some thoughts: 1) drain almost all the gasoline from vehicles so that if there is a fire, the fuel is limited. 2) for battery EVs, other t
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by gkanai 1y ago
yeah that made me stop too. Who, writing on these topics, does not know that the movie is 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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by gkanai 1y ago
In Japan, except for certain areas in the top major metros, only land has value. Buildings lose value over the life of a 30 year mortgage due to the changing nature of earthquake regulations for buildings. It will almost always be cheaper t
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by gkanai 1y ago
Thank you! This is cool. I hadn't seen it before.
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by gkanai 1y ago
I was with Mozilla when OSU's OSL was supporting the mirroring/serving of Firefox and Thunderbird globally. They were a key mirror/supporter during the early days of Mozilla and definitely contributed to the growth of Firefox
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by gkanai 1y ago
Interesting idea. Have you thought about integrating support for timecode? Dante support also might bring your software to professional venues.

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