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by gkanai 4y ago
> semiconductor foundries: Why should Japan have excelled here vs any other country? Japan did have a thriving semiconductor industry early on but key Japanese companies made wrong choices wrt technologies and obviously TSMC ran away wit
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by gkanai 4y ago
Spike Japan is great. He needed an editor though. It's a great reminder of the collapse of rural Japan- that's still ongoing today. Those parts of rural Japan should never have had the development that they did have during the 80s
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by gkanai 4y ago
I'm the one who originally first wrote about the situation in S. Korea in the 90s when I was working for Mozilla and we noticed that Firefox had almost no market share there. At the end of the day, it's up to the S. Korean govt. o
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by gkanai 4y ago
> What I couldn't understand was why Sony couldn't keep up with Apple's stellar hockey stick growth Apple's strength is it's software. Sony lost out because it could not compete with Apple's software.
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by gkanai 4y ago
> A good example is housing. I think housing is a bad example to use wrt Japan. Japan is one of the few markets in the world where, for the most part, only land has value. Buildings LOSE value over time. This is for multiple reasons but
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by gkanai 4y ago
I was working at Mozilla in 2007 when I first brought this issue to the wider (i.e. beyond S. Korea) Internet. My post from then was widely covered by Slashdot and Boing Boing and other tech sites. S. Korea clearly doesn't care to &#x2
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by gkanai 4y ago
Notably, Kelleher stepped down from the CEO role at Southwest in 2001. So this crazy debacle of 2022 is largely a result of management that has not followed Kelleher's guidance.
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by gkanai 4y ago
Such an amazing piece of writing. I think it's also the longest piece Wired ever published.
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by gkanai 4y ago
There was another venture that was building a mail client off the Thunderbird codebase. https://www.postbox-inc.com/
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by gkanai 4y ago
Building a bootstrapped business (i.e. NOT taking venture capital) is a rare skill. I would keep on building without outside capital if you can continue to build growth. If you hit a ceiling (without growth) then you may want to consider lo
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by gkanai 4y ago
Young kids are using discord all the time for their co-playing of games (Roblox, etc.) It's a gamer-focused UI, if anything. Old UIs from the days of text-based Internet were also 'flat'- the main difference is that Discord s
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by gkanai 4y ago
> Japanese customers are more patriotic There's a ton of cheap Chinese tools for sale in Japan. Makita is a nationally-recognized Japanese brand. If you want a quality tool for long-term use, one would often select a made-in-Japan M
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by gkanai 4y ago
If this downturn really deepens into a true recession (however it is defined) won't new vehicle markups go away naturally as fewer customers will be buying new cars? Isn't Markups a business that only is relevant during an inflate
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by gkanai 4y ago
Same thing with Japan. Japanese call the country Nippon.
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by gkanai 4y ago
Alert (AA22-108A) TraderTraitor: North Korean State-Sponsored APT Targets Blockchain Companies https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/alerts/aa22-108a
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by gkanai 4y ago
The author: "Ugo Bardi is professor of physical chemistry at the University of Florence, Italy." If you want to read about the collapse of complex societies from an actual anthropologist, I recommend Joseph Tainter. https:/&
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by gkanai 4y ago
One anthropologist who has studied the collapse of human civilizations is Joseph Tainter. This podcast interview and youtube interview covers Tainter's research and perspectives. Both interviews are pre-pandemic and Tainter's conc
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by gkanai 4y ago
日本 = Japan
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by gkanai 5y ago
I have my own domain and use email with that domain. I have a gmail account but only use it for mailing lists, ecommerce orders, etc. Relying on Gmail for everything is a bad, bad idea.
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by gkanai 5y ago
> I'm not sure what's terribly impressive about this either. It is not easy to do this. Losing the engine at the wrong time or place would have meant near certain death especially in the winter regions. Very few people have don
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by gkanai 5y ago
It depends on the jurisdiction but in general you have to file flight plans far in advance and request visas alongside that flight plan I believe. It's a lot of paperwork and fees.
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by gkanai 5y ago
Japan is rabies-free and thus has a very strict quarantine for pets to come into Japan from overseas.
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by gkanai 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20211207081933/https://www.washi...
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by gkanai 5y ago
Toyota Land Cruiser (the older ones.) Look for one that has airbags and ABS and nothing else computer-controlled.
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by gkanai 5y ago
I hate bluetooth headphones. I want high quality audio both input AND output. I need a good mic on the phone- the only way you can get that is with a wired mic.
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Groke: A situational awareness system to make seafaring safer(aqworks.com)
71 points by gkanai 5y ago|15 comments
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by gkanai 5y ago
I remember Ben Horowitz always promoting Rap Genius and using rap lyrics in his essays. It always seemed 'try hard' to me, Horowitz being an ultra wealthy white male. This was one investment I never understood.
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by gkanai 5y ago
In major metro areas Japan has banned the registration of most diesel consumer vehicles (not talking about busses or trucks) unless they are the new 'clean diesel' types. You can't live in Tokyo or Osaka and register a diesel
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by gkanai 5y ago
Samsung has admitted the action and has committed to changing the product model number if this happens again.
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by gkanai 5y ago
full text here: https://lightlynews.com/2021/08/26/opinion/opinion-why-a-19t...

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