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by gkanai 8y ago
> Japan is not a very good proxy due to their strict immigration policies PM Abe is actively trying to change the immigration policies as of Nov. 2018.
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by gkanai 8y ago
> in Shanghai trying to find a pair of authentic Nike Air Jordans. The fact of the matter is that today China is such an important market for Nike that it's probably easier to get a rare authentic Air Jordan in Shanghai than it is i
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by gkanai 8y ago
I agree with Scott Galloway who has both predicted the outcome and has called this a sham 'contest.' Galloway said that Bezos was always going to pick one of the coastal cities where he has a second/third home. By doing this
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by gkanai 8y ago
> I've heard the argument that this situation is unique to japan due to their aging population and low birthrate. There are many other countries (Italy, S. Korea, others) that have the same aging population and low birthrate.
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by gkanai 8y ago
> America is finally admitting, that they too, actively spy on other countries. The Snowden revelations made that very clear to all years ago, no?
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The difference there is that Korea and Japan are treaty allies with the US. Taiwan is not a treaty ally but has a very close relationship with the US.
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by gkanai 8y ago
I volunteered for Tompkins in '94 (?) when I was in university and had a 3 month block to donate to his efforts. He had a friend and I help him survey a portion of land that he ended up purchasing. I never went back to see the land or
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by gkanai 8y ago
Back in the 90s, I started using the Microsoft Natural keyboards at work (the ones that are 'bent' in the middle) and I am most comfortable with that layout.
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Amazon antitrust critic [Lina Khan] has her own critics now(seattletimes.com)
1 points by gkanai 8y ago|0 comments
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The Tokyo subway is both air-conditioned on the platform (in places) as well as in the cars and has been for decades. China's subways are all air-conditioned.
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by gkanai 8y ago
There is nothing FB or Sandberg can do to fix Facebook's reputation in my mind. I have deleted most of the content I have posted to FB and keep my account only because I sometimes use Messenger.
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by gkanai 8y ago
What I've done is deleted a majority of the amount of content I had on FB previously. I went back and deleted most of the content I had posted, and kept only a handful of posts. I still use FB for some groups that are only on FB and us
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by gkanai 8y ago
Getting into China today is very different than it was a few years ago. Many of China's best engineers are eager to be in China for the rise of the Chinese domestic tech firms (BAT & TMD) and even those Chinese who go overseas for
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by gkanai 8y ago
In short, Toyota does not see themselves as a software firm (and they aren't in a broad sense); Sony also failed to transition beyond their best years of the 90s largely because they did not understand the importance of software and th
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by gkanai 8y ago
> why would they need to raise money? The thinking is that the more a hot company can raise, the longer they can stay public. In the current cycle, IPOs are more rare than in previous cycles (partly because FAANG are acquiring more compa
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by gkanai 8y ago
> The well-traveled Yosemite stuff isn't going to shift under you. Except when there are accidents. Like recently on El Capitan: https://www.climbing.com/news/eye-witnesses-recount-tragic-a...
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by gkanai 8y ago
Sequoia (US) and Sequoia China are separate funds. They share the same brand and work together on some areas, but the funds are separate and the LPs are not the same (some LPs may invest in both funds but not necessarily.)
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by gkanai 8y ago
> I expect the Chinese to go through the expensive and long process of owning the entire stack, micro chips, and up. None of America's allies have chosen to "go through the expensive and long process of owning the entire stack&
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by gkanai 8y ago
> Sputnik was a national security matter and ZTE is a case about commerce. China views not having full control of semiconductors and operating systems (desktop and smartphone) as a national security matter.
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You can't make a apples to apples comparison because the legal systems are different (employees have more protections in Japan) but in a typical Japanese software development position (not a place like Google Japan) you can expect sala
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by gkanai 8y ago
Uber has not been successful in Japan for many reasons. 1) the public transportation system is excellent. 2) the taxis are ubiquitous in the major metro areas. 3) the taxi companies have worked together to compete against Uber Japan success
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by gkanai 8y ago
> creating a system where you realize people are sharing their suicide on. They should have planned for that pre-launch and had a plan in place to deal with users like that. When Live was launched, journalists asked Zuckerberg about this
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by gkanai 8y ago
I, for one, am actively trying to limit my FB usage. I started actively limiting my FB usage last summer, so way before the Cambridge Analytica news. I do use it still for some groups, and Messenger from time to time, but I try hard to stay
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by gkanai 8y ago
Not the 80s. The 70s. You could not buy a UWS brownstone in the 80s for $20k.
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Japan has a form of capitalism that works(japantimes.co.jp)
2 points by gkanai 8y ago|0 comments
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China should have done this 5-8 years ago. It took the blocking of ZTE and Huawei in the US for China to realize that they don't have the fabrication capabilities for the chips that they need (the most advanced chips are all US/JP
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by gkanai 9y ago
> My hope is that China will moderate and become less authoritarian and less of a threat to its neighbors. That Xi just took power until his death means that this is not happening in China.
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by gkanai 9y ago
> they're cheap, you get what you pay for, but they work and are reliable enough. Chinese vehicles are not as safe in accidents as those cars which have had a longer time to engineer safety technologies. Also the price point of most
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The Japanese Software Industry: What Went Wrong and What Can We Learn from It?(researchgate.net)
2 points by gkanai 9y ago|0 comments
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by gkanai 9y ago
> I couldn't find anything similar for Toyota or BMW Not quite true. Toyota Racing Development (TRD) does sell performance accessories (superchargers) for some engines. BMW has M Performance and you could put some of the M Performan

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