nandemo

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by nandemo 11y ago
It depends on the company. Some "foreign" companies closely follow the structure and culture of their HQ (Goldman Sachs, Google). Some are essentially Japanese companies that happen to be owned by a foreign entity and share their
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> I shudder to think of Amazons CFO shuddering to think of that. Care to elaborate? Cash-on-delivery is a common payment method in Japan, and Amazon Japan and many other online marketplaces have been using it for years. It can be prob
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by nandemo 11y ago
Not clear what you mean in your edit, but you might be reading too much into the futures price. The futures market by itself doesn't provide a magical way of predicting the price of oil in 2017. Roughly, since oil can be stored the bes
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by nandemo 11y ago
That's plausible. Indeed it would be pretty hard to break even without an alternative business model: books usually have a MRSP printed on the jacket and charging more than the MRSP is unusual; plus the rent in Ginza is over 400usd per
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by nandemo 11y ago
Nobody's forcing you to watch Netflix (or use Kinect, Facebook, etc) at gunpoint. If anything the trend of tracking/surveillance with consent is Huxleyish rather than Orwellian.
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The Brazilian taxi "lobby" (some would say mafia) is really fighting back: Taxi drivers assault Uber driver in Brasilia: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... In Porto Alegre:
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She'll be way richer than that. They'll donate 99% of their shares along their lifetimes. In the meantime, they'll get cash in several ways: dividends, salaries, bonuses, etc.
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> but then you've just replaced meeting time with the time you spend interacting with the tickets and the agile board. But that happens asynchronously, which is already an improvement. > There really is just no way around it.
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Or KEF, or Quad, etc. Also, it's too bad they chose to display stock photography instead of, you know, pictures of actual damn speakers.
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Your correction of the headline question is on point. I'm not sure about your answer, though. I doubt any 20k USD speaker sounds "bad". It's more like: most are not measurably better than speakers that cost only 1/1
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Genelec is renowned for their studio monitors. These aren't simply "high quality speakers", it's really a separate product category from the kind of audiophile-focused hifi speakers the article is talking about. > Th
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Are you sure? Many so-called "universal" bluray players can play SACDs. I got a Denon one. I haven't played any SACD on it yet (I got it for bluray), though I guess I could easily find some at that video rental store (in Tok
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by nandemo 11y ago
I heard from an Amazon manager, during a hiring event, that Amazon never deletes reviews. The context was a specific negative review on the Kindle.
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by nandemo 11y ago
True, they probably don't have the full card numbers. But if the new business can charge my card, then I don't think my card info is "safe".
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GW=gigawatt.
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FWIW there are still bears in Japan: http://www.tofugu.com/2014/04/17/japan-cant-decide-if-bears-... There are also bears of another species not mentioned there. That said, > You are far more likely to be
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by nandemo 11y ago
Indeed.com?
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> As always, it's best to interpret others' comments in the most generous way possible, rather than jumping to the conclusion that the poor person must have been spending too much money to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Hon
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*> You've got $16 left for food and then then the Flickr account you forgot to cancel gets charged to your account, I don't want to be rude but I wonder what set of circumstances leads a poor person to subscribe to a relatively
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by nandemo 11y ago
Banks certainly issue credit cards to non-PR foreigners. I got one as a student. My initial limit was very low, though (100,000yen~=1000usd then). I know people who got refused cards by multiple banks before succeeding. But it's not ne
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by nandemo 11y ago
> I think if you want it to be classical music then it has to obey the rules of counterpoint, and the pitches should wander and resolve according to those rules. Uh, that's polyphonic music. There's plenty of classical music t
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by nandemo 11y ago
Presumably, "Goedel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter. Which, incidentally, doesn't have a particularly high "signal-to-noise ratio" but it's one of the most interesting books I've ever read.
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by nandemo 11y ago
Conviction rate = #convicted / #prosecuted. Karpeles has been detained, but he hasn't been charged and is not on trial yet.
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by nandemo 11y ago
Landlords aren't dumb. Their payoff is pretty much binary: ($rent, 0). It doesn't matter how well a startup does, the landlord will get at most $rent. If anything its the VCs who are dumb: why are they not investing in startups in
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by nandemo 11y ago
Financial Times -- which incidentally has just been acquired by Nikkei, a Japanese company -- has no particular affection for Putin. You might be thinking of RT (Russia Today).
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I'm not gp but the tl;dr is: Japanese government has been pushing for a stronger military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_9_of_the_Japanese_Cons... Article 9 in Japan's Constitution, added after WWII,
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Amongst other differences: there's far more internal migration within the USA than within the EU.
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Yes, and timr was replying to this: > EVEN WITHOUT ANY DEBT PAYMENTS, the country still is running a deficit because they are way over generous on their pensions, So clearly primary surplus is relevant.
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I think "bozo" is too harsh. It's hard to predict what books will be bestsellers and what startups will reach $1B valuation. Arguably, traditional publishers and VCs have to say "no" most of the time. Maybe Kawasaki
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I know. :-)

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