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by nihonde 8y ago
China has a huge, captive local market. The business model of copying foreign ideas and applying low-cost local labor, and local marketing/distribution know-how has plenty of precedents in all kinds of developing markets. Hollywood its
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by nihonde 8y ago
You are certainly uniquely qualified as a jingoist! Since only time will prove me right, I’ll wait. And meanwhile, I’ll continue to put my money where my mouth is. Since we’re all ultimately on the same team, I hope you and your collaborato
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by nihonde 8y ago
Not only are your tone and diction off-key, but your framing of this as a two-party domestic issue belies your myopic view of the world. My experience is that Americans grossly overestimate their advantage versus Asia, and are generally bli
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by nihonde 8y ago
Governments have done as poorly, if not worse.
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by nihonde 8y ago
A Kabushikigaisha is roughly equivalent to a C Corp in the US. You’ve probably seen the abbreviation K.K. after Japanese company names before.
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by nihonde 8y ago
As a point of contrast, my family’s 株式会社 spends about US$2,000 or less annually. This is without English support, though.
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by nihonde 8y ago
This is very much the same foundation of disinformation campaigns like strongarm regime propaganda or what is currently termed “fake news”. By attacking credibility itself, anything and nothing are equally valid. The problem with poisoning
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by nihonde 9y ago
This strikes me as all very pie-in-the-sky. I understand the law, and the policies that it serves, but the article assumes that a company has a single, centralized data source that you can just put some hand-waving “if then statements” arou
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by nihonde 9y ago
The GDPR applies to transactions with a nexus in the Union. If a US or Chinese traveler books a hotel in Germany, the GDPR protects their data. If a Chinese hotel chain offers a room to a German guest, the GDPR applies to processing of tha
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by nihonde 9y ago
It’s just a way to try to manipulate the stock price. They feed this blatantly false story every year, then buy on the dip and arbitrage when Tim Cook inevitably proves them wrong. It’s very transparent if you follow AAPL over a long time.
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by nihonde 9y ago
You forgot to mention that the explicit grant came with obnoxious conditions, and those conditions were the crux of the issue. Your characterization of the change says a lot about the internal discussions in which you participated.
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by nihonde 9y ago
From my perspective, progress hasn’t halted but there was a deliberate effort to reign in the pace of changes. I appreciate how much easier the migrations were through the 2.x series vs 1.x. Changes to the framework are well documented and
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by nihonde 9y ago
I think Ember point releases are typically focused on removing long-deprecated features so that upgrade is super easy. New stuff gets added/deprecated in between.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Thanks for trivializing my analysis, but I don’t see myself as a chronic doomsayer. In fact, I’m bullish on Asia and know from firsthand experience that Americans are, as a culture, increasingly moving out of the game at hand. I don’t expec
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by nihonde 9y ago
It’s far more dire than some spy agency slapfighting. Look at the other headline today about proud, patriotic Americans kow-towing to Foxconn for the political sleight of hand of a few jobs. And yet another headline is about court martialin
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by nihonde 9y ago
They must be paying Apple their percentage of the proceeds, unless they have an exception.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Isn’t Apple only seeking a cut of sales of digital goods? You can sell physical merchandise like a real book, but you can’t sell an ebook without cutting them in.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Having lived in Nagoya, Japan after growing up in America, I think industrials is one of those areas where Japanese sensibilities and approaches to innovation vs incremental improvement are going to be tough to beat. Like everything in Japa
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by nihonde 9y ago
I agree, but there is a very sizable constituency in the US that will only relinquish their ICE over their dead body. In fact, that was pretty much the mainstream sentiment, nurtured no doubt by oil interests and a kind of nostalgia for Ame
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by nihonde 9y ago
I don’t think companies like Toyota are scared of Tesla. I think they’re skeptical of American consumers’ sudden shift in willingness to buy electric, after decades of mixed signals (to put it lightly). The Prius was a huge hit, and every a
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by nihonde 9y ago
Actually, bitcoin transactions do not require trust. As long as no node controls more than half the network processing power, the ledger can’t be faked. The value of a single bitcoin is a measure confidence in the bitcoin network as a usefu
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by nihonde 9y ago
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, but you’re proposing the kind of trusted centralized banking institution that Satoshi explicitly sought to eliminate. It’s literally in the first line of his whitepaper.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I could be wrong, but I think you’re missing the real point here. Wall Street firms are in the business of influencing markets to their favor. When I see Jamie Dimon or MS slamming bitcoin, I assume they’re also readying a big buy in case t
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by nihonde 9y ago
All currencies are assets intended to be exchanged for other assets. Go read the original Bitcoin whitepaper. It’s all about enabling transactions—not hoarding an mountain of coins like some kind of mythological dragon. Whether or not bitco
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by nihonde 9y ago
One day later, and it looks like I was right. The buyers have chosen a bottom and the prices are rising again. Lots of people cashed out yesterday.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Some assets are more volitile than others. I feel that we are moving backwards here in terms of restating obvious and extremely basic principles. Anyway, I’m not at all convinced that BTC is different in kind relative to, say, normal FX tra
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by nihonde 9y ago
I didn’t downvote it, but it’s so obvious as to be unhelpful. Who needs to be reminded that an asset isn’t worth its price until it’s liquidated? It’s self-evident, and yet you have it following every time someone mentions returns on BTC. Y
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by nihonde 9y ago
Considering that almost the entire time since the inception of BTC has been a “good time to buy”, and considering the price today is still twice or more what it was in September, I don’t really follow your logic. I don’t own any BTC, for th
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by nihonde 9y ago
Yes, I assume the price drop is due to people selling off their positions, which is also known as “cashing out”. The “smart money” moves in at the bottom of the sell off, if you’re bullish on BTC.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I guess, but unless you bought in past few weeks, you’re still way up. This is more likely a huge payday for those who held long and liquidated at year end.

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