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by nihonde 9y ago
You’re paying for guys who tear up the same street all day, every day, for years, and then leave it looking like a patchwork of sloppy, half-finished jobs. I lived on that street for ten years.
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by nihonde 9y ago
"you might have actually made a well-formed argument". I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back. The downvotes don't bother me in the slightest.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Don't worry about the downvotes. Freedom of speech is a pillar of American society, until you express doubt about their unassailable exceptionalism, at which point the censure is relentless.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Writing Japan off is another favorite pastime, I notice. What most impresses me about Japan is their ability to weather the doldrums of their current economy, and still have a higher quality of life than Americans do. How well do you think
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by nihonde 9y ago
The premise of this headline is that the USA is indisputably in the lead and that the winner is whoever catches up the USA. After spending years in Asia, my impression is that there is another game being played entirely, and the USA is mere
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by nihonde 9y ago
> Over the past three years, from 2014 to 2017, the price of bitcoin has increased exponentially, from around $400 to $7,000, by 17-fold. This nonsensical sentence made me want to stop reading, esp. after the site requested notification
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by nihonde 9y ago
Yes, likely because there are almost no English-speaking people in that area.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Indeed, I see all that traffic because I block it all. I still doubt that the ROI tracking is useful for anything other than direct online sales.
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by nihonde 9y ago
A compare/contrast between Aeon and Walmart would be fascinating. I've literally never seen the inside of a Walmart, so I'm not qualified.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Aeon mall in Nagoya, Japan[1] was my primary daily grocery and pharmacy for years. Aeon's format is pretty much the same as most suburban American malls, but they seem to run a tighter ship and do a better job of vertical integration.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I get it. I like ads in Japan because they're entertaining. You're the first person I've ever hear of who enjoys being a target of online ads, so I'm still convinced that you are very, very unique.
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by nihonde 9y ago
FWIW, I am not trolling. FB domains are deliberately blocked via my hosts file, and my business has nothing to do with consumer ads. I am just a skeptic of intertuption advertising effectiveness in general, and curious to see how rigorous t
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by nihonde 9y ago
I think so because the entire history of advertising is based on hiding the ball in terms of ROI. How many sales does a Super Bowl ad generate? How many does a billboard generate? For some extremely simplistic e-commerce conversions, such a
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by nihonde 9y ago
How do you measure this? Please be specific.
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by nihonde 9y ago
OK, so how is the success of that funnel measured vis-a-vis other promotional channels? And are you able to demonstrate definitively that a visitor from FB concluded a sale? If so, how?
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by nihonde 9y ago
Then you should be able to answer my question: what is the metric for ROI?
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by nihonde 9y ago
I will answer your question with another: what metric are you using to measure ROI? Edit: When you say you know lots of "marketers and advertisers" that are making money from ads, are you referring to resellers and providers of ad
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by nihonde 9y ago
And yet, advertisers still have no meaningful ROI, because it's never in the platform's interest to overachieve on this count. And, users are still very much annoyed by distracting, irrelevant, or overly-targeted ads.
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by nihonde 9y ago
You're right. I wonder how the alliance partners will handle charging stations. I know from living in Japan that Nissan chargers are at nearly every dealership lot, and many parking garages have charging areas.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I think there is a kind of Goldilocks syndrome that many programmers fall into. The opposite of "too magical" is having to sift through 48 custom implementations in StackOverflow and 192 npm packages to answer questions like &quot
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by nihonde 9y ago
It seems like a miserable way to enjoy your good fortunes in life. I'm sure many successful people can't get out of their own way, and this is just another case of never being satisfied.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Japanese automakers are circling their wagons. Toyota, Mazda, and Denso are collaborating in a JV, with Suzuki expected to join. Toyota leadership is demanding longer range and faster charging batteries from the alliance engineers. The impo
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by nihonde 9y ago
Maybe present yourself as a seasoned presenter and business veteran and offer to help the teacher prepare a top-notch lesson plan for next year's PP segment?
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by nihonde 9y ago
Mac usage is a metric for sophistication? What a silly set of comments. People seem to grossly underestimate China. That hubris will only hurt you in the long run. Half or more of the stuff in those “sophisticated” computers is sourced in C
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by nihonde 9y ago
Implying that China is not a "sophisticated market"?
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by nihonde 9y ago
Their front-end apps are awful, and wildly inconsistent from platform to platform. Streaming performance is best in class, as far as I can tell, though. I guess their focus is on the latter.
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by nihonde 9y ago
What's your point? I live in a world full of people who are native to Japan. I'm not in some sort of expat bubble. I can go weeks without seeing any foreigners here. It's not difficult for me to know the perspective of people
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by nihonde 9y ago
As a resident of Japan, this strikes me as complete nonsense. Life in Japan is extremely social. People strike up friendships all the time. Your pity is misplaced. Go to any izakaya and you’ll likely walk out with a few new friends, even if
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by nihonde 9y ago
No, you’re right. There is zero accountability for this kind of stuff. No US government agency or US-based business has ever suffered for it. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.
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by nihonde 9y ago
A lot of that difference is attributable to setting high standards and holding yourself accountable to them.

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