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by nihonde 9y ago
OP here. It’s funny that you mentioned Morimoto. I’ve been to two of his restaurants in NYC—Morimoto and the ramen one. They were both just OK in terms of food by Japanese standards, and the service was atrocious by Japanese standards. Our
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by nihonde 9y ago
定食 is usually served in five or six small dishes, and that’s definitely everyday food in Japan. The tableware is not often special, though. This article is backward to me. I’ve lived in New York and Japan long enough to know that the best f
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by nihonde 9y ago
You can add Japan, South Korea, and China to the list of places that don’t use WhatsApp.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Probably the same conversations happening in “booming” industrial cities in China. Cheap land, low cost of living...eventually the race to zero gets you and the big players move on.
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by nihonde 9y ago
In my mind, “PC market” means personal computing devices of all form factors. Any other definition is splitting hairs to serve your desired outcome. Anyway, when is the last time software alone got someone from point A to point B? It’s a h
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by nihonde 9y ago
And yet the clear winner in the PC market is Apple, an incumbent that always did both hardware and software.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Of all the companies you mentioned, only Toyota is a top ten automaker, and is indeed number one by many measures. I guess you think experience and a track record of phenomenal success is a disadvantage. I could agree with you in some conte
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by nihonde 9y ago
“leaving the job I filled” -> “leaving the job unfilled”
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by nihonde 9y ago
This reflects very poorly on Uber’s future prospects. This candidate seems like a professional fail-upward person. There are plenty of these people in big businesses, but most are just barely better than leaving the job I filled. For exampl
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My experience with these buildings in Japan is that many of the residents are either extremely low income or extremely thrifty senior citizens, or young single people away from their family unit and unable to afford more than a room for a f
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by nihonde 9y ago
My theory, having lived in New York and Japanese cities with lots of superblock developments, is that everything depends on how well the residents maintain the site.
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by nihonde 9y ago
My experience with my Android-based TV is that every Android update and every update of Google's own apps (e.g., YouTube) is a regression is so many totally unnecessary ways that it almost seems deliberate at this point.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Saying something with a few hundred thousand users is "big in Japan" is a stretch, at best. There are 130MM+ people in Japan. I mean, I have an iOS app that has about that many MAU, and I consider it to be basically a failure.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I think you're confusing software shrinkwrap license terms with click-through agreements. The latter would apply to software as a service and require affirmative consent from the end user/licensee. As far I know online contracts a
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by nihonde 9y ago
In the US, browsewrap enforcement is debatable, but my conclusion after looking into this question is that properly-formed clickwrap is enforceable in most US jurisdictions that matter.
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It's about normalizing pricing and terms in the supply chain. (You chose bad examples, as the larger buyers implicate antitrust/competition rules and illegal collusion.) If an AI has access to a broad spectrum of confidential info
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by nihonde 9y ago
I'm curious: which jurisdictions won't enforce a click-through agreement?
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by nihonde 9y ago
Personal privacy is a paper tiger, as Facebook and others have proven again and again. You only need to look at the consequence-free landscape of privacy breaches to understand that people have no meaningful right to avoid direct marketing
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by nihonde 9y ago
I'm painfully aware of my limit in sitting seiza from enduring formal events in Japan.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Yet another example of a great service that was killed by all the wrong kinds of licensing issues. Artists always saw the discovery potential in SoundCloud but bean counters just saw an opportunity to put the squeeze on.
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by nihonde 9y ago
It was a space travel game not unlike a very rudimentary (and 1-bit) version of Faster Than Light. It could be on a floppy somewhere. I still have the original 128k Mac that I built it on, but it's in storage. Edit: Fun thing that I ju
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by nihonde 9y ago
I was (maybe) a freshman at Lakeside High School at that time, which is his Alma Mater. I believe the occasion was the opening of the Gates-Allen Math and Science Building. The year would have been 1987 or so.
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by nihonde 9y ago
When I was 14 years old, I demoed my HyperCard-based game for none other than Bill Gates. My recollection is that he seemed genuinely interested in how I built it, and he knew more than I expected about Macs and HyperCard.
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by nihonde 9y ago
How can a company hope to grow if its narrative is "made specifically to appeal to Americans who were born after 1995"? The next wave of American kids will have something else they arbitrarily like better because it was "thei
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by nihonde 9y ago
Toyota will do what the market demands. It's hard to recall, but before the Cult of Musk lit up American patriotism for homegrown all-electric cars, Americans mocked electric cars mercilessly. Meanwhile, Japan perfected kei format ICE
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One of the hardest lessons learned at Toyota, according to their management, is that fully automated assembly lines eliminate a crucial opportunity for human ingenuity to intervene. That's why Toyota made a deliberate effort to retain
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by nihonde 9y ago
Meanwhile, Toyota and Mazda quietly announced a tie-up specifically for all electric vehicles. I know it's not as much fun as rooting for Tesla, but the odds are on the German and Japanese incumbents in the long run. It's very Jap
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by nihonde 9y ago
I would agree if the existing regulators were doing a decent job of avoiding major anti-consumer blowups. But they really aren't.
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To be fair, there are healthy, happy marriages here. My point was that the boomer generation devolved into some conventions that seem unacceptable from a Western perspective. You can't underestimate the impulse to act in the larger gro
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by nihonde 9y ago
Of course many do aspire to a fulfilling romantic life. I'm always a little bit amazed, however, when perfectly normal people admit that they want to marry for status, stability, and other purely pragmatic reasons. (It's not just

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