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by nihonde 9y ago
Not to trivialize real gender prejudice, but there is no shortage of Japanese women who are in a dire search for a convenient marriage to a busy man who can give her children, financial support, and otherwise leave her alone. Even among my
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by nihonde 9y ago
Lots of childless old-timers are sitting on hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in liquid assets that presumably will revert to the state. Household savings in the 60+ demographic are exemplary. Of course, that's part of the r
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by nihonde 9y ago
Jean-Louis Gassée (author of this piece on Mossberg) is one of my favorite commentators. He's just enough of an insider and yet also an oddball, which means he keeps it pretty real in an area that tends to be an echo chamber of fawning
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by nihonde 9y ago
I guess it's not surprising that untrustworthy people would flock to technologies that eliminate the need for trust.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Shinkansen isn't really priced to be a commuter rail service. Nagoya/Tokyo is roughly $90 each way.
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by nihonde 9y ago
It also works in a country where crime is basically negligible. It's amazing how many conveniences emerge from people behaving themselves.
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by nihonde 9y ago
As is so often the case, this is already a solved problem in Japan. When a package arrives, I'm alerted to its presence when I RFID my key to open the lobby door. Then I RFID my key again on the package locker and the locker with my st
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by nihonde 9y ago
The flip side of that is supposedly tech literate IT managers who insist that my company implement "industry standard" virus detection software on a fleet of MacBook Pros. The stupid cuts both ways.
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by nihonde 9y ago
D&B and whole DUNS number racket are the living antithesis of innovation.
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by nihonde 9y ago
If there's one lesson to be drawn from Apple's history, it's that first to market is not a good metric for blockbuster success.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Japan's organized crime is still the biggest and best organized in the world. They very clearly play a role in keeping petty criminals from China, Korea, and South Asia off the streets of Japan, and it's no secret that the keisats
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by nihonde 9y ago
You are in a fantasy world if you think Japanese people like "a good smoke". You obviously know absolutely nothing about real life in Japan.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Well, yes I have to agree about pachinko. I was thinking more in terms of law enforcement and organized crime having a common cause in keeping foreign criminal syndicates out of Japan. Say what you will about the integrity of that arrangeme
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by nihonde 9y ago
Ironically, Japan's current drug policy was largely motivated by post-war American policies imposed on it. Those policies were just implemented in a more serious and effective way.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I live in Japan, where illegal drugs and their halo of crime are not really relevant in any way to normal daily life. I'm not a crusader against recreational drug use, but I reject the hypothesis that legalization is the only path to e
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by nihonde 9y ago
That first link paints a very unflattering image of Mr. Caze, and in his own words. I couldn't dream up a more perfect depiction of the despicable personalities at the core of cryptocurrency counter-culture.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Actually, there are only limited public policy exceptions to contract enforcement. In theory, almost any court should enforce whatever the parties agreed to. When they encounter "bugs" (usually ambiguity), the court might need to
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by nihonde 9y ago
Your enumerated conditions apply to traditional legal contracts as well.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Those crazy hippies talking about using VR to unlock spiritual awareness through massively multiplayer virtual acid trips is just a whole lot more fun than the awful, terrible Facebook Spaces demo. I guess I'm just partial to the time
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by nihonde 9y ago
To be honest, I long for the Mondo2000 vision of technology and culture. It seems very quaint and interesting next to the "campus dweeb" culture of Snap, FB, etc. I have immense nostalgia for the early days of computers, when they
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by nihonde 9y ago
I couldn't agree more about ditching the expats. The flip side of "conformity" (a loaded word) is the overwhelming sense that you're in good hands and will be wherever you go, because people adhere to and enforce a high
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by nihonde 9y ago
'Repatriation' is a nice doublespeak for money earned in foreign countries being coerced into US tax coffers.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I'm sure there are exceptions, but I've never met a realtor in the US that wasn't an outright impediment to an easy sale. For one thing, their incentives are usually adverse to one or both parties. Also, they're usually
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by nihonde 9y ago
If someone (regardless of their avocation) wears their clothes well, I treat them with more respect than someone who looks like they have a sink full of dishes at home. It's an indicator that a person has their act together. Not at all
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by nihonde 9y ago
The decision to fork can be taken alone, but the decision to stay with one fork or the other is made by the individuals who participate in the network.
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by nihonde 9y ago
The thing about currencies is that they are nothing more than a vote of confidence. Aside from some precious metals, it's all promises all the way down.
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by nihonde 9y ago
The flip side of this is that no providers of pricing data are expected to stand behind their prices. It's basically arbitrary and at the whim of some people who very easily may not care about your situation.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Dropbox Paper is the best implementation of collaborative text editor that I've ever used. I keep going back to it because it's easy to use. I never use Google Docs because Google's account management systems are such a hassl
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by nihonde 9y ago
The EFF was clearly pushing for a broader ruling on browsewrap enforceability. In my view, if a court threw out a browsewrap arb clause, it would also throw out the terms that purport to override fair use and the first amendment.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I hate to say it, but it seems to be too late. I predict growth in discontent and discord, but little else ahead for the American experiment. The USA would be very lucky to fall as softly as Japan has since the 1980s. There's a complet

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