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by nihonde 9y ago
They didn't make these available in the Japan iOS App Store. It sounds like we're not missing much, though.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Xenophobia implies malintent and an unenlightened view. I could just as easily say that Japan is very protective of its society and thus is selective about who gets to join. It is fundamentally a balanced approach to immigration. Of course,
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by nihonde 9y ago
Japan's great skill is adaptation without throwing away all the lessons of the past. It's an extremely delicate balancing act that requires a lot of trust in your neighbors. They've been doing it more or less for at least a t
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by nihonde 9y ago
This business of correcting errors to keep incautious crypto-speculators whole is going to kill ETH. Let the people who trade on margin fall. At the end of the day, the critical stability of the currency depends on people like me, who specu
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by nihonde 9y ago
It's clearly evidence that they anticipated a problem. I don't see any other way to spin it except that he covered himself because he knew there was a good chance he would be sued, and Uber, in its typical risk-hungry style, was w
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by nihonde 9y ago
You may as well ascribe Japan Rail's punctuality to nefarious behavior, since clearly no good actor could achieve such a high standard.
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by nihonde 9y ago
The problem with delegating these tasks to a service like this is the lack of accountability when your company-as-a-service provider screws up a filing or something else. If you're starting a company, responsibility for these bureaucra
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by nihonde 9y ago
The theory of networks like Ethereum is that they don't require trust and thus don't need any authorities second-guessing bad behavior. If these opportunities for market manipulation arise, it's supposed to be 100% buyer bewa
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by nihonde 9y ago
Japan moved on to elaborate kaomoji and LINE stickers a while ago. Unicode emoji are downright uncool (dassai) by today's standards.
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by nihonde 9y ago
"My kingdom for a horse." Valuations 101, by William Shakespeare.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Also, no foothold and lots of strong incumbents in Asia, so no growth opportunities there.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Police abuse happens everywhere. I said that somewhere above. I'm not as easily convinced that Japan's high conviction rate is due to coercion. I'm more afraid of kangaroo courts in places like Indonesia or the Middle East or
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by nihonde 9y ago
No. There are serious and so far unfounded allegations of coercion of suspects and witnesses in this thread. That's not what I meant by "a different attitude toward civil rights".
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by nihonde 9y ago
The burden of proof is on the accusers. I'm only asking for a single credible source from inside Japan, and in Japanese. Some anecdotes from other commenters is obviously inadequate. I've seen this trope about Japanese police stro
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by nihonde 9y ago
In a word: no. Japan has a different attitude toward civil rights than the west. Can anyone point to source from within Japan?
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by nihonde 9y ago
I'm not challenging the conviction rate. I'm challenging the accusations of coercion.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Dubious sources, to say the least. This dumb conversation pops up every single time the Japanese criminal justice system comes up, and no one has a decent source--say for example, something in Japanese. First of all, the conviction rate in
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by nihonde 9y ago
Ideally, styling should have nothing to do with editing or writing. You're talking about print (or PDF/static image) publishing, I guess?
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by nihonde 9y ago
I think any CEO that takes $1M/week out of a failing company and claims credit for a predecessors' good bets is going to get some negative attention. Add a little dash of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do workplace policy making, some obvio
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by nihonde 9y ago
Sorry, I meant $900K per week. Still...
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by nihonde 9y ago
And they have Jerry Yang to thank for his foresight in investing in China and Japan.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Yang also bought into Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan, both of which made Mayer's job of returning shareholder value an autopilot gig that any one of us could have "succeeded" in while collecting $900MM a week in comp. She's ju
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by nihonde 9y ago
I use it all the time, and wakatta or wakarimashita in Japanese, too.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Freedom is a trade off, like everything else. For example, more freedom means more responsibility. Also, if everyone is perfectly free, then we're all forced to accommodate the least worthy among us. It's all trade offs all the wa
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by nihonde 9y ago
When you're talking to someone at a SoftBank store and Pepper rolls up to rudely interrupt...it makes me laugh every time.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I'm a SoftBank subscriber in Japan who regularly travels to the US for business. My Japanese phone just automatically switches to Sprint in America, which is extremely convenient for me.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Son is heavily promoting this Vision Fund right now. It's a big vote of confidence in his ability to buy and build wealth. He has support from Saudi sovereign funds, Apple, Qualcomm, etc. He's a guy who has lost huge and come back
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by nihonde 9y ago
This kind of thing is the least interesting application of AR in my opinion. I want high-quality information overlays about the real world. I do understand that some people just want Starcraft on a coffee table, but it seems like a low ambi
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by nihonde 9y ago
Between Flash video and geographic restrictions, the BBC does an excellent job of making sure I'm unable to see Adam Curtis' video output.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer. You will see applications for the principles in this book in all aspects of society and politics. Easy to read and unassailable insight into what makes people join a common cause.

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