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by nihonde 9y ago
My experience with Facebook was that it made me a lot less fond of people that I used to call friends. I'm a bit of a nomad, so I have clusters of friends and family that exist in places I've long since left behind. At first, I wa
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by nihonde 9y ago
I used to see a fox around my old house in Nagoya, but never when anyone else was around. Then I started seeing a young girl walking a fox-like dog in the area, and she always seemed to be caught in the act when I came upon her, and again n
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by nihonde 9y ago
It may seem strange but Yahoo is indeed the best maps app in Japan. Yahoo (Japan) also makes the best transit app here. People give Google Maps a lot of credit but I find it really hard to use as a means for keeping track of places I like,
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by nihonde 9y ago
How can anyone put any credibility whatsoever in Moody's ratings after 2008? They defended their ratings on terrible debt at the time by basically saying that no one should rely on them.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I've witnessed US border agents mocking someone for hours in the waiting area before summarily sending him back to where he came in from.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I think you greatly underestimate the degree to which you cede your personal sovereignty over to others by participating in these services. It's fine if you trust these companies (and more importantly their employees) to take good care
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by nihonde 9y ago
Every time I mention to people that a home is almost always a depreciating asset in Japan, someone always thinks that's stupid and inefficient and obviously a bad thing. But if your housing is an appreciating asset then so is almost ev
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by nihonde 9y ago
The news here (Japan) was talking the other day about cases of TB slipping through diagnosis because younger physicians had no experience with it. Older doctors knew what it was right away.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I second this and add Satori Reader (by the makers of Human Japanese, I think) for learning to read and grammar by example. I would also strongly recommend WaniKani for anyone learning kanji. There's no substitute for immersion and cla
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by nihonde 9y ago
Yes, for a MagLev train that achieves the fantasy of hyperloop (but is actually happening now). From my perspective, hyperloop and TBC are each 100% upside down in terms of their approach. America can only dream of 505km/hr interstate
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by nihonde 9y ago
Next to NYC, commuting in Tokyo is effectively trouble-free. It may be crowded, but it's also predictable when the crunch times will be. Trains are on time. Cars keep moving and don't block every intersection with incessant honkin
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by nihonde 9y ago
Tokyo is a much bigger city. They solved the problem by building elevated toll highways. Much simpler solution than digging new holes everywhere and keeping those silly carts running.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Are you asking for a critique? It's a facile analysis that borders on meaninglessly vague and unsupportable, and is riddled with spelling errors.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Avoiding taxes is sound business. If a public company failed to avoid avoidable taxes, it would have a problem with its board and shareholders. Illegally evading taxes is a crime, and I'm not aware of any criminal prosecution of Apple
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by nihonde 9y ago
I keep trying to tell people that Snap can't grow to targets unless it opens Asia, and no one in Japan (at least in my first hand anecdotal experience) uses it or even knows what it is.
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by nihonde 9y ago
I tried to follow your logic but I got lost. My point was that forcing global enterprises to pay tax in the US on revenues raised elsewhere creates a long term drag on US-based businesses, gives foreign-based businesses a huge competitive a
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by nihonde 9y ago
If Japan wanted to tax Dropbox for sales to Irish businesses that are transacted in Japan, it can do so. The classic Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich is about avoiding taxes on non-US revenue in jurisdictions outside the US. That's an
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by nihonde 9y ago
Apple pays lots of taxes in the US. It doesn't pay US taxes on money earned elsewhere. Can you articulate a sound policy for why any global company should be required to pay taxes in the US on revenues earned elsewhere? Why shouldn&#x2
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by nihonde 9y ago
I find it a little mystifying when people act as if revenue earned overseas ought to be contributed to US tax revenue. In the end, that kind of policy would hurt the US at a time when America needs more winners like Apple and less businesse
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by nihonde 9y ago
I like to waste time on YouTube and Wikipedia. They're good idle browsing for autodidacts.
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by nihonde 9y ago
There was a time when it seemed inconceivable that developers would be motivated to release code under MIT or BSD style licenses that lacked the "viral" distribution obligations of the GPL. Back then, it seemed obvious that a heal
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by nihonde 9y ago
Yes, and the outcome is that you can't borrow again, in theory. Also, if a region is productive, it should be able to renegotiate, but it sounds like PR isn't up to the challenge.
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by nihonde 9y ago
It's not incorrect but it's dismissive of the thoughtful, hard work that's necessary to pull off a success. Every big opportunity doesn't equal a big win. Also, it's easy to take a hard-won effort for granted as an
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by nihonde 9y ago
Why is it so difficult to simply give credit where it's due? There are plenty of countries that take huge amounts of assistance that fail all day long. Would you also attribute American success to the spoils of war, colonialism, Manife
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by nihonde 9y ago
This is so true, it hurts. I call it The Triangle Of CIO Turnover.
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by nihonde 9y ago
Show me an enterprise DB license that offers you better indemnity/liability options than open source. (I negotiated them on behalf of huge clients for many years.)
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by nihonde 9y ago
I would settle for a system that takes over control of otherwise regular cars on highways and in congested areas.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Without a doubt, our concept of personal identity will be completely unreliable within a few generations. Forget about privacy--we will soon have literally no way to verify who we're talking to.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Taking Uber off the App Store would kill the company dead. Tim Cook had, has, and should continue to have that authority.
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by nihonde 10y ago
It sounds like the infamous Bridgewater hedge fund's tablet-based employee review app. You can be having a conversation with someone while they're casually rating your performance. To be honest, I'd actually like to get that

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