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by nihonde 10y ago
Japan is a very complex place, which is why it's so annoying when people like Iyer reduce it to window dressing, or when you reduce it to some dystopian Japan Times 過労死 click bait headline. Edit: In case my point wasn't clear, I&#
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by nihonde 10y ago
I live in Japan and have a Finnish friend. We talk plenty, but I think we'd both be perfectly fine saying nothing when there's nothing to say. There's lots of small talk in Japan, but a lot of it is pre-scripted by convention
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by nihonde 10y ago
Am I the only person who sees this as good news? There is a lot to learn from old people, and seniors often need the help at home.
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by nihonde 10y ago
These kinds of filters have been available in Asian apps like B612 and Snow for a while. No one I know in Japan has ever even spoken of Snap, let alone used it. And this is in the land of selfies and purikura.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Have you been to Japan? Land shortage isn't a major issue outside Tokyo. In fact, large areas of Japan are primarily farmland. The cities also have amazingly high population densities, and it is common to find vegetable patches and fru
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by nihonde 10y ago
It may have little to do with policy-making and is surely anecdotal, but Japanese produce is far better and cheaper than what I used to get in America. (And the same is true of meat and baked goods.) The difference is plainly obvious. The i
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's like knowing that the emperor has no clothes and letting him show his bare ass until the inevitable cold of winter claims him.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Apple has weathered, and thrived during, much worse "backlashes" than the current one, which is itself lacking any evidence of being a real thing in terms of Apple's bottom line. AAPL is up over 50% since I bought it last ye
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by nihonde 10y ago
Positive sentiment is often an excellent signal that the emperor has no clothes. Most people will ignore what they can see with their own eyes if everyone around them seems to see something different.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I think we're quite lucky to live in this time before that transition is completed.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I'm a lawyer whose practice involves privacy issues. My opinion is that identity itself is going to completely unreliable and impossible to verify within my lifetime. When your phone rings and you have absolutely no way of knowing whet
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by nihonde 10y ago
Indeed. Note that Netflix has never offered a filter by rating, or the ability to hide already-watched or disliked content.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Except instead of adopting Japan's proven policies and tech in this area, America has to reinvent the wheel. The whole blueprint is there in Japan, from the legal to the infrastructure to the ops. It's not some megalomaniac moonsh
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by nihonde 10y ago
Thank you, too, for a civilized back-and-forth. In the end, we all carry the perspective of whatever personal gauntlet we've run. To say that one man's trash is another man's treasure is not much a condemnation of garbage lov
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by nihonde 10y ago
"The best revenge is living well" is a well-known expression in English. I don't literally need to exact any revenge. If you want to dwell on shortcomings, that's what you'll do.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I'll indulge your request but I doubt it matters. My experience is mine and yours is different. The point I make above is that the relentless doomsaying about Japan is totally outside my experience and has no reality in my daily life.
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by nihonde 10y ago
People who live in glass houses...
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by nihonde 10y ago
There is such a huge gap between your incredibly bleak image of Japan and the lively, optimistic and impressive Japan that I live in. I've lost count of the number of gaijin experts on Japan who want to tell me about how wrecked Japan
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by nihonde 10y ago
I still have fond memories of Jet Set Radio on Dreamcast because it captured that cell rendered feel so beautifully.
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by nihonde 10y ago
If you see iPads as a hindrance to education, you are a terrible teacher. If I had been given access to an iPad at age 10, I would have been completely, endlessly obsessed with the possibilities of it. As it was, I had access to a TRS80 at
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by nihonde 10y ago
Since you said "society", it's worth noting that Snap is really not a player in Asia. In Japan and Korea, Line is dominant. In China, there is doubtless something else to take its place.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Investors who care about returns care about voting power. It's pretty obvious why. The fact that Snap unloaded despite their totally asymmetrical voting structure supports the conclusion that Snap's new "owners" didn&#x2
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by nihonde 10y ago
Yes, the update clipped some of my settings. I had to consult my project-level settings to remember what they were. Also OSX.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Also, every time Netflix releases an app on a new platform, their UI gets collectively slightly worse on all platforms. It's probably the sheer burden of building and supporting and synchronizing so many client apps.
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by nihonde 10y ago
You're probably both right. Japan Times is known for two things: rehashing other news and publishing original content that has all the pernicious and perverse qualities mentioned above. In the end, Japan Times is a blemish on journalis
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by nihonde 10y ago
Gold is heavy, corrosion-resistant, shiny, pliant, and scarce. For those reasons, it makes a good coin. But you can't eat or drink a coin. Its value is still based on being able to exchange it for a coconut. Why don't you take a b
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by nihonde 10y ago
As my banking law professor said on day one of his class, money started when someone traded a seashell for a coconut. It's all abstractions, until you get to the coconuts.
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by nihonde 10y ago
What you're describing is "for the sole purpose of proving the service to you". The "in connection with" language is much broader. Whether the license is intended to give them more leeway or not is a different quest
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by nihonde 10y ago
Even contract formation is dubious, especially in cases of browsewraps.
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by nihonde 10y ago
This reminds me of Japanese train crews and factory workers who use hand signals and audible call-outs to reinforce checklists with muscle memory.

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