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by nihonde 10y ago
Another way to look at this: people have endured enough absurd protectionist media circus shows from US auto makers to no longer believe or care. Cry wolf scenario, in other words.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Accountability, credibility, and a sense of duty to the greater good must be part of what defines a society. When those are intact, individuals take responsibility and accept consequences. When they are too far eroded, there is no way to fo
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by nihonde 10y ago
Enterprise customers are fussy and involve a painful sales cycle. If I were in a position to choose, I'd always favor a consumer/retail market for commodity infrastructure services.
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by nihonde 10y ago
The good news is CIOs that implement ERP are often replaced after it fails.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Uber business sales channel offers very little value add, and charges for it. They don't get it yet, and that may be a fundamental mistake. It makes me think they're not as smart as everyone wants them to be.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Laws are only as good as their enforcement. I think Uber has been successful at calling the bluff of law enforcement and winning that showdown in many cases.
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by nihonde 10y ago
But if Uber eliminates that obstacle, won't all of their competitors benefit from the lower barriers to entry? Does Uber simply ease the cost of switching--both for drivers and riders?
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by nihonde 10y ago
The critical element of a successful social transformation that you're missing (esp. due to your reliance on players like Trump and Uber) is trust. You cannot hope for an equitable and progressive outcome unless the participants are tr
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by nihonde 10y ago
This exists and has existed in various forms for a long while. It's not a billion dollar idea. Business people prefer to pay lawyers hourly for peace of mind, despite lawyers having almost no accountability. Lawyers prefer to cobble do
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by nihonde 10y ago
I explained above. Work email is likely to include at least confidential information, possibly trade secrets. If I attach a super secret drug formula to an email, do you think it stops being company IP? As for clean room, there are attempts
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by nihonde 10y ago
Some examples that leap to mind include: - Stories that drive the narrative that Japan is on the brink of war with China. News in Japan covers tensions with China, but also positive news about foreign relations. - Endless nonsense about poi
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by nihonde 10y ago
As a former American now living in Japan, my perspective since leaving is that America has an edifice of "legitimate" news sources that serve as propaganda outlets by means of their focus and omissions. I lost count of the number
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by nihonde 10y ago
Anecdotal, but when I left my last big law firm (to start my own company), I was making around 3/4 million dollars per year. None of my peers who left ever went to jobs that paid more--they all went "in house" for a lot less
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by nihonde 10y ago
I'm a lawyer, and I continue to disagree.
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by nihonde 10y ago
No clean room implementation includes the person who wrote (or saw or used) the original code at another company. Also, email is company IP, or at least confidential info and/or trade secrets.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Most homes in Japan also have shrine to ancestors too. I have one at my house. Family friends come by regularly to leave fresh flowers and gifts and spend time remembering their friends. It's a nice tradition.
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by nihonde 10y ago
My neighborhood in Japan is surrounded by graveyards, including many, many jizo. At first, I was creeped out by the ever-present reminders of death, but now I feel it is a very healthy society that confronts mortality head-on and makes deat
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by nihonde 10y ago
Upon reflection, I was thinking of a place in Haarlemerstraat that has a bar across the street with the same name. You're correct and I was wrong.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Definitely incorrect in my experience, which was about two years ago most recently.
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by nihonde 10y ago
If there was a demand for people who write about music, it would still be a viable business. People just don't feel the need to pay for opinions in that area any more.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Interesting. I appreciate this thoughtful discussion! I live in Nagoya, Japan (near Toyota HQ) and I've yet to see a Mirai in the wild except at the dealerships.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I'm still not convinced. At the end of the day, liquid hydrogen is a better energy store than any existing battery tech. All the issues you listed are the same for electric cars--reliance on fossil fuels, need to build infrastructure,
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's strange to me that Toyota has a hydrogen fuel car in production and for sale today, but it gets almost no attention in discussions like this one. Why is that? Are the CO2 effects of liquid hydrogen extraction a barrier? Or maybe t
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by nihonde 10y ago
If ever there were a user group that should have forced pgp adoption, it is lawyers. When I worked at a big law firm, I lobbied for it and ran into a bunch of IT managers who had never heard of anything unless Microsoft sold it to them.
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by nihonde 10y ago
As a former Big Law lawyer, I can assure you it's currently the case in America, too.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Actually, if you don't like Facebook, litter it with disinformation until it becomes an unreliable and undesirable source.
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by nihonde 10y ago
That's absurd. I could make an even more valid argument that employees should be aiming for perfection in their work, regardless of the incentive of a tip. In Japan, no one tips, and customer service is better than anywhere else on ear
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by nihonde 10y ago
And yet the example of Japan still neatly invalidates the argument that California is inherently an especially challenging engineering project. Japan's rail projects are the platinum standard and every rich country should be trading wa
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by nihonde 10y ago
I have been using Sony MDR-XB80BS for a few weeks now and they are utterly flawless for me. They can't fall out. They are pretty low profile since they hide behind your ear. Long battery life. Water resistant. No dropouts and amazing s
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by nihonde 10y ago
This analogy falls apart pretty quickly. You can't compile legal work product and no one is accountable if it doesn't run, unless you're at the point where malpractice comes into play. Malpractice is really, really hard to pr

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