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by nihonde 10y ago
If you're going to court, bring a lawyer. Courts are the domain of arcane procedures and common sense has no place there. My comments above refer to transactions, compliance, etc.
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by nihonde 10y ago
This is exactly correct. As a lawyer and a software developer, I long ago gave up on the idea of selling software to solve the problems of lawyers and/or law firms. Lawyers tend to be terrible customers of technology, if for no other r
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by nihonde 10y ago
I've been mocking this contest for years, since Netflix apps have horrendous discoverability and lack basic sort/filter features. I often wondered if Netflix deliberately omits features to make their catalogue seem bigger and bett
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by nihonde 10y ago
I agree with you about jobs for the sake of keeping people busy. However, one of the great lessons I am learning in Japan is that human beings are capable of exceeding automation, as long as those human beings are participating in a health
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by nihonde 10y ago
Keeping people in jobs is absolutely not of dubious value. And if you think Amazon Go is designed to create new jobs, I think you're in for a serious disappointment. Working at a grocery like Aeon is probably a legit full-time career f
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by nihonde 10y ago
This strikes me as yet another over-engineered workaround for a problem with society. In Japan, I rarely wait in line at a grocery store or convenience store. If I do, it's a short wait, and my interactions with the staff often brighte
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by nihonde 10y ago
I see this argument a lot, but Uber is spending a lot to effectively lower the barrier of entry/switching by eliminating legal restrictions and changing people's expectation of car services. If I were at Uber, I'd be very wor
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by nihonde 10y ago
It isn't at all rare for a bankrupt company to have many millions, even billions, in assets. It might be more unusual to have hundreds of millions in cash on hand, though.
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by nihonde 10y ago
In Japan, dealers install a kill switch for the navi blocker and wink at you when they deliver the car. Everyone drives with live tv on the dash in full view of the driver and fully interactive touch screen navi.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I had that iPhone moment when I first drove my kei car (Suzuki Lapin) in Japan. It cost around USD13K new, gets around 80 mpg, carries four people easily or decent amount of cargo, and is packed with simple and useful tech like exterior cam
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by nihonde 10y ago
As someone who has negotiated similar contracts with providers like IBM, I'm willing to bet that someone on the customer side gave into the pressure to rush the lawyers while IBM did a nice job of generating loophole-filled statements
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by nihonde 10y ago
I don't disagree with your comment, but wouldn't you agree that the last thirty years have introduced an unprecedented technology environment for tracking ROI on advertising? It seems clear that a lack of incentives, not abilities
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by nihonde 10y ago
The fact that, even after applying all this technology and know-how, the ROI on ad spend is a black box with no meaningful metrics, and the spending vectors are based on sentiment tells me that advertising is not a safe long term foundation
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by nihonde 10y ago
"Pro" is not some standard measurement. In fact, it's marketing above all else. They could call it Plus or Extra or Super. It's not required to fit your notion of what a professional does. For example, I'm both a pr
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by nihonde 10y ago
It sounds like you have an extremely vague and unreliable means of measuring a return on your hundreds of millions of dollars investment.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Your takeaway from my comment was that I think everything Japan does will later be popular in America? I didn't say that. I do see plenty of examples of stuff that pops in the west years after it was a hit in Japan. However, the point
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by nihonde 10y ago
Actually I will go further. I live in Japan and use Line to communicate with everyone except really old people. Stickers are as basic as language. It is an evolution of our current mode of communication and is quite expressive. Like all lan
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by nihonde 10y ago
I don't follow the numbers on Snap, but my personal experience is that Snow is eating their share in Asia. You can build a big business without Asia, but it won't be enough to keep The Street happy. This IPO feels like a liquidati
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by nihonde 10y ago
I think the social taboo is self-reinforcing argument. Animals have the same rights as humans. Indeed, we are animals. Those who draw categorical lines to justify their morose experimentation ought to be judged in the same light as someone
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by nihonde 10y ago
In that case, why not start with human subjects?
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by nihonde 10y ago
I'm speculating, but I think you need to factor in that Trump will not tolerate advisors who outshine him. He probably wants a cabinet of loyalists before he starts caring about qualifications. Also, his appeal is significantly premise
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's a balancing act and requires constant adjustment. I was suggesting that you won't find some rule book for Japanese society -- it's all unwritten conventions that do change over time.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I encourage you to spend a lot of time in Japan and keep your mind and eyes open. You can't see what I'm talking about from LA, especially not through another person's eyes.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Like a color or a taste, some things need to be experienced and fiercly resist explanation or codification. The urge to turn everything into a set of rules or a narrative can be a kind of sickness, or at least less productive than methodica
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by nihonde 10y ago
This doesn't square with my experience as someone who lives in Japan. I know quite a few young, single mothers who are unbelievably self-sufficient. I also know a lot of people who are the breadwinners and caretakers of their aging par
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's funny that this whole "controversy" about the new MBP had me take a closer look at my mid-2014 MBP, which is my daily workhorse. I honestly had no idea that it even had an HDMI socket. I've never once used either of
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by nihonde 10y ago
What is a unit of "regulation"? I can pack five thousand onerous rules into one document and eliminate two documents that contain guidance with very minor impact. Is that a net gain?
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by nihonde 10y ago
That's fewer than the number of US auto workers who will be out of work if Trump keeps provoking a trade war with Japan.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Energy efficiency is a higher priority in Japan when it comes to dishes, laundry, etc. Why pay for electricity when you have a perfectly good pair of hands?
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by nihonde 10y ago
Lots of people are throwing "pro" around as if there is an understanding about what it means. A video producer has a completely different set of requirements from a web developer. If we're talking about iOS devs, then they&#x

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