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by nihonde 10y ago
If you are fighting for your rights on Facebook, you are going to be disappointed and you are very, painfully niave about how walled gardens operate.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I can say from first hand experience that Just about everyone I know in Japan is an A+ student by American standards. That goes for the chief of an aerospace subcontractor right down to the kid behind the counter at 7-11. You might think I&
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by nihonde 10y ago
If he fails for making promises he could never keep, many will stand to lose. I live in the home of Toyota in Japan, and would welcome any competition that pushes Japanese automakers to achieve more, but in my opinion Tesla is not showing t
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by nihonde 10y ago
And vice versa. Using movie stars in TV ads is the new new in America, but is old hat in Japan. Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold, Bruce Willis and Scarlett Johansson are the only ones that I can recall in the past few years here.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I had the same thought. Hardly a day goes by that I don't have a jingle stuck in my head from Japanese TV.
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by nihonde 10y ago
one thing I've noticed is that Japanese people have no problem with bulky phone cases. I personally hate them, but almost everyone here uses the kind with a flip cover card holder. Also, I saw the handbag you refer to yesterday and tho
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by nihonde 10y ago
NYC used to have tap payments for Citibank customers. It was a pilot about 5 or more years ago, IIRC. I used it until they took it away.
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by nihonde 10y ago
It sounds like the judge was more annoyed that the defendant didn't answer, and any use of this case as precedent would have to take that into account.
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by nihonde 10y ago
For a guy who opines all day about Apple, the fact that he can't maintain a pretty simple iOS app is telling. If you really care about the app and your users, you read the damn docs and get to work. I taught myself in less than six mon
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by nihonde 10y ago
The quote in the article is hyperbole. It's not unlike fans of *NSYNC or whatever other boy band you might know--there are super fans who indulge in the drama. Also, television personalities in Japan begin to feel like part of the fam
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by nihonde 10y ago
What if they were Buddhists or Hindus? Notice that I didn't name every religion? The response to my post (currently -4) is the same belligerence and myopia that I referred to in that post. It's incredible that I can post a messag
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by nihonde 10y ago
Apple could easily have agreed to an acquisition in the 1990s. It takes true serious chutzpah and goodwill to nose up from a failing product line.
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by nihonde 10y ago
At this point, can anyone take The New York Times seriously about health advice? Someone should compile their history of publishing thinly-sourced, pop science conclusions that are openly contradictory.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Every man in Japan carries a small towel. I always think of Douglas Adams.
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by nihonde 10y ago
The differences between Civil and Common law systems really fall apart under close scrutiny. It's almost purely semantic.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I have a lot of "mad science" projects, but only to help me make my work easier. I would never try to turn any of my work into products for sale. Selling tech to lawyers and law firms is a good way to make yourself completely mise
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by nihonde 10y ago
I learned my lesson...now all of my code prints writes detailed logs describing how it works. (Kidding.)
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by nihonde 10y ago
That's the right idea. It's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. I think what's more interesting than policing Terms of Service changes is making the terms interactive, and attaching pricing to terms that are more consumer-frie
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by nihonde 10y ago
That's more or less true in America, too. Consumer contracts are generally subject to the "unconscionability" test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability#United_State... . It's not the same
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by nihonde 10y ago
The good news is that if you wait long enough, they'll incorporate terms from URIs that are dead. I can't tell you how many commercial contracts I review from the 2000's that are governed by 404 pages.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Talk about perverse side-effects: the existence of such a tool would actually make those awful one-sided "contracts" more enforceable, since the vendor would have a reasonable presumption that you were actually aware of the change
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by nihonde 10y ago
I'm a lawyer, and not an expert in AI. I once gathered a ton of Terms of Service, cleaned them up as text files, and began training a classifier. By the time I was done, it was pretty good at telling me which section heading in the typ
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's really odd when my Chinese friends go home and go "dark" on "free world" social media until they return. They usually get emails while in China, though.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I don't know anything about real-time embedded OSes, and I'm definitely interested in learning more. I found this so far: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/itron.html I have to say that the horrendous UI of Japanese
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by nihonde 10y ago
Keep in mind that elementary school kids in Japan also attend evening "cram" schools, where they drill on the subjects on the curriculum. I wouldn't be surprised if the real learning happens at Kumon, etc. By the time they&#x
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by nihonde 10y ago
You make a great point. My experience was the opposite. I desperately wanted to learn more about programming in junior high school, but the math teachers locked all the interesting computers up in their office and really didn't know mu
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by nihonde 10y ago
Cookpad also seems to be a nice brain trust of capable coders. It's perplexing to me that Japan isn't better at software. It's practically nerd nation with tons of super talented designers. It feels like it should be easy to
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by nihonde 10y ago
Well, that is actually a good point. As President Obama said in anticipation of his historic visit to Hiroshima this year (paraphrasing): the relationship of Japan and the United States should serve as an example of how we can build a lasti
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by nihonde 10y ago
Truman's duty was to humanity, not "American boys".
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by nihonde 10y ago
Life is so strange. The other day, I joined a new Japanese language class. The only other person who was starting that day was a young Vietnamese man. So here is an American and a Vietnamese man in Japan, speaking to each other in broken Ja

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