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by nihonde 11y ago
Nothing happens in a vacuum. There are no "good guys" or "bad guys". Japan and Germany both pursued an agenda that were each ultimately misguided for a variety of different reasons. If you look for it, you will find simi
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by nihonde 11y ago
Well, it was intended as an "aside" comment, but it's still interesting, if controversial. I believe that there is an unbroken thread from the arrival of American ships in Tokyo bay in 1853 to the current day. If you look at
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by nihonde 11y ago
I lived in America for almost 40 years. I'm familiar with the place.
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by nihonde 11y ago
It's depressing to read all the misguided commentary about Japan in western media. We're talking about one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, which currently has the longest life expectancy, and one of the lowest
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by nihonde 11y ago
In Japanese, your name is デイブ, which sounds more or less like "deibu".
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by nihonde 11y ago
No, that's because Switzerland is the Templar state!
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by nihonde 11y ago
Here in Japan, we put my mother in law to rest this week under the principles of a religion that believes that the body is lent to the mind, that the mind is eternal, and that the mind is reborn with a new name. I find Christianity one of t
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by nihonde 11y ago
Yes, I don't think people understand that the last step of a slow death is starvation until the person stops breathing, at which point, you must fight the urge to revive them. It's brutal. I just watched it happen before my very e
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by nihonde 11y ago
I just spent over a year with someone who died of cancer on Tuesday. I don't know if she would have opted for suicide if it had been legal here, but I do know that the last few weeks were extremely difficult for everyone involved. I ha
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by nihonde 11y ago
As I said, I have no problem with a post about "here's what happened to me and how I dealt with it". In this case, the OP is promoting a web-based spreadsheet tool and essentially advertising for a number of lawyers and firms
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by nihonde 11y ago
I said: "hire someone who knows what they're doing". I didn't say "blindly trust someone who holds themselves out as an expert and don't do any homework yourself". In fact, you said you hired an expert to
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by nihonde 11y ago
Why don't I find it useful? "Find legal counsel" and "Comply with State-Specific Regulations" are actual line items on your checklist. Your checklist can be reduced to one line item: hire someone who knows what the
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by nihonde 11y ago
Speaking of which, a spreadsheet widget is the worst possible delivery format for the long-form text in this article.
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by nihonde 11y ago
(IAAL.) While the author is very likely coming from the right place, I find this kind of "legal" advice totally useless——hence the fact that half of this "article" is a disclaimer that you shouldn't bother relying o
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by nihonde 11y ago
I thought the same until I watched a 360 4k music video on my iPhone in the YouTube app and realized the desktop/laptop browser experience is irrelevant for this application.
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by nihonde 11y ago
That's definitely interesting. At the end of the day, the messages are misleading at best, arguably negligent, and definitely sloppy. They could fix it, but their whole site just seems like five or so legacy systems glued together with
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by nihonde 11y ago
But...really it is broken, because, as a long-time Namecheap customer, their shitty legacy systems have got me looking for a better option. I recently complained that they sent me an email warning about a pending expiration, followed immedi
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by nihonde 11y ago
This interesting video of Kumamoto earthquake wreckage puts this discussion in context. You can see clearly the kinds of construction——old and new——that is typical in Japan. Most of it holds up to the quake very well, despite being disposed
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by nihonde 11y ago
Well, more importantly, that the fighters of both regions consider themselves to be under a single religious banner, and are well known to provide assistance to one another against their common enemies.
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by nihonde 11y ago
Are you unaware of the connections between the North Caucasus and Middle Eastern terrorism?
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Nagoya
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by nihonde 11y ago
Yes, I can understand your views. I guess it's possible to disagree about this. I've seen how bad things are in America in terms of affordable housing, so the options in Japan seem quite nice by comparison. As for bedroom communit
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by nihonde 11y ago
Japan (which is not a perfect analogue) handles several of these issues nicely, IMO. I live in a city of a few million people. Nearly every building is multi-tenant. Even homes are designed with two- or three-generation residents in mind. L
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by nihonde 11y ago
Any script that includes rm -rf followed by variables in a path is an accident waiting to happen. Mounting the backup volumes is just icing on the cake for this extremely incompetent web hosting provider. It made me nervous to type rm -rf i
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by nihonde 11y ago
The original post used Apple and Google as examples. I'm not aware of any scenario in which those companies move U.S. revenues offshore to shield them from taxes. If I'm not mistaken, Tim Cook is on record that Apple only shields
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by nihonde 11y ago
Great point, and apt that you refer to a strict hierarchy like the military. In Japan, young people are expected to carry heavy responsibilities and older people have fairly cushy managerial roles. (My friend is a CEO of a fairly large comp
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by nihonde 11y ago
I have nothing to add except that I've been a happy customer of Arq for years, and Stefan and team have provided us very helpful and personal support by email on the rare occasions when we needed it.
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by nihonde 11y ago
To characterize this as "the regressive left" is really dead-on. My view is that this is inevitable in a culture where no real progress is made on big problems—attention naturally turns to ever-smaller slights, and those begin to
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by nihonde 11y ago
What moral argument can you make that money earned overseas by a multinational corporation intrinsically belongs in the U.S.? You can make that argument on the basis of nationalism—not morality.
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by nihonde 11y ago
"...hold billions of dollars outside of the US in order to pay lower taxes." You might also say that they elect to keep money earned outside the US away from the US tax code because they have a duty to their shareholders to minimi

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