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by nihonde 7y ago
Just another reminder that there is no accountability left in America, and you reap what you sow. If you want a society that is accountable, you need to start with a culture that values honor and takes shame seriously. You can’t impose a se
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by nihonde 7y ago
Electric bikes with a removable battery are standard-issue “MamaChari” in Japan. Every city mom has one that carries two kids and/or groceries. Every grandma/grandpa has one (without the kids seats), too, to tackle the long hills!
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by nihonde 7y ago
We’ve come to learn that images and audio can’t be trusted. It was inevitable that video would fall as a trusted source. Next up: the person you’re sitting across from at dinner.
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by nihonde 7y ago
Well, the knives at Seki are surprisingly affordable, if that helps! I’ve shipped knives back to the US before. It’s a luxury, but not an extravagance.
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by nihonde 7y ago
I think the article mentions that these are made in Seki city, in Gifu prefecture. Seki is famous for knife makers and they have a really neat knife festival with a street market. If you’re into that kind of thing, it may be worth visiting.
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by nihonde 7y ago
I was taught that Article 102 is the test for abuse of monopoly power in the EU. It actually uses the words “dominant position” if I’m not mistaken. I haven’t studied this since the late 90’s, so I may be out of date...
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by nihonde 7y ago
Are you really going to persist in claiming that Apple has a monopoly on its own products? If so, your grasp of competition rules is fatally flawed.
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by nihonde 7y ago
Antitrust is among the most mature areas of law, in terms of how these concepts have been thoughtfully wrangled over. I definitely encourage you to dig deep on how market scope is determined, if that’s interesting to you. There are many way
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by nihonde 7y ago
You can’t define Apple’s market as iOS customers unless there are no alternatives to iOS, which there most certainly are.
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by nihonde 7y ago
That’s not how antitrust law works. It’s not a test of whether a company exerts too much control over its own customers. It’s a test of whether customers have some alternatives and a real opportunity to vote with their dollars.
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by nihonde 7y ago
That’s competing. Fair play unless you’re the dominant player in the relevant market.
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by nihonde 7y ago
Pro machines for A/V production are routinely $7-10k and have been for as long as I can recall, right back to the 90s. You’re probably just not in the market. These are for commercial buyers who make lots more money from these machines
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by nihonde 7y ago
Competition is not anti-competitive. Excluding other third party sign on options would be problematic if Apple were abusing a dominant position among smartphone makers, which is not the case by any objective measure.
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by nihonde 7y ago
They still get user data. They just can’t tie it to a real person outside the scope of their app.
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by nihonde 7y ago
Here is the link to an article about the woman who retrains homeless to work on farms, if anyone is interested: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/04/09/national/kanaga...
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by nihonde 7y ago
There are about 13,000 homeless in all of Japan, a nation of about 130 million people. They’re almost all men whose careers bottomed out and they fell out of the system in their 40s/50s. There is a woman who runs a program to move home
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by nihonde 7y ago
On the other hand, there are virtually zero homeless people in Japan (certainly outside Tokyo) while they are seemingly everywhere in every Western city...so perhaps the quality of the bathroom accommodations aren’t really the point. I thin
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by nihonde 7y ago
Will you see new bookmarks (or reading list items) created in STP on, say, your iphone’s mobile safari, though?
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by nihonde 7y ago
Not to mention that they got beat into the dirt on price and quality. If you want to be respected (as a “man” or whatever), you’ve got to earn it, and sometimes your ability to do so is a team effort. The flip side of this story is the in
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by nihonde 7y ago
I’m being downvoted, but the article itself confirms that a huge, wasteful amount of time and money has been thrown down the drain by people who could otherwise just have read the original text: http://data.consilium.europa.eu&#x
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by nihonde 7y ago
Neither residence nor citizenship are tests for GDPR’s territorial application. It applies to any data collected in the Union: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
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by nihonde 7y ago
No B2C tech company can avoid doing business involving EU member state or UK citizens. You have to assume you’re in-scope unless you have zero contacts with Europe.
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by nihonde 7y ago
“...there’s a lot of misinformation about GDPR out there on the web” It sounds like your lawyer is telling you not to add to that misinformation. Also, you already said this deck is based on advice from counsel, so you’re maybe dragging the
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by nihonde 7y ago
My experience with PC makers was far worse in terms of failure rates and more importantly, support. Small sample size, though.
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by nihonde 7y ago
Mac user since 1984. Zero problems with my 2017 MBP other than a loose command key that was replaced same-day, within 5 mins after arriving at the store. My company has bought 20+ MBP in the past two years. We’ve had three units with screen
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by nihonde 7y ago
This is extremely dubious advice. An offer under general contract rules requires intent to be bound. If the so-called offer letter says outright that it isn’t intended to be be binding, it fails the basic definition of an offer.
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by nihonde 7y ago
The cycle of life is what keeps things lively and interesting. You can get stuck at the bottom of a well in a figurative sense, too.
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by nihonde 7y ago
I feel like a big part of the reason America fails at this is jumping from high speed rail (proven tech since the 1960s) to flying autonomous taxis (coming any day now, right after flying pigs).
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by nihonde 7y ago
In many (most?) parts of Japan, people are trained to separate plastics before they’re discarded. I remember thinking how crazy it was to wash and air dry plastic trash like juice bottles or meat packaging before tossing it. In my city, the
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by nihonde 7y ago
Me too. Same day, even. This is in NYC and I live within five minutes’ walk from the nearest store. Compared to phone support from PC makers (even including the glorious no-questions-asked IBM hardware days), it’s a vast improvement for me.

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