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by nihonde 8y ago
Yakuza are tolerated by police unless they cross certain lines. They perform an unpleasant but important function of keeping foreign gangs out.
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by nihonde 8y ago
I notice that you fail to mention revenue. That’s a red flag.
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by nihonde 8y ago
I never lock my bike. I know bike theft happens a few times per month because it is the only crime ever mentioned in our kairanban (a kind of neighborhood newsletter). My impression is that only high-end road/mountain bikes or very nic
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by nihonde 8y ago
Defining markets is what competition law is all about. There will be enormous resources thrown at both sides of this argument. I think odds are in favor of Apple. They’ll will win on the basis that the market is mobile devices generally.
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by nihonde 8y ago
I have to concede that German regulators have set the pace, but the penalties are still negligible on the global or even regional scale. If every member state went in with as much conviction as Germany, we might see some results after two d
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by nihonde 8y ago
I’ve been hearing this since 1997 when the first Data Protection directive happened. The enforcement never happens unless it’s serving a political goal, such as singling out a Chinese company or whatever.
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by nihonde 8y ago
Japan is clean from end to end, though. I’ve driven all day across the countryside many times and never seen much more than neatly-stacked supply storage in terms of clutter. Outside of Tokyo and Osaka, the other big cities like Nagoya are
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by nihonde 8y ago
I was 14, and HyperTalk took over my life for a few years. My out-of-reach documentation was the spec for writing an XFCN in C. I wanted better sprite animations for game development.
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by nihonde 8y ago
This is true. Many people use “live” pictures because that triggers the less obnoxious video chimes.
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by nihonde 8y ago
This author desperately needs to read Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer. It completely explains this phenomenon of secular dogmatism (and more) in fewer words. Incidentally, another variety of secular dogmatic is the person who thinks science
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by nihonde 8y ago
Understanding the difference between nihilism and oneness is what is required to detach from ego in a productive way. To paraphrase Alan Watts, enlightenment is like space travel, it requires enormous, longstanding discipline to go all the
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by nihonde 8y ago
Amazon treats even highly-paid workers poorly. It’s a grinder from the warehouse to the boardroom. As for local businesses, do you think Amazon will hire some local catering company? They own Whole Foods. Go visit the campus in Seattle. Ama
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by nihonde 8y ago
I don’t want to pay for that either way. Let other developers do it. LIC is gentrifying anyway.
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by nihonde 8y ago
Take the $0.5B out of the offer and see what happens. I’m pretty sure you’d close the deal.
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by nihonde 8y ago
The $500M exceptional credit was the issue. That’s a lot of money.
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by nihonde 8y ago
To carry out your analogy, you order from Amazon because they’ll deliver for you. In this case, New Yorkers suspected that the jobs would go to outsiders, the property values would skyrocket and push locals out, and Amazon’s nasty history o
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by nihonde 8y ago
Some people misunderstood that the $3B was a credit, not real cash being gifted to Amazon. But even among people who understand the nature of a tax credit, we felt that NYC should not forego revenue that another company would have to pay. I
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by nihonde 8y ago
True about LIC already undergoing gentrification. But it’s still kind of affordable, at least to young white collar workers who are priced out of Manhattan or the expensive parts of Brooklyn. Amazon execs are paid big bucks. My friends who
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by nihonde 8y ago
NYC generates about 10% of US GDP, already houses Amazon, Google, and every other global player. We have our fingers in everything already. We don’t need to play this kind of needy urban development three-card monty nonsense to continue kic
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by nihonde 8y ago
Of all the crummy talking points defending Amazon in this situation, the most odious is the idea that regular working New Yorkers lost an opportunity to get good jobs and upgrade their livelihoods. Amazon has an established record of being
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by nihonde 8y ago
Currently, a person living in Nagoya, Japan would have a one-way commute to central Tokyo of about 100 minutes. That’s almost too long to live in one city and work in the other. But after the Linear is completed, that commute time drops to
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by nihonde 8y ago
I guess it depends on how you define massage. Short of cutting a person open, I can’t imagine another way to pull on the muscle except through vacuum pressure.
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by nihonde 8y ago
In my experience, cupping is able to pull muscles in ways that bending your body cannot. I never cared about the claims of detoxification, but the ability to effectively grab hold of a muscle and pull it is what I found helpful from my few
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by nihonde 8y ago
To be fair, there is also an entire industry that seizes on genuine expressions of contrition and accountability in order to launch wildly speculative lawsuits, esp. in the USA. The one goes with the other.
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by nihonde 8y ago
Interesting. I haven’t spent enough time in Europe to encounter these yet. It sounds very nice!
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by nihonde 8y ago
Michelin rating is prestigious in Japan, but Japanese customers are going to be equally/more impressed by a 3.9+ rating on Tabelog.
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by nihonde 8y ago
Your idea of a town square is very foreign to me. I guess it’s a cultural divide, but I don’t think of a town square as a place to hang jackets and go to the toilet! More like killing time or people-watching while waiting to meet someone. Y
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by nihonde 8y ago
Your recounting of your experience is really far from mine. My local Apple Store (WTC in NYC) is very accessible and friendly. If anything, I find it mildly annoying to have to chit-chat with staff when I know what I want. With an appointme
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by nihonde 8y ago
I also live in Japan about half time. The near-complete lack of on-street parking and high tolls (which are effectively congestion taxes) plus amazing public transportation are all good objectives for NYC. Also, things like luggage delivery
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by nihonde 8y ago
I’ve owned a car in the city before. It’s also an insane hassle and an extravagant expense. I live just fine without a car now. If I need to drive out of the city, I rent.

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