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by nihonde 8y ago
The Japanese equivalent is four grandparents in wheelchairs. (Kidding!) I don’t have kids, so I’m not sure about child seats. I was doing the mental math on how one couple could produce four kids who need child seats until I remembered twin
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by nihonde 8y ago
Not disagreeing but in Japan a lot of families handle this with Kei format cars like Daihatsu Tanto. The biggest family car I see in Japan is Toyota Alphard/Vellfire.
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by nihonde 8y ago
It’s basically a large lot where all the major home builders set up their model homes and have detailed sales walkthroughs. Home builders in Japan are at an industrial scale with lots of economies of scale and modular parts, yet a surprisin
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by nihonde 8y ago
$750k in Kyushu must be a mansion! Those home showcases are great aren’t they? Would you build wood or steel frame?
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by nihonde 8y ago
The price is for the land, which can be quite expensive and can go up. The cost of demolition and building a new home is about USD200-300k for a very nice three bedroom home in a typical urban area. Credit is very cheap too. Also, people pr
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by nihonde 8y ago
My wife is in this business although she buys quite expensive old homes and buildings in cities. You will probably have trouble with sellers (and certainly with banks) if you’re a foreigner. Also, the short term rental legalities are a liab
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by nihonde 8y ago
Homes in Japan are generally depreciating assets with a roughly 20-30 year lifespan. Some of these homes being given away are older, but when you take ownership, you’re basically getting land value. Whether or not the land is an appreciatin
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by nihonde 8y ago
China and Japan have solutions to mass transit. They really don’t need disruption because they’re directly in competition with The Boring Company in terms of exporting their high speed train tech.
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by nihonde 8y ago
A key element in proving anticompetitive claims is defining the market. Even If the market is defined narrowly as “music on ios”, alternatives to Apple Music exist. But that’s not taking into account the option to buy a non-iOS device. If y
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by nihonde 8y ago
In my experience, things look quite different at the human scale. From a distance, you lose the complexities of real experiences of real people. I’ve been to the museum at Nagasaki, but even that felt less immediate and visceral than the li
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by nihonde 8y ago
In your own example, you have the option to buy Spotify through other, readily-available distribution channels. That’s evidence against a claim that Apple is abusing its position in an anticompetitive manner. The test for monopoly isn’t w
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by nihonde 8y ago
This is one of the all time greatest examples of non-fiction writing. It’s strange and a little disappointing to see people debating the morality and merits of warfare in the shadow of this epic achievement of long-form story telling. The p
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by nihonde 8y ago
I appreciate the points you raise, and basically agree that the jury is still out on my question. I honestly don’t understand why there wouldn’t be enforcement actions on day one this past spring. We all had plenty of time to prepare. As fo
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by nihonde 8y ago
Has GDPR meaningfully changed enforcement of rights? I’m familiar with the law itself and the details of it. (IAAL who practices in this area.) I’ve seen these regulatory pushes toward consumer-oriented privacy in the past, and they seem to
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by nihonde 8y ago
It’s possible to personalize experiences without storing information that leads to a personal identification. I’m not saying it’s easy to walk that line, but it is possible.
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by nihonde 8y ago
Interesting perspective! A good friend of mine is a supplier to Mitsubishi on the MRJ and other projects. I’m not comfortable sharing details but I can say that the excellence in engineering skill in the Nagoya area, with both Mitsubishi an
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by nihonde 8y ago
How about “News of Earth’s Third Largest Economic Power” instead? I really don’t understand the knee-jerk reaction to brand anyone with an interest in Japan as some kind of deviant. It’s a pretty ugly character trait. Maybe you need to take
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by nihonde 8y ago
The endless cycle of analysts manipulating AAPL with spurious reporting about supply chain shifts continues apace.
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by nihonde 8y ago
You’re correct. I think it’s ruby-graphviz that is (was?) under GPL. Either way, as a lawyer, I wouldn’t let anything copyleft touch a project that is intended to be proprietary. If nothing else, the drafting of copyleft licenses is general
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by nihonde 8y ago
Not quite, because you can still define thematic defaults and change those globally to suit any changes to your style book.
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by nihonde 8y ago
A word of caution: some of these rely on Graphviz, which is GPL’d. I stopped using my preferred ERD gem because of licensing issues.
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by nihonde 8y ago
It’s worse: the legal industry is efficiency-hostile because it relies heavily on reinventing the wheel on an hourly basis with the moat of a guild system to keep competition under control. And worse yet: most clients aren’t interested in a
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by nihonde 8y ago
I prefer the system in Japan—-pay at a “host station” on the way out. You can leave without needing to flag anyone down.
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by nihonde 8y ago
I honestly don’t know what their returns will be on the latest fund, but it doesn’t seem to reflect anything like your (extremely vague) take so far. https://www.ft.com/content/c2fe7814-536a-11e8-b3ee-41e020920...
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by nihonde 8y ago
If you don’t foresee a downround risk and huge pressure to grow as part of a high valuation raise, you’re way out of your depth. My impression is that SoftBank is very effective at hedging entire markets and using (gullible? desperate?) fou
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by nihonde 8y ago
I recall hearing that they delayed the release, which was scheduled within days of the CA incident (or one of the several others since).
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by nihonde 8y ago
Here’s a random sample from my feed today. You’ll get the idea, I think. https://youtu.be/dmuykpPaTkA
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by nihonde 8y ago
You have been living under a rock, although it’s not your fault. There is depressingly little information exchanged between east and west, other than reports on fringe stuff that emphasizes our otherness. If you knew anyone under age 20 liv
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by nihonde 8y ago
It’s an app for sharing short audiovisual clips and it’s huge because it developed in a culture of good-natured, one-upsmanship that is suited to a broad audience of Asian youth (including China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, South
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by nihonde 8y ago
I’ve been telling people about TikTok for a year now, since I live between Asia and the US lately. Most people don’t get it, or understand why it’s so big. The western variant Musical.ly doesn’t help, as the content (which reflects the cult

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