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by w00kie 17d ago
I don't think you're factoring in the weather: Tokyo is incredibly hot and humid in Summer (even more than Singapore, but there it's like that all year round), has a long rainy season in late-spring/early-summer and regu
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by w00kie 17d ago
Don't make the mistake to think these jobs are just there to keep bored retirees active. The basic old age pension (kokumin nenkin - for sole-proprietors and people who have worked in non-permanent positions or small companies) is sign
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by w00kie 2y ago
Taxes
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by w00kie 2y ago
I might also add that all of the big data center companies have sustainability goals that will push demand for cleaner energy, and therefore investment, in the country where they build. I work for one of the top datacenter companies in the
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by w00kie 2y ago
Because "data centers are evil" is trending with the masses.
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by w00kie 2y ago
All this talk of "universal chargers" gets on my nerves: you're not mandating anything about chargers, just the cable connections. Phone chargers have already been made universal for years, they're all USB-A or C. Stop s
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by w00kie 2y ago
Yes, but only after 3 months without a new job as opposed to immediately if laid off.
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by w00kie 2y ago
They can reduce or plain not pay your bonus, yeah. But making the employee pay for "damages", even by subtracting them from remaining pay or bonuses, is very very illegal.
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Debunking Japanese dual-nationality myths with code(w00kie.com)
1 points by w00kie 2y ago|0 comments
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by w00kie 6y ago
It still takes one standard car's worth of space on the road and one standard car's worth of parking space. This is not a solution to anything.
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by w00kie 7y ago
They can naturalize anytime they want but choose not to...
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by w00kie 7y ago
You're taking the two places that have the most tourists and lowest residential concentration in Tokyo. Obviously it's going to be mostly tourists in the shop. Go see a Donki in a residential neighborhood and it'll be full of
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by w00kie 7y ago
I love that I can see a word I don't know and get good grasp of its meaning (you can somewhat do that in Latin languages if you have a good grasp of latin and greek roots, but not as reliably). However I still cannot read it since
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by w00kie 8y ago
平成 (Heisei) commonly translated to "Achieving Peace" as stated in the article, can also be read as "Flat Growth" which is more indicative of the past two decades here :)
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by w00kie 8y ago
They were actively recruiting clients in France to offer them tax evasion services. There's nothing innocent here.
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by w00kie 8y ago
I live in Japan. The main issues I see with this is, rather than just "I don't trust the government": 1. They'll do a scan of all devices then ask the ISPs to provide customer information for the vulnerable IPs found so
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by w00kie 8y ago
Same at a restaurant. They are charging me for food in a nice environment. What am I tipping for? I don't want a nice conversation with my waiter.
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by w00kie 8y ago
Not a typo and it's oral or armpit temperature. Japan is weird with their concept of "fever". When I get a flu shot, they ask me to take my temperature and I have to lie every time because they won't give me the shot if
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by w00kie 8y ago
I was once on a flight from Phuket to Bangkok, connecting back to my home in Tokyo. In such a case Thailand makes you pass immigration on the first flight, so Phuket, then your transit in BKK stays on the airside. While taxiing to take of,
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by w00kie 8y ago
And yet hundreds of families are on waiting lists. If you don't get a spot, you have to go to a private facility which can easily cost more than one parent's monthly salary, or drop out of work until you get a spot, but then you&#
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by w00kie 8y ago
You can buy radium balls to put in your bath on amazon japan: https://amzn.to/2JDwICi
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by w00kie 8y ago
And how does the postal worker delivering thousands of letters addressed to "UPS Headquarters ATLANTA" to a dude's apartment in Chicago not think it strange and report it?
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by w00kie 8y ago
Don't worry, it's very weird in Japan too.
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by w00kie 9y ago
Japan has a nice system: when you're not sure your issue is bad enough to call 119 (Japanese version of 911), you can call 7119 which will tell you if it's really an emergency and you need an ambulance or if you should just rest a
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by w00kie 9y ago
And ensure that all 3 major carriers agree behind closed do to have the exact same prices, just obscured with a bunch of different discounts and mandatory options that makes them look wildly different until you get the bill in the mail and
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by w00kie 9y ago
I'm always surprised when I go back to Europe and see so many people walking around with iPhone 4. In Japan, where I live, a vast majority of people get their phones on a 24 months payment plan with a 2 years contract. The carrier give
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by w00kie 9y ago
Mine costs about $1,000: https://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/pas/lineup/city-c/ But I'm in Tokyo so I'm not worried about theft at all. It has an integrated lock on the back wheel and this blocks the han
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by w00kie 9y ago
The van has delivery lockers inside. You can call it to receive your parcel or send one yourself.
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Japanese self-driving parcel delivery van to start real world testing(roboneko-yamato.com)
1 points by w00kie 9y ago|1 comments
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by w00kie 10y ago
You could take the selfie, throw away the ballot and make a new one.

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