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I live in a neighborhood in central Tokyo where there are classes that teach this technique, out of one of the very few pre-war houses still standing. We signed up for a class sort…

People have sent children by mail: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil... ...I don't think they let you do this anymore.

I read this article and was pleased not just with the community development, but with the spread of the word "stoop" all the way out to the West Coast. It's a Dutch word brough ove…

That's how I mentally processed them when first learning them years ago. Doing operations on x and y with log(x) = y in the background somehow felt far less intuitive than thinking…

it's entirely plausible that the person who designed that ramp isn't a cyclist, and didn't think about what it would actually be like to be a cyclist making that curve. Can you eve…

He also has his protagonists hail from the fictional town of Shiroiwa-cho 白岩町, which is a direct translation of King's frequently-seen "Castle Rock". I wonder how many Japanese rea…

Seconding all of this; Human Revolution is an amazing game that will stick with you for a very long time -- even more so if you have a disability that human augmentation (one of th…

The mandatory overtime is a thing in Japan, too, though it's more like 30-40 hours built into the salary, not 10. You start getting paid 1.25x with your 41st hour of OT in a month.…

That's a pretty impressive bump you negotiated! Same company, or a different one? I'm in fintech too, but I'm not an engineer; more like a dime-a-dozen Excel monkey. Most people I …

Hello from Japan as well. And we have American-style vacation allotments!

Thanks for this very informative post! Here in Japan, salaries are much more Europe-like, whereas hours are (I suspect) US-like -- the worst of both worlds! My pay as a non-softwar…

$50k is real money -- it's more than I earn in a year -- but I'd pay it (or double, or triple) without question if it meant having our own child. The problem with IVF is that it's …

" Do you think it’s ethical to create a conscious entity that will have to suffer through 80+ years on this planet for the sole purpose of satisfying your primitive reproduction in…

"I don't mean to offend but what is the difference to you that the child is genetically yours? why not adopt?" This might be an unpopular answer, but it makes all the difference in…

I used to love Canadian quarters because they kept their steel/silver color all the way around, unlike the hideous copper-sandwich US coins. Was disappointed to learn as a kid that…

I had a rough upbringing too, and my parents (who would never admit to that) were a lot mellower with my sister, a decade younger than my brother and I am and born when my parents …

Wasn't especting to see this kind of article referenced on HN, and it hit me hard. I'm 41, partner is too, and would give absolutely anything to have a child of my own. She was nev…

”You say the working class can accumulate savings with low inflation, but savings interest rates are basically zero." Yes; their savings maintains its value even if it does not ear…

It sounds from your post like you have borrowed money to buy something (a home, perhaps) and are hoping that inflation will make it easier to pay back that debt. Your arguments wor…

"3. I hope I'm not alone in this, but for me, donning a nice, fresh, crisp uniform - whatever style it might be - makes me feel more assured, more vigorous, more ... "I got this" '…

I've been enduring 28-degree Tokyo for a decade. You never get used to it.

"28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that." A lot. The 28-degree "standard" has in fact been in place since 20…

I envy your ability to be open about your (partial?) deafness. I have normal hearing in one ear but am almost entirely deaf in the other, and have looked into getting a hearing aid…

"I have a really boring story about that revolving around a company that paid out severance gradually instead of lump sum" Here in Japan, where I live, this is one of the reasons t…

You've got an extra zero in there; it's your age * 1,000 USD. (Can confirm; age 40, 18 years with the company, base salary just over $40k.)