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People are still buying German cars and Hugo Boss clothing aren’t they?

They commonality is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism has a bad connotation in Western societies based on individualism. In Japan, the authority is the group and social norms. In …

People are forced to go to the big cities for economic reasons and not lifestyle reasons. Unlike America, it’s not just white collar office workers who must relocate to urban cente…

Livable according to who? People in Japan, especially those in the countryside, disdain Tokyo. If it was absolutely livable, this wouldn’t be the case. Sure, Tokyo is relatively mo…

Because of social media, there are less teenagers hanging out at the malls. Shops close down. It forms a feedback loop

Seems like better value than ScaleAI then

> putting unfinished “side projects” on their GitHub that have all the right things in the README.md (just hope nobody actually looks at the code) and memorizing S.T.A.R. format re…

Airweave is a large and established mattress brand that’s sold in department stores in Japan. You should look into that

Wasn't the original mission of OpenAI being open and non-profit and all of that to avoid this corruption?

So UI designers prioritize form over function as always

If putting fries in the bag at McDonald’s payed half as much as being a FANG engineer, I would pick McDonald’s

> COVID stimulus proved that the nation would not collapse if the most vulnerable were subsidized The resulting inflation has lowered the purchasing power of the vulnerable and inc…

> And (almost) everyone has a house. How come the Netherlands has the most pronounced housing shortage for university students compared to other countries ? Is it because everyone …

The same can be said of boardroom politics and board of directors. Or investment circles such as tech venture capital

That’s not how foreign policy and international politics work. Every country would be enemies with every other country in that case. All the pro-Palestinian anti-Israel country wou…

Sure, I agree with you completely. It’s just there are people (Americans) who offended by this and riled up about progressive issues such as feminism, for which Japan is behind eve…

I dislike the CCP and their recent wave of propaganda as much as the next person But I find it inconsistent to call China out for this instead of Japan. HackerNews has a tendency t…

Vietnamese people have been drinking iced coffee for half a century. The more ridiculous proposition here is that people, other than Americans, only drink hot coffee.

I was not saying that you were. I was adding to your comment about OP. You suspect OP to be based in American and influenced by some American line of reasoning towards Israel. I'm …

> I bet you're located in the USA? Because nowhere else in the world CCP and internet police are much more likely to use this logic than anti-Israel Americans. If they were, in fac…

> Other than some nationalistic pride to recapture teritority, they are not much alike. To add, Taiwan uses traditional Chinese and is more conservative to traditional Chinese cult…

You sound word for word like you are regurgitating CCP rhetoric of Victor Gao

You're Chinese police aren't you? This seems to be the whataboutism script Chinese bots have been using on other social media platforms in recent months. I don't support Israel. I …

With that line of reasoning, you'll justify the CCP when they invade Vietnam after it's done with Taiwan. Free Tibet first.