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There’s a reason Toyotas sell like hotcakes. It gets you from A-to-B reliably.

I averaged 16400 steps a day for the entire year in Japan. I don’t think walking is weird, but the route from Shinagawa station to the immigration office is weird. I’ve walked that…

Japan would like to have a word with you

> It's a "surrender today" kind of statement And Japan still didn’t.

It’s especially ironic when Japan is the embodiment of what the average tech person in the West purports to be ideologically offended by: nationalism ( celebration of war criminals…

> This weakness is well understood by enemies like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has done everything he can to widen those divisions and has acted geopolitically at a moment when he…

Options are priced commensurate to the risk. They are traded with supply and demand. They are priced at what people think the risk/reward ratio is. Hence, theta.

I'm literally sitting at the Apple store waiting for my newly purchased IPhone SE to sync to the cloud, opened up my laptop and saw this. I was deliberating whether to buy the IPho…

Isn’t VSCode based on Electron?

Based on the package.json, this seems like a reskinned Monaco plus some bespoke extensions

How has that worked out for San Francisco ?

For a 1-2 bedroom apartment ? Those prices would mean a software engineer in Europe would not even have money for rent after paying taxes, much less anything else.

Like this one? https://www.benzinga.com/news/21/11/24241910/this-is-how-you...

> using small petrol engines is increasingly common (source: buying local seafood Right, because the locals have changed from fishing for themselves to fishing for others. This is …

They need fuel because they need boats that go far. They need to go far because the supply of fish has decreased. Fishing is not a modern activity. Rafts existed long before people…

I am well aware that Japan imports food. The point is not about whether a country imports at all, but whether it can mobilize domestic production of essential food crops in times o…

That’s my point about Japan. Rice, unlike tea, is a defensive measure for times of crisis. Even as Japan imports food, the point is whether the country can quickly mobilize and ram…

> Without imports, many Sri Lankans will quickly find themselves hungry, stranded How did these island nations sustain themselves before ? In other words, what has changed that the…

Recently Google’s barely able to find movie showtimes near me in Japan. It’ll work half the time in the megacity, but in the cities with several million population I usually end up…

All those fashion brands changed their logos around 2018, with the exception of YSL back in 2012. In 2012, Hedi Slimane took over the helm of YSL, notorious for the minimalist bran…

Japan's stance of war crimes has been a point of tension between Japan and its East Asian neighbors. These are matters of nationalism and affect forward looking geopolitical outcom…

Then it's ultimately not about personality or productivity, but ultimately whether person is of value to the company, org, team, or those in power, financially, politically.