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It looks like it’s not so much a breakthrough than an ongoing research that aims at producing this kind of results at scale: https://green-innovation.nedo.go.jp/en/article/liquid-l…

Two news items in one : Japan is getting ready for hypersonic missiles, and Japan’s elite does not give a damn about global warming.

You apply for permanent residency in Japan from Japan.

OmegaT is widely used in the professional translation world and maintained by 1 person with a very few active contributors (except for localizers). https://omegat.org

The original links here, to the actual question asked and the answer by the minister: https://kiitaka.net/21312/

Interesting. So, when the "open source" movement was born out of a desire to become business friendly, it did not envision that the approach would eventually come back, 30 years do…

How many digital nomad influencers vs would-be entrepreneurs who keep wasting time on IT social networks? This ratio alone should make it very clear to you that most of that world …

The AI hype is finally over. Meta's language models, GH Pilot, real life car auto-pilot. When it fails, it fails big. And the "we were 10+ years early to market" is just a big lie …

If you're familiar with Fuse Tomoko's work on his origami, and her books are much easier to read, it should be much easier to undestand.

It is "carbon neutral" because of a bet on the future of trees that will be planted in replacement for the burned ones. The future trees do not exist yet. And with global warming p…

Do I support my "local community" when I type on a given keyboard layout ? And when I switch the layout because I need to type in a different script, do I betray my "local communit…

I suspect Assange does not want to be tortured and murdered and thus does not want this. Are you insane ?

And Japan is betting on pervasive hydrogen based electricity generation to manage carbon neutrality by 2050... A lot of wishful thinking + hot air and "I won't be there to see the …

Interesting to see that even a world war would not be enough to drop C02 emissions to a safe level...

Actually no. In Japan, where I live, the country side is covered by development projects that destroy rice pads, mostly because there are tax incentives for that. In France, where …

Growing food is not an issue. Not wasting food is. Not destroying biodiversity is. Not destroying ecological services is. Exactly none of those problems are solved by salad factori…

It outproduces salad, but not potatoes, wheat, and most of all humus. Also the need for heavy machinery has a real cost in green house gas emissions (same issue as with electric ca…

He says nothing about anonymity. He writes about pseudonymity.

From the World Economic Forum at Davos... "Over a lifespan of around 60 years, whales ... accumulate an average of 33 tonnes of CO2 ... By comparison, a tree absorbs up to 48 pound…

A KK in Japan is currently the least expensive option. Basically all you need is to pay for the registration paperwork (about ¥300k) and what used to be a minimum capital of ¥10 mi…

First, relax. A company is just an entity that allows you to pay less taxes overall. Don't worry for not having been able to start much. Regarding all the paperwork, go to the tax …

"It will also be possible for trainees to extend their stay for up to 10 years." Basically a way to cut wages forever.

If companies here started by respecting Labor law, they would not have to set such goals, because there would not be any karoshi, there would not be wage theft, pension theft, etc.…

OLPC was a huge success. But not the way Negroponte expected. The OLPC scared the industry to death. MS was so scared that it made Windows work on it. Tablets did not exist as cons…

Married households fare well because the tax system and plenty of other institutions favor married households. It doesn't have to the the case. Marriage is mostly a "capital" redis…