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Here in Japan, you can hire people to resign your job for you. https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642597968/for-450-this-japane... You want something even weirder? There's also a servi…

I don't mean this as a joke, but I thought people generally hated car salesmen? Here in Japan, the manufacturers do actually set a recommended retail price that is slightly higher …

I used to be of the opinion that it doesn't affect me directly so I don't care. But as more of us don't care, it becomes more common place, and then our (more gullible) relatives s…

Yes, emoji is literally Japanese. 絵文字 meaning 'picture as words'. Invented for use in Japanese pagers, later proliferating to mobile phones long before smartphones even existed [0]…

Likely something not backed by a corporation with big bags of money.

Yes, the worst thing is the huge amount of decision making even over very minor details that has to be done all the time. Coding and maintaining the servers isn't even that difficu…

> This is well-known now. Please avoid this. Let me preface this by saying that I have no idea who Epstein is except that he's some rich, white guy that got caught up in some kind …

The world stood around and did nothing as China put Uighurs into concentration camps. Why would this be any different?

A pragmatist would lay down and take it, while preparing to emigrate out of HK as soon as possible.

That link is blocked outside the US. here's a mirror. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljxEb3H0Ic

Jeremy Clarkson's surprisingly positive review[0] of the i8 made me want to take a second look at it, which I did. It was just as nice and pleasant as JC said it'd be, but there we…

In Japan during the 3/11 earthquake, the only way people were able to stay in touch was via Twitter and other online chat apps (LINE, Viber, etc). The phone lines couldn't handle t…

I'm not even complaining about the ads. Where's the content? Apple is recommending developers switch out bash to zsh in anticipation of this change. That's it? Not even a 'Here's a…

Those background checks don't seem to be working. Lots of 'yankees' running around in pimped up centuries. https://www.google.com/search?q=%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%...

It's not often one can claim to have saved the company tens of thousands of dollars in operating costs each month just by tweaking a few AWS settings. I definitely miss being able …

One more datapoint here if you care. The industry is filled with hugely interesting technical challenges even if you're not at FAANG scale. Trivial things like building a cost effi…

There's also the little problem where when your eyeballs are up for auction, the ones putting in bids don't have any relevant inventory targeting you so all the network can do noth…

There's one for CSS too. https://github.com/hashanp/postcss-spiffing

I stopped paying to attention to politics about 5 years ago and am very surprised to learn that the major opposition party (DPJ?) has essentially fractured into multiple, smaller p…