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Well, your point somewhat stands but there are many examples of retail, contracting and consulting companies in excess of a billion dollars.

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The OP wasn't about doordash though, it was about uber (poster mentions the ride-sharing part of the business in a comment elsewhere). I don't believe DD is lying about 100% of tip…

Great idea. Any pointers for someone who might do the same? I.e. data sources you deemed useful besides Wikipedia

Japans death rate is ~11, not 14. But regardless, no, there is nowhere near as much violent death here in Japan. It is one of the safest countries in the world. The high death rate…

Business visas are fine, I've had 5 people join my team from the US in the last few months. The June thing is for tourists, which are still not allowed in. It's great as long as yo…

I'm pretty sure he was talking about the person at the root of this thread, with the name 'matthewdgreen'

> you can live five minutes away by train and enjoy tree-lined streets and cozy bistros with a bit of outdoor seating instead Do you refer to Daikanyama here? Easily my favourite n…

Yeah, I'm currently going through the process of getting a mortgage for a property in Tokyo. I'm also interviewing about a potential job - nothing unusual there, moving around ever…

Even if you don't like Scott Adams (And I don't particularly like the guy myself), I don't think that should invalidate the specific statement that the article quotes, which should…

Minor correction, it's 就職活動 (shuushoku katsudou) not seishoku. And the age of starting families here is older than you mention at close to 30 [1], especially in recent years. That'…

They exist - I work for Indeed and there's a 4 day week option that started being offered last year in response to covid and has now become an official policy. The problem is that …

I completely agree with you. How do you prevent this happening? I've relocated from a team where I used to be a software engineer on the team (and therefore had a peer-level unders…

He's not comparing drones to drones, he's comparing drones to say, an F22 or ICBM.

He alludes to an example in the article > none of us are safe - not the random grad student with a Twitter account making fun of bad science From that I assumed that the sort of pe…

As a counterpoint to the sibling replies, I speak fluent Japanese and was still refused entry to a local izakaya in Hakodate. It wasn't about the language, I made plenty clear that…

>AWS started because they already had the servers for holiday surge capacity. That's a myth. Source - worked at AWS for four years, but also common sense. If you rent out all your …

Start with why is garbage. Just watch the TED talk - the main idea there is fine, but there's absolutely nothing extra in the book that isn't covered in the TED talk, it's just a c…

Fun fact, 'one sided fight' is often nicknamed/referred to as 'Bite' these days [1] [1] https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/185815973623/does-r-d-...

Another one I've seen recently is the reaction to covid. I live in Tokyo, and being in tech circles was doing my prep shopping and isolating a few weeks before everyone else. I had…

I'll back that up with data from Tokyo. My girlfriend is a nurse at a hospital in Kita-Senjuu and they also haven't got any covid patients in the hospital. She thinks it's because …

A monolingual dictionary gives 7 definitions. https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/%E6%9E%AF%E3%82%8C%E3%82%8... I think the one that best applies here is 4 - 技術や製品などが、その登場から十分な時間が経ち、…

> guilt trip employees into learning in their free time If you went to university, not only did you learn in your free time but you _paid_ to learn in your free time. Why should th…