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> and i didn't mean to come off as too harsh. but i imagined someone reading your comment and being deeply discouraged (as i might have been, many years younger) when in reality to…

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> if there's a way in, and a way out, i consider that a win. will i lose maybe 5 minutes because the accessible entrance is not in the most convenient location that day? perhaps. b…

> I don't think i've ever seen a station with only one elevator, it's always at least one platform-to-ticket-gate, and one ticket-gate-to-ground (maybe that's what you meant). Well…

> I'd be interested learning how you've come up with that - it's disinformation. i'm speaking from extensive, direct experience. I live here and have eyes. But tell me more about "…

Not even close. They're better than they used to be, and the major stations that tourists go to are mostly kinda-sorta OK, but the median station has 1 elevator if you're lucky , a…

I had to laugh when they put a quote from a wheelchair user at the top of the article. Japan is many good things, but friendly to wheelchair users is not one of them. As western to…

It's amazing that they bothered to put together a slide summarizing their experience for a pitch deck.

Nothing. If the next person comes in to vote after you (which is easy enough to avoid if you use active voter lists), they might issue a provisional ballot. How do they know which …

You can literally walk into any voting location where you know the name of a voter, and vote in their name. There is no check. How do I know this? Because every time I have ever vo…

Yeah, you need it to register, but you emphatically do not to submit a ballot, which is the part that actually matters.

The BOJ had about $1.1 trillion in US Treasuries as of the beginning of the year.

That line is worth exactly as much as the daily financial news quote “explaining” why the stock market wiggled in a particular direction yesterday. All of those things have some im…

Yes. Let’s not forget that the last time the BOJ hinted at rate normalization, it caused a global bond market freakout, a spike in Treasury rates, and a collapse in Asian stocks (t…

In the sense that weak currency makes everything you buy from foreign partners more expensive, sure. The place where you go wrong is drawing a straight line to the US actions in Ir…

No. That has nothing to do with this. Setting aside the obvious fact that the BOJ does not buy oil, they’ve been engaged in a (futile) currency defense scheme since long before the…

The rule is a residential rental rule. If you rent it out, the rule applies. The ownership structure does not matter. I think there's actually a parallel rule that theoretically ap…

Every bedroom of a rental is required to have a window in New York. But in this part of town, the advertising rights alone probably vastly exceed any possible revenue from renting …

Yeah, but again, see the other part of what I wrote -- doing it "right" can be insanely expensive, and so you get an incentive to be conservative.