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Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by freetime2 »

asiachick wrote: post #215

Like most people here it's all just opinion. I'm happy someone is pushing for more innovation in Japan but ... there's huge issues (1) Japanese people generally only speak Japanese. That tends to limit their reach to Japan only. Sure there are exceptions, I'm just saying it adds a hurdle. It also adds a hurdle to importing people. (2) Japanese culture doesn't encourage sticking out. There's a reason one of the most f…

The comparatively low salaries are not just Software Engineering positions, either. Doctors in Japan apparently earn about $120K to $150K on average [1]. CEOs of large companies only make 10% of their counterparts at US companies [2].

I actually think it's a good thing for Japan that inequality hasn't reached the crazy levels that we see in some other countries. But it certainly does make it hard for Japanese companies to attract top international talent the way FAANGs can.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1116124/japan-average-an... [2] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Japanese-CEO-pay-roughly-10...

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by simonh »

s17n wrote: post #214
throwaway0a5e wrote: post #181

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>people just didn't want to get hired and do small works off the books instead because life was just better like that. The blue collar industries have issues hiring junior people for exactly this reason in many of the HCOL parts of the US. Nobody in their right mind wants to suffer through a couple years as a lube and tire tech when you can work when you can get paid more fixing people's cars under the table.

Sounds like the issue is that the "blue collar industries" employers need to offer higher salaries?

I'm sure their customers will completely understand, pay the higher costs without complaint, and not at all go and find alternative suppliers.

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Post by smcl »

smcl wrote: post #169
cmod wrote: post #52

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It's tricky because "Yamaguchi No.10 Family Office" is //such// a beautiful understatement for what this is.

"Yamaguchi No.10 Family Office" is actually so mysterious I just knew I had to click it. But I agree it's really understated and that kinda makes it even better :D

s/Yamaguchi/Yamauchi/

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by op00to »

legerdemain wrote: post #186
chrisco255 wrote: post #95

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It might be a trope but coming from Nintendo it means a lot more. Can't say how many wonderful memories I've had exploring the worlds that Nintendo has dreamed up.

Yes! Nintendo helps us hold on to the yume in our kokoro ! Look to the mirai for that hikari at the end of the tunnel! In other words, I'm sure you have fond memories of playing a bunch of Nintendo videogames, but if you think that to climb out of economic stagnation, we just need to believe in ourselves, that's just a bunch of mealy-mouthed wahoo!

Well just believe in ourselves and dump a bunch of money into businesses...

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Post by op00to »

misterkrabs wrote: post #166
nine_k wrote: post #137

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It's like saying that Alice in Wonderland or Wind in the Willows are mere... books... Games are an art form, completely on par with books, paintings, or movies. I'd say they are one of the most important art forms of our times.

I used to believe that games were an art form - but I just can't get behind them being completely on par with books, etc. The writing is often so terrible... I wish I could think of a single video game that touched me like The Brothers Karamazov or Les Miserables.

Have you SEEN the utter volume of terrible books, music, visual arts, and so on? Taste and quality does not dictate whether something is an art form.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by op00to »

agloeregrets wrote: post #170
misterkrabs wrote: post #166

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I used to believe that games were an art form - but I just can't get behind them being completely on par with books, etc. The writing is often so terrible... I wish I could think of a single video game that touched me like The Brothers Karamazov or Les Miserables.

Most games seek to entertain rather than to provoke. They are the Harry Potters and James Bonds of the world. Go a bit deeper and you find what you are looking for though. A hard limit of games is the fact that books let your reading experience be entirely visually unique to you. A character looks a certain way to you, their actions have your own interpretation. For me, Firewatch was a stunning call to action about a…

Play an Infocom text adventure. Art, computer game, no picture.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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Post by pontifier »

robenkleene wrote: post #135
cmod wrote: post #51

For those interested, dev agency is Mount Inc. [0] Some behinds the scenes production stuff on their Twitter feed. [1] [0]: https://mount.jp/ [1]: https://twitter.com/mount_inc/status/1381805222679379969

The Yamauchi reminds me of Bruno Simon's personal site ( https://bruno-simon.com/ ), who coincidentally has a (paid) Three.js course ( https://threejs-journey.xyz/ ). Might interesting for people interested it learning how to make these kinds of things.

I've been very impressed by three.js. I've been using it to build a GPU accelerated n-body simulation of my prototype fusion reactor. It runs at 20fps on my laptop with over 4k particles, in a browser!

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Post by starfallg »

fireattack wrote: post #58
ksec wrote: post #5

Attention: It nearly flipping fried my CPU. But awesome site. Tested On both Safari and Chrome on macOS. 100% CPU usage when scrolling. Edit: On WOW, from the comments I decide to try it on my iPhone 11. Ultra Smooth Rendering with Music ( which wasn't even playing on my Mac ). And my phone isn't even warm after a minutes of playing around. Amazing Which makes me wonder. Why?

It must be something Mac specific. It runs very smoothly on Chrome + Windows with a dated computer.

On a 2020 MacBook Pro (Intel) and working fine.
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