Dunan

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by Dunan 1y ago
I live in a neighborhood in central Tokyo where there are classes that teach this technique, out of one of the very few pre-war houses still standing. We signed up for a class sort of at random and ended up making beautiful panels like the
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by Dunan 1y ago
People have sent children by mail: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil... ...I don't think they let you do this anymore.
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by Dunan 1y ago
I read this article and was pleased not just with the community development, but with the spread of the word "stoop" all the way out to the West Coast. It's a Dutch word brough over in the New Amsterdam era that was originall
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by Dunan 2y ago
That's how I mentally processed them when first learning them years ago. Doing operations on x and y with log(x) = y in the background somehow felt far less intuitive than thinking about 10^y = x. I really enjoyed this author's w
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by Dunan 2y ago
it's entirely plausible that the person who designed that ramp isn't a cyclist, and didn't think about what it would actually be like to be a cyclist making that curve. Can you even imagine any piece of automobile infrastru
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by Dunan 2y ago
He also has his protagonists hail from the fictional town of Shiroiwa-cho 白岩町, which is a direct translation of King's frequently-seen "Castle Rock". I wonder how many Japanese readers of the original spotted that.
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by Dunan 6y ago
Seconding all of this; Human Revolution is an amazing game that will stick with you for a very long time -- even more so if you have a disability that human augmentation (one of the main themes of the game) could reverse. I play this agai
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by Dunan 8y ago
The mandatory overtime is a thing in Japan, too, though it's more like 30-40 hours built into the salary, not 10. You start getting paid 1.25x with your 41st hour of OT in a month. Salaries are Europe-like, too. Having experienced al
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by Dunan 8y ago
That's a pretty impressive bump you negotiated! Same company, or a different one? I'm in fintech too, but I'm not an engineer; more like a dime-a-dozen Excel monkey. Most people I know doing programming are terribly paid (&
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by Dunan 8y ago
Hello from Japan as well. And we have American-style vacation allotments!
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by Dunan 8y ago
Thanks for this very informative post! Here in Japan, salaries are much more Europe-like, whereas hours are (I suspect) US-like -- the worst of both worlds! My pay as a non-software-engineer doing a lot of Excel monkey work in the back off
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by Dunan 9y ago
$50k is real money -- it's more than I earn in a year -- but I'd pay it (or double, or triple) without question if it meant having our own child. The problem with IVF is that it's not guaranteed. Would I part with a year&#x2
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by Dunan 9y ago
" Do you think it’s ethical to create a conscious entity that will have to suffer through 80+ years on this planet for the sole purpose of satisfying your primitive reproduction instincts ?" In what way would my child be "suf
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by Dunan 9y ago
"I don't mean to offend but what is the difference to you that the child is genetically yours? why not adopt?" This might be an unpopular answer, but it makes all the difference in the world. I want my family line to continu
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by Dunan 9y ago
I used to love Canadian quarters because they kept their steel/silver color all the way around, unlike the hideous copper-sandwich US coins. Was disappointed to learn as a kid that the Canadian coins were worth about 20% less than the
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by Dunan 9y ago
I had a rough upbringing too, and my parents (who would never admit to that) were a lot mellower with my sister, a decade younger than my brother and I am and born when my parents were almost 40, so when I was in my 20s I feared being like
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by Dunan 9y ago
Wasn't especting to see this kind of article referenced on HN, and it hit me hard. I'm 41, partner is too, and would give absolutely anything to have a child of my own. She was never ready until just recently. I can't even
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by Dunan 9y ago
”You say the working class can accumulate savings with low inflation, but savings interest rates are basically zero." Yes; their savings maintains its value even if it does not earn interest. Inflation would destroy the value of what
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by Dunan 9y ago
It sounds from your post like you have borrowed money to buy something (a home, perhaps) and are hoping that inflation will make it easier to pay back that debt. Your arguments work exactly in reverse for someone who is saving money for fu
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by Dunan 9y ago
"3. I hope I'm not alone in this, but for me, donning a nice, fresh, crisp uniform - whatever style it might be - makes me feel more assured, more vigorous, more ... "I got this" 'tude than if I just wear whatever.
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by Dunan 9y ago
I've been enduring 28-degree Tokyo for a decade. You never get used to it.
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by Dunan 9y ago
"28c in the offices in a rich industrialized country? I wonder how much productivity they loose because of that." A lot. The 28-degree "standard" has in fact been in place since 2005, when introduced by now-Tokyo govern
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by Dunan 9y ago
I envy your ability to be open about your (partial?) deafness. I have normal hearing in one ear but am almost entirely deaf in the other, and have looked into getting a hearing aid for it. (I'm also blind on that side, and there is
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by Dunan 9y ago
"I have a really boring story about that revolving around a company that paid out severance gradually instead of lump sum" Here in Japan, where I live, this is one of the reasons that people can't take all their accrued vacat
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by Dunan 9y ago
You've got an extra zero in there; it's your age * 1,000 USD. (Can confirm; age 40, 18 years with the company, base salary just over $40k.)
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by Dunan 9y ago
This is why you buy a fully-depreciated ~40-year-old apartment or house. I spent my entire life's savings to do this and it was the best decision I ever made. When and if I leave Tokyo, I will rent it out for side income. I can'
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by Dunan 9y ago
But would they still be so thrilled on a Tokyo salary? People here (I live and work in Tokyo) have a much narrower pay band than you would see in NYC or any American city. You might make $25~30k to start, and $40~50k at age 40. I'd l
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by Dunan 9y ago
Electric bikes are making headway but many employers have rules specifically forbidding employees from riding them (or any other form of personal transportation) to work. There is a major national insurance company with which employers hav
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by Dunan 9y ago
"many, many young people looking to move to cities would be perfectly happy with smaller living spaces at associated smaller costs, but those properties straight up don't exist, and also aren't being built" This is it ri
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by Dunan 9y ago
Upvoted; I love this book. Amazon recommended it to me out of the blue when I started studying Esperanto again and I went in totally blind; enjoyed it from start to finish. Also, if you're interested in languages invented for TV and m

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