alephnan

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by alephnan 9d ago
Well Microsoft’s PR machine is working overtime then because I wasn’t even aware of Microsoft doing this until this HN thread whereas Sony was everywhere on social media
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by alephnan 19d ago
The word for a word that describes itself is autological
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by alephnan 1mo ago
People are still buying German cars and Hugo Boss clothing aren’t they?
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by alephnan 1mo ago
They commonality is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism has a bad connotation in Western societies based on individualism. In Japan, the authority is the group and social norms. In Singapore, it’s the BDFL. This involve restricting individua
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by alephnan 1mo ago
People are forced to go to the big cities for economic reasons and not lifestyle reasons. Unlike America, it’s not just white collar office workers who must relocate to urban centers. This concentration forms a feedback loop.
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by alephnan 1mo ago
Livable according to who? People in Japan, especially those in the countryside, disdain Tokyo. If it was absolutely livable, this wouldn’t be the case. Sure, Tokyo is relatively more livable than other urban centers.
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by alephnan 6mo ago
Because of social media, there are less teenagers hanging out at the malls. Shops close down. It forms a feedback loop
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by alephnan 1y ago
Seems like better value than ScaleAI then
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by alephnan 1y ago
> putting unfinished “side projects” on their GitHub that have all the right things in the README.md (just hope nobody actually looks at the code) and memorizing S.T.A.R. format responses for the common behavioral interview questions. Th
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by alephnan 1y ago
Airweave is a large and established mattress brand that’s sold in department stores in Japan. You should look into that
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by alephnan 1y ago
Wasn't the original mission of OpenAI being open and non-profit and all of that to avoid this corruption?
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by alephnan 1y ago
So UI designers prioritize form over function as always
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by alephnan 1y ago
If putting fries in the bag at McDonald’s payed half as much as being a FANG engineer, I would pick McDonald’s
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by alephnan 1y ago
> COVID stimulus proved that the nation would not collapse if the most vulnerable were subsidized The resulting inflation has lowered the purchasing power of the vulnerable and increased the wealth gap.
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by alephnan 1y ago
> And (almost) everyone has a house. How come the Netherlands has the most pronounced housing shortage for university students compared to other countries ? Is it because everyone is AirBnb'ing their first and second homes out to to
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by alephnan 1y ago
The same can be said of boardroom politics and board of directors. Or investment circles such as tech venture capital
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by alephnan 1y ago
That’s not how foreign policy and international politics work. Every country would be enemies with every other country in that case. All the pro-Palestinian anti-Israel country would be enemies of the US then, including Japan. You’d be supp
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by alephnan 1y ago
Sure, I agree with you completely. It’s just there are people (Americans) who offended by this and riled up about progressive issues such as feminism, for which Japan is behind even China, but then shut that part of their brain off when the
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by alephnan 1y ago
I dislike the CCP and their recent wave of propaganda as much as the next person But I find it inconsistent to call China out for this instead of Japan. HackerNews has a tendency to jump through mental gymnastics to justify that Japan is pe
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by alephnan 1y ago
Vietnamese people have been drinking iced coffee for half a century. The more ridiculous proposition here is that people, other than Americans, only drink hot coffee.
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by alephnan 2y ago
I was not saying that you were. I was adding to your comment about OP. You suspect OP to be based in American and influenced by some American line of reasoning towards Israel. I'm saying that someone from the CCP is more likely to chan
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by alephnan 2y ago
> I bet you're located in the USA? Because nowhere else in the world CCP and internet police are much more likely to use this logic than anti-Israel Americans. If they were, in fact, an American that was anti-Israel, they wouldn&#x2
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by alephnan 2y ago
> Other than some nationalistic pride to recapture teritority, they are not much alike. To add, Taiwan uses traditional Chinese and is more conservative to traditional Chinese culture. China abandoned all of that during the cultural revo
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by alephnan 2y ago
You sound word for word like you are regurgitating CCP rhetoric of Victor Gao
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by alephnan 2y ago
You're Chinese police aren't you? This seems to be the whataboutism script Chinese bots have been using on other social media platforms in recent months. I don't support Israel. I just find it too obvious the way you try to
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by alephnan 2y ago
With that line of reasoning, you'll justify the CCP when they invade Vietnam after it's done with Taiwan. Free Tibet first.
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by alephnan 2y ago
> From China’s perspective, the cost of war is much higher than the cost of developing these chips themselves. There are more reasons than chips. First is Chinese nationalism. The Island of Taiwan has been under the control of various Ch
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by alephnan 2y ago
The difference now is globalism and that the rich have private jets to take them to safe havens. People's wealth were more geographically locked and tied to land back then.
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by alephnan 2y ago
We need something like Amazon Fake Reviews but for Google reviews. Amazon Fake Reviews also stopped being reliable because people figured out how to game it.
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by alephnan 2y ago
Wanderlog seems to be scraping Google Maps and TripAdvisor for all their restaurant data, then rerank them. https://wanderlog.com/list/geoCategory/1/where-to-eat-best-r...

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