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by brandelune 2mo ago
It looks like it’s not so much a breakthrough than an ongoing research that aims at producing this kind of results at scale: https://green-innovation.nedo.go.jp/en/article/liquid-lithiu... “While these targets hav
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by brandelune 4mo ago
Two news items in one : Japan is getting ready for hypersonic missiles, and Japan’s elite does not give a damn about global warming.
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by brandelune 4mo ago
You apply for permanent residency in Japan from Japan.
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by brandelune 2y ago
OmegaT is widely used in the professional translation world and maintained by 1 person with a very few active contributors (except for localizers). https://omegat.org
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by brandelune 3y ago
The original links here, to the actual question asked and the answer by the minister: https://kiitaka.net/21312/
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by brandelune 3y ago
Interesting. So, when the "open source" movement was born out of a desire to become business friendly, it did not envision that the approach would eventually come back, 30 years down the road, to nastily bite them. Problem is big
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by brandelune 4y ago
How many digital nomad influencers vs would-be entrepreneurs who keep wasting time on IT social networks? This ratio alone should make it very clear to you that most of that world is fake and just here to entertain you when you feel alone i
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by brandelune 4y ago
The AI hype is finally over. Meta's language models, GH Pilot, real life car auto-pilot. When it fails, it fails big. And the "we were 10+ years early to market" is just a big lie that bought them plenty of VC money. Good for
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by brandelune 4y ago
If you're familiar with Fuse Tomoko's work on his origami, and her books are much easier to read, it should be much easier to undestand.
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by brandelune 4y ago
It is "carbon neutral" because of a bet on the future of trees that will be planted in replacement for the burned ones. The future trees do not exist yet. And with global warming probably won't come soon enough. So that'
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by brandelune 4y ago
Do I support my "local community" when I type on a given keyboard layout ? And when I switch the layout because I need to type in a different script, do I betray my "local community" ? And what about I live in a country
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by brandelune 5y ago
I suspect Assange does not want to be tortured and murdered and thus does not want this. Are you insane ?
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by brandelune 5y ago
And Japan is betting on pervasive hydrogen based electricity generation to manage carbon neutrality by 2050... A lot of wishful thinking + hot air and "I won't be there to see the disaster" from current politicians...
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by brandelune 6y ago
Interesting to see that even a world war would not be enough to drop C02 emissions to a safe level...
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by brandelune 6y ago
Actually no. In Japan, where I live, the country side is covered by development projects that destroy rice pads, mostly because there are tax incentives for that. In France, where I come from that's the same. Perfectly good arable land
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by brandelune 6y ago
Growing food is not an issue. Not wasting food is. Not destroying biodiversity is. Not destroying ecological services is. Exactly none of those problems are solved by salad factories.
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by brandelune 6y ago
It outproduces salad, but not potatoes, wheat, and most of all humus. Also the need for heavy machinery has a real cost in green house gas emissions (same issue as with electric cars). There are real ecological services provided by a health
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by brandelune 6y ago
He says nothing about anonymity. He writes about pseudonymity.
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by brandelune 7y ago
From the World Economic Forum at Davos... "Over a lifespan of around 60 years, whales ... accumulate an average of 33 tonnes of CO2 ... By comparison, a tree absorbs up to 48 pounds of CO2 a year." The modern version of "appl
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by brandelune 8y ago
A KK in Japan is currently the least expensive option. Basically all you need is to pay for the registration paperwork (about ¥300k) and what used to be a minimum capital of ¥10 million has now no minimum. There used to be Yugen (limited re
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by brandelune 8y ago
First, relax. A company is just an entity that allows you to pay less taxes overall. Don't worry for not having been able to start much. Regarding all the paperwork, go to the tax office (or the relevant offices) and ask them for help.
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by brandelune 8y ago
"It will also be possible for trainees to extend their stay for up to 10 years." Basically a way to cut wages forever.
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by brandelune 8y ago
If companies here started by respecting Labor law, they would not have to set such goals, because there would not be any karoshi, there would not be wage theft, pension theft, etc. and the economy would be booming with rested Japanese famil
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by brandelune 8y ago
OLPC was a huge success. But not the way Negroponte expected. The OLPC scared the industry to death. MS was so scared that it made Windows work on it. Tablets did not exist as consumer goods at the time (we had some but only for businesses
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by brandelune 9y ago
Married households fare well because the tax system and plenty of other institutions favor married households. It doesn't have to the the case. Marriage is mostly a "capital" redistribution system and with strong public servi
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by brandelune 9y ago
Just like NGOs are making a change. And that's what's criticized in the article. You can't just click away misery. The idea of online donations is nothing new. The idea of online donations to support people with health issues
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by brandelune 9y ago
Except that I don't live in the "West". And I've seen my share of the world, and done my share of NGO work at home and in the places where it's directly helpful. I also know that taxes are used especially in the Wes
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by brandelune 9y ago
Student dorms. While we're at it, let's rethink the whole social mess we're in with nuclear families. Vastly inefficient, totally anti-social. We need more communities.
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by brandelune 9y ago
Decreasing employees, or reducing wages, or renouncing labor regulations that ensure people make a living, etc.
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by brandelune 9y ago
The question is, would Watsi work if the only thing it offered were pooling of donations to anonymous care receivers. The article suggests that it would not. But that is the same idea as taxes. Taxes, that a lot of people like to hate, of

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