dicemoose

7 ms·

1.
Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car has more luxury, less ugly(arstechnica.com)
1 points by dicemoose 7y ago|0 comments
2.
by dicemoose 8y ago
One of the reasons why it's harder to buy some used homes in Japan is because it's harder government backed housing loans for housing that do not meet earthquake standards. For older buildings it's also harder or not possible
3.
by dicemoose 8y ago
Building standards were first implemented in Japan in 1952 and were revised in 1981 and 2000. Apologies for not having an English source, but of the people who were killed because of the house or building that they lived in, 98% were livin
4.
Japanese police allegedly protected PM's friend from rape charges(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by dicemoose 9y ago|0 comments
5.
by dicemoose 9y ago
Is it important to learn the kana and kanji at the same time as learning how to converse in Japanese? I'm a native speaker, but it was a lot easier to learn kana and kanji because I already was able to speak some Japanese. Also, I hope
6.
Seven rules for perfect Japanese typography(medium.com)
3 points by dicemoose 10y ago|0 comments
7.
Why C Students Are More Successful After Graduation(medium.com)
7 points by dicemoose 11y ago|9 comments
8.
by dicemoose 11y ago
`'One-punch'' assaults have cost 90 Australian lives since 2000, most in booze-fuelled bashings, a study has found.` ... `NSW had the highest number of king-hits (28), followed by Victoria and Queensland (24 cases each).` So
9.
by dicemoose 11y ago
Putting aside the content of the article, the photo of the "Cherry tree with temple in background. Chubu Region, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. " is actually a photo of Matsumoto Castle (in Nagano Prefecture).
10.
by dicemoose 11y ago
One underlying reason for the split between the Imperial Japanese Army, and Navy was that the Army was generally made up of members of the Choshu clan who were rivals of the Satsuma clan that was mostly responsible for the Navy. The two cla
11.
by dicemoose 12y ago
Google does not have majority share in Yahoo! JAPAN. There reason Yahoo! JAPAN uses Google instead of Bing (unlike the rest of Yahoo!) is because Yahoo! JAPAN felt that Google offered a better search product in Japan than Bing.
12.
by dicemoose 12y ago
The 50k JPY figure comes from the budget for social welfare in Japan. Here is an article where it is broken down for 2009: http://diamond.jp/articles/-/16672 But, let me try it with figures from 2011.[1] 107,495 b
13.
by dicemoose 12y ago
Zhou Enlai said,“two thousand years of friendship and five decades of misfortune,” about the relationship between China and Japan.
14.
by dicemoose 12y ago
I certainly would vote for politicians that would support universal basic income in Japan. A calculation done in the past few years found that ¥50,000 a month (about $500 US) could be paid out to each citizen without raising any extra reven
15.
Forensic Science Isn’t Science(slate.com)
2 points by dicemoose 12y ago|1 comments
16.
Former vice chairman of GM, Bob Lutz as an advocate of electric trucks(seattletimes.com)
1 points by dicemoose 13y ago|0 comments
17.
by dicemoose 13y ago
Question: If this were to actually pass in the State of California, would the only thing necessary after that be for the US Congress to accept six new states into the Union? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Four_of
18.
by dicemoose 13y ago
That's a great point, the Tokaido Shinkansen (the first bullet train line in Japan) was created in the 60's but the Tokaido Main line is still going strong. The Tokaido Shinkansen is also very profitable. It'll be interesting
19.
by dicemoose 13y ago
> This is an absolutely amazing 1st world country with 3rd world construction practices. The earthquake in 2011 probably showed that Japanese houses are built quite sturdily. Older houses did not have insulation, but insulation has been
20.
by dicemoose 13y ago
Yahoo! JAPAN uses Google for search instead of Bing, as a result Google has the largest slice of the search market in Japan.
21.
by dicemoose 13y ago
SBBM is Softbank as well, so Softbank actually owns over 42% of Yahoo! Japan. In practice it's really Softbank's internet content and portal service in Japan that also leverages Yahoo! Inc. technology as needed as well as their br
22.
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum collection on Google(google.com)
2 points by dicemoose 13y ago|0 comments
23.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum collection on Google.(google.com)
2 points by dicemoose 13y ago|0 comments
24.
by dicemoose 13y ago
I think it would be fair that the acceptance of mental illnesses by Japanese society still is lagging behind other developed nations. I have close friends in Japan that have received superb support from psychiatrists once they were able to
25.
Ruby 1.8.7 retired(ruby-lang.org)
99 points by dicemoose 13y ago|66 comments
26.
Square launches in Japan.(theverge.com)
3 points by dicemoose 13y ago|0 comments
27.
by dicemoose 13y ago
Yes, they share some common infrastructure.
28.
by dicemoose 13y ago
What you're stating is a gross generalization and untrue in a literal sense (probably easy to realize if you remember how things were a decade ago). While Y!J and Y!Inc are separate entities, the former does borrow/use technology from the f
29.
by dicemoose 14y ago
Inter carrier SMS messages in Japan were not possible until recently (July 2011, or about ten years behind other countries). This had to do with some of the Japanese carriers adopting PDC as a 2G standard instead of something that was used
30.
by dicemoose 14y ago
Salesforce Japan was also a joint venture between Salesforce.com and a Sunbridge (that Salesforce.com eventually bought out). Sunbridge was founded by Allen Miner who already had experience building out Oracle in Japan and the team that hel

More ›