kochikame

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by kochikame 3mo ago
Unlike all of the things referenced in the Alanis Morrisette song, this is actually ironic
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by kochikame 5mo ago
> There are skills we're losing that are probably ok to lose (e.g. spacial memory & reasoning vs GPS, mental arithmetic vs calculators) I'd argue these are not at all OK to lose. You live in an earthquake zone? You sure bet
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by kochikame 6mo ago
No, he or she is saying that even Americans who have moved overseas could be heard to complain about the "fascist" authoritarians in power in the US now. They would sound functionally identical to an Iranian emigrant talking about
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by kochikame 8mo ago
I think you might be joking but OK, I'll respond like you're serious as this is HN. You want to make vaping even more addictive than it already is?
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by kochikame 10mo ago
I get where you're coming from but I think your statement is a bit naive. Education systems as we know them today are absolutely about indoctrination in so many ways. Capitalism, love of country, views on family units, beauty and aaest
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by kochikame 10mo ago
I think the point is that part of having a functioning society (civic life, engagement, tolerance of others) is having people mix together. School is one of the prime places where that happens. If you allow a lot of people to pull away from
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by kochikame 11mo ago
I guess you can't just use a photo because it would make it too easy to use someone else's signature
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by kochikame 11mo ago
There needs to be a balance
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by kochikame 1y ago
I live in Japna and have a high-intermediate level of Japanese. I wish I had been able to read and think about these well-expressed observations when I was just starting out as it would have saved me from having to intuit things over time.
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by kochikame 2y ago
A lot of people think this is dangerous and distorting because it's presented in a way that leads people to believe that it is accurate
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by kochikame 2y ago
I presume you are referring to sekuhara (sexual harassment), pawahara (power harassment) and the like
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by kochikame 2y ago
To balance this comment, if you are a full time employee you are super well protected and cannot be fired for any reason other than gross negligence or actively breaking the law. Managing out a poor performer in Japan is a grinding process
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by kochikame 2y ago
Totally agree. Nothing provable at all, and almost all of the links that the author could be illusory. Maybe something in the human psyche compels us celebrate certain things at similar times of the year in response to certain stimuli, in w
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by kochikame 2y ago
You’re suggesting adding competing agencies in the name of efficiency? When this has been tried it always results in duplication of efforts, territorial protection of resources, harmful politics etc. Bad idea.
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by kochikame 2y ago
You could also argue that old people are not hyped by AI and new tech because they have been through so many hype cycles, and seen so much in general, that they know that things come and go, and tech advances, but the really important thing
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by kochikame 3y ago
One of my biggest and earliest cross-cultural learnings was going to a bank in Israel to get some cash out in about 2002. I stood in line dutifully and I waited and waited and I got literally nowhere while people walked in after me and just
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by kochikame 3y ago
Alright Elon, calm down
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by kochikame 3y ago
Smoking cigarettes is first and foremost an anxiety suppression mechanism. It’s no surprise that those given to overly worrying and fretting would smoke. To use your words, the mentally healthy don’t need it
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by kochikame 3y ago
The Big Three hire people midcareer from other companies, including from the tech world
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by kochikame 3y ago
Sadly no, it doesn't just logically follow that because we find life everyehere on Earth that we must find it somewhere else too. It is still entirely possible that there is something (or some things) unique about Earth that are exceed
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by kochikame 3y ago
Or the computer inside the game in the Three Body Problem novel which is composed of people waving flags
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by kochikame 3y ago
The comment you're replying to is trying to say that a house, just by existing, solves the shelter problem. Having a functioning car means you can just get in it and go somewhere. But just having electricity in and of itself does not s
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by kochikame 3y ago
That was a Louis CK joke I think
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by kochikame 4y ago
Could you give some examples of the misunderstandings you see between rich and poor in the UK?
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by kochikame 4y ago
No consultants are being let go, only back office people
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by kochikame 4y ago
Maybe it's generational because I seem to be around the same age as you and I also hated the way my music collection "disappeared" into Apple Music (and a whole host of other things I disliked, chief of which that it keeps gi
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by kochikame 4y ago
This is the way to travel, for sure. Person above was talking about the JR Pass, which as you know is pretty useless for general "getting around Tokyo" purposes
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by kochikame 4y ago
Not to mention that it is absolutely standard for full-time employees to have the full cost of their commute covered by their company
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by kochikame 4y ago
No, the existence of the JR pass exactly proves their point. It only works on JR lines, so in Tokyo you still need to buy tickets for all the private train lines and metro lines (city run and private run). Try getting around Tokyo on the da
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by kochikame 4y ago
Love the precision of medical language

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