nihonde

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by nihonde 20d ago
99% sure you passed through a transfer gate in Tokyo station that requires you to produce two "tickets" (physical or virtual)—one for subway and one for Shinkansen. Always plenty confusing. I have to hold my phone (Suica app) and
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by nihonde 20d ago
For a long time in Japan, the physical cards were limited because of IC inventory shortage. There was a big push to get people to use their phones during this time. Also, travelers beware: some of the special "Suica" sold at Haned
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by nihonde 2mo ago
"The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner." Browser-based privacy controls were proposed in the late-90s/early-2000's as P3P, and w
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by nihonde 3mo ago
The idea that appetites are assigned at birth is a bold claim. Is there evidence to support it?
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by nihonde 3mo ago
Well, you've reduced a rational position to absurdity here. The concern isn't that someone is going to require chemotherapy. The concern is that an asymptomatic condition will go undisclosed until it is symptomatic, at which point
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by nihonde 3mo ago
Japan has seen millennia of huge cultural shifts. Its strength is its ability to adapt and survive with some measure of continuity, even while embracing the new reality. Go watch some Ozu films. They're all about the "hollowing ou
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by nihonde 3mo ago
> "Hanshin, Hankyu, Kentetsu, Nankai" Also Keihan. And most, if not all, of these companies have huge land and real estate development projects generating non-rail income all up and down their lines.
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by nihonde 3mo ago
Something doesn't add up. The entire Japanese healthcare system is built around the idea that preventative testing for asymptomatic conditions is effective. You can read all about it, if you want. Personally, I think you've swallo
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by nihonde 3mo ago
I don't think there's much difference? The technicians that perform the tests are not doctors. You usually see a doc for 5 mins at the end, to discuss any anomalies. Even then, they're just going to refer you to see your GP o
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by nihonde 3mo ago
This doesn't hold up for me in Japan. My apartment is in a building that's 10 years old now, and I've been here since it was new. Japan famously builds for a 20-ish-year depreciation schedule, although buildings like mine oft
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by nihonde 3mo ago
Insurance companies dislike paying for procedures instead of passively collecting premiums. Not sure how you missed that.
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by nihonde 3mo ago
Are you joking? 人間ドック is absolutely more than a "health checkup". Maybe do some reading: https://medical.kameda.com/general/en/ningendock/what/ > The Ningen Dock is a comprehensive health ch
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by nihonde 3mo ago
Rather than dealing with the issue—hypochondriacs or whatever—you prefer to remove the option for the non-hypochondriacs? The fact that doctors like your wife think that people who are concerned about their health and want more information
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by nihonde 3mo ago
In Japan, the government gives everyone a battery of full body tests at least once per year. I guess you know better than Japan, right? The whole argument that "you'll worry yourself sick" is such patronizing trash. It's
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by nihonde 3mo ago
How brainwashed by the healthcare machine do you have to be to think that catching asymptomatic medical issues is a bad thing? The argument against is literally: - patients will worry too much, and - it will cost time and money to investiga
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by nihonde 3mo ago
"What possible use could there be for doing this?" I've encountered this attitude before, and I always find it perplexing that there are people who are annoyed by, even hostile to, the idea of frequent health telemetry. What
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by nihonde 4mo ago
Have you visited literally any city outside Japan or Singapore lately? Law and order works, whether you like it or not. They're allowed to do it their way. Results speak for themselves.
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by nihonde 4mo ago
Charges were dropped does not mean innocent. It means the investigation determined that the case wasn't worth pursuing. Japan has strict rules about importing drugs. The lack of drug abuse in Japan is one of the reasons it's not a
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by nihonde 4mo ago
As if that was ever the goal. Japan is plenty popular.
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by nihonde 4mo ago
We're not talking about the US. We're talking about Japan, where the authorities are extremely conservative and cautious. Most Japanese people know how to stay completely clear of trouble. Ask yourself why this person did not.
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by nihonde 4mo ago
This is just bias confirmation theater for a certain worldview.
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by nihonde 4mo ago
Oh, also, "Made in Japan" is a huge deal for a lot of people in Japan.
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by nihonde 4mo ago
This is almost certainly a Japanese product for Japanese people/companies who will give it to other Japanese people as a GIFT. Japan has a never-ending gifting protocol. People buy perfectly normal beer in a fancy box, to give it as a
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by nihonde 6mo ago
No one is going to get mad at you for violating these, but they will judge you. If you're trying to get along with a person from a proper Japanese family, you'll fail unless you know all of these and more. For example, placing bow
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by nihonde 7mo ago
No functional difference whatsoever. Literally the exact same solution, but somehow dressed up to be contrarian.
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by nihonde 7mo ago
If you don't have a record of questions asked/answered and rationale for decisions taken, I've noticed it's easy for subsequent feature plans to clash. Maintaining a line of consistency across each feature plan is a good
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by nihonde 7mo ago
Feature plans generated by agents are often transient documents that fall away once the plan is executed. Ideally, that artifact would be preserved alongside the implementation. My experience is that Cursor's reliance on VS Code's
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by nihonde 10mo ago
The paper focuses on math and finance—i.e., quantitative matters. It seems obvious that language models are not suitable for determinative number-crunching unless they generate a program to compute the response as an interim step.
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by nihonde 1y ago
Different CoPilot product. Typical Microsoft naming confusion.
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by nihonde 2y ago
I remember pre-Musical.ly TikTok here in Japan, and it was MUCH better then. In fact, it noticeably degraded when Musical.ly was folded in. American social media culture revolves around money and sex in a way that isn't as popular in K

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