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Comment · 1 month 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
Comment · 2 months ago
The word for a word that describes itself is autological
Comment · 2 months ago
People are still buying German cars and Hugo Boss clothing aren’t they?
Comment · 2 months 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 individual freedoms for the greater good. This would never work in America.

Comment · 2 months 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.
Comment · 2 months 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.

Comment · 7 months ago
Because of social media, there are less teenagers hanging out at the malls. Shops close down. It forms a feedback loop
Comment · 1 year ago
Seems like better value than ScaleAI then
Comment · 1 year 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.

This perfectly describes my experience when reviewing resumes of grads from certain bootcamps. The program held their hand as evidenced by every student have a similar setup: claiming the cookie cutter 3 month CRUD white labeled webapp as work experience. Everyone on the team is a “co-founder”. Apparently all 4 people "managed a remote team of 4 developers". When you dig into the code, it’s a toy project not intended for any real users. The bulk of their "webapp" is a "case study" page with sections including "the problem", "the solutions", "What is a build a process". It seems these sections were assigned as homework. Their resume includes what things they clicked on in the AWS UI.

In fact, it seems the whole group were instructed to post on HackerNews "who is hiring" with the exact same template. That is the extent of handholding occuring in these bootcamps.

Comment · 1 year ago
Airweave is a large and established mattress brand that’s sold in department stores in Japan. You should look into that
Comment · 1 year ago
Wasn't the original mission of OpenAI being open and non-profit and all of that to avoid this corruption?
Comment · 1 year ago
So UI designers prioritize form over function as always
Comment · 1 year ago
If putting fries in the bag at McDonald’s payed half as much as being a FANG engineer, I would pick McDonald’s
Comment · 1 year 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.

Comment · 1 year ago

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