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There’s a reason Toyotas sell like hotcakes. It gets you from A-to-B reliably.

I averaged 16400 steps a day for the entire year in Japan.

I don’t think walking is weird, but the route from Shinagawa station to the immigration office is weird. I’ve walked that route. It’s an industrial area and nothing to see.

Japan would like to have a word with you

> It's a "surrender today" kind of statement

And Japan still didn’t.

It’s especially ironic when Japan is the embodiment of what the average tech person in the West purports to be ideologically offended by: nationalism ( celebration of war criminals, denialism of crimes in Pacific Theater as a hoax ) , racism ( and a racial superiority complex ), sexism ( top medical school recently found to set lower bar for male candidates ), sexual assault not being pursued by criminal justice system , animal rights, pollution ( Japan is one of the top recyclers, but everything is individually wrapped and wasteful ), cultural appropriation, classicism with remnants of feudalism, worshipping and upholding white male privilege, xenophobia ( Japan’s borders was once closed for hundreds of years. The border being restricted over the past 2 years is not surprising ), stubbornness to adapt to new technology, mega corporations controlling the narrative on “factory towns” ( visit Nagasaki and you will see the mainstream museums praise Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for its part in the industrialization of Japan, but mention of forced laborers was absent. Their lobbyist even admitted the local Japanese residents found it uncomfortable that industrialists were applying for UNESCO heritage ), hierarchy/authoritarianism, and general intolerance ( people with tattoos are not allowed into public baths. Customers will leave reviews about “dirty tattoos” if chefs accidentally didn’t cover up fully. I’ve even seen a particularly intolerant Buddhist temples that prohibited people who have tattoos or wear skirts )

> This weakness is well understood by enemies like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has done everything he can to widen those divisions and has acted geopolitically at a moment when he thought the U.S. was too weak and self-preoccupied to respond effectively.

Not a fan of Putin, and I think the polarization is real, but then this should already be obvious to anyone whose not been asleep for the past few years.

Given the domain name includes the word persuasion, such a claim needs more substantiation, elaboration or citation. This feels like a student paper without much strong arguments beyond general hand wavy sentiments on the state of the union.

Options are priced commensurate to the risk. They are traded with supply and demand. They are priced at what people think the risk/reward ratio is.

Hence, theta.

I'm literally sitting at the Apple store waiting for my newly purchased IPhone SE to sync to the cloud, opened up my laptop and saw this.

I was deliberating whether to buy the IPhone 13, but with the IPhone 14 coming out next month, the IPhone SE is a good temporary phone. It's less than half the price of the IPhone 13 Pro, so it was a no brainer.

Isn’t VSCode based on Electron?

Based on the package.json, this seems like a reskinned Monaco plus some bespoke extensions

How has that worked out for San Francisco ?

For a 1-2 bedroom apartment ?

Those prices would mean a software engineer in Europe would not even have money for rent after paying taxes, much less anything else.