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I don't consider culture "wholly subjective". Just somewhat subjective.

There are philistines and people who only care about Justin Bieber, and their aesthetic opinions are not equally valid to someone who is an expert on Bach.

Of course that (culture) is a human construct, but so is physics and math. Animals don't have either, and the universe doesn't care either way.
If you have an old plasterboard (or old school fibrous plaster) house that has painted walls instead of wallpaper, you will notice that there are cracks all over the walls.

The house I'm renting is one such house, and I've had the same situation in other houses. It was built in the 40's or 50's and over the past half-century, the house has sagged and stretched. Because of this, there are long cracks running across several walls.

If there was wallpaper on the walls, it would move with the house to an extent, and the cracks in the plaster behind it wouldn't be visible.
Don't most people just paper over the marble and frescoes in their houses? I know I did. ;)

I'll also point out that wallpaper goes as far back as Roman times, if this is some kind of bizarre appeal-to-tradition argument.
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It's generally too cramped to do that politely, especially if you don't have an aisle seat, they're in the middle of food and drinks, or there is a line for the bathroom. If the plane is large enough to have areas where you can stand without getting in someone else's space, the flight attendants don't let you mill about for long.
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Look, I semi-agree in the abstract. It is difficult to prove in the individual case. In the aggregate, it's not impossible to prove, if still a bit hard - this is what economics/sociology research does, and a lot of governments have statistics/open access/FOIA/etc. So we can know how often these things happen.

Specifically to the things you list - again, I don't have statistics here, but based on my gut feeling - most of them barely affect anyone. Do you really think a large amount of people are barred entry into a country because they wrote something on Twitter? I'd imagine this almost never happens, at least today.

And btw, I kind of disagree with at least some of your items, like "were you passed for promotion because you're not good enough or because your employer found out through LinkedIn that you were looking for another job last year?". This is not what we were talking about, a case in which "Google" spies on you. This is your employer "spying" on you through your (supposedly public-enough) actions on social media. Changing the place you are looking for a job for from LinkedIn to "NewLinkedIn" won't make any difference for something like this, and is not the fault or responsibility of the company.
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Absolutely, the potential of a human being, especially someone who has taken the initiative to move to another country is far more valuable, he/she can make millions over their lifetime. It's a lesson learned.
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Commercial real estate like another dimension. They make money up front based on tax and accounting games and rent. The empty strip mall with a dollar store and tae kwon do is used as a way to offset profits in other places.
I think that a big part of what has killed wallpaper is that artwork that you can hang on a wall has become much cheaper, which fulfills the purpose of breaking up the wall and making it less drab and more interesting.
Body odour is caused by the bacteria that colonize your sweat. By taking a shower just before you leave, you knock those bacteria back far enough to give you quite a few stink-free hours so that you should be able to make it through the work day.

Secondly, make sure you wear natural fabrics. Lycra and polyster and all of the artificial fabrics stink a lot worse than cotton or wool.
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This is only true if there is only one type of tax and it's non-negotiable and immutable over time.

For little people like you and me, taking rent is a simple income and forgoing it would be a simple loss. As you say, it wouldn't make any difference for our net taxes.

When you own thousands of square meters of [what will be] prime brownfield development space, leaving it unoccupied just hastens the local government to offer incentives for redevelopment. Tax, rates, planning, VAT. Even if they don't subscribe to broken window theory, an unoccupied building pays them no business rates or council tax (UK) so doing anything else is preferable to doing nothing. They'll bend over backwards to make that happen.
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But it doesn't provide anymore data to determine the answer, therefore education alone is not a valid solution.

Specific information is required to solve the problem, not general education.
I dunno, to me it makes perfect sense that you would need to convert it to a duration.

time.Second * time.Duration(userInputInt)
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Sometimes it can be better NOT to discuss with friends and family - they are much more likely to tell you what they think you want to hear in order to cheer you up.
>The explanations given by physics are not the be all end all for their needs.

If someone needs to service some kind of inner desire by making confused conjectures so be it, but let's not treat them like a sage for doing it.
The technical gap between the two is certainly large, but the US side had an average age of less that 22.5 and the French were preparing for the World Cup. I wouldn't read too much into this—or any—friendly where the goals of the two sides are so different.
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$50k is a lot for people in general, but not if you are starting a company. Especially one in another country with different laws, culture and language(s) to what you are used to.
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Even if they work at Google they can't get it.

They can and have:

"in at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In an incident this spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source."

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...
I believe you are wrong, if I am to believe my trader friend to whom I showed this thread and answered:

“Trivially true in the 'of course does behaviour of others matter' sense and
in the 'could my actions influence others'. Not necessarily operational
though.

Fine line from there to 'spoofing' (== placing trades solely with intent of
engaging others to trade at price level) -- with is VERY EXPLICITLY not
allowed and for which you can get fined and go to jail. Recall the case of
that poor SOB out of London who was made a poster boy for the flash crash?”

It seems there is regulation against this.
It's not a disconnect from reality, older people do actually feel like time is "going faster." It's a common perception that might have something to do with the fact that a year is 100% of your life when you're 1 and 1% of your life when you're 100.

There's a big stack of effects that reached all the way from SR to perception.
> If singaling would be inefficent, it would not still be such an important factor in human interaction.

That really depends.

If you avoid a bad hire 10% of the time by rejecting everyone who is late then that can be a good trade off for you even though you have rejected many great candidates. There is a significant cost to a bad hire.

On the other hand you can read a chapter of a book at your local library for free and for a minimal time investment and then decide if you want to keep reading it.

I'd rate Talebs work as significantly more influential and insightful than Pinkers although I agree with Pinker more often.
That is unfortunate, but ManFromUranus probably meant that this is very rare for today's Win users. BSOD is now more of once-in-a-year event. So claiming Windows is somehow inferior OS due to it is a bit misleading.
having been invested into a REIT which tend to have these strip malls as one type of property, the other being office space, and more.

was it built during the rush thereby incurring high land and building costs?

do they have good clients? good are grocery stores, popular chain restaurants, and such. bad are "I want to run my own coffee, cupcake, and such, stores.

So if they ended up with the less than favorable clients in order to get storefronts it does tend to lead to vacancies. that is always compounded by not having the big draw, I love grocery.
First, relax.

A company is just an entity that allows you to pay less taxes overall.

Don't worry for not having been able to start much.

Regarding all the paperwork, go to the tax office (or the relevant offices) and ask them for help. They are always willing to help. Be honest and sincere and they'll sometimes fill the stuff in your place if necessary.

One thing you can do is shift your English teaching activity to the company. That's good for your taxes.

Do not hire an accountant for anything right now. You'll lose money.

I've lived here for 22 years, had my company for 12, I'm not doing anything magic with it but it pays the bills.

Send me a mail if you want.
To your first question: this is simply the cost-of-doing-business here, driven (largely) by Japan's expectation that the company is the primary interface between a citizen and the government, and therefore the company bears responsibility for sending a licensed professional to the relevant offices approximately monthly bearing filings relevant to their employees, and this licensed professional has the opposite of economies of scale if they're taking in filings for 1 employee. (There's also a premium built into that price for service in English, which is something most accountancies in Japan can't offer in-house.)

It is not particularly expensive to incorporate a company in Japan and, while capital requirements were once in the $30k range, they're functionally $0 now. I will not speculate as to the original poster's financial circumstances.
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I conducted dozens of software evaluation and procurement rounds for a ${BIGCORP}

One of the factors that made FOSS much more promotable was a sticker-price for acquisition and / or support. The actual amount didn't matter, psychologically though it needed to show that it had 'worth'. Ifnitnwas free, the business was worried thatvit was just someone's weekend hack. If it cost $5 per user then it was great value.

Not once did anyone raise the free-rider problem when we paid for FOSS. Frankly businesses are so focused on getting stuff done internally that the fact that someone else might indirectly benefit is irrelevant.
That's an entirely different technique.

You do occasionally see it done, but registration issues (getting stencils repeatably in the same place) mean it's realistically limited to one colour and it's more skilled labour intensive.

You can also get PVC-based wallpaper, although it usually has a fibre backing for adhesion.

While googling for this I also saw reference to a "mould scare" killing previous popularity of wallpaper.
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Fully agreed. I think the privacy angle is particularly compelling, and doing on-device analytics using models that have low memory requirements and acceptable (although not academically impressive) accuracy will be the norm.

I wrote about the privacy perspective a bit:

https://adamdrake.com/scalable-machine-learning-with-fully-a...

and I recently gave a lecture more focused on the performance aspect:

https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html

The case for doing centralized data collection and model training seems to be increasingly related to corporate greed and moat-building rather than actually providing a good experience for users.
Dialects are established collectively. If I like your new word/dialect, I use it. That is the consensus.

Wars are established collectively. Nobody fights a war as an individual - always as a group. Just like language and dialects are assumed at the individual level, through collective means.

The rights of cultural groups, composed of individuals, to compose their own language, is the basis of civilisation. It is also the basis of war and that is the quandary - because it is not as dialectic as you imply (black/white).

Its a balancing act - as you have indicated. Enforce cultural mechanisms (language) through violence - war - and you will encounter resistance.

But give people the opportunity, at the individual level, to assume whatever cultural positions they may, using language, and you attain peace.
I don't know how much good advice I have, but I've been in a similar situation, so I can at least offer sympathy. I spent three years building up my translation work to get "self sponsorship" and then got dumped by the agency that was sponsoring and providing the bulk of my work. Now I'm back working in-house at a Japanese company. I don't regret having taken a shot at self employment, even if it was a little over optimistic. And at least I know what I was doing wrong. So I say just take it calmly and do what you have to do to stay here and keep working and at the end of the day it's all still forward progress.
Please, folks, think of the CPU cycles. When sending numeric data, use a binary format.

You were making so much sense up until that point. :(
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I lived in Japan for two years and I want to point out something that you've said that struck me. "I don't want my actions to reflect badly on other foreigners in Japan." This wouldn't have made any sense to me before. I found that in Japanese culture, the identity of the self is wrapped up in the role of society. You're too worried about your role, your 建て前(tatemae). This is different from the West, where individuality is celebrated.

I had to move back home and spend a lot of time with my family to be reminded that I am much more than a gaijin in Japanese society. I've been out of Japan for three years and I still think about it every day.

You may already be cognizant of this, but I wasn't, I didn't realize how it was affecting me. Do you have family or friends back home that you can talk to about your troubles? This isn't financial or business advice, this is personal advice. I know you're protecting your 建て前 but you should consider that it's just a construct, it doesn't define you, and it's not worth killing yourself over.
why do this? a girl? also begs the question on how you did get that kind of money. i could help a little on the programming stuff if thats needed.
I see dialects in the current zeitgeist changing, at rapid clip, in groups of literate people all the time. It happens in tech, with programming languages - which, face it, fundamentally all describe the same thing, just using different cultural norms.
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While I wouldn't underestimate the degree to which some people will go to avoid taxes on principle I do agree that it seems a bit farfetched to intentionally fail your business to avoid paying some tax.

I can definitely see a situation where the owner prefers to have some storefronts vacant rather than lowering the rents because they aren't sure lowering the rents would actually fill the storefronts and it might cause the other tenants to demand lower rents. Plus it might attract the wrong sort of business.
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Just using set notation doesn't make an argument precise. You are begging some questions in your definition here.

For example, how do we know that a task solves a particular problem if we can't perform static analysis on it? It may give the appearance of working and then degrade radically under certain conditions. That really matters if you're using it for safety-critical applications and the problem space is large enough that it can't be exhaustively tested.
You can’t really evaluate if it was bad or not unless you know what percentage of the total workforce was over 40 before the layoffs. The lower that number is (below 40%), the more disproportionate the action was.
Wasn't that debt dumped on the company by the firm that bought them out?
My advice is sound for anyone working as a programmer because it gives them more options. Many of those Java/C# devs are stigmatized in a mold and will have more trouble applying to jobs outside large enterprise.
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>Nobody doesn't anything altruistically. Microsoft doesn't have to either.

I nave claimed they did. That is the claim that was made, MS is "donating more time then they will ever get out" that was the claim

That is factually incorrect. They are getting more value from the Dev time they are putting into open source projects thus it is incorrect to say they are "donating" it, nor are they "giving more than they are getting" which was the comment I was replying to,

You can attempt to strawman and move the goal posts if you desire but it does not change reality
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- Corporate Real estate / Office leasing, book: “The Essential Guide to Corporate Real Estate”

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Startups/Companies looking at the corporate/office occupier market, i.e. WeWork, VTS, etc
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Riders are fraidies, though.
I believe that Nim comes with its own grep to allow this.
BBC has most likely never been non partisan though. It's just the stance it used to take was too close to the so-called neutral one, which isn't actually neutral.

No way to disagree about sensationnalism though.
Education is actually a good way.

Get 20 people in a room doing a 10 week Wednesday night Swedish class and discover over a beer afterwards that one or more of your classmates has a common interest.
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First of all you should contact TELL (Tokyo English Life Line) [1] for support. Your mental health is much more important than anything else. Money and jobs will come and go, but you need to take care of yourself first. TELL can help you with counselling, or just as someone to talk to when you are feeling down.

Japan can be very tough for founders (I founded and ran a business for 14 years there -- see bio). I was lucky that I had a co-founder, and I would urge you to find someone with whom you can work with, to share the load, to cover the tasks that you can't do, and to make the experience that much less lonely.

I wouldn't worry about what others might think of fleeing the country. Once you are away from Japan, no-one will care but you. So again, you need to ensure your own mental health whatever happens.

While I am no longer in Japan feel free to get me on Skype for a chat anytime (ID:sparkzilla).

[1]https://telljp.com/ Tel: 03-5774-0992
Did you contact a support group like TELL Japan? I don't know exactly what you want, but you should talk to someone. Look for some meetups. I don't know anything about running business either, but people say the networking is always the key.

https://telljp.com/
Good point on the fit/predict difference. However, there are some models and techniques (e.g. logistic regression with hashing trick) where the fit and predict steps aren't all that different:

https://adamdrake.com/big-data-small-machine.html

A big benefit for doing everything on-device is that a lot of privacy concerns can be mitigated. I also agree that sending data to a server for learning is an option, and the privacy problems can be addressed with something like client-side feature hashing as I mention in:

https://adamdrake.com/scalable-machine-learning-with-fully-a...

However, doing that in a very power-conscious environment dose pose difficulties with radio usage, which is comparatively power hungry. It's probably a case-by-case situation.
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Wow! That is an interesting issue.

I was thinking of having a third-party trusted services that compares the hash of the deployed application to the one they independently compiled themselves.

But the complexity is nontrivial and there is enough variations between the output of the same source code across different build environments that would make hashes useless.

Another possibility is having trusted compilers that would send link the source code to the build in a trusted repository.
I think Evan's identified a ton of problems with Postgres (at the time) that extend far beyond just the query/data pattern. Many of these problems were directly acknowledged by the PG team, which made for interesting reading: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/579795DF.10502%40....
You need a local Japanese business partner to make this work. Otherwise, stop now or go home. What type of legal entity did you open? Can you actually work for your company? Do you have the proper visa? Please provide your contact information for us to reach out. Would be happy to talk. I own a US C-Corp with a subsidiary in SE Asia. It only works because I have a local partner that I've known for 5 years that I trust.
I read that, and having never been or lived in Japan, I thought it was an odd statement to make, though I'm half-chinese, so I have some idea how important 'face' and 'shame' is in some societies. Hoping that OP reads this and your last sentence.
See if you need to get treated for ADHD. I was in a similar situation as you, and actually reaching out to a psychiatrist helped me immensely.

Years later I have a solid business, a work routine and can actually focus on holding projects and things without having allergic reactions to run after the next squirrel - and without abandoning something I have a sudden averse reaction to.
UK carts commonly have a wheel lock that engages when the cart rolls out of bounds. That stops the casual seepage of hardware. Won't work for scooters, alas.

Some also have small cash deposit (routinely spoofed with a similar-size token, but that doesn't matter, the tokens cost about the same as the coin). Maybe adding one of these and a reward prompt ("Did you park nice? Well done!")?