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This just seems like pure racism to me. I spent 2 weeks in Japan recently, and I took all kinds of trains, from the Shinkansen, to Tokyo metro to random local trains. In various cities and towns. I am, and I look white af. Not even remotely Japanese or even Asian. Not once on my trip did Japanese people "avoid" me or leave an empty seat between us. In fact some of them even slept on my shoulder! The only time there were empty seats was when only a few people were on the train and everyone naturally spreads out.

The only difference I can tell between myself and this guy, is that he's black and I'm white. But we are both distinctly non-Japanese. So again, it just seems like racism to me. I'd be glad to hear why that is not the case though. Let me know what you think.
Do you ride Bart?

You're going from a local commute to bart -> walking to the office, to a local commute to bart -> going to a station that is skipped by 3/4 of bart lines (ie requires an xfer for Antioch, Pleasanton, or Fremont) -> a shitty bus. NB: Bart is ass and generally is too incompetent to align train and bus schedules.

This adds probably at least 45 minutes each way for anyone coming from SF or East Bay locations and using public transit. It's an enormous downgrade.
The East Asian ABCC11 allele results in less spontaneous body odor, but exactly because of that many people of East Asian descent, particularly those in East Asia, bathe less often than Americans.

You know who also enjoy reduced apocrine secretions? Old people. But there's a definite musk to old people, very much like the musk of a bunch of younger non-sweaty people on their second or third day (or longer) since showering.

But I wouldn't not sit next to somebody because of that; certainly not in the expectation that I might smell something. (Although certainly I've wished I hadn't sat somewhere because of this.) I find it difficult to believe that even the Japanese would do this, even for a black foreigner[1]. More likely their aversion is more general and non-specific. It takes effort to be that racist, considering the circumstance (crowded train) and prevalence (everybody for years, so like thousands of people; and an experience shared with many other American expats).

Anyhow, being "racist" isn't like some mark of Cain. As you imply, we're all racially prejudiced and all have shared experiences of being prejudiced, which is why I feel I can confidently make some assumptions and draw some inferences despite not being Japanese or having lived in Japan. And the author is pretty clear that he's in a state of perpetually "making peace" with the situation, which is basically a way of saying that though he holds some very strongly held beliefs about the way people should behave, and some visceral feelings about the way he's treated, he's nonetheless aware of the reality of the situation, that these people aren't trying to be mean, and that he recognizes an unresolved moral quandary by judging them and their culture.

[1] I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most blacks in Japan are American, not from Africa, and therefore much more likely to be daily bathers who use deodorant. Which means it's very unlikely he actually has a strong odor, and far more likely people assume he might based on a stereotype, to the extent they're assuming anything specific at all.
I commute by public transit from Oakland to Mountain View every day, so claiming elimination is a bit extreme.
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Yeah it's working perfect as of now.
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> But there must be something illegal about the mismatch between where most employees are located and the hq location.

How would that be illegal? Employers can't tell employees where to live, and a law that told them to do that is insane, even compared to other crazy laws of the Bay Area.
Japan is also definitely not a monoracial country - people are ignoring for example the Ainu people.
Only if you're treated worse. Which in many places you are not. But you're still not a local.
As far as I can tell, this claim is completely false. Do you have a source for this claim?
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By "cannot compel you to translate," you mean "must not compel" or "should not compel," because an entity that controls 11 aircraft carriers can compel you to translate whatever the hell they want you to.
I can't speak to actual performance impact. I saw people flame Safari, then Chrome about the change. I was waiting to see how everything settled out for my own use case and switch browsers as needed.

> (and I still get tons of in-app ads)

I'm pretty sure that's expected. 1Blocker's FAQ says it won't work with most third party iOS apps like Chrome.

I'm sure usage varies and I'm glad Firefox works well for you. I have Firefox 70 hidden with about 7 windows and 40 tabs (total) and Activity Monitor points to it as the highest energy suck bouncing between 15-20 of whatever units this measures--in line with CPU usage. I only installed uBlock Origin last night for Firefox. I use it mostly for work stuff which generally doesn't have ads. Chrome, where I'm typing this is about 1/3 to 1/2 the usage (and it's not hidden).

I was hoping for more of an improvement from Firefox. Historically, using Chrome or Safari will get me literally hours longer between charging.
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> "If you don't like persecution of gays, stay out of Nigeria." "If you think women should be able to drive, stay out of Saudi Arabia." (recently changed)

I mean... yes? I cannot recommend living in either country as a member of one of those groups. Nor can I really understand the egocentric view that if you voluntarily choose to move to a new country that country's culture should change as to be comfortable for you.
I doubt the wages are going to be appreciably different in South San Francisco. Office rents is probably one reason, but the gross receipts tax is almost certainly the biggest reason for the move.
Good point. Many folks will be reading the Chinese names in Cantonese.
You’re really clinging to your “he’s too wide” rationale. Read the article. He’s subject to racism. It’s okay for him to comment on that, and the response over time should be that a society better upholds the idea that each human is equal.

But I’m sure you’re still convinced it’s something to do with the width of the seats.

Only on HN. Honestly.
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My partner and I are now treating anyone who feels bad in response to something that isn't harmful as suffering an emotional flashback from unhealed Complex PTSD. We're doing this because most cultures in America, not to mention most systems, are denying some universal need. The chronic denial of a need is traumatizing and can be something adults without ACEs can easily experience by simply not knowing something is a need or not knowing how to meet it.

Here's a list of universal needs I tend to refer to: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

Here's a list my friends are building: http://www.learnyourneeds.com

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_post-traumatic_stres...
I'd say that's an exaggeration. I know tons of people who commute from the city to south bay and vice versa. Plus South SF is pretty well connected by transit.
As time goes on, StackExchange is becoming less concerned about what their users desire, and less concerned about meta in general. I hope Monica is vindicated, but I expect StackExchange will continue down this unfortunate path. To my knowledge, there are no decent alternatives to what StackExchange offers.
FWIW I live in Japan and I get uneasy around foreigners. And I'd be especially uneasy around folks from my home country!

> experience prejudice regarding your race

I think it might be more about culture than race. Race is a good proxy for "not Japanese". While Japan is not 100% ethnically uniform, if someone doesn't look Japanese they are most likely not Japanese.

When I see a foreigner I don't know if they've been in Japan long enough to share the same values, respect the culture, and the rules. Can I trust them the same way I trust the Japanese? Japanese have earned my trust over time. And spending time in Japan has changed me.

But a foreigner?! I don't know where are they from. I don't know what their country is like and I don't know what they are they like.

Japan is probably the safest place in the world (maybe Singapore can compete? But it's so tiny it's not fair competition). The rest of the world feels like a jungle. Full of wonder, yes, but also full of unknown dangers :)
Yes, to a very large extent
Yeah. Salesforce probably has north of 50% margins. Eating 1% is annoying but livable. A Square or Stripe type business probably has under 5% margins, making this a tax of 10 to 20 percent of profit.
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Why not move out of the bay area entirely. There are plenty of cities in the United States that do not actively antagonize technology businesses.
This kind of tag dispatch to disambiguate is really clever. I never thought of disambiguating based on the conversion of the tag.

Edit: I have probably seen it in concepts lite though, I just forgot about it.
Worse than that: Even after the plane was basically grounded by all other significant regulators, FAA was made to take a show flight on board the aircraft, and Trump directly discussed the matter with the company. Grounding was then announced by Trump. Didn't exactly give confidence of FAA acting independently.
"The price at the pump was more than $4 a gallon in Vista, Calif., when Scott Hissem recently embarked on a trip to Texas [...] Gasoline cost just $2 and change. The gap has Mr. Hissem considering a move to escape California's high cost of living."

Texans have noticed that people arrive from California, and then start voting to turn Texas into California. There seems to be no awareness of the connection between policy and the cost of living.
Before claiming incompetence consider there are at least 23 different transit agencies in the Bay Area BART has to coordinate with. Yes, we need a system that integrates seamlessly (I personally feel it, I ride BART from Oakland to Caltrain in Mountain View 10-12 times a week). But blaming BART alone for this problem misses the root cause: fragmented transit operators. We need a lead or unified agency like the MTA in NYC or WMATA in DC.
I assume they'll also run commuter shuttles like Genetech.
Fahrenheit 451, good movie about that. I just found out Amazon owns Goodreads. They also own IMDB.
I suppose it’s ironic that Israel is a strong CCP supporter.
Way back in the day, I was curious if my TomTom (like generation 1 or 2) would work on a normal flight. Then one day when travel from Durban To Johannesburg (South Africa) I took it out of my bag and switched it on and was amazed to see we were travelling over 700km/h
That's not sorting, that's sorting distinct integers, which is a different problem.

That's like saying multiplication can't have any lower bound because multiplying by zero is O(1).
Width? Don’t make me laugh. It’s racism. Call it what it is. So we can pause, to allow improvement and to better uphold the idea that people are equal.

This kind of avoidance and apologizing of racism are what plant the seeds of xenophobic ideologies.
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USB stick... I'm sure it'll work out great. What if you have to give it up with a gun to your head?

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Many of them are talented technical people that will have no problem avoiding government backdoors in commercial software and hardware products
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Hand wavy as heck.

Then you meander. Not sure what you're responding to.
You cannot claim that people in NY State and California are oppressed, since their revealed preferences show them wanting to remain part of the federation. If people were unhappy with the current structure, you would see large and vibrant independence movements, whereas in actual fact those movements are a tiny fringe.

Despite its many problems, the US is one of the most prosperous, peaceful, and stable regions in the history of the world.

Without the Senate, the US simply wouldn’t exist (the smaller states wouldn’t have agreed to it), and North America would by now be a few dozen independent, competing, conflicting countries. It’s hard to imagine how that would be more stable than the current situation.

By the way, larger groups agreeing to give disproportionate power to smaller groups, in order to keep their union or federation together, happens all the time. Examples off the top of my head include Canada (where Quebec is massively overrepresented in the federal parliament), the UK (where England is the only constituent entity without its own legislature), Bosnia (whose three main ethnic groups split the Presidency equally despite having 50%/30%/15% of the population), and I’m sure there are many other examples...

The Bosnian example is particularly forceful, as this superficially “unfair” deal ended the bloodiest war in European history since WW2, in which more than 100,000 people died.
The gross receipts tax was ridiculously misguided and is going to cause irreparable harm to the city's economy if not fixed. Square and other FinTech companies are most definitely next.
I'm surprised to not see any current Stripe employees in here commenting on the move. Usually you'd see one of The Brothers Collison in a HN Stripe thread.

As a former Stripe (ex-Stripe?), I do buy the story of running out of room. That office is lovely, but they keep growing on a pretty steep curve, and the floors weren't as dense in there as you might imagine. Decidedly cool interior design tho!
> While I can not think a single good reason why the bars should move.

It’s cheaper to build?
Is that form of racism still bad if it's culturally accepted? There are places in the world where it is not only culturally but legally encoded that non-natives are second class citizens. Should those places be denied the opportunity to self-determine that policy?
I don't think the threats from people "going dark" justify weakening encryption. The potential for abuse is too real and there are already a lot of instances when governmental actors have acted in bad faith.

The text I would consider manipulative with its references of a terrorist bombing. State actors suppressing dissent isn't mentioned at all.

It is not a black and white issue, but in most parts of the world, people would benefit from strengthening encryption even further. And I don't see that changing anytime soon.
I wonder if this could be used for energy storage...
Why the fsck does the CFO get involved in what should be an engineering decision ? Why does he even get a say in it ?
I wouldn't read too much into that tweet.
Yes, since Sandy Bridge (2011) each new generation of Intel CPUs brought a single digit percent increase in single-thread performance only.
Doesn't Stripe have remote workers?
You are using the word literally wrong, and I neither said nor implied he wasn’t entitled to do anything. I said being him must be unpleasant, to spend so long obsessing over tiny slights.

If your travels have left you an American cultural imperialist that’s cool. I’m personally comfortable with a great deal more diversity on the basis that foreign intervention is usually a total clusterfuck but if you think Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya or other American imperial adventures are successes we’re all entitled to our own opinions, if not our own facts.
Newsom tweeting in outrage at rising gas prices soon after signing gas tax hikes is interesting. Aren’t higher gas prices good for the environment and one of the reasons voters wanted him?
We should let people that brave it, comment on it without being told they shouldn’t be there by people who aren’t there.

Commenting on it is critical. Commentary can spark a change in ideas and attitudes for the better.

HN crowd always go to the pragmatic.

But what about big ideas? Big change? Can we support people that are pursuing that without zooming immediately into technicalities?

Probably not. But I hope.
Perhaps I chose my words poorly; I very much enjoyed reading it, and would strongly recommend it to anyone.
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Nitpick. On a local Git they could've reproduced it with actual dates and names.
Or you know they could move to a much more accessible and cheaper city like Oakland
Added a character to clarify.
I have a credit card that gives me 1.5% cash back on every transaction. I'm reading that Visa typically charges 2.3% to merchants, and Stripe charges 2.9%, ignoring per-transaction fees. So Stripe itself probably gets around 0.6% of each transaction, and at least on average 1% of each transaction goes to cardholder bonuses, and the card issuer gets around 1.3%. Of course both Stripe and the issuer have some fraud prevention built-in, I don't know how much that amounts to (and how much more effective China is at combating fraud, though it's possible WeChat simply doesn't accept as much liability as American payment processors do.)
The law has you pay taxes of 1% of gross revenue * percentage of global employees working in an SF office. Even if the headquarters moved (and I'd guess it is already a Delaware registered company legally), they'd still have to pay.
Non-paywall version via MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/rising-california-ga...
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But it is how authentication works in the real world.
It is definitely acceptable to comment on his experience -- and I think it was a fascinating read -- but I'm mostly reacting to the idea that accepting it as a facet of Japanese society is normalizing racism.
Actually it is in San Mateo county. Wikipedia: "the airport is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco, despite it being located in San Mateo County."
It seems like raising prices from 2.9% to 2.93% would cover the tax. (I assume they don't want to go to 3% because that looks like a huge jump.) The real question in my mind is why does Stripe bother to exist if they're barely breaking even.
Using an iPad as a Cintiq-like touchscreen for macOS is a feature that I've wanted for years as something that should "just work" out of the box as a built-in feature. I've been greatly dissatisfied with third-party solutions and their annoying drawbacks such as subscription pricing (AstroPad, Duet), hardware dongles (Luna), and a generally poor user experience (all of them.)

Sidecar is a breath of fresh air, and I hope Apple will extend it to work from Mac to Mac, much like the old Target Display mode which was unfortunately dropped from the iMac 5K. Note that iPads/iPhones have also been able to send video to macOS via QuickTime Player for years, but it is a bit clunky if you just want to use the Mac display as a mirrored iOS display.
Andrew Tridgell once said "you never need an excuse to rewrite something".

But I usually append that quote with "but then again, you're not Tridge" :)

Kernighan and Plauger said "don't patch bad code: rewrite it". That is definitely true. And there's a lot of bad code.
It doesn’t miss that...it actually says it wasn’t a big factor (though take with grain of salt). I can buy that they needed more space, and that it would be cheaper there then elsewhere.
Amazon needs to cut down on the number of products on its site for me to use it consistently again. It's ridiculous how searching for "spatula" returns 400 pages of results, all of them near identical (many are actually identical), but almost all of them sold by sellers named by nearly random strings of characters.

I ended up just buying most of what I needed at local big box stores. If it's more expensive, it's not by much (I didn't price check every random $5 utensil I bought), it's a lot less overwhelming, and I feel a lot less need to think about things like material safety from effectively anonymous sellers under Chinese jurisdiction on Amazon.
Perhaps there is more to life than consumption.
I remember that stuff. Passing look at the financials would tell you it was all bullshit. Tesla had enough cash to keep eating their losses for another two years. Making money on unit sales. And had a couple hundred thousand preorders.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
Pretty sure that's only for the current device, not for the account.
My travels have left me as an anti American cultural imperialist. Liberal capitalism destroys cultural diversity and replaces unique traditions with cheap mass product.
I was thinking about this subject today. If the US has laws that prohibit legitimate encryption and other countries do not... Is it fair to suggest that we are making ourselves easy targets to foreign nations who wish to practice privacy violations?

I don’t think about encryption as a method to protect myself from the US government (only) but from any entity that is local or foreign. I think everyone should have the right to privacy. To me this is more important than the right to guns. And no not because I want to have illegal content, I just want to keep my information secure from people who don’t have a right to my privacy.

What am I missing? Should we give up our rights because there are people who break the law? Aren’t they going to continue to break the law anyways? Including using encryption.

This is like CAPTCHAs. Punishing the majority for the crimes of a very tiny minority.

Is this really the only way to catch people who do illegal things or is this just the laziest way to do it?
Low margin, high volume.
I see this type of attitude applied to non western countries a lot and I never understood it. It also bothers me a great deal.

I’m ethnically Chinese but have lived in either the US or Canada for most of my life. I’ve been the beneficiary to the changing attitude towards minorities here and have seen how things have changed for the better in my time here.

Imagine if the pervasive attitude has been “You are being discriminated against? So what, life is good here. You are never going to be Canadian / American. If you don’t like it go back to where you came from.”
Perhaps, but the discrimination one feels living in Japan is more about the sum total of a bunch of separately innocent actions that, taken together, feel kind of crappy.

I've lived in Japan for about ten years now and certainly sympathize with the author. It's a great place to live, but there are still things that just plain suck about it, too.

It's kind of like this. Imagine, if every time you started a conversation with someone they, just once, wrinkled their nose. If it happened a single time, you might not even notice it, and even if you did it's not really a big deal.

However, after it happens day in and day out with pretty much every person you interact with, it's easy to start doubting yourself, "Am I making a weird face, too? Do I stink? Am I the one causing this for some reason? What's going on?"

The same sort of thing happens with the empty seat. It's relatively harmless as an individual instance. However, after it happens a thousand times, after having anything you share get interpreted, for the thousandth time, as a This Country vs Your Country Compare and Contrast session, after getting ignored in favor of people trying out their English on you for the thousandth time, then it just gets a litte exhausting.

Any of those things is fine in isolation, but the straw that broke the camel's back is the same as the million that didn't.
the current price of petrol in the use equates to about .98c a liter Australian.

We currently pay about $1.46 a liter....

so cry me a river US... you get it cheap.