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Comment It is not like south korea (Score 1) 82

It is not like south korea is major manufacturer of storage devices, right?
Samsung probably could find 1PB of flash memory lost between their offices cushions...
And the justification that 1PB of data was too big to back-up is completely absurd, these days this amount of data is not even that much, there are people if more than that in their servers at home, let alone a datacenter, for crying out loud, there are systems with more RAM than this in a single pod.

Comment Lunch time meetings (Score 2) 150

From the article the worst thing is lunch time meetings, I can do 8pm meetings occasionally, and even done 10pm weekly when working with asian clients, but the amount of lunch time meetings in that graph is just obscene and a very american thing, I don't think anywhere else in the world people do that, we need down time during lunch to eat properly and have some rest or even, gasp, socialize a little.
To me lunch time meetings are just unacceptable, even when working from home.

Comment Re:A datum of clickbait : (Score 1) 122

This table you pointed to refers to mining not enrichment, which is what the article refers, the link below show a breakdown of enrichment by country and russia is about 40% with US being only 11%. I recall sometime back reading that 1/3 of the fuel the US uses in its plants today come from russia.

https://thundersaidenergy.com/...

Comment Re:Be more open to immigration (Score 1) 90

That is interesting, what holds you from immigrating now? only job offers/opportunities or some other factor?
Living in the Philippines would also have the advantage of being much cheaper, at least today, who knows in 25 years, but would likely still be cheaper to live there and occasionally visit Japan than living in Japan.

Comment Re:Be more open to immigration (Score 1) 90

First I didn't say anything about poor, the point is young couples or couples with young kids, poor or not that is what they need right now, and moving and settling in would expensive no matter who you are, so money incentive would help.
Second, being poor doesn't mean they would stay poor, it is very common for immigrants to a new country to arrive with little money and build a good life by working a lot.

Comment Be more open to immigration (Score 3, Interesting) 90

The country should be more open and actively incentivize immigration, clearly the Japanese population is not interested in reproducing anymore, which is causing the demographic bomb where the old people will not have an income source of anyone to take care of them, no matter how many robots they build, so be more welcome to young outsiders, specially young couples and families with young kids, give them language courses, cultural adaptation lessons and some money to sweeten the deal, that will help, just don't make the mistake of bringing young single men, that will be worse in every way.

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