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

The word for a word that describes itself is autological

Is the word "nonautological" autological ?

People are still buying German cars and Hugo Boss clothing aren’t they?

Germany made it illegal to display Nazi symbols and espouse their beliefs. (And hung a few.)

A bit of a lesson learned, in part, from not spanking the Confederacy's leadership enough.

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.

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.

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.

Because of social media, there are less teenagers hanging out at the malls. Shops close down. It forms a feedback loop

Well they’re also closing down because most people buy the vast majority of their stuff online now.

Seems like better value than ScaleAI then

> 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.

Airweave is a large and established mattress brand that’s sold in department stores in Japan. You should look into that