Way easier: buy a projector, use your ceiling as the screen, lie in your bed.
Readit Newsbrandonheato commented on Uber's Failure in Japan disruptingjapan.com/how-u... · Posted by u/jmadsen
Taxis are about 20% (rough estimate) cheaper than Uber in Japan. That, plus the already mentioned abundance and good quality of service of taxis in Japan (as well as the ease of booking one through phone/internet/mobile apps), leaves no real reason for most people to use Uber in my opinion.
brandonheato commented on Raw footage of the Japanese games industry gamasutra.com/blogs/JohnS... · Posted by u/Mauricio_
Am totally awed by the devotion and passion of Toru Hidaka.
brandonheato commented on Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos finda.photo/#v2... · Posted by u/davidbarker
Why not just use flickr? A search for images with "No known copyright restrictions" returned 663,502 results.
https://www.flickr.com/search/?license=7%2C9%2C10&text=&adva...
brandonheato commented on 50% of Japanese surveyed have not had sex in the past month bloomberg.com/politics/ar... · Posted by u/jrambos
You criticize the methodology by citing anecdotal evidence. That's worse.
Also it doesn't explain the correlation with the recession.
I only criticized the title of the HN post, because it differs from what what was written in the article.
What followed was what I observed from my personal experiences, and I did not say that my personal experiences necessary reflect the state of the whole of Japan, nor vice versa, or prove this article false. These are just my personal observations, which happen to be the opposite of what was stated in the article.
Also, in addition to the very small sample set (3000 out of millions, even if we are just considering the age group mentioned), it also provides little to no detail of the sample selected (location, marital status etc). IMHO this is article seems sensationalist to me, or just bad journalism (no links to concrete sources or data).
brandonheato commented on 50% of Japanese surveyed have not had sex in the past month bloomberg.com/politics/ar... · Posted by u/jrambos
How old are you?
Turning 32 this year.
brandonheato commented on 50% of Japanese surveyed have not had sex in the past month bloomberg.com/politics/ar... · Posted by u/jrambos
Can I guess that you are a tech yuppie, whose social circle consists mostly of other tech yuppies? Most people around the world are not tech yuppies in a recession. Try asking a dropout or a convenience store clerk about the sex they're having and you might get a less outrageous answer.
I'm an engineer but my social circle is mostly made up of people who are not in web/tech, and from all kinds of industries (marketing, finance, medical, real-estate, business owners, etc). So this definitely does not (just) apply to the tech industry.
brandonheato commented on 50% of Japanese surveyed have not had sex in the past month bloomberg.com/politics/ar... · Posted by u/jrambos
The title on HN is downright misleading. "... the Japan Family Planning Association interviewed 3,000 subjects, both male and female, about their sex lives."
Those aren't couples, they're just random men and women from what I understand this text.
Also, I have lived in Japan for the past 5 years and around me at least a lot of people are (very) sexually active, in fact, too active, or too casual usually. Most guys date multiple girls/have multiple sex friends, and even if they're married or in a relationship, many have sex partners other than their girlfriend/spouse.
Despite the misleading title, I wouldn't be surprised if couples reply that they haven't have sex with each other for the past month and were telling the truth (because they're too busy having sex with other partners).
Still, I honestly don’t understand why this is the hill people want to die on, what they feel most betrayed about. Like I haven’t seen some people this upset since Firefly was canceled.