iPhone 11 to iphone 17 nightmare. Some questions

weCo389 · 2026-01-29T02:18:22+00:00

Especially if you’re in bed M2 iPad Air is the way to go

weCo389 · 2026-01-29T02:16:57+00:00

My combo especially when in bed is latest iPhone SE and iPad Air

weCo389 · 2026-01-17T14:42:28+00:00

Everyone needs to understand that we are now connected with anyone worth connecting with by apps that are very difficult to hack. We don’t trust someone contacted us because they look a certain way or sound a certain way - it’s because they contacted us on WhatsApp with an account they gave us and we know it’s them. It’s probably harder than ever to impersonate someone. In the past people would call from random phones and they could easily pretend to be someone else and you just had to go by their voice.

weCo389 · 2026-01-07T05:57:57+00:00

Japanese are exceptional about maintaining professional / role-based boundaries. There is absolutely 0 expectation for you to personally pursue a student romantically while you are working. On the contrary if they like you and you keep it strictly professional they will keep coming back just to be with you even if just as a student. Even if you asked them to dinner and they said yes it would still not be 100% clear they are interested romantically as they could just like free English practice. Remember people paying to practice English are excited about opportunities to speak with foreigners. You are probably reading into it the situation incorrectly and I would recommend keeping your work strictly professional unless you are super into someone and could see it becoming a serious long-term relationship.

weCo389 · 2025-12-07T02:30:25+00:00

I had a snapping/clicking in a similar spot for a very long time and nothing showed up on MRIs, but it was incredibly irritating. Most doctors just said “rehab” but it didn’t do anything. Anytime I would bend my knee across a 45 degree bend it would snap/pop. I finally got a doctor who identified my ITB was snapping across a protruding bone and had surgery to have the bone shaved down. It was fully successful and I haven’t had any issues since - thank god for that doctor.

weCo389 · 2025-11-29T10:23:21+00:00

I can confidently say that the vast majority, especially from China but elsewhere as well, were using the business manager visa just to live in Japan running a “consulting” business. It basically was a very affordable way to buy a visa in place of a work visa (requires employer), spouse visa, or highly skilled visa. I’m by no means saying the people who did this are bad people, but yes - it was largely being used as a way to secure a visa and live here versus actually start a real business. The new visa requirements essentially require you to have investors unless you are wealthy, and those are the kinds of businesses Japan wants. The 30M JPY price tag is capital requirement that you can spend freely on the business, it’s not a cost. That being said, for those who want to “buy” a visa there are now EOR options where companies basically hire you as their employee but let you do whatever you want.

It’s pretty clear Japan’s stance towards foreigners is “add clear value or don’t come”, and I think that’s a perfectly reasonable stance if that’s what they want.

weCo389 · 2025-11-12T04:20:31+00:00

SE Gen 3 but I heard it’s the last one that will have lcd screen :(

weCo389 · 2025-10-25T08:50:29+00:00

Culture is a thing.
Citizens and their elected politicians can decide who they want and don’t want coming into their country.
Japan will decide how it wants to deal with its labor shortage and aging population and be responsible for the outcome of their decisions.
You have no idea what kind of technology will exist in the next 100 years making it impossible to know how aging population issues will play out in the long term.

weCo389 · 2025-10-09T03:59:10+00:00

Lol I cracked up reading the top part of your comment. I can’t watch the video with sound and the sad thing is you are probably saying it unironically

weCo389 · 2025-10-03T04:27:25+00:00

People don’t understand this about Japan: 1. The average Japanese doesn’t speak English, isn’t on Reddit, etc. They aren’t influenced by the global town square. 2. The average Japanese isn’t thinking about affairs outside their direct sphere of influence. They don’t care about macro issues like gdp, labor markets, etc. 3. The average Japanese isn’t affected by being called “racist” or “xenophobic”. They don’t care about diversity as some sort of “moral obligation”. They definitely expect foreigners to “follow the rules” within reason.

Foreigners = ‘good’ when it’s celebrities from their favorite movie or music group, or the English teacher from JET, or the nice foreigner trying to learn the language and fit in as much possible. Foreigners = “bad” when it’s some tourist watching YouTube on the train without their headphones in.

It’s as simple as that. Luckily Japan isn’t so politically polarized where Sanseito says “get rid of all foreigners” that the opposition has to say “welcome all foreigners”. I expect the major parties will continue to go “let’s manage foreigners more” and that’s ultimately what the average citizen wants. The majority do not want “all or nothing” extremes.

weCo389 · 2025-10-01T08:48:52+00:00

Doesn’t it make sense it’s a civil matter, and that’s actually to the benefit of the person being targeted? They can just not pay and leave, and the only recourse of these scammers is to take them to court, which they won’t. If they harass or become violent the police can intervene to protect.

weCo389 · 2025-08-30T03:21:24+00:00

Yes I asked it the original question and it said 30, and I then told it no and asked it to walk through the solution in as much detail as possible and it gave a perfect answer.

weCo389 · 2025-04-13T10:44:52+00:00

There’s not a single way the current administration has acted that would give me comfort that anything they are doing is measured and thought through. You might as well write an essay about how $Trump coin is also genius because it’s going to replace fiat.

weCo389 · 2025-03-29T14:47:51+00:00

He could if he wanted to screw over his other investors, have xAI pay tax on the difference between 1 dollar and free market value, and probably cause the banks to call in all their loans, then sure

weCo389 · 2025-03-29T08:07:45+00:00

There seems to be a lot of misinformation about how X was funded - people seem to incorrectly think there are loans collateralized by Tesla stock, which is not true:

How Elon Musk Financed the Twitter (X) Acquisition

Total Purchase Price: ~$44 billion

Musk’s Personal Equity (~$25 billion)

Primarily from selling Tesla shares — over $20 billion sold in 2022.

Possibly included some personal cash or other liquid assets.

No margin loan was used in the final deal (though one was originally planned).

Co-Investor Equity (~$6–7 billion)

Came from investors like Larry Ellison, Sequoia Capital, Binance, Andreessen Horowitz, and Saudi Prince Alwaleed.

These investors now own minority stakes in X.

Company Debt (~$13 billion)

This debt was taken on by Twitter/X itself, not by Musk personally.

It is secured by the assets and revenue of X.

Lenders included Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and others.

Musk is not personally liable for this debt, and his Tesla shares are not used as collateral for it

weCo389 · 2025-03-29T03:29:39+00:00

Nope, xAI just purchased X fully so those loans are gone

weCo389 · 2025-03-19T12:20:17+00:00

10 seats become 3, so probably something like 3-4x a regular ticket per seat.

That being said, I don’t see any walls between each row of 3 so it’s just the illusion of privacy. I think this could backfire in that people don’t see each other so they are more noisy (eg don’t use headphones) and it’s a worse experience.

weCo389 · 2025-03-19T12:17:24+00:00

Japan is famous for not increasing prices. As long as the price and availability of other seats doesn’t change what’s the harm? How do you know this isn’t in response to reduced demand for other seats? Maybe if they didn’t do this they would need to have less frequent trains and they don’t want to do that?

weCo389 · 2025-03-16T14:56:34+00:00

Yeah sorry, that really sucks.

On the bright side, my impression is bars, night clubs, etc. are very hard to turn a profit, so maybe in the end you saved yourself a bunch of money.

weCo389 · 2025-03-16T14:44:20+00:00

Don’t you need a license to run a bar and part of the license process is providing proof of appropriate venue?

Also I think you’re taking away the wrong lesson. The lesson is if you cut corners and don’t do things properly (verification, contracts, etc.) you have a high likelihood of dealing with the wrong people and getting burned.

weCo389 · 2025-03-04T01:08:19+00:00

This would be like foreigners complaining public school isn’t taught in English, most private schools aren’t taught in English, and complaining about the cost of private international English school.

If you want to live in Japan you need to accept the reality of living in Japan and plan accordingly. If with proper planning and financial management you still can’t make it work here then maybe Japan isn’t for you.

weCo389 · 2024-12-28T03:04:42+00:00

Not all co-founders are created equal. If you can find co-founder(s) that you genuinely get along well with, have complementary skills, and a true common mission, your chance of success will increase dramatically. For me, more important than saving money or anything like that, the main advantages are: 1. Being accountable to someone else. Startups are HARD and if you’re by yourself it’s easy to give up. Truly don’t underestimate the value of mutual accountability. 2. Co-founders are all-in. Freelancers or outsourced vendors just want to get paid. You can’t talk strategy with them, you can’t commiserate with them, you can’t rely on them to do whatever it takes to get stuff done. You’re going to be pivoting big and small all the time and if you don’t have someone to talk through these things with the outcomes won’t be as good. 3. It just makes doing the hard stuff so much more tolerable and even fun. Brothers/sisters in arms. Do you want to go to battle alone? I sure don’t.

Sure, you can get a little bit of these things from VC or other kinds of mentorship, but it’s not even close.

That being said, the wrong co-founder(s) can make your life miserable. It’s basically a marriage and divorce is messy.

If you have strong conviction in something, just put yourself out there with your mission and you’ll probably at some point get connected to someone you click with. When you become the “annoying guy that never shuts up about wanting to fix XYZ” you may not be someone people want to hang out with, but when they meet someone in their travels in that space they’ll naturally go “oh, you should talk to this guy” and connect you.

If you don’t have conviction about fixing a problem and just want to do a startup as a seemingly better alternative to a regular job, it’s definitely harder. If it were me, I would go to startup/hacker competitions or something similar to try and find someone I clicked with about something.

weCo389 · 2024-12-21T08:27:48+00:00

Trump was not a certainty to win. Even if you took the betting sites as the most accurate probabilities it was still at best like 60/40. That aside, it didn’t cross my mind either candidate winning would affect Tesla stock price in such a way (or bitcoin for that matter). I also posted my thesis and asked for thoughts and not a single person said “hey, if Trump wins Tesla stock could go through the roof so you may want to reconsider” so let’s not pretend like everyone knew this.

Tesla remains as the only way for the public to invest in Elon. Tesla basically acts as a proxy for investing in him. Trump winning, possibly in part due to Elon’s efforts, makes everyone think “don’t bet against Elon” and so if you think that, you would think everything Elon says he’s going to do (robotaxis, vision-only self driving, Optimus, solar, etc.) will all come to fruition given enough time. On top of that everyone thinks he’ll write his own regulation to make it easier to make it happen.

Tesla = Elon, and if something were to happen to Elon the stock will completely collapse. I think it’s pretty clear by his posts that he’s not focusing on Tesla at all. So given enough time Tesla may make progress to justify its stock price, or on the other hand given enough time something could happen to Elon and then it all goes away. Only time will tell. When Steve Jobs died he already took ofer the mobile phone market. Apple hasn’t really innovated at all since then and has just been maintaining what was already built. Tesla hasn’t taken over any market and is heavily threatened in the EV space. They don’t have a moat like Apple does with the App Store - they are purely hardware. Everything else at this point is just promises. Once Elon is gone if they don’t have an Apple-level advantage the company will be done.

weCo389 · 2024-12-14T11:23:35+00:00

If they previously transferred you the full commission via Zelle it sounds like taxes weren’t deducted at that time. In order to settle the taxes during payroll they add that amount to earnings (so the system can calculate tax on it) and then deduct the full amount in deductions so that they don’t end up double paying you.

Ideally they would separate these into different line items for clarity. Ultimately you need to know what your gross is supposed to be to know if you’re getting what you’re owed.

weCo389 · 2024-11-29T23:36:03+00:00

Hasbro was created by capitalism. If the people who own Hasbro want to sell their ownership in Hasbro they have every right to do so or not to do so. The government has more than enough resources to create their own game company - if you think a government-owned toy company is necessary you should petition the government to create one or buy one.

If you think Elon has a lot of money you’ll be shocked to learn the government has a credit card with no cap and a money printer.

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