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Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto

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592 points wyclif | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.435s | source
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renewiltord ◴[23 Jun 25 15:27 UTC] No.44356764[source]▶
Beautiful. I think a lot of what makes Japan wonderful in this respect is:

* Poor economic mobility

* Individual compliance with the social contract

* Liberty to run small businesses

* Good land use laws

Perfect mobility is awful because all the capable people get to maximize earnings. The better The Sort (as patio11 calls it) the more capable people move out of doing things with high positive externalities.

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1. hapara2024 ◴[23 Jun 25 15:56 UTC] No.44357077[source]▶
what kind of conclusion are we drawing from a 2 minutes clip of a cafe here ?
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2. renewiltord ◴[23 Jun 25 19:33 UTC] No.44359226[source]▶
I am using the conversation about a cafe to discuss something that I've known for three decades. This is often the case with people. My father can diagnose a bone and joint injury in minutes and often he can guess at history. "What kind of conclusion are you drawing from five minutes of palpation?"

Not five minutes. Fifty years and five minutes.