ren kuroda

In Japan since 1994. Wall street, angel funding start-ups, silly hobbies.

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

https://t.co/BU4jf0dDlT

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Japanese 7-Eleven convenience stores are going to start selling a Philly Cheesesteak-inspired sandwich starting on May 6th.
They will be sold for 430 yen (less than $3).

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

Be my Pikmin friend!

一緒にPikmin Bloomをプレイしましょう！私のフレンドコードは 251160389649

アカウントを作成するときに招待コードYHPBJOCTKを入力すると特典を受け取ることもできます！ https://t.co/FQPy6wG840

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@kabinure @EmpowerToday The Personal Capital free dashboard was awesome. What are my alternatives?

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

🤔 @EmpowerToday bought Personal Capital; requires 2FA via call / SMS …only I never gave my cell
in first place. Should probably check before you require me to receive an sms that you cannot send? #fail how likely am I to convert to paying customer when I can’t even login? 😟

[Washingtons ghost @washghost1]

Second one would have had me mad too

[Legal Mindset @TheLegalMindset]

Today could not have gone worse for Johnny Somali (aka Ramsey Khalid Ismael) in his trial in South Korea

> Prosecutors refused to drop the deepfake charges and ignored his unoffical "settlement" with Korean streamer Yongman or attempts to blame Bong Bong

> The Judge and court were offended by his attempt to blame Korean culture for his actions, stating they are acceptable in the United States

> His "not apology" apology focused only on his ignorance of the consequences, and trying to claim innocence because the victim (BongBong) was not charged. Tried to claim the laws were unfair, neither the Judge nor Prosecutor liked this argument.

> Prosecutors recommended 3 years prison time WITH MANUAL LABOR, the maximum fine, and offical sex offender registration

> The Judge set the official sentencing date two months out, instead of the typical 2 weeks, extending the painful waiting process (process is the punishment)

This is the FO part of FAFO for Ramsey Khalid Ismael.

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@dadsweb67 lol the persistence of bosozoku riding around noisily and JK hanging on the streets of kabukicho would seem to indicate that it is definitely not just a western thing

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@AddenoidalHonk @ninja_padrino What? Nah man them pies is loaded

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@ninja_padrino Pizza bar is good but not worth the hype / cost. There is better for less.
Add taproom in Nakameg and the old standby Freys in Roppongi.
Also maybe NIM’s in Jyuban if you’re gonna include slice in Hiroo.

[hiroshi @daddynohara]

> be me, applied scientist at amazon
> spend 6 months building ML model that actually works
> ready to ship
> manager asks "but does it Dive Deep?"
> show him 37 pages of technical documentation
> "that's great anon, but what about Customer Obsession?"
> model literally convinces customers to buy more stuff they don't need
> "okay but are you thinking Big Enough?"
> mfw I am literally increasing sales
> okay lets ship it
> PM says there's not enough Disagree and Commit
> we need to disagree about something
> team spends 2 hours debating whether the config file should be YAML or JSON
> engineering insists on XML "for backwards compatibility"
> what backwards compatibility, this is a new service
> doesn't matter, we disagree and commit to XML
> finally get approval to deploy
> "make sure you're frugal with the compute costs"
> model runs on a potato, costs $2/month
> finance still wants a cost breakdown
> write 6-pager about why we need $2/month
> include bar raiser in the review
> bar raiser asks "but can we do it for $1.50? we need to be Frugal"
> spend another month optimizing to hit $1.50
> ready to deploy again
> VP decides we need to "Invent and Simplify"
> requests we rebuild the entire thing using a new framework
> framework doesn't exist yet
> "show some Ownership and build it yourself"
> 3 months later, framework is half done
> org restructure happens
> new manager says this doesn't align with team goals anymore
> project cancelled
> model never ships
> manager gets promoted to L8 for "successfully reallocating resources"
> team celebrates with 6-pager retrospective about what we learned
> mfw we delivered on all 16 leadership principles
> mfw we delivered nothing else
> amazon.jpg

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@Durf @MyTwoYen 僕も！🙋🏻‍♂️

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@Kabuku12 @alieninsect I’m not sure why you find it so hard to believe the historical fact that a great many youths were using during this time. Some estimate that there were 2 million users during the late 40s early 50s…maybe double check your history and you’ll remember that drug use was rampant.

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@Kabuku12 @alieninsect What do you think ふける means in the context of kids literally injecting whilst seated at a mahjong table?

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@NHKWORLD_News lol

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

@RaraSensei Muji. Otsuka. Fran Fran

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 WOW ... 🇬🇱 🇩🇰

This defiance and solidarity video for Greenland is EPIC. 👌🏼

[ren kuroda @renfieldk]

Boat tags #spoonerism

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: In a country that amended its constitution so you could not purchase a beer and then realized it was a bad idea and amended it back, surely we can have an amendment clarifying that a corporation is not a person and money is not speech.