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There is a revealing trend in the Japanese working population. More and more of them are looking at job opportunities overseas. This is especially true for the young (25~29 years old) (総務省「人口推計」). There are plenty of reasons of course, the economic malaise, increasing proportion of the aging population, impending collapse of the lifetime employment system, [...] I am currently reading Prof. Cacioppo’s book, “Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection”, and so far, the basic theme is that loneliness or lack of social contact can be fairly debilitating to one’s health. Human beings and pretty much all species evolved through its basic history to generally fear being alone since it is advantageous to work in social constructs. The current estimate is that half of loneliness is dictated by [...] Michael Moore’s documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story”, has spurred some talks on the class divide (not yet a war) in the United [...] Now everyone knows that President Obama just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and there are various reasons why this was done (not entirely his work either). This post is not to ridicule the President or the Nobel Committee, but to give a reminder that a War is still going on (all graphs were taken from the Afghanistan Conflict [...] As promised in a prior post, I’ve finished the data entry for the Kuchikomi (クチコミ総選挙) election predictions. The Kuchikomi election prediction algorithm was created by hottolink (ホットリンク) and it is based on internet chatter (口コミ). The algorithm parses through information on the internet from mass media to blogs on individual politicians and parties to produce a prediction percentage based on historical data. You can I guess think it as a souped up Google [...] Here is a comparison of election predictions by various outlets of this past election. The top part of the table only shows prediction results for only the single district seats and the bottom part of the table includes the proportional representation [...] |
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