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1. geye1234 · 1789659463 · focus · HN ↗

   Will it lock up thousands of innocent self-employed post office contractors as part of its instruction set?

   <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_Post_Office_scandal" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;British_Post_Office_scandal

   1. tristor · 1789659669 · focus · HN ↗

      Probably not, Japanese firms excel at hardware and generally build extremely poor software. This a hardware product, so consequently it is probably fairly good.

      1. seki285 · 1789659810 · focus · HN ↗

         What caused this?

         1. applfanboysbgon · 1789663998 · focus · HN ↗

            This is just my hypothesis, but I believe the language barrier is an issue. English is effectively a necessity for programming because real programming languages with ecoystems, error diagnostics, documentation, and useful articles&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;books are written in English. Japanese software developers know enough to get by, but they&#x27;re still by-and-large insulated from the Anglosphere learning culture, where ideas and best practices rapidly propagate in the open. I&#x27;m not involved in hardware, but I&#x27;m guessing this is less of a barrier for hardware because hardware&#x2F;documentation tends to be proprietary rather than open anyways, so whereas the Anglosphere gains a cumulative learning advantage from an open source + technical blogging culture in their fluent language, this does not manifest so much in hardware.

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