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Weirdly this never came up for me (and I'm in a similar situation). I suspect what documents are ask for varies a lot by who is assessing the application.

Hope it all works out!

Anyway I had to submit:

Certified copy of my birth certificate, order from the UK general register office.

Original (not photocopy) of Japanese family register and translation.

Certificate of acceptance of notification of birth, original and translation.

Original Marriage certificate and translation.

Colour photocopy of every page of my childs Japanese passport.

Copy photocopy of the passport of an American or British citizen who confirms that child is mine.

The process is pretty unclear, and in general you seem to have to just keep submitting documents until they are satisfied.

The SD Card was developed by two Japanese companies (Panasonic and Toshiba) and Sandisk.

VHS is another Japanese standard, adopted by multiple manufacturers.

Then there's the MSX standard...

Japanese industry is no doubt somewhat different and may have its issues. But I don't think it's as simple a picture as you paint... some external factor is often required to force large companies to cooperate. Those factors may be more common outside Japan, but I don't see that the fundamental issues are very different.

Chinese radios do not dominate in Japan, I suspect almost nobody in Japan uses a non-domestic radio. Possibly the primary reason being that they generally have not passed the local emission certifications (which is annoyingly required for all ham radios).

I don't see the incompatible microphone thing as an issue unique to Japan. Pretty much every 1980s computer had weird propriety interfaces. I suspect it was competition that forced them to standardize. You can find similar issues more recently (Apple/Lightening port, Dell/IBM laptop chargers, docking stations etc.)

If you want to point to issue with ham radio in Japan, I'd go with the certification issue, which helps lock non-domestic players out of the market...

If you actually want practical and safe self driving cars widely deployed it seems obvious that instrumenting roads and making them a better platform for self-driving vehicles is an important part of this process.

To me this work seems like a part of the process of evolving roads from a Ad-Hoc and poorly documented system involving a lot of human guess work into a more robust and reliable platform for self-driving and human driven cars.

https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010...

Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.

See manufacturing section here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock

Principally create new flowcells coated with an oligo lawn would be difficult. Not impossible… but a non-trivial project…

https://aseq.substack.com/p/bringing-up-an-old-ebay-miseq

Your issues are that you will still need to purchase reagents from the sequencing instrument vendor. They will try and push you toward a service contract.

Each kit will cost ~$600 (cheapest kit) an old Illumina sequencer which you can still buy reagents for will cost at least $5000.

Doing a whole genome this way would be expensive… I’d guess $10K to $20K perhaps? You’d need a lot of kits… or one of the high spec sequencers (NextSeq 550 etc).

Alternatively you could look at getting a nanopore sequencer. This will be cheap but the data quality is different (and may not be comparable/require high coverage for certain applications). I’d guess you could do a (30x) whole genome for <$10K all inc here?

I find it interesting that the boundaries are defined by a combination of physical land features and other property boundaries.

I guess this means that there's the error could potentially accumulate when you reference against property boundaries. Then you come up against some physical reference and have to resolve the inconsistency somehow.

Generally I believe you are allowed to use a different bag, it's just... uncommon.

Seemed much harder than the process of setting up an APRS iGate and viewing my location on aprs.fi

I'd like to try again sometime though, but feel like I need a good getting started guide to motivate me!