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Wouldn't that be a biased view based on the fact that foreigners are the ones more likely to travel?

Nope, I see people with luggage on trains all the time, especially the Narita and Haneda train lines (obviously). Locals too.

> Pretty much every hotel in Japan has a laundry machine, although I don't know of any suites that include one, unless you're going for a managed apartment. Which is insanely expen…

The person you are replying to never said that Berlusconi was a fascist (he wasn't), just that his rise to power helped enable the far right populism and legimitized/emboldened a l…

When it comes to art (audio or visual especially) iterating over a concept with some air of "generality" and "good enough" can have very interesting emerging properties. You get a …

My recommendation: - (free) set up google sheets (not sure if this is required but that's what I do) - (free) run an scheduled appscript bound to that sheet with regular intervals …

I would recommend not using it to do any kind of even simple calculations. It's VERY bad at it but what is dangerous is that it makes the answer look subtly plausible. I've tried t…

> In a week of testing, I have yet to see ChatGPT make any grammatical mistakes in either English or Japanese. I've seen it make mistakes in Japanese in the very first prompt I gav…

This is actually how they do it in Japan. They love the lottery system and as a customer it's honestly a huge pain in the ass but once you see the kind of scalping and sleazy tacti…

Every comment I remember of him on HN threads were all hidden, downvoted and flagged. Now, to be perfectly clear, most of them were completely deranged and absolutely unrelated (us…

> Even Japanese, a language used by 125 million, has similar issues, my Japanese coworkers frequently switch to English during technical discussions. This is really not common and …

> Why does it need a citation? Because a lot of stuff you read online is made up, misleading, wrong, or even all three. Either on purpose or not. The most insidious stuff is what "…

I'm just like you, I have so many memories as a kid playing with my parents (mostly my dad) and my sister. From the age of 3-4, I remember my dad coming home with a new PC (didn't …

I help around Japanese language learning communities and one of the core tenets of a successful "language learning career" is being able to enjoy doing stuff with the language with…

Same protocol, but the implementation is at the discretion of whoever writes the server code. For example I went to check and in crosvm we use a BTreeMap already for Fids for our p…

Surely there is a huge difference in getting a one-time amount of "extra" money (which most people would see as a "present") and knowing you'll keep receiving the same amount of mo…

>because of an immigration system that keeps foreigners from immigrating for work Okay so let me dispel this myth. I don't know when it started, how, and where, but Japan is not th…

What if some people that would usually be in the group that enjoy playing table tennis realize they actually want to run a marathon and they find out that most marathon gear is onl…

The implication might be obvious because that might be the most immediate solution to an evident problem. Just because the analogy works and you don't like the (obvious) solution i…

That's not what they are suggesting. That's what you came up with as a solution for the problem which they presented. You're arguing against your own conclusion.

> the harm in that case is the embarrassment and you can achieve the same results in 10 minutes with any image editing software The harm is not the "embarrassment" of seeing someon…

> Similarly, there are lots of reasons why improving the security of google is a good thing _even if_ you think google itself is evil. Especially when you consider the fact that a …

I never really cared much about promo and I haven't yet gone for promo with this new system so I can't really say. I think as far as incentives go in general nothing really has cha…

How is Stadia any different from something like Mixer which Microsoft shut down at a record pace since its release?

Chrome browser (also ChromeOS)