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I find a lot of the media (here in Japan anyways) call literally every automation by computers or machines AI. Example, there’s an automated gate that only opens if a scanner finds…

Oh interesting, I didn't know. A lot must have changed in the last couple years. I was just there this month and didn't notice any credit card logos at the checkouts and just assum…

Really? I use my credit card for maybe 70% of my spendings. It's true you absolutely need to have cash on you for the occasions when you can't use it but I can buy a 30 yen chocola…

You may me right that there might have to be third parties for scalability. But depending on how this is done, you might not have to trust them in order to use them (in the worst c…

I wouldn't say near impossible but I think it's definitely much more inconvenient than in other countries. Just the other day I had to move some money between my bank accounts and …

I hate it when sites like this change the normal scrolling behaviour. I use the trackpad on my MBP and on sites like this scrolling accelerates too quickly and gestures like going …

I used MySQL until recently just because lots of people around me seemed to be using it. Over time I ran into too many issues with it (for example their default UTF-8 isn't actuall…