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Re: Japanese Change Trays

#51

Post by ohitsdom »

littlepooghish wrote: post #44
themodelplumber wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.

What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.

> Why subject people to that?

If Christians truly believe nonbelievers are going to hell, it's the only loving response. The magician (and atheist) Penn has a great story about this [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owZc3Xq8obk

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#52

Post by dropit_sphere »

littlepooghish wrote: post #44
themodelplumber wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.

What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.

It seems like you're purposely picking a fight. Is this really a line of discussion that belongs here, given the topic?

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#53

Post by [deleted] »

[deleted] wrote: post #48
themodelplumber wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.

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Re: Japanese Change Trays

#54

Post by dragonwriter »

ohitsdom wrote: post #51
littlepooghish wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.

> Why subject people to that? If Christians truly believe nonbelievers are going to hell, it's the only loving response. The magician (and atheist) Penn has a great story about this [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owZc3Xq8obk

It can only be viewed as a loving response if you think its effective, rather than alienating. If you believe unbelievers are going to hell, and believe (or observe) that that approach to evangelization is alienating, then its more than just rude...

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#55

Post by obel1x »

In the bar I used to work in we used to give the change to customers on a tray to prompt the customer to give us a tip. So I always assume that's why they are being used.

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#57

Post by littlepooghish »

dropit_sphere wrote: post #52
littlepooghish wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.

It seems like you're purposely picking a fight. Is this really a line of discussion that belongs here, given the topic?

Oh I'm sorry - is it rude to interrupt someone's day with a question about religious beliefs? I had no idea! (sarcasm)

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#58

Post by VLM »

ohitsdom wrote: post #49
VLM wrote: post #42

Think about the protocol in CS terms... Hand to hand western style is 1:1 blocking I/O, both the payer and recipient must be simultaneously active at the same moment. At a restaurant/bar this tray is the worlds smallest FIFO and you put a packet into the packet buffer at your convenience and the service worker clears the buffer at their convenience, and this protocol is considered so polite that even at convenience s…

Eh, that's a stretch. You can call the tray asynchronous if you want, but you still have to wait for it to return.

I love to stretch... good for the brain. Its a concurrency design pattern, never, never ever, create an opportunity for complicated deadlocks at the protocol or implementation layer when you can just toss down a boring simple well understood and easy to debug FIFO/buffer. There are times and places where complication is needed in programming, but paying your sushi bill isn't it. Or the meta design pattern of always make it as simple as possible and not a bit too simple.

Even if this is total space cadet time, I like thinking about concurrency issues. (edited to fix horrible phrasing: I like to look at Japanese currency trays thru concurrency tinted sunglasses, just because its fun, even if the Japanese themselves don't like those sunglasses, also its funny to talk about currency and concurrency at the same time)

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#59

Post by JoeAltmaier »

TorKlingberg wrote: post #56
obel1x wrote: post #55

In the bar I used to work in we used to give the change to customers on a tray to prompt the customer to give us a tip. So I always assume that's why they are being used.

Japan though, has almost no tipping culture.

But, every sushi bar has a tip jar? Or only in America

Re: Japanese Change Trays

#60

Post by TorKlingberg »

littlepooghish wrote: post #44
themodelplumber wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was called hakujin once, by a very angry man--"iranai, hakujin ga kirai" was the exact greeting. Granted, I was a Mormon missionary knocking on his door to talk spirituality, but out of the thousands of doors I knocked, that one still stands out as pretty spicy. In comparison, gaijin never seemed that bad.

What makes people like you think it's a good idea to go and bother people in their home about your religious beliefs? Many people must find it frightening or just very annoying. Why subject people to that? It doesn't seem nice, let alone Christian.

This is too off topic.
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