https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
That's like claiming ketchup is red because of Americans' affinity for the colors of the flag. It has a slight whiff of facts, but is completely ignorant of the basic concept behind wabi-sabi/tomato ketchup.
The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
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You shouldn't. It was revealed later that Morgan Spurlock, the star of the movie, was also secretly drinking himself to death while he was making the documentary. Not to shame an addiction OR defend McDonalds too much here, but being a raging alcoholic and blaming your health problems on hamburgers and french fries on a massive public stage is/was extraordinarily irresponsible.
He also ate nothing but McDonald's - three meals a day, even if he was already "full". In one scene, he literally vomits, then continues eating the food. Literally zero people do what Spurlock did in that film.
But many alcoholics do.
I've seen two in my life vomit while walking without missing a step.
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That's backwards, eatable is the stronger claim that means fit as food while edible just means safe to eat.
Pedantic difference; most people would reasonably assume either meant "OK to eat".
No more pedantic than the comment I was replying to. My advice would be not to use "eatable" at all because others will just think you're saying edible incorrectly.
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#314This isn't interesting. Does it imply there is a cultural difference that would make this style more lucrative in Japan than other places? Does it suggest compositionally the alignment of asymmetric shapes in a regular form is more satisfying than a regular arrangement of identical forms? Does it imply that given an array of nearly identical choices it's important to add some noise visually to distinguish? I'm a cyni…
It's simply a matter of market psychology. Some find that interesting, others may not. Culture is a factor in psychology, so yeah, that too.
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If you've been to Japan any time recently you'd probably know that just about everything is cheaper in Japan, especially food and drink. I've been twice, most recently back in October, and I'm blown away by how relatively affordable things are. USD goes a long long way in Japan. Oddly I could not find any cheaply priced Japanese Whiskey, and I looked around quite a bit. It was all about as much or more than what I co…
> Oddly I could not find any cheaply priced Japanese Whiskey Any bog-standard supermarket will carry a variety of very low end Japanese Whiskeys. You can easily find 750ml for about 1000 yen. It won't poison you(!), but it is pretty rough. At this price point, it is rarely drunk neat. Also, Japan has nationwide uniform alcohol taxes. Alcohol taxes vary widely in the US by jurisdiction.
I mean more like, I'd look for the stuff that's like $300-$400 in the US at various places that would sell it in Japan and generally speaking it was more expensive in the stores in Japan after conversion. I was expecting it'd be like similar price or less. So I opted to just buy the imports in the US.
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Nothing you've said indicates why the button does nothing. I can enter an elevator is under a second and push the button. This is doubly faster when not waiting for the doors to open fully, effectively making my button push at 0 seconds from door full open. If you're saying "3 seconds is not long to wait, so it's the same as the button doing nothing", this is false, untrue, and I often use it. Alternatively, requirin…
> Nothing you've said indicates why the button does nothing. Let me expound a bit — The close-door button cannot override the ADA minimum 3-second open time… the door must remain open for at least 3 seconds no matter what you press. But, most are configured to automatically close at 3 seconds. So as soon as the door-close function is no longer overridden, the door starts closing anyway, so pressing the button has no…
Well it's a good explanation, and I've just looked at the ADA requirements citing what you're specifying, but perhaps it's a case of older construction and time.
The 1991 requirements don't seem to mention this, and it wasn't until 2012? that the new rules came into effect it seems. And that's only for new construction or alterations. How many elevators are legacy? And it's not like I use elevators daily, I think the last time I used one was 2 years ago.
But an interesting dive into it. Thanks for responding cogently.
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#318OP, I love not just that you noticed this, but that you thought to post it here too. HN is the best.
Do you think the CEO will taste the product?
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
McDonalds actually seems to have learned to take latency seriously. When their touch screen ordering systems were first deployed, the delay between tapping on an item or button was quite noticeable. These days the systems respond nearly instantaneously. I'm very glad there are people inside such a large organization that pay attention to that aspect of usability. Now if only every other website on the internet would…
If that's true, then their mobile app team must be both completely separate and isolated from all communications. Because it's really bad. And it's been bad for a really long time. When all I want is to order a cheap cup of coffee, I get to stare at a throbbing box of fries while it tries to figure that out. Get to the restaurant and signal my arrival? More throbbing fries. Sometimes the fries never stop throbbing an…
For a while, you could call the mobile api to submit an order with a price of your choosing. No validation.
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It’s coming. They’ll let Taco Bell work out the kinks. No need to be first mover there when the food’s staying the same and I doubt anyone will undercut them in the meantime.
Idk, they've all been wanting these kiosks to take off for a long while - maybe ~10 years - and it's just a UX problem keeping most people away from them. Given the labor savings at stake and the simple availability of speech prompted data entry, I'd think they'd take it more seriously. A dumb easy solution is to just create a call center of sorts and allow the same voice interaction human-to-human while the other pe…
Yes, right. Well McD sure is serious, up to possibly letting customers walk out of restaurants rather than serve them at the registers. They really want a conveyer belt to deliver the food, no human interaction at all if you insist on visiting some of their expensive real estate.
2022's conveyer belt, hadn't seen: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcdonalds-automated-restaurant-...
No sooner did I hit post than I had to run. But on my way, I thought with what I wanted to edit my post, which was to clarify the current testing Taco Bell is doing in the drive through. But I assume wherever you do it, once it gets good enough, maybe you can move it into the restaurant. Like you say, labor savings, so they'd have to move it into the restaurant the moment they could get away with it.