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Comment on Honey gets terminated as lawsuits proceed in ~tech
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Comment on Tokyo, yeast, and expectations in ~travel
stu2b50 Link ParentI consider sushi one of the most local and seasonal dishes. Sushi is entirely a celebration of fish. The only ingredients are raw fish and rice, and the latter is optional. The quality of the dish...Sushi also isn't heavily local, seasonal, or terroir-based in a way that can't be transported relatively easily
I consider sushi one of the most local and seasonal dishes. Sushi is entirely a celebration of fish. The only ingredients are raw fish and rice, and the latter is optional. The quality of the dish is essentially the fish and the chef’s ability to cut the fish.
Most places in Japan have fresh fish. 80% of Japan live on the coast. 100% of Japan is within 75 miles of the sea. If you have to fly the fish, it’s already doomed to be mid.
The reason American sushi has so much extra stuff, and is often heavily sauced, is because the fish needs to be frozen and flown in much of the country. Which is what it is, but good sushi it does not make.
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Comment on Tokyo, yeast, and expectations in ~travel
stu2b50 LinkI imagine a lot of the reasons people like central Tokyo is that it’s not child friendly. There’s a reason there’s so many advertisements for “adults only cruises” or “adults only experiences” and...I imagine a lot of the reasons people like central Tokyo is that it’s not child friendly. There’s a reason there’s so many advertisements for “adults only cruises” or “adults only experiences” and it’s not pornography. Shibuya, Shinjuku, etc are an adult’s (or, at least, young adult+) playground. No kids is a feature, not a bug.
That being said, while much is said of Japan’s birth rate we are still talking about percentage points. There’s still plenty of children being born. The suburbs of Tokyo are vast, and that’s where most of the child rearing will be. Cars, child friendly spaces, and so forth.
It’s not all that different in NYC, just scale. I don’t see a lot of people taking strollers on canal street, or lower east side at night, or ktown. Plenty of strollers in Brooklyn heights or upper east side. Different spaces for different people.
It’s a bit of a generalization to say that having a child with you in Japan is hard when Japan is a big, big country and you’ve only been in a small slice.
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As an aside that food take is insane. Subjective is subjective but I cannot imagine thinking LA sushi is anywhere near the sushi in Japan, or that food is cheaper in the US. Most takeout I buy is $20 and an actual sit down place is usually $60+. Meanwhile 1000 yen is still a common restaurant price for a meal (which is 6 dollars).
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Comment on New label suggestion: a removable "One-sided" label that gradually reduces the comment's visibility in ~tildes
stu2b50 Link ParentThere does seem to be some kind of XY problem that causes square peg into round hole issue. For example, if you taken OP’s proposal as written, and use a purely objective metric for “one sided”,...There does seem to be some kind of XY problem that causes square peg into round hole issue. For example, if you taken OP’s proposal as written, and use a purely objective metric for “one sided”, someone who writes a post about, say, a Supreme Court judgement who doesn’t take into consideration the Republican/conservative side of things would have written one sided opinion, and should be labeled as such. Yet I don’t think this is what most people would want. But trying to fit an objective criteria over what is ultimately a subjective end goal will have the effect of both including and excluding things they don’t actually want.
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Comment on Browser fingerprinting demonstration in ~comp
stu2b50 LinkAt least on an iPhone, all it seems to have been to able to infer is that I’m on an iPhone. Luckily for them, iPhones are famously rare devices that very few people have.Nice machine, by the way. an iPhone.
4 CPU cores that it admits to and a 1179×2556 display. All the bells and whistles.
Wasn't that extremely expensive?
Anyway. Let me show you the rest of what I already know about you.
WHAT YOU ARE USING
Your operating system is Macos.how?
Your CPU is ARM-family.how?
WHAT YOU ARE USING IT ON
You have a camera and a microphone attached.how?
WHAT YOU HAVE INSTALLED
Your system has 68 text-to-speech voices installed, the exact set is a strong fingerprint.how?
You have a payment card set up in Apple Pay on this device.how?
At least on an iPhone, all it seems to have been to able to infer is that I’m on an iPhone.
Luckily for them, iPhones are famously rare devices that very few people have.
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
stu2b50 Link ParentI mean are we really considering Nolan’s odyssey as a reboot? It seems somewhat farcical putting a retelling of a 3000 year old epic poem on the same level as Disney making the Lion King but with...I mean are we really considering Nolan’s odyssey as a reboot? It seems somewhat farcical putting a retelling of a 3000 year old epic poem on the same level as Disney making the Lion King but with CGI. Homer most likely isn’t even a person and just a symbol of generations of poets doing exactly what Nolan is doing now: retelling the story, with their own twists.
People went to see the Odyssey really because Nolan is directing it and he’s had banger after banger since Batman. Not because they’re super big Odyssey fans. The man can put butts in seats for a 3 hour biopic about Oppenheimer.
The movie itself is also so different from the source material that thematically it’s closer to Oppenheimer than it is to the Homeric version.
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Comment on Suggestion for a new label: "Misinformation" in ~tildes
stu2b50 Link ParentDo you have an example? I have not really seen any circumstances where replies did not suffice.Do you have an example? I have not really seen any circumstances where replies did not suffice.
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Comment on Suggestion for a new label: "Misinformation" in ~tildes
stu2b50 Link ParentI mean I don't even think the current set of tags is used particularly well. Probably only noise gets actual value. Exemplary is already mostly used as "super-vote". There's many times that a low...I mean I don't even think the current set of tags is used particularly well. Probably only noise gets actual value. Exemplary is already mostly used as "super-vote". There's many times that a low effort post that someone somewhere really approves of in a directional fashion gets it.
This just seems like adding more in that inflammatory sense. The nice thing about noise is that it's somewhat easily to make an objective gut call about - someone just responding LOL is noise no matter what. What is misinformation is, on the other hand, is a billion dollar question. No easy answers there. Even to make an answer you have be knowledgable in the area.
In the end, this is a text discussion website. Solving issues by discussing in text form should be prioritized if at all possible. I have not seen times where have a misinformation tag would make things better. If anything, theyd just make it worse.
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Comment on Suggestion for a new label: "Misinformation" in ~tildes
stu2b50 LinkI don’t think this is a problem. Unlike in Reddit, tildes automatically highlights new replies, so a post on a weeks dead thread will pop up in activities and show any reader who clicks on it...The comment containing inaccurate claims may be on the top of a 100-comment comment chain with, say, 30 votes, whereas a correction with a source may remain at the very bottom of the thread with 0-2 votes.
I don’t think this is a problem. Unlike in Reddit, tildes automatically highlights new replies, so a post on a weeks dead thread will pop up in activities and show any reader who clicks on it exactly what’s new. Additionally, there are generally few enough comments that it’s not a stretch to read all of them. That’s unlike Reddit where threads can have 1000s if 10,000s of replies.
Additionally, there’s only two ways this could work: either the admins need to make the call on whether it’s misinformation or not, or it needs to be crowd sourced.
For option A), that’s a tremendous burden given there’s all of one admin. And they’re definitely not omnipotent.
For option B), this has all the same trappings of the reply option. Let’s say a thread is dead and you post a reply and no one really cares at this point. Why would the misinformation tag not to be the same? No one will care enough to crowdsource enough misinformation votes to make one stick. And if people do care enough to do some kind of misinformation tag vote, why wouldn’t they also just vote on a reply?
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
stu2b50 Link ParentSome of the biggest movies this years were made on shoestring budgets, with YouTubers as directors. Obsession had a budget of $750,000 and grossed $475 million in box office sales The Backrooms...Some of the biggest movies this years were made on shoestring budgets, with YouTubers as directors.
Obsession had a budget of $750,000 and grossed $475 million in box office sales
The Backrooms had a budget of $10 million and grossed $390 million.
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Comment on Craft - A new AI powered TTRPG engine in open beta in ~games.tabletop
stu2b50 Link ParentThere’s two concepts here: an AI game in the style of a TTRPG, and AI assistance for DMs to make assets. For the first, it’s just a different experience, no? Would you call people who play...There’s two concepts here: an AI game in the style of a TTRPG, and AI assistance for DMs to make assets.
For the first, it’s just a different experience, no? Would you call people who play baldur’s gate 3 “automating friendship”?
For the second, being a DM is a really hard job. By the far the hardest out of the players. DMs are the hardest people to find for LFG groups, and DM burnout is the #2 reason campaigns die (only being beaten by flaking players).
In most cases, there are specific parts or elements of world building that really energize any particular DM, and then there parts that just need to exist to exist. It’s already pretty common for DMs to shamelessly steal and copy assets, if it could even be called that, from google images.
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Comment on How has climate change affected your life / plans? in ~enviro
stu2b50 Link ParentNope, or else the war on drugs would have worked. You need the carrot and the stick. Even if harsh punishment deterred direct bribes you’d still have the issue of mediocrity. An effective leader...Nope, or else the war on drugs would have worked. You need the carrot and the stick.
Even if harsh punishment deterred direct bribes you’d still have the issue of mediocrity. An effective leader in public office is a force multiplier - a bad or mediocre one causes way more damage than a different position.
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Comment on How has climate change affected your life / plans? in ~enviro
stu2b50 Link ParentIn practice, that just leads to more corruption. If being a politician was simultaneously a very hard job to get, granted you a lot of power, but didn’t pay very well, then the natural conclusion...In practice, that just leads to more corruption. If being a politician was simultaneously a very hard job to get, granted you a lot of power, but didn’t pay very well, then the natural conclusion is that you should use the power you have to obtain money - eg bribes.
Singapore managed to have incredibly low corruption metrics in a region with very high corruption metrics by doing the opposite: public sector jobs pay VERY well, so well that it attracts the best and brightest, and so well that risking it all for a bribe just sounds stupid. That is paired with incredibly harsh punishment for corruption - including corporal punishment, up to death.
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Comment on Cheap / budget travel Japan ideas request in ~travel
stu2b50 LinkWith the exchange rate as it is, pretty much everything is cheap. For book off, there’s not much that’s actually cheap in Tokyo. You have to go to the rural book offs for good deals. Same for...With the exchange rate as it is, pretty much everything is cheap.
For book off, there’s not much that’s actually cheap in Tokyo. You have to go to the rural book offs for good deals. Same for pretty much anything in akihabara. It’s all priced at least at market value if not higher for ignorant tourists. You can check online prices at surugaya or something to ground yourself.
For food, Conbini is a trap. It’s both bad for you and not really that cheap. Just go to restaurants. If you really want to cheap out, premade food at grocery stores is where it’s at, not conbinis. Conbinis is probably one of the most overhyped things in Japan.
Mostly in Kyoto, if a restaurant has the vibe of “we don’t want gaijin here”, just… don’t go. It’s for the best. Plenty of good restaurants that won’t cause conflict.
If price is a concern, do know that flights can often be significantly cheaper than the Shinkansen (bullet train), which is not cheap.
Outdoors stuff is going to be free (well, parks in Tokyo have entrance fees). You can go to Mt Takao on subways for like $5. You get a decent view of Fuji if it’s clear.
For onsens, for it to actually be an onsen it needs to have real volcanic water. So there are no onsens in Tokyo. You generally have to travel to the mountains. They’re expensive but people usually only stay one night. Weekdays obviously way less traffic.
Going to somewhere that’s not Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka will lower costs significantly. Go to Kyushu, for instance (in which case flying will be cheaper and faster). Although I understand that for first timers, the usual 3 cities is something people want.
Don’t stay in Kyoto and Osaka, stay in one or the other. Osaka and Kyoto are next to each other. A lot of people book nights in both but it’s not necessary. It’s like a 30 minute driver / 45 minute express subway to get from one to the other. Osaka will be cheaper and have more nightlife, Kyoto is better if you want to bum rush the shrines before the crowds (earlier than 7am).
In Kyoto, I recommend going to Otagi Nembutsu. You have to take a taxi so there’s like no one there. Gets away from the crowds.
Don’t go on any Japanese holiday. Golden week, silver week, new years, obon are the main ones. It will be expensive and miserable.
Don’t get the JR pass. It use to be worth it, now there’s almost no chance it’s better than paying for train tickets à la carte. You’d have to spend your whole trip on a train to get your money back.
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Comment on How US states are streamlining college admissions in ~society
stu2b50 Link ParentThis is not common app. Common app just aggregates college applications so you can write on application and send it to multiple schools. You’re still the one applying. I’d also mention that...Georgia is one of 19 states that have developed some form of a direct-admissions system. Using data about academic performance through 11th grade, colleges essentially apply to students—a reverse of the traditional application process that can create logistical and financial barriers to enrollment.
This is not common app. Common app just aggregates college applications so you can write on application and send it to multiple schools. You’re still the one applying.
I’d also mention that Georgia is pretty generous with student aid. The combination of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_Scholarship alongside the Zeller Miller scholarship means that if you had good grades in high school, you will not pay for any tuition at an in-state public university.
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Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech
stu2b50 Link ParentThat’s just group chats. The OG social media.That’s just group chats. The OG social media.
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Comment on Ariana Grande is ‘taking a step back from visibility’ after tour as public scrutiny intensifies in ~music
stu2b50 LinkI feel like the backlash is kind of weird? She definitely pretty bone-thin, and it’s very possible that it’s unhealthy, but the tone seems to be that her existing in this state of being on music...I feel like the backlash is kind of weird? She definitely pretty bone-thin, and it’s very possible that it’s unhealthy, but the tone seems to be that her existing in this state of being on music videos is somehow offensive. Which seems odd to me.
Maybe she needs help, but her body and her health is hers in the end. No one in her audience has a say.
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Comment on Climbing Mount Everest by foot starting from the Indian coast in ~travel
stu2b50 Link ParentNot directly, although I’m sure in earlier times some mountaineers did it for particular mountains just because it was before cars and flights and you just landed and had to walk up. I also don’t...Not directly, although I’m sure in earlier times some mountaineers did it for particular mountains just because it was before cars and flights and you just landed and had to walk up.
I also don’t think it’s legally or logistically possible for Mt. Vinson on Antarctica but I suppose we’ll see.
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Comment on Climbing Mount Everest by foot starting from the Indian coast in ~travel
stu2b50 LinkThis is a series released by a small youtuber, who is challenging himself to climb the seven summits (the tallest peaks of each continent), with a twist in that he has to start from the nearest...This is a series released by a small youtuber, who is challenging himself to climb the seven summits (the tallest peaks of each continent), with a twist in that he has to start from the nearest coast and walk all the way to the mountain before doing the climb, and then doing the same after doing the climb.
For Everest, this means nearly 4 weeks of walking from India through Nepal. Then doing a famously challenging and deadly summit. And then walking 4 more weeks back.
Tbf it is kind of a random challenge but in practice it means you get a combo of a very long walk through a country and the usual summiting experience, which is not something that many other people see. Its a bit sad to see how hard walking through areas is now, as he almost always has to walk on the curb of roads, sometimes highways.
He's releasing the Everest episodes still, and it's neat to see his physical suffering as well as the unique experience and sights.
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Climbing Mount Everest by foot starting from the Indian coast
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If you just do one thing and coast it’s easy to get outcompeted. Just look at what happened to Nokia or blackberry. You never know when an iPhone will come and kill your company if you keep making what you make.
Or see Dropbox - the issue for them is that Google, Apple, and Microsoft can do the same thing but better.