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Personally I would gladly switch to mac as my actual personal PC if games ran well on it.

mahjong rulesets are wild. I play Japanese mahjong, and the difference between online and a mahjong parlor is quite different, making it interesting to see what people optimize for in those different settings

I think mahjong is probably "house rules the game" though. Pretty sure most mahjong hands probably just were a result of some guy being like "hey this hand looks like it should be scored man".

The USA is a net exporter so technically if export restrictions are put up the Americans will likely be fine. The rest of the world, not so much. I live in Japan and I'm definitely worried about the rest of the year.

it depends where you live... I live in Japan now. One comment I hear often and see reflected in old TV shows is how different summers are already. 20-25 years ago it would have been considered a hot summer day around 30c.

Now every summer day is 30c+.

Also, a comment I hear often is that people didn't really need air conditioners back then. You definitely cannot get away with living in Tokyo without an air conditioners these days!

I was getting good results with a similar flow but was using claude max with ChatGPT. unfortunately not an option available to me anymore unless either I or my company wants to foot the bill.

You should search based on Tokyo 23-wards or vs the greater metropolitan area. Most people when they refer to Tokyo are referring to the 23 wards.

In that case the numbers are far worse.

I think it was true for a long time, and home prices were a good deal. There is also a fair bit of distortion due to near zero interest rates, where banks are willing to loan higher multiples here with 0 down payment.

But house prices have exploded upwards since covid, and wages have not.

So it's an extremely similar situation to everywhere else in the world. And the underlying reason is the same: people buying because they think real estate will go up in value.

By the way, as a fun fact, the most common mortgage in Japan is a ARM. Last I checked, 70-80% of mortgages in Japan are variable rate. The BoJ is currently on a path of adjusting rates upwards. So we will see how this all shakes out. If a situation like the GFC happens, it will not be pretty.

Housing is too expensive because it is an investment, full stop.

I live in Tokyo, famed for its "housing affordability".

Guess what, it's completely unaffordable for normal people now, because of people purchasing homes for investment purposes. Rent is still affordable but has a rapid upward trend as well.

I still use old.reddit. For my reddit usage it's perfectly fine and if anything finding things in the new UI results in a terrible experience for me.

I looked this up before since I was curious if this actually did anything, and apparently the US _does_ have a lower incidence of food poisoning compared to many countries, so perhaps some of these preventative measures taken in the US do help.

I guess it also helps there is a cultural aversion to eating raw food compared to the Europe and Asia.