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If there is even a 1% chance irreparable damage is being done to 350 million Americans, chances should not be taken

OpenAI is not publicly traded

HN has a general tech audience including SWEs who are paid so much that they exhibit the Nobel Disease and fauxtrepeneurs who use AI as a buzzword. They exist on X too but the conversations are diffused. You’ll have a section of crypto bros on there who know nothing technical they are talking then. Other user’s algorithms will fit their level of deep technical familiarity with AI.

But TikTok is an entertainment, not utility, company

Why not just the tint the windows?

There was speculation whether a baseball player was actually behind his interpreters’ gambling scandal.

There are various comments about fixing matches.

There’s a meme/“theory” in retail options trading about “max pain”. Wherein, the stock price will move as to maximize the total amount people lose on options.

This is just a fancy way of saying defenders have to defend every entrypoint vs attackers who only have to find a single point of weakness.

He has a lavish lifestyle and France is the capital of luxury

Pretty much all non-Japanese food in Japan is some form of “cultural appropriation” to the extent that it plays into stereotypes/tropes Japanese people expect from that given “cuisine”. For example, Italian would consist of lots of cheese. Japanese “Italian” food is in a category of its own. In this case, it would be actual appropriation because it’s made by Japanese people rather than the given ethnic minority putting a spin on their cuisine. Best comment I’ve ever read on Reddit is that the Japanese don’t like cheese, they like the concept of cheese. Japanese people can’t stand strong smells nor spice, so that already greatly restricts the authenticity of food.

The exception would be if the restaurant is catering specifically or exclusively to the immigrant population. I’ve found this to be common in Vietnamese restaurants where it’s just a community hangout spot for the migrant workers.

Since you live in Yokohama, the entire town plays on stereotypes and tropes of what Japanese think of Chinese. Namely, all the fortune teller shops since the Japanese think Chinese people are mystical (the Western version is fortune telling machines feature an automata wearing a Turban or Gypsies).

Seems like Chipotle provided private jets too

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/10w0dyg/comment/j...

People are using “allowlist” and “denylist” now even though the original words didn’t necessarily have racial connotations.

> have word "shonen" in its title.

Right, meaning boy. Which I originally stated as not being a deep topic. So why try to pretend Shonen Jump is this progressive brand for universal audiences. Doing mental gymnastics to twist the meaning of “boy” to mean this inclusive theme of victory for all.

> shojo and josei

But, as with many things Japanese, the boys and men take first precedence. Is this not indicative of the male patriarchy? Why not name It Shojo Jump then? Does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you have some denialist answer about how naming it “Shojo Jump” would be awkward or “strange” in the Japanese language? If that’s strange, then it suggests to me the male patriarchy is so deeply institutionalized and embedded that you can’t possibly reason outside of it

Thank you for mansplaining the existence of Japanese feminist studies. Can you please mansplain why “women’s colleges” exist in Japan? And why feminist studies are almost always resigned to these institutions. To most Americans, that would be a weird and ironic concept.

You think asking whether any 60 year old women are actually readers is a “strange question”? Why? Because the answer is a statistically low number? Me too.

You’re agreeing and confirming my very points. Maybe you can’t pickup on the sarcasm and irony here.

Did I say being male centric was bad? I didn’t.

You misread and understand the sentence you quoted.

I am not suggesting being less male centric is an improvement.

> can only see it through your cultural lens

Thanks for this. I read this as you presuming me to be a Westerner Social Justice Warrior making gender progressive criticism. Rereading my comment, I can see how it may be interpreted this way interpreted.

To be clear, my original comment was not a criticism of Toriyama Akira, nor a suggesting Japan needs to be more gender progressive. The fact that people project this issue and respond so defensively is an indicator that gender issues remain a thorn in Japan.

> According to Shonen jumps own statistics, about 40% of their readers are women

Do they report if 40% of their executives or artists are women?

In general, we shouldn't take a company or institutions words at face value and look at what they actually do. According to China Evergrande and FTX's own sheets, they had health balance sheets. By China and Japan's own statistics, they have conflicting numbers on geopolitical matters.

I'm not saying Shonen Jump is in the same group as shady companies, but they are a for profit organization. Of course they are increasingly financially incentivized to not limit their customer base. If they were serious about being universal, they can change their name. Let's not evade around the fact that Shonen doesn't literally means 'boy'. I'm not suggesting that Shonen Jump needs to change their name, I'm just saying if they actually cared about gender equality, other then profiting off half the population, you'd see this reflected more.

Even if this cherry picked statistic is true, there could be more to it. I acknowledge Shonen Jump is increasing its female reader base, but that doesn't mean the bulk of their content is male centric. Maybe there's one series that appeals to female audience.

> They are very well aware of that fact and takes that in to account when they accept new series in to the magazine.

So I'm not wrong to suggest that the industry and company has been, atleast historically, male centric?

> have a theme, which explicitly is "friendship, effort and victory"

It seems most of the victories are through physical combat. From my western "cultural lens", that's usually a sign of male centricity.

> their reader, guys or girls, old or young

Would love to see a statistic on what percentage of Shonen Jump's readers are 60 year old ladies.

> I think you're down voted because you have a shallow understanding of the topic... don't fully understand how the Manga culture

My understanding is shallow because the subject is not deep. It's only complex if you to do mental gymnastics to defend and explain away Japan's male patriarchy.

Since you want to portray that culture is more progressive then it is, and it is I who is ignorant to how progressive the culture is, can you enlighten me why all female artist collectives like this exist? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists). Are there major publishing houses ran by such groups of women?

> (and somehow think mentioning that on a post he died, is appropriate)

I never criticized Toriyama Akira. It is people who are projecting gender progressive issues

> The man just died, and your initial reaction is "but his work was male centric". Find a better time.

Only if you're interpreting my comment to be a criticism . I never used the word "but" nor intended to detract from the significance of his work; it was not suggestion that Toriyama Akira's work could be improved (i.e. by being less male centric).

And no, that was not my initial reaction. If it was, I would have left a top level comment to this end. I did leave a top level comment, recognizing his other work Dragon Quest (since Dragon Ball is already recognized by this HN audience). My comment, again, is a specific nitpicking of OP's claim.

> Appealing to men is okay.

I never said it was not okay.

> So? Are you implying that this makes it less important?

OP claimed Dragon Ball is universal and transcendent. I'm merely nitpicking that it is not. Same as I would with barbie.

> there's nothing wrong with that either.

Didn't say there was.

> Gender doesn't matter in this context.

Well it is relevant because you just admitted Barbie is female centric.

> Gender has blown up as this big divisive, team sports thing recently, and honestly it's starting to become annoying and hurtful

Yes, and that's why I asked what is the response to my comment.

> It's okay for something to cater to a predominantly male or female audience.

Yes, I agree. That's why I pointed out that different manga genres exist. And no one refuted this point.

> There's nothing wrong with that, and there never has been.

I agree.

> There's nothing here to be offended about.

Exactly. I wasn't making any criticism nor was I offended about it. I was tunnel visioned on the philosophical point of something being universal and transcendent. It's everyone else who had a knee jerk reaction to my comment being some kind of gender criticism

> it doesn't imply Toriyama-san is innate sexist.

Neither did I.

> It comes off as criticism of Dragon Ball for being aimed at boys, though I understand you did not actually intend that.

You're right. It was not a criticism nor value judgement of Dragon Ball, Toriyama Akira, nor Japan.

> nitpicking

You're right. It was a semantic nitpicking of OP's claim of universal transcendence.

> A mourning thread is not the place to start arguments about technicalities.

I agree with you in principal, but HN had no qualms starting arguments about technicalities and non-technicalities when it came to other mourning threads. Recently, there was a nobel nominee where more then half the comments were criticism. Things get especially tribal and protectionist whenever Japan and Japanese pop culture is involved.

Well, some of the commentary are low quality and more akin to Reddit, but that’s a trend of HN in general.

When we have RIP threads for people in Computer Scientists, atleast that’s within industry and people are 1-2 degrees of separation with personal anecdotes. Most of the commentary Akira Toriyama are merely as fans.

This said, there’s been other examples of people who aren’t actually related to Computer Science, but was still trended, such as Ted Kaczynski. This could be the academia / academic bias of HN. On the hand, HN is a forum for entrepreneurship and business. The Dragon Ball franchise is one of the greatest economic exports of Japan.

If there was an AI armageddon, this would be how it starts

How about with a crossbow?

Sounds like natural selection. The ones that had that intuition survived, and the ones that didn’t were removed from the gene pool.

Companies say they care about security, but don’t pay as much

Meanwhile, Japan entered recession last week.

So tax evasion and potential wire fraud

That sounds like a nit / premature optimization.

Electricity is cheap. If this is sufficiently or actually important for your org, you should measure it yourself. There are too many variables and factors subject to your org’s hardware.

This is the flip side of “layoffs can’t be based on performance”

> But we rarely think about ethnic imperialism — an empire trying to gobble up neighboring polities because of linguistic and cultural similarity, so that it can be the ruler of a specific cultural sphere. (In fact, the British conquest of Ireland, the Japanese conquest of Korea and China)

Uh no. The Yamato people wanted these countries for land and resources. Japan was never interested in extending their culture, nor proactively assimilating other ethnic groups into their own, with the exception of maybe the Ryukyuan on Okinawa. If this were the case, you’d seen it in Taiwan. They didn’t want to assimilate the Koreans who already in their country for generations, either. I can only presume author is a white person, because the cultural affinity of Japan bifurcated from China a millennial ago. Speaking of which, the other motivation was to prevent and buffer Japan from being controlled and humiliated by a white colonizers, as was the case with China.

>> users will still see political content from accounts they follow, but the apps will no longer “proactively amplify” such posts.

> So it's giving people an option, and even better, an opt-in option. That seems like the furthest thing from controversy to me.

In other words, an echo chamber.