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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

No thanks. It’s not for me.

What are the alternatives to Visa/Mastercard?

Absolutely. I’d switch to other payment methods that aren’t those, if you can.

Harmless by themselves, perhaps, but if they make some ultraprocessed foods more appealing are they entirely harmless? I think it’s fine to make beet juice in the kitchen for our own uses.

Why not disallow all food dye, not just the bright ones?

Rules for thee…

I’ve stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

Code reviews take up a lot of time, and if I know a lot of code in a review is AI generated I feel like I’m obliged to go through it with greater rigour, making it take up more time. LLM code is unaware of fundamental things such as quirks due to tech debt and existing conventions. It’s not great.

What about imports?

My four year old low-end test device running Android had its assistant switched out from Google Assistant to Gemini. I was very surprised since I’d assumed that the vendor had stopped supporting it since it was so cheap, but it updated anyway.

Why are you being downvoted for this? In stock devices the user has no way to even start looking at what is being run. All you can do is trust the manufacturer.

Why not just have a cap? 90% still means that they can further accumulate wealth, and taxes means they will try to dodge them.

VPNs are already illegal in China!

They really are saying anything just to draw attention to their product, aren’t they? Gotta feed the hype for the bubble.

LLMs are not Large Medical Expert Systems. They are Large Language Models, and are evaluated on how convincing their output is, instead of how accurate or useful it is.

You made a good case for welfare, basic income, and social security. It gives us the slack we need to produce goods that aren’t necessarily profitable all year round, but which we would be worse off without.