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New comment by tokioyoyo in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

tokioyoyo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:31:03 +0000

I’ll add another $1000 in support. It’s funny/sad how fast things change, especially one’s values given the circumstances.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Show HN: Things to Do API"

tokioyoyo — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:46:50 +0000

Which sources does it support? Discoverability is a huge problem for smaller events, as most get posted on IG, and it’s hard to even find them through IG.

I started relying on a mix of Muse/ChatGPT/Gemini depended on which data sources I want to combine, as they all seem to have special deals with different sources.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

tokioyoyo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:51:49 +0000

I understand the argument for protecting the children from the harms, but why should we have such arguments around “lonely people”? It’s just adults consuming media tailored to their needs. I can’t see it being worse than “IG/TikTok ruining an adult’s perception of reality”, or “Tinder focusing on return-users metrics”.

But again, I support the ban for children.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Apple HomeView"

tokioyoyo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:13:34 +0000

There’s a potential argument that’s brewing how software moat is null, distribution is still hard-to-impossible to crack. A company, could, spin up software very easily by monitoring the requests of the existing clients that have purchased the hardware. Having such teams that push out software would be valuable, as you’d get a complete walled garden experience. Would be hard to pull off though, as your marketing team needs to be insanely good at convincing people that the product itself is valuable.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

tokioyoyo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:53:59 +0000

Most of people who are alive can relate to a very specific period in their lives, and it’s easy to imagine now what virus can do in terms of social life.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

tokioyoyo — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:45:25 +0000

I said it before as well, but it’s because nothing “publicly really bad” happened despite the leaks and stolen information over the past decades. After Equifax breach, everyone got tired, because company survived, and whatever identity theft happens from time to time gets swept under the rug. It didn’t impact most people’s lives, despite leaking half of the US’s SSNs and etc. Then fatigue kicked in, and with subsequent leaks everything just mellowed down, so nobody cares.

I’ve switched to operate with the idea that my information has already been leaked at some point. I should be generally ready to fix the problems if/when identity theft happens, rather than inconveniencing myself and figuring out the third party trust situation.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

tokioyoyo — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:58:02 +0000

Shiamani Kaido is the most famous one. Gorgeous views across little islands and bridges. Lake Biwa course is easier, and it’s neat during fall. There are a bunch of japanese cycling route websites if you wanna go through big list of possibilities.

There’s a bunch within Tokyo area as well, but obviously different vibes.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

tokioyoyo — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:05:14 +0000

Sorry for an unprompted response, but if you’re enjoying cycling and willing to do detours, I’d suggest to check out cycling routes themselves. There are some amazing designated roads that are insanely nice and fun to ride when the weather is around 15-25c.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "Your Big Mac might cost more if McDonald's AI thinks people nearby can afford it"

tokioyoyo — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:04:10 +0000

They definitely do, I agree. But it's also fun to see how some other companies keep the prices uniform across the country, here in Japan. Real estate prices are insanely different between my neighbourhood and 2 hours outside of the city. Yet the products are the same prices. I understand the general idea, reasons, and logistics, but it's still fun to experience it.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

tokioyoyo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:38:37 +0000

I hate to be a China apologist, but I’m not sure why you included them in that list. Bottom 95% is living in conditions unimaginable to a generation ago. Of course they have humongous problems, but in general, they have lifted everyone up by ignoring views of the rest.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

tokioyoyo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:51:39 +0000

I guess all you said makes sense.

> There is the confounding factor where parties are arguing that there is market manipulation going on

My understanding is, it’s not even an argument anymore. Like the latest Yen intervention from the states was basically a state level manipulation, no? I mean there’s nothing really illegal. And it makes sense, and very much public. But one can assume there are just many more behind-the-scenes activity going on as well.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

tokioyoyo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:30:43 +0000

I agree, 2007 definitely changed a lot of "assumptions". But there were no "every main bankman stating out loud that aight, we're playing a new game now". Maybe 2007 started it, but 2020s, I'd say, is where everyone publicly acknowledged it?

> everyone had seen Japan fail to pump up its economy

Agreed about this, but I feel like everyone is watching Japan right now again. And I fear people will make wrong assumptions, given how its "economy is growing right now".

New comment by tokioyoyo in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

tokioyoyo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:28:11 +0000

I'll comment under my own post about "why i think this is happening" - it's the fact that the average age of the population in the world is higher than it has ever been, especially in richer countries. Just like the "housing theory of everything" posts that circulated around some time ago, I think that is the core reason why so many illogical decisions are being thrown around.

I don't have deep knowledge, other than a bunch of "pattern matchings" I've done throughout my readings, but as people get older, on average, their wants/needs change over time. Older people, especially as they get closer to retirement age, have more free time as well. Implicitly, these desires eventually bubble up into economic/political action, that's more or less unprecedented. It would be very cool to research this more in depth, but unfortunately i'm in the wrong field.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

tokioyoyo — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:19:51 +0000

My knowledge of new-gen-econ is pretty subpar, but isn't the strategy of US "don't dare to bet against us, we're writing new rules of the game"? It feels like all governments are acknowledging "letting it rip will suck for everyone, so why would we even bother". Normal monetary policy has been thrown out of the window, and every large state bank has stated it very openly throughout the wars that have started in this decade. And this leads to a lot of state-level financial backdoor discussions, deals and "stuff" that I'm not knowledgeable enough to even think about.

Wild times. Maybe it's information overload, since it probably happened in the past as well. But being bombarded with implications of these changes left and right is kinda weird.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

tokioyoyo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:52:01 +0000

Yeah we do. Most since like WWII. Obviously depends on how you define a "war", so it can skew one way or another.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

tokioyoyo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:32:55 +0000

There is no real win for any city that becomes an eye candy for the entire world. Removing rent control without completely revamping your zoning restrictions achieves basically nothing.

People bring in Tokyo as an example, but there’s even a rent control-esque thing here - right to refuse. Technically landlord can increase the rent, but you can challenge and refuse it, to keep paying the original amount. Like rent is going up heavily over here (my neighbourhood is about 10% YoY). You can’t really even build up fast enough to accommodate demand.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

tokioyoyo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:25:26 +0000

We have more wars right now than before.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "America.gov"

tokioyoyo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:12:01 +0000

> a flow on gov.uk can involve a lot of pages

Isn’t that one of the biggest reasons why an average user gives up and closes the tab?

New comment by tokioyoyo in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

tokioyoyo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:02:37 +0000

The biggest case you can follow is Canada. Even wine-drinking elderly sometimes switch to cannabis, due to lessened hangovers. Also, removing the friction is a huge boost to basically any industry.

New comment by tokioyoyo in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

tokioyoyo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:19:31 +0000

I think there’s a 2022 way of thinking how models are trained/evaluated, and there’s 2026 way of doing things. Models that are not evaluated with public internet access are pretty useless nowadays for daily operations.