Albeit the effect may very depending on the amount of the fee, I find it hard to imagine fee would stop the bot problem. World of Warcraft requires fee for accessing the most recent expansion, as well as the subscription, but it is swarmed by the bots all the same. IMO as long as there are traffic aka money, there will be bots.
There seems to be an obvious mistake in the landing page example. The word `ガキ`(kid / brat) is translated as oyster. I guess the AI mistook the katakana `gaki` into hiragana `kaki (かき)`. You may want to take that into consideration.
Because Japanese words aren't simply a string of random characters, like a string of eight English alphabets doesn't suddenly make it meaningful city names such as Reading or Brighton.
> If you hire a driver, or use a taxi, offer to pay the driver to take you to visit their mother. They will ordinarily jump at the chance. They fulfill their filial duty and you will get easy entry into a local’s home, and a very high chance to taste some home cooking. Mother, driver, and you leave happy. This trick rarely fails.
Never tried this so I may be biased but in Japan I can hardly imagine this work out more than one out of ten times.
Other than that many great advices. Looking forward to try the laser out and no reservation ones someday.
I subscribed to kagi's $5/m plan since last March, and my usage until now is around 3.3k searches, with the monthly distribution similar to yours. Some months it's more, some months it's fewer.
Currently I'm debating with myself if I should go for the $10 plan. I'm all down for supporting kagi, but surprisingly I didn't use as many searches as I thought.
One thing we noticed anecdotally (may not apply to your case) is that Kagi users search less when they switch to Kagi from other search engines, and the likely reason is that they just find things faster. Which is basically the main metric we are optimizing the product for - happy users, lower cost for us.
I've had discipline problems for my whole life despite fighting it with different ways, to the point I'm kind of giving in and accepting that it is just who I am.
I have trust in my parents. We have issues between us like all families, but I believe they did their best to raise me without a doubt. At least I didn't have concern about food on the table for a single second during my childhood, and I got most of the toys I wanted. Maybe it is something more minor or deeper.
There are ways that people are set up psychologically that can lead to "discipline problems". A common companion of ADHD is oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) for example.
I've seen people with an instinct to resist everything when under pressure or stressed. I also know people who don't seem to have the instinct for understanding authority and hierarchy that most people do ("if I have to listen to the teacher, why doesn't the teacher have to listen to me?").
I'm sure having people with these behaviours can be very adaptive and beneficial for the whole society in some situations (I bet they do better on the Milgram experiment for example), but in many cases in modern life it can make it feel like everything is an unnecessary fight. I think for people dealing with such individuals the key is to understand that it isn't directed at you personally. I'm not sure what the best advice is for those with those instincts, but I would imagine that it's a combination of learning to use those instincts appropriately and not being too hard on yourself when it goes wrong.
Thanks, very interesting read about PDI and the cultural differences.
Speaking for myself, I have great interest in living / working in western Europe, namely Netherlands or Denmark, but as someone living in Japan for a decade and appreciating their polite communication and respect for personal boundary, I'm concerned if I would enjoy life in an environment with more straightforward communication.
It’s not as straight forward as people like to frame it as. There are still impolite and too direct ways of communicating and there are tons of stuff that still needs to be wrapped in blankets and delivered carefully.
Irrelevant to the topic, just wanted to say hi. I have the honor to know poga during teenage with shared interest, and you have always been an inspiration to me. Seeing your post on the front page of HN is a welcoming surprise.
Regarding the topic, I resonate with the concern about personal blog having to follow the convention of certain technology. Wouldn't say I enjoy reading it (or any site) without some minimal styling though.
Writing is organized thinking, and organized thinking is valuable, now more than ever, in a world more and more people are delegating thinking to LLM everyday.
I once read from a comment in HN or a blog saying that, in the future writing will be like workout; in the past the daily physical labors forced people to build muscle on some aspects, but technology freed people from the labors as well as the muscles. Now if you want to build muscle you have to workout. Writing and organized thinking is going to be like that in the future: only those who wish to and take action to build organized thinking muscle will have them.
That is why to me writing itself is valuable, even if nobody reads it. Bonus points if somebody stumbles across my blog and it somehow builds my credibility.
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