If you built a house in Japan now for the cost of 100k the house would be worth 50k in 30 years.

Real estate in Japan appreciates like cars, unless you have an especially rare piece of land, it depreciates over time. It's a bad investment unless you're actively getting use out of it.

Part of why there's so much cheap and abandoned land in Japan, there's no real estate investment structure outside of land near train stations.

Land in Japan only appreciates in large cities. If you buy it now at 3k it'll be worth 2k in 30 years.

I'd say this seems useful mostly for pulling non nbz/torrent sources from readarr and lidarr services

Don't buy these old japanese houses, they're literally made of mud and sticks and have absolutely fuck all for insulation.

Living in nature is all fun and games until you're expected to sleep in 50 degree weather while your split unit struggles to keep your paper box of a bedroom cool.

Most of the time the closest hospital is like 2-3 hours away on a bus that only comes twice a day, so you better hope you never get in an accident cause the ambulance won't come for hours and your only other hope is the only other person in neighborhood: your 90 year old neighbor who you're not sure is even still alive.

Source: lived in one for multiple years.

Edit: also when I say old I mean as soon as 1995 Before they majorly overhauled the earthquake and insulation codes nationally

If you're using flatpak and Firefox you have to un-sandbox the font files from both flatpak and firefox's content sandbox

I mean SpaceX has had a much longer history of telling federal agencies (especially the EPA) to go fuck themselves, launching anyway, and having absolutely fuck all for repercussions.

Looking forward to SpaceX fans continuing to talk about how much SpaceX is insulated from musk's stupidity thanks to Shotwell.

Louisiana has been doing this for my entire lifetime.

Welcome to the giant rat party.

I'm pretty sure comments with directed violence get removed and repeat users banned on most Lemmy instances as well...

Why is Ryubing beyond reproach? I don't see them doing anything differently than Ryujinx.

Maybe we need to start moving to instances where we won't be banned for saying that stuff.

Isn't the fediverse supposed to be resistant to censorship?

I think most ML experts (that weren't being paid out the wazoo for saying otherwise) have been saying we're on the tail end of the LLM technology sigma curve. (Basically treating an LLM as a stochastic index, the actual measure of training algorithm quality is query accuracy per training datum)

Even with deepseek's methodology, you see smaller and smaller returns on training input.

From the Peter Navarro story linked:

According to Mr Navarro's 2001 book, If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, Vara was a captain in a reserve unit during the Gulf War as well as a doctoral student in economics at Harvard University in the US.

Are the freakonomics guys in the government yet?

Importantly, as of a few days ago any agency in the executive branch has to defer to the president and attorney general for interpretation of the laws, so if the president says the court order is illegal then the DoJ doesn't have to do anything.

He probably saw that softbank and masayoshi son were heavily investing in it and figured it was dead.

I highly recommend Obtainium to anyone who wants to keep their apps updated without needing a central report (save for the APKs that only publish on f-droid etc)

It was over eleven years ago at this point so my memory may be hazy on the details but I remember something happening in the major version change that pissed me off enough to switch off of it. 🤔

Licenses for sublime text 2 just said "and future updates". I remember the "lifetime" thing being a selling point on producthunt. This was back in 2013 though, and the weird way the licensing change was handled made me switch to emacs.