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Posted by zdw 5 days ago

Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios(conbini.kikkia.dev)
85 points | 37 comments
netsharc 3 hours ago|
These Japanese YouTubers decided to play a game, they got off a station earlier than their home and to walk home from there, but whenever they pass a Conbini they'd have to pick 6 items and roll a dice and buy that item from the 6. There's a lot of stores...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yT32QAyv6s

curiousgal 3 hours ago|
I'm sorry but that video is literally unwatchable! What in the world is happening with the audio/subtitles?
anonymous908213 3 hours ago||
Youtube ruins videos with godawful AI-generated autodubbing if it detects a video in a language that differs from your locale. You can access the original audio from the settings cog.
netsharc 1 hour ago|||
It doesn't even respect the locale of the user interface, but uses IP geolocation and sends you HTML containing the video titles in the language it "knows" you want... And there is no setting to change this.
andy99 1 hour ago||
Big tech has changed over the last bit to trying to tell us exactly what and how we should think - or maybe more precisely to see thought as “friction” and want to remove it all together. This is a very minor example in the scheme of things, but I see it everywhere now.
shalmanese 1 hour ago||
Not really, reliably detecting a user's preferred languages has been a persistent Hard Problem in tech since the start of the internet. Every proposed alternative solution ends up having vastly more false positives due to browsers/people incorrectly setting of default preferences so companies begrudgingly default to geographic heuristics knowing it is a terrible experience for an outlier group of people.
andy99 51 minutes ago||
Why wouldn’t you just ask them, and particularly for media like this that has a native language, default to that? I don’t want software to think for me about what I want to see, if I want something different I’ll change it.
anal_reactor 2 hours ago||||
YouTube is literally unusable without browser extensions or a third-party app
AniseAbyss 52 minutes ago|||
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autarch 14 minutes ago||
I'd love to see this for Taiwan. I'm here now (on my Nth trip where N >= 11), and my impression is that 7-11 is the clear winner in all the cities I've been to, followed by Family Mart and then some stragglers like Hilife and OK Mart (it's ok).

My personal favorite is probably Family Mart, because they have multiple very delicious vegan rice balls to choose from.

mstngl 3 hours ago||
Often, several stores belonging to the same chain are located in close proximity to each other so that goods can be distributed more cheaply and frequently. This strategy is known as dominant policy (ドミナント政策, dominanto seisaku).[1]

[1] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8A%E3...

arghwhat 29 minutes ago||
I can't help but giggle slightly at the effort put into presenting not just the term, but also both the japanese and japanese-romanized forms, considering that it's just an entirely literal translation of a basic business strategy. Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvNxgHTWIlo.
hyfgfh 3 hours ago||
Seizon Senryaku!
Intermernet 2 hours ago||
This is great, but it doesn't differentiate between "Natural Lawson" and "Lawson", which my partner and I have dubbed "Unnatural Lawson".
criddell 2 hours ago||
In the US, 7-11 has started selling Japanese style egg salad sandwiches. I haven’t been brave enough to try one yet.

https://www.7-eleven.com/products/fresh-chilled/egg-salad

n4r9 1 hour ago|
What makes this "Japanese style"? Is it the mayo and the sweetened bread?
criddell 1 hour ago||
I just meant that they are supposed to be very close to the sandwiches they are well known for in Japan.
tokioyoyo 3 hours ago||
Pretty cool stuff! Side note, it’s always fun to see Japan-related content getting to the front page around this time, as the people in NA are asleep. Would be curious to see HN userbase %s by continents.
wongarsu 1 hour ago|
This gets asked from time to time. It's somewhere in the realm of 45% NA, 35% Europe, and the remaining 20% relatively evenly split between Australia/Oceania, India, Asia (excluding India) and SA. Japan makes up around 1-2%
carlob 4 hours ago||
I would really like to know some stats about the Voronoi cells, like average size, largest and smallest...
froh 1 hour ago|
yes! and population numbers!
computerfriend 4 hours ago||
Here's a similar analysis for Hong Kong: https://khwongk12.medium.com/7-eleven-vs-circle-k-5964b8f008....
tramtrist 4 hours ago||
I live in Japan. This is great! Though with all the overlay it’s hard to pinpoint my neighborhood. A gps loc button or the ability to temporarily turn off the colors would help! Thank you for making such a fun thing :)
ximeng 2 hours ago|
Yes - hard to see e.g. city labels on the map under all the pie charts.
wodenokoto 3 hours ago|
What’s the source for combini locations?

I’ve actually been interested in that data for a back burner project for some years now.

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