The Rise and Reign of Japanese VCRs [video](youtube.com)
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The Rise and Reign of Japanese VCRs [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CMv5V-wxT8
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Asianometry is one of the most interesting channels on YouTube. Highly recommend to anyone interested in semi-conductors, general economics and historical technological advancement.
I like the topics, just put off a bit by the delivery and writing.
I really like both, and it's my only Patreon subscription so far. Easily one of the best YouTube channels out there.
Especially appealing is that he isn't CONSTANTLY SHOUTING ALL THE TIME like most content creators (looking at you, GamersNexus) and playing this godawful YouTube thumbnail game where it has to have your face with some wildly over the top reaction. (He's actually very private about not being in photos.)
Especially appealing is that he isn't CONSTANTLY SHOUTING ALL THE TIME like most content creators (looking at you, GamersNexus) and playing this godawful YouTube thumbnail game where it has to have your face with some wildly over the top reaction. (He's actually very private about not being in photos.)
Yep, Asianometry puts information out there, of another level.
One more channel i really like, is NightHawkinsLight. He did a video yesterday about multivariate analysis, i was blown away.
One more channel i really like, is NightHawkinsLight. He did a video yesterday about multivariate analysis, i was blown away.
Having watched nearly all his videos I find the delivery and writing to be excellent, there is humor at times and the dry delivery works well for that once you get to know his personality.
To each his own, but I find it all very relaxing and pleasant without the all the hyperbole that is usually YouTube.
To each his own, but I find it all very relaxing and pleasant without the all the hyperbole that is usually YouTube.
Same. There's something I dislike quite enough without being able to put down what it is (too dry?) even though every topic he touches is interesting and he brings lots of nice details.
Similarly there's a channel named physionics feeling the same
Similarly there's a channel named physionics feeling the same
I am assuming Asianometry’s YouTube channel is just the writer reading aloud his substack posts, if true that would be another way to consume his content.
As an aside, the opening frame of that video is, I think, a touristic bird's eye view map by Hatsusaburō Yoshida. He made thousands of these maps (with assistants), including one of Hiroshima after the bomb.
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/birds-eye-view-maps-cartographe...
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/birds-eye-view-maps-cartographe...
I love this. Thank you for sharing.
One of the things that is little known among Westerners is just how much money the Japanese invested in China when Deng Xiaoping opened the borders. Yes he travelled to Texas and Singapore but he also met with Japanese industrialists- just like their Western counterparts however they underestimated the CCP's ambitions.
One cannot help chuckling when at 28:20, discussing VCR market penetration levels, they note
> Notably, X-rated tapes also helped with that penetration
> Notably, X-rated tapes also helped with that penetration
This is a fun Japanese TV movie about the invention of VHS: https://rarefilmm.com/2020/05/hi-wa-mata-noboru-2002/
It's arguable how relevant Asianometry stories are to the startup world - because most span many years - but they are beautifully stylized economics, management and tech stories. And totally relevant as tech history lessons. Stylized into suitable length videos.
No doubt not complete but attractive overviews.
At some point some videos might address the startup world?
No doubt not complete but attractive overviews.
At some point some videos might address the startup world?
Also excellent, the 4-part "A Video History of Japan's Electronic Industry":
1) https://youtu.be/XLlIb_p11cM?si=LMA6uR-EcvjVZR_M
2) https://youtu.be/fRCqhSONNiE?si=8frYLqkzIEjxV1f-
3) https://youtu.be/dr39TOEAbpY?si=2v1r8UlV5Da5ffNh
4) https://youtu.be/1XjSFCZeWvE?si=0aJpApfgrl8mwzV4
1) https://youtu.be/XLlIb_p11cM?si=LMA6uR-EcvjVZR_M
2) https://youtu.be/fRCqhSONNiE?si=8frYLqkzIEjxV1f-
3) https://youtu.be/dr39TOEAbpY?si=2v1r8UlV5Da5ffNh
4) https://youtu.be/1XjSFCZeWvE?si=0aJpApfgrl8mwzV4
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> It's arguable how relevant Asianometry stories are to the startup world - because most span many years - but they are beautifully stylized economics, management and tech stories. And totally relevant as tech history lessons. Stylized into suitable length videos.
No doubt not complete but attractive overviews.
> At some point some videos might address the startup world?
It’s arguable how relevant startups are to current HN users, now that you mention it. Or, to put it another way, it’s arguable how relevant that gatekeeping is to HN; downvoting submissions isn’t a feature for a reason, and flagging is for posts that violate HN guidelines.
I am mostly kidding, but I couldn’t resist poking fun at:
0) my own expense as an HN user;
1) a HN user’s dismissal of a frontpage post on HN, which seems oxymoronic, and possibly against HN guidelines when such dismissal is not just of the content of the OP but also of HN and its users, as it seems implied that FP posts belong on HN axiomatically, tacitly, and implicitly, as the users of HN have made it so by voting;
2) at how subtly insipid and at once droll it is to be you and me, stand-ins in for HN writ large:
me liking this post and Asianometry, writing this comment, then posting to to HN in response to you;
you who backhandedly compliments OP by extension and offhandedly praises HN by proxy, both of us earnest and with good intentions, knowing that likely nothing will change, yet locked in this vicious cycle of posting and commenting, call and response, tit for tat, no rhyme or reason, not quite forever but almost, til the heat death of the universe, all matter quantum tunneling to lead and so isolated from all other matter that any kind of interaction is literally and metaphorically impossible, at which point there is no more OP, HN, you, or me, and yet, there’s so much nothing that quantum foam virtual particles cause an entirely new universe or enough thereof to cause another Big Bang just springs into existence;
3) the fact that it may not be the first time this has happened before.
It stands to reason that it’s the users of HN who determine what is relevant to them, and which posts reach the top, such as this post right here, and that arguably such posts as reach the frontpage belong on HN as voted on by HN, QED.
That said, I’m not trying to be pedantic or to insult you here, though your comment seems to “damn with faint praise” while also implying that the HN voters who posted and upvoted this submission and also Asianometry YouTube channel subscribers are wrong to like what they like, this post.
Furthermore, the rest of your comment and even the parts I was critical of are in a superposition as regards the HN guidelines; for, by posting your comment, you may have ensured not just the survival of HN by creating original content, you have ensured that my post in response was on this, our shared timeline, possibly even ensuring the survival of the human species into perpetuity, one can hope.
For all that and more, for the same reasons I hope you made it this far with me in my comment, I hope my upvote brings you solace in the endless time we have left, and that it brings you comfort in the boundless possibilities we have yet to contemplate, yet alone calculate.
If you made it this far, it’s already too late. Don’t worry though: this is not the beginning of the end, just the end of the beginning.
Thank you for reading. You’ve been a great commenter and certainly prompted me to write a doozy myself. To you, to OP, to the rest of HN and the wider internet at large, to all of us here and those who have gone before, please bow your heads, raise your glasses, and join me in a toast to our past, our present, and our future posts. They are not yet written. Please tip your dang.
/s
> At some point some videos might address the startup world?
It’s arguable how relevant startups are to current HN users, now that you mention it. Or, to put it another way, it’s arguable how relevant that gatekeeping is to HN; downvoting submissions isn’t a feature for a reason, and flagging is for posts that violate HN guidelines.
I am mostly kidding, but I couldn’t resist poking fun at:
0) my own expense as an HN user;
1) a HN user’s dismissal of a frontpage post on HN, which seems oxymoronic, and possibly against HN guidelines when such dismissal is not just of the content of the OP but also of HN and its users, as it seems implied that FP posts belong on HN axiomatically, tacitly, and implicitly, as the users of HN have made it so by voting;
2) at how subtly insipid and at once droll it is to be you and me, stand-ins in for HN writ large:
me liking this post and Asianometry, writing this comment, then posting to to HN in response to you;
you who backhandedly compliments OP by extension and offhandedly praises HN by proxy, both of us earnest and with good intentions, knowing that likely nothing will change, yet locked in this vicious cycle of posting and commenting, call and response, tit for tat, no rhyme or reason, not quite forever but almost, til the heat death of the universe, all matter quantum tunneling to lead and so isolated from all other matter that any kind of interaction is literally and metaphorically impossible, at which point there is no more OP, HN, you, or me, and yet, there’s so much nothing that quantum foam virtual particles cause an entirely new universe or enough thereof to cause another Big Bang just springs into existence;
3) the fact that it may not be the first time this has happened before.
It stands to reason that it’s the users of HN who determine what is relevant to them, and which posts reach the top, such as this post right here, and that arguably such posts as reach the frontpage belong on HN as voted on by HN, QED.
That said, I’m not trying to be pedantic or to insult you here, though your comment seems to “damn with faint praise” while also implying that the HN voters who posted and upvoted this submission and also Asianometry YouTube channel subscribers are wrong to like what they like, this post.
Furthermore, the rest of your comment and even the parts I was critical of are in a superposition as regards the HN guidelines; for, by posting your comment, you may have ensured not just the survival of HN by creating original content, you have ensured that my post in response was on this, our shared timeline, possibly even ensuring the survival of the human species into perpetuity, one can hope.
For all that and more, for the same reasons I hope you made it this far with me in my comment, I hope my upvote brings you solace in the endless time we have left, and that it brings you comfort in the boundless possibilities we have yet to contemplate, yet alone calculate.
If you made it this far, it’s already too late. Don’t worry though: this is not the beginning of the end, just the end of the beginning.
Thank you for reading. You’ve been a great commenter and certainly prompted me to write a doozy myself. To you, to OP, to the rest of HN and the wider internet at large, to all of us here and those who have gone before, please bow your heads, raise your glasses, and join me in a toast to our past, our present, and our future posts. They are not yet written. Please tip your dang.
/s
I am also the submitter. I like Asianometry. I think it is relevant to HN.
(It's business and economics - and tech history - as it works in the real world. Both interesting and useful.)
(It's business and economics - and tech history - as it works in the real world. Both interesting and useful.)
In case it wasn’t obvious:
My post was a bit, and not necessarily directed at you, but simply a response. I liked your post, your comment, the linked channel to which I already sub, and HN.
The punchline is I didn’t even notice you were the one who posted this to HN til you mentioned it, and if I had I would’ve written the same thing I’d like to think. It makes it all the more amusing to me that my comment didn’t need that context at the time and if I hadn’t made it, you would have no comment of mine to reply to.
How deep does this rabbit hole go, anyway?
“/s” is for “satire” indeed.
My post was a bit, and not necessarily directed at you, but simply a response. I liked your post, your comment, the linked channel to which I already sub, and HN.
The punchline is I didn’t even notice you were the one who posted this to HN til you mentioned it, and if I had I would’ve written the same thing I’d like to think. It makes it all the more amusing to me that my comment didn’t need that context at the time and if I hadn’t made it, you would have no comment of mine to reply to.
How deep does this rabbit hole go, anyway?
“/s” is for “satire” indeed.
I had noticed the /s for satire or sarcasm. And it took a little effort to untangle the pronouns and such but I did notice that you didn't notice that I was the submitter. So I clarified but kept it short.
I felt that you were almost critical of something you also enjoy for sake of the discussion, and I extrapolated pretty far. Into space even. You’re kind to accommodate my musings. Thanks for being here and sharing.
On a tangent, the Japanese electronic trade group blocked the manufacture of Dual Deck VCRs in the '80s. Go-Video[1] had a arranged for a Japanese manufacturer to manufacture for them when the trade group went in an nixed the deal.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Video
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Video