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I very rarely suggest edits to HN titles but I feel like adding "for two hours" makes the title a lot truer than the New York Times' one, and that after you hav
by patio11 7y ago
I very rarely suggest edits to HN titles but I feel like adding "for two hours" makes the title a lot truer than the New York Times' one, and that after you have the true title with the "Wow, Japan, how charmingly inscrutable" removed from it, there is very little reason to read the rest of it.
Abacuses are a niche hobby in Japanese schools, in the same fashion that e.g. competitive poetry recital is a niche hobby in American schools, and are factually not taught in the fashion that e.g. poetry is taught in American schools.
- dang 7y agoOk, we replaced the title above with the tournament aspect, which are presumably a little less fictional. Thanks!
- JJMcJ 7y agoFriend had a Japanese style abacus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroban#/media/File:Soroban.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroban#/media/File:Soroban.JP... I played around with it a bit, it was great fun but no match for Excel.
- JJMcJ 7y agoAnd there are abacuses very similar in usage in Roman times. The Japanese ones, conforming to stereotype, seem to be the most elegant.