One of my relatives, who hails from @siggy47's cultural region, was trying to relay a news event to me and used the phrase "one of those Japanese countries" to describe the location that he couldn't recall.
The bounty goes to the first stacker who correctly guesses which country he was referring to.
Only one guess per stacker per hour
1,000 sats paid
Iceland
!!!!!!!!
Where's the option to pay the bounty?
@sox, the "pay bounty" button wasn't there when I clicked on this comment from my notifications.
Mhh, I can't reproduce in dev...
If you're talking about the full comment view (top) then it's normal to not see the
pay bountybutton, even though we should probably add it.If you're not, then it's odd 🤔
When I was only seeing the comment I wanted to pay, the button wasn't there.
When I opened the full post and scrolled to it, the button was there.
The thing is:
This is the layout of a comment in which the pay bounty button cannot appear
Instead, this is where it'll appear:
I hope that this is what you meant ç_ç
I'm going to create a feature request to support the button on full comment view.
edit: here you go ^^
Yes, that is what I meant.
On ridiculous threads like this one, it can be hard to find the comment. If I had just clicked on "parent", would that have taken me to the view of the comment that has the button?
Exactly. It’s not really clear, to the user, what clicking
parentdoes, and there are a lot of stuff like this on SN.we’re going to address these UX holes 🫡
In most cases that I've experienced, opening on the parent comment would be better anyways.
Wooooo
I have no idea how Japan is related
The news was a tsunami
Ah, yes a tsunami is a very Japanese thing
Now there's a pay bounty button here, but it appears unpaid
You can pay bounties multiple times to the same user, but not the same comment - if this is what you were seeing
It's also showing on everyone else's comments
How did you tease out Iceland in the end?
I had to look up the details that he could remember to figure out where it had happened
It appears paid on my end
I wonder if this thread has some caching issues
There was a tsunami in Iceland???
There's a lot of seismic activity in the mid-Atlantic rift
I was so close when I said Greenland. The answer was the same as my question from the saloon.
Ha! Your question from the saloon is what made me think of this.
Haha, then I should get a share of the dividends. Just kidding! I don’t remember any news about a tsunami in Iceland. I remember the volcano though!
It was probably caused by volcanic activity
What in the fuck
Well done!
I was going with London for my next guess haha
I still want to say Suriname. It's the most japanese-sounding latin-american country I know.
Contest is over. @SimpleStacker got it with Iceland
I know, but Suriname is the most japanese-sounding latin-american country I know.
So, I DEMAND the result of the contest to be changed.
You'll need a time-machine and a tsunami generator, then.
I have some of those, will be back in 5
This is a psyop. PhD economists are known to run cruel human experiments.
Experimental econ does not make use of deception. The experiment is what it seems to be.
That's exactly what an experimental economist would say.
How have we not figured this out yet. There are only 195 countries.
Tonga
Tonga is the new civilization available in Civ 7, it became available on the 4th of this month! ahah
That's interesting. I'm pretty sure they've never had Tonga before.
maybe it's not a country
Even if not, no one has guessed the country it's in or that has an internationally recognized claim over it.
That's what I am thinking. But the rules seem to imply it is. "The bounty goes to the first stacker who correctly guesses which country he was referring to."
It might be ambiguously referring to his calling the place a country.
This is clearly a rug pull to earn rewards. Haha
Someone got close a while ago, but then you've all been getting colder.
People keep repeating guesses, for one
This post’s got a 'bug' when sorting items by ‘recent’. It doesn’t sort here, only works after you click ‘recent’ and hit refresh (F5). After the items are sorted, new comments don’t show up at the top. cc/ @k00b @ek @sox
I can reproduce here, but not in dev. Let's see what's causing this.
For now one clue is that this only happens in client-side navigation: click on a comment -> from the top SN bar go back -> sorts stop working
edit: only here
Weird, the 'recent' filter is already working.
An issue to track progress on this bug has been opened!
https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/2634
Thanks for the shoutout!
This confirms my suspects on pagination. When there are a lot of comments, but we didn’t reach the threshold for pagination, comments get duplicated (2-3 times).
Thanks for noticing, I’m working on a fix ^^
Am I tripping or are a lot of the comments on this thread duplicated lol??
No, you’re not tripping…
Seems there are some issues with pagination that are related with the issue @0xbitcoiner reported. I’ll open a github issue in the meantime.
Sorting my recent worked on desktop but not on mobile for me just fyi
I've never broken Stacker News before
That should earn me a badge
Thanks for the tip
ARUBA!
It totally lines up with the tips we've had so far. I just don't get what it has to do with Japan, though!
Say it with a Japanese accent
Who said it has anything to do with Japan?
you
fake hint? ahh
touché
At least that hint you dropped in the saloon is real? I remember someone posting something about Paraguay.
Is that your guess?
Yeah, you could totally treat it as a guess. ahah
Just remembered someone also posted about Madeira, Argentina, and Mexico. haha
No
It's hilarious that this is still going
Sri Lanka
I think that's been said?
It seems like there's an upper bound on the progress because as the thread becomes unsearchable people can't avoid repeating guesses.
I did not anticipate breaking the pagination limit
kind of an interesting economics idea... the production of new knowledge is constrained by our ability to recall past knowledge.
nope
Maldives
no
Mauritius
Nope
Azerbaijan
I think that was already guessed, but it's getting hard to remember or check
Haha I don’t know why I picked that. Ends in AN like Japan. Grasping at straws
I better drop a hint in the @saloon
i said that one
Kosovo
nope
Djibouti ????
nope
You guys are going to guess every other country first
It's Hong Kong isn't it
Asked and answered
I was thinking that too.
good one
Panama
no
Did this even happen? Is there a right answer?
This did happen and there is one correct answer
Is the answer a country?
I don't want to answer that directly because I like watching the collective thought process, so I'll say that I'm surprised no one has gotten it yet and that someone was very close
Who?
That I also will not answer directly, and not just because I don't feel like checking
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Someone already guessed that
Yeah, it's just a location that someone from the NY metropolitan area referred to as a Japanese country. I'll add that it's not so obscure that you all shouldn't be able to get it, but it was funny enough for me to make this post.
Gotta be Flushing then
Very funny!
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nope
Fiji
Already taken
Good thought, since it looks like Fuji
Good ol' U S of A
Nope
Uruguay !!
I hope that displays
Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Nope. Did someone already guess all the other Timors?
Are there any other Timors?
West Timor :)
Nope, but maybe it was one of the others
Ahaha, good one! There are two Timors, Timor-Leste (East Timor), which is independent and used to be a Portuguese colony, and then there’s West Timor, which is part of Indonesia.
South Timor
Shockingly, no
India and Pakistan are constantly fighting for Kashmir.
I already said no to both India and Pakistan, though
Can't keep up with all these replies, man. This is my last one, I'm out!
Guyana
Too bad. I'm pretty sure you were the closest to getting it.
You shouldn't have said that, I already mentioned places from every continent, that's no help at all! ahaha
Ahh, but it also means you've mentioned places other people overlooked
Peru
What's Japanese about Peru?
No
They got eyes like the Japanese over there. Haha
Last try: Alaska
That's a good guess, for undisclosed reasons, but no
Chinatown, San Francisco
lol
@siggy47 grandparents are from Lombardi?
No. Calabria, Bari, and Abruzzo. I'm from the lazy south, not the industrious north.
You do realize this will affect our relationship moving forward?
You're not the first
Now halal certified!
Calabria for the win!
Jamaica
Already tried, doesn't count as your guess
(The guy was talking about Kentucky all along)
I know that wasn't a real guess, but for the sake of completeness, no
Finland.
someone already tried that
I put a map of the guesses so far in the saloon and there have only been a few more since
I'm out as only one guess is allowed. But is it Palau?
Oh thanks. Btw it kinda rhymed, right?
That doesn’t matter anymore! Haha, people are showing symptoms of the Halloween infection! ahahah
Already taken
Tonga
Sounds like Honda
Pretty good, but no and I'm not sure if that's warmer or colder
🤣
Mauritius
already guessed
still no one has this? sheesh
Norway
Still, no one has it
Micronesia
I guessed this one
Afghanistan
People from the NYC area are hyper aware of Afghanistan's existence
According to your map it might still be the closest country to japan that hasn't yet been guessed haha
Kyrgystan was closer
New Zealand
They do look kinda similar, but no
worth a shot
It really was
Reasonable... They look the same on a map!
Parece que está hora nadie la gana, un weeaboo , Otaku y sino mi anime favorito one piece, desconozco la cultura o prototipo estadunidense soy de otro país planeta galaxia sistema estelar 😂.
iran
no
Bueno supongo que Japón es un sólo país así que tal ves como como solemos generalizar, cada ves que vemos a un asiático solo lo definimos por chino. Tú amigo quiso decir lo mismo no se definió por un país más bien por cualquier asiático, da la respuesta igual para salir de dudas 👍
This is about getting inside the mind of a certain type of American
Myanmar?
We're working our way around the coast...nope
I’m also just trying to think of what would have been in the news.
Smart, although I didn't say when this happened. Maybe he was talking about Burma.
If it turns out to be Burma, I call shenanigans!
No, not Burma either
Kuwait
nope
The Philippines
Someone beat you to that guess. Try again
Must be Russia
Why?
It's not
Eastern Russia is basically Japan.
True
el salvador
no
Mexico
nope
Kyrgyzstan
No
Guadacanal
Bali
nope
I'm back! hahaha. It'd be handy if you pinned a comment with the real hints, though.
Madagascar?
nope
Real hints will go in the saloon
Jeju island ?
Where’s that?
it's in south korea
Is it one of those small contested islands?
no, it's a vacation destination, like the hawaii of korea
Gotcha. That would have been included in the South Korea guesses, anyway.
India ?
I'm surprised it lasted so long, but no
Argentina
no
Fiji
Islands, sounds like "Fuji", kinda "over there"...good guess
Samoa
Already picked, try again
It's beyond me how is that so many are so unwilling to take a second to hit Ctrl+F before posting.
Ctrl f is doable but hard on mobile
Fair point
Tajwan 🇹🇼 ?
already taken
Samoa
Nope. That's sort of the direction I was going with my guesses too.
I figured since there is a lot of Japenese heritage in the Pacific Island nations it might be one of those and then I thought maybe he was confusing Samoa with Sumo. Haha
You're definitely getting into the right mental space
New Caledonia
I hope we're almost done with these
Wallis and Futuna
Good grief. Now I have to look up whether the guesses are even places.
Turkey~~ (technically, also in Asia).
But many people usually think of East Asian countries when they think of Asia...
Turkey still has a bit of land in Europe, actually, Istanbul’s the only capital in the world that sits on two continents!
Who said anything about Asia?
Funny. I internalized "Asian country", not "Japanese country" when I read your post.
Probably says something about me.
Hmm, my next absurd guess then would be "Italy" in relation to the Tripartite Pact during WWII. In case your relative is somehow mentally stuck in old history...
Very generous of you to still assume an intellectually coherent base for the statement
Palestine
No, but that would have been very funny
lmao
China
That would have made some sense, but nope
It's clearly gotta be absurd enough for you to make note of it
Ah, but exactly how absurd would it have to have been for me to take note of it?
The phrase alone jumped out at me as being hilarious long before I figured out where he was talking about.
🤣
Taiwan
Reasonable guess, but no
Hmmm it's got to be something absurd then.
Almost any answer following that phrase would be absurd
Easter Island
Come on, that would have been "the one with the heads".
India
Don't think anyone said that yet?
Someone did
This is getting ridiculous now. The only thing we haven't said is Antarctica!
That is not the only thing that hasn't been guessed
I'll give a hint that it is not a country with a claim on Antarctica
Ya me dijiste tonga y Azerbaiyán, creo que tú estás tan perdido como yo 😂
Gabon
nope
Dokdo/Takeshima Islands?
Tibet?
Nope
Germany
Going historical?
Good thinking, but no
India
Already taken
Nope
Dokdo!
/s
Macau, the last Portuguese colony.
I think that was already guessed
Ok alguien me dice por fin que país es
Vietnam
nope
I would say Brazil because is the second country with more Japanese after Japan, but it doesn’t fits your narrative.
No, it really doesn't fit the narrative. Maybe he meant Brazil for some other reason, though.
Hong Kong, my last try
Good thought but no
South Korea
I think that was my first guess, too
Mine too
Vietnam
Already taken
I've edited it. Is that allowed?
It's allowed.
It wasn't Vietnam
Indonesia.
I'm surprised that was still available, but it's not correct
I was surprised too, checked twice
maldives
Nice one, but no
Marshall Islands
Micronesia ??
nope
Thailand
I can see why you might expect that
Not many shots left, but since we only get one shot an hour, I gotta chill and stay quiet! I'll hit this up again tomorrow! Haha
You don't have to stay quiet. You just can't make any more guesses.
Canada :)
Canada doesn't seem very Japanese
Lots of good sushi restaurants in Canada.
Sri Lanka
Good try
@remindme in 1 hour
Womp womp
north korea
I want to say that you're getting colder, but I'm not sure exactly what that means.
getting colder coz i'm going further north?
You are going further North
Pacific Ocean
Actually, no
Marshall Islands
nope
Los Angeles ?
nope, it wasn't said to denigrate the place in any way.
He was just trying to describe where something happened.
Uzbekistan
nope
How about Pakistan
nope, I imagine he would have said one of those Arab countries, but who knows
Papua New Guinea?
Surprised that one lasted so long...no
Brunei?
I was actually wondering what he would have said if it were Brunei
Can't wait to find out 😂
Someone got very close
Combodia
already taken
Tajikistan
no
Venezuela
no
It's definitely Japan.
It's definitely not
hahaha well I tried.
Someone had to try it
Switzerland. A wild guess 😁
When you've eliminated the probable, whatever's left, no matter how implausible, must be the truth.
Still, nope
Finland 😊
nope
Albania, just because I heard a news story, and honestly, I don’t even remember which one! Haha
Ahh, I didn't say it was a recent news story, though
Vanuatu?
Deep cut, but no
Hokkaido.
no
French Polynesia?
nope
Greenland
https://www.secretatlas.com/handbook/culture-and-history/arctic/greenlandic-inuit
no cigar
Jamaica
Island, starts with a J, might be in Asia for all he knows...good guess, but no
UK
No
Kazakhstan
No
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Australia
Nope
Philippines
Solid guess
Maybe the Solomon Islands?
No, but that would have been nice for you
Azerbaijan
No
Tunisia
No
Califórnia
Now we're getting outside of the box...nope
Nepal
Bald mountain monks, martial arts probably...good guess but no
Hawaii
Surprisingly, already taken
Hawaii?
I love that guess, but no
Singapore
nope
Laos
No cigar
Okinawa
It was its own country once before it got taken over by Japan. So it is one of the Japanese countries
Good thinking...no
Cambodia
Nice try
Midway island?
nope
Thailand
already taken
Palau?
nope
Guam?
Solid guess, but no
Bhutan
nope
Northern Mariana Islands?
Nope
Malaysia
This is going to take a while
Mongolia.
It's been an hour already? Wow
Not Mongolia
I thought the same thing.
Bueno cuál fue la respuesta, quiero dormir y está idea de saber me 🤯 ya tomé Paracetamol así que vamos con premio o sin premio, ahora estoy leyendo los artículos de @siggy47, soy fan a la lectura así que vamos di la respuesta
Thailand
Already taken, try again
To any other stacker who might want to take a shoot, I leave suggested: Palau and Bangladesh.
Corea del Sur
Someone already tried that. Feel free to try again
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I think that was already guessed
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What would that connection be, Buddhism?
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Nope
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This thread is turning up so many countries I forgot even existed
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