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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
It's difficult if not impossible to transcribe something in an unknown writing system, since you can't even be sure which glyphs are the same. Wikipedia has a few attempts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyni
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Is there a solid source on what was actually collected?
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Correction: Keyhole became Google Earth. (Fun fact: the K in KML is Keyhole.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History Google Maps stems from an Australian company called Where2, which AFAIK was not funded b
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Of all Murakami's books, the one that made the biggest impression on me was "Underground", his non-fiction book consisting entirely of interviews with survivors of the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attacks in Tokyo. It's simultan
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
They can be trademarked, which is why you can't use "Harry Potter" without permission.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
I've gotten those too. The letters/emails are carefully worded so the subject screams "Pending domain registration!" to make you think it's your actual domain expiring, but the small print says that the service the
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Tungsten costs around $30k/ton, so you'd be looking at a cool $15M for that 500T cube. Lead goes for around $2k/ton, so this might be a more feasible compromise.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
This proposal would likely be a lot more economic if they could reuse existing holes, like abandoned mines. However, mines tend not to dig down vertically and the cost of retrofitting and maintenance would be non-trivial.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
I've worked for several companies that offered paid time off for volunteering. (With plenty of conditions and limits, of course.)
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Flying V long-distance plane makes its first flight as a scale model(newatlas.com)
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Wikidata and 1,204,986 Votes Decided: What Is the Best Thing?(youtube.com)
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Midlife crisis is a thing in itself. One day you realize 20 years have passed, your spouse is no longer the person you married, you don't like your kids, you hate your job and -- here's the crisis part -- it dawns on you that th
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
In Japan you need guarantors even for mundane things like renting an apartment. This is particularly difficult for immigrants if they don't know anybody and their employer won't sponsor them.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
The key insight (that older people count out seconds faster) is based on experimental science. The rest is more speculation. FWIW, I'm convinced that seconds felt slower when I was a child, and they now tick up faster than they used t
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
The modern Korean writing system (hangul) is unrelated to Chinese. Also, it's quite common for languages to be written in scripts originally developed for completely unrelated languages. Maltese is related to Arabic but written in the
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
https://ukiyoeheroes.com/
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Wizz Air’s Odd Fee for Buying a Ticket While Using an Ad Blocker(skift.com)
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
As always, Chinese takes this to the next level, since there are historical characters for which both meaning and pronunciation have been lost. A famous one is 篪, used exactly once in the Classic of Poetry (1000 BC), whose meaning was unk
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Good = tasty! As a random example, Yang's Dumpling http://www.xysjg.com/ sells exactly one thing, shengjianbao dumplings, and all their outlets have lines out the door. Even the holes in the wall with 20+ items tend
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
I presume you're talking about America, since I can assure you that in Asia QR codes are alive and well. In China in particular everything is done with QR.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
I'd beg to differ. Really good Chinese restaurants in China tend to specialize ruthlessly, selling only a few items. If anything, the "matrix menu" where you have X proteins in Y sauces for X*Y stir-fry combos is usually a
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Tampering with ballots will still be illegal, even if the company is private. That's also a bit of weird argument, since we're right now seeing how the USPS can easily be bent by political pressure precisely because it is a govt
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
But should the USPS be a public institution? Many countries have opted to privatize their postal services, admittedly with varying results, but with quite a few successes as well: you may have heard the package division of what was once
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Is my summary inaccurate? The article is very careful not to extend any political slant to its data and findings, please extend me the same courtesy. (I'm not even American.)
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
TL;DR: DeJoy's changes appear to have made USPS slightly slower (0.1-0.5 days) in some places, but much less than the delta caused by a holiday like July 4th (see note buried at the very end).
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
The 737 is a far larger plane. The Celera has capacity for 6 passengers, while you can cram over 200 into a 737. For a better comparison, the world's most popular aircraft, the four-seater Cessna 172, needs under 500 feet to take of
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Japan has an IPv4-like block system: a typical address is Prefecture City District 1-2-3-45, with 1-2-3 representing increasingly small divisions and the (optional) 4th element representing the apartment number. https://en.wikip
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
For a sneak peek into some of the most unexpectedly fascinating architecture in the Soviet Union (some brutalist, some very much not so), don't miss Soviet Bus Stops: http://herwigphoto.com/soviet-bus-stops/
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Who's criticising? The Octonauts is an awesome show, and this concept is awesome too!
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
I know these sound like conspiracy theories, but Ballard was actually on a secret US Navy mission to find some subs when he accidentally stumbled on the Titanic: https://www.wearethemighty.com/titanic-discovered-top-secret

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