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by Clewza313 5y ago
This article talks an awful lot about this hypothetical line, but for the Chinese themselves, the key distinction is between North and South. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_and_southern_China
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by Clewza313 5y ago
> But I wouldn’t be surprised if, at some point in the future, the Han started a systematic Han-ization of Tibet. The systematic "Han-ization" of Tibet has been ongoing since its annexation in 1950. The main cities like Lhas
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Javelin is a bit of an outlier in the Olympics in that throws today are nowhere near the records, even after the changes discussed in the article. The winning throw this year was 87.58m, with only one other competitor managing even 86m. T
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by Clewza313 5y ago
My wife was a professional translator and I did my master's thesis on the topic. With modern translation engines, there is no way you'll end up with "haze figuring" or "arbitrary timberland" translating one
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Sure, but there should never be a need to translate the same phrase back into English.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
This seems unlikely, since jicama is widely eaten in India as well, and much smaller than what the images depict. (I don't doubt it can grow that large, just that I've never seen it that big.) The texture also looks off for ji
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by Clewza313 5y ago
This may be feasible as a long term solution, but how do you bootstrap the energy-intensive process of extracting and purifying aluminum in the first place?
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Oddly enough, "one billion" can mean different amounts in different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
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by Clewza313 5y ago
> Letting forest fires burn in California, Oregon and Washington now wound remove the forests entirely. That's not how it works. Most larger trees survive fires just fine, they just don't look very pretty for a while afterwa
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by Clewza313 5y ago
> “The best living metaphor for it all is that you had some bloke on the other side of the planet telling you what to do and then just leaving,” the source claims. This is commonly known as seagull management: fly in, squawk a lot, shi
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by Clewza313 5y ago
That's the way it ought to be, but unfortunately that's not the way it is considered by many in reality, so it's rational for a candidate to want to avoid that situation.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Missed a real opportunity here to call it Tres Comas. The beginning of the video complete with awkward nerd dancing in a dayglo hoodie is also pitch-perfect Silicon Valley.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Surely the Soviets deserve some credit for never designing and continuing to fly something as hysterically unreliable and dangerous as the Shuttle? Although you do have to wonder how the Buran would have fared if it has survived the Soviet
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I hate to disappoint you, comrade, but the "lost cosmonauts" have been pretty thoroughly debunked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Soviet/Russian space program has a much better track record than the US: the US accounts for 15 of 19 spaceflight fatalities, and 9 of 11 training or test fatalities (including 1 for Virgin,
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I've had a can of tuna confiscated. The letter of the rule is that you can't have liquids (including, apparently, a few drops of tuna brine/oil) in a container over 100 ml, regardless of how much liquid there is in the conta
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I would beg to disagree. I've had some really good meals in the pointy end of the plane on Asian flights (JAL, Asiana and Singapore Airlines come to mind), and even in short-haul economy class the stuff eg. Thai dishes out is head a
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by Clewza313 5y ago
At the end of the day "this" (economic growth) is powered by using energy to multiply the impact of human labor. The Industrial Revolution kicked off because we learned how to harness steam powered by wood and coal, and how long
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by Clewza313 5y ago
In the US, perhaps, but brick construction still predominates in many countries including much of Africa, the Middle East and India. Not coincidentally, all three also have limited supplies of timber.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There are no really bad parts of Tokyo. One of most economically deprived areas, Minami-Senju/Minowa, is popular with backpackers and doesn't really look much different from anywhere else in suburban Tokyo to the untrained eye.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There are no territorial disputes in Europe that involve nuclear powers threatening total annihilation on neighbors. Seoul is within easy artillery range of the North, and the badly misnamed DMZ (or, rather, both sides outside the zone its
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by Clewza313 5y ago
During that time the USD has suffered around 88% inflation measures by CPI, so in real terms that implies they're going backwards.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I felt the same way about Japan when I first visited it in the late 1990s. Japan has stagnated badly since then, and due to the demographic crunch, it's essentially certain that Seoul in 2040 will look like Tokyo in 2020. (Unless Nor
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There is no problem with low birth rates in the long term. There are, however, massive problems during the many decades when the population pyramid is inverted and there are 4 or 5 retirees for every child, a ratio which Japan is about to
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How to Build a Hotel in Antarctica(executivetraveller.com)
3 points by Clewza313 5y ago|0 comments
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by Clewza313 5y ago
For readers needing a refresher in 1960s Soviet rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)
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A Brief History of Video Game Censorship in Singapore(singapore-samizdat.com)
2 points by Clewza313 5y ago|0 comments
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I had fourteen (14) interviews at my current employer, with a similar "how about this position instead?" switch in the middle, including redoing a whiteboard coding interview. I've been there 8 years and counting now, and my
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by Clewza313 5y ago
By "pop", people mean something like the impact of the GFC on many parts of the US, where houses were underwater on their mortgages and getting repossessed left and right. There's also reason to believe that the Australian pr
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Really? I had always assumed that unsold food gets thrown away (or maybe at a best case donated), and supply chains for bakeries etc are 100% separate by design.

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