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by HuShifang 7y ago
I don't have domain expertise here, but I suspect one example would be simple numerical calculation: electronic devices are so widely available today that hardly anyone can do long division in their head, or by hand for that matter, wh
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Agree. This is, actually, a regular (if not standard) practice in many domains of academic bibliography for Chinese authors (which is useful, as some individuals with Chinese personal and family names working in Anglophone contexts do follo
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by HuShifang 7y ago
A new edition of Grus comes out next week actually... https://www.amazon.com/Data-Science-Scratch-Principles-Pytho...
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Interesting. I'm an American, and once sustained a bloody but minor scrape of my knee when playing basketball in China. I went to the campus clinic/dispensary to obtain some bandages, since I couldn't find any that were the r
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Agreed. I would note too that the closest thing to a broad-spanning "formative" experience for US baby boomers was the Vietnam War -- but unlike WWII, elites essentially sat that one out, afflicted as they were with "bone spu
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Ask HN: Best mask for wildfire smoke / extreme air pollution, children included?
3 points by HuShifang 7y ago|2 comments
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Generally speaking, auditing is allowed solely at the professor's discretion (though as you surmise, I don't think institutions are fans of the concept). So, I'd definitely approach the professor directly. BUT I do think you
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I think the very reason why the commenter used the example of anti-Semitism is precisely because, taken on its own terms, it is, a priori, an indefensible position. Refusing to engage with such positions isn't so much righteous as just
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I'm an expert in something, and I suspect that you are as well. I don't engage with every argument about my domain of expertise that I encounter, because it would be impractical to do so: I have a finite amount of time and energy,
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I think the question is, does such an argument qualify as communication at all? There are many (sadly often rather abstruse) theorizations of communication in the cultural context out there, often bound up with the question of alterity (Lev
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by HuShifang 7y ago
A bit more of a deep dive, but stuff on Daoism (esp. Zhuangzi) might be a nice complement too -- it influenced Zen (or Chan, as it was called in its original Chinese form). And not coincidentally, Mihalyi's son Mark works mainly on Dao
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Of course, the Bay Area in general is comparable to other American metropolitan areas in terms of its number of children. https://www.kqed.org/news/11735556/map-where-do-kids-live-in...
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by HuShifang 7y ago
For the philosophically rigorous, Christine Korsgaard has a good newer book[1] on animal ethics and their implications that has significant bearing on some of the comments here. (And she's a rather better thinker than Peter Singer.) [1
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by HuShifang 7y ago
The amended S-1 from March 27, 2019 can be found at: https://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=133...
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Honestly, I'm much more familiar with China scholarship than Japan scholarship, and with historical scholarship than anthropological. But Bruce Batten's To the Ends of Japan might be worth a read. There are also quite a few scho
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by HuShifang 7y ago
> I guess saying "people coming from the geographical area that's now China" is more accurate. Agreed, but a significant number of scholars still think the Yayoi people came from what's now Korea, and I think that the
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by HuShifang 7y ago
Yup -- I just didn't want to go into too much detail. David Howell at Harvard has written quite a bit about identity in Japan -- see esp. "Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan" (2005).
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by HuShifang 7y ago
One thing: one really can't talk about "China" qua society, or "Chinese" qua ethnicity, in this context. While there's a long, long tradition of talking about Zhongguo 中國 ("the Middle Kingdom", though
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by HuShifang 7y ago
The Yamato ethnicity (大和民族 Yamato minzoku), primarily descended from the Yayoi people (who are relatively recent arrivals from the mainland, i.e. first millennium CE), historically occupied Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. They're the ethn
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by HuShifang 7y ago
I would note that some ESG ETFs in which I hold shares (i.e. where the portfolio make-up and allocations are informed, to some degree, by Environmental, Social, and Governance characteristics of the eligible corporations - basically a somew
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by HuShifang 8y ago
Bet the Financial Times doesn't do this. (See https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-t... -- whatever your politics she makes a fair point)
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by HuShifang 8y ago
If one wanted omega-3s of the DHA/EPA variety, there's algae oil. It's commonly available as a supplement from many of the same companies that produce fish oil supplements.
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Nagel on Korsgaard's Kantian Take on Ethics and Animal(nybooks.com)
2 points by HuShifang 8y ago|0 comments
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by HuShifang 8y ago
Unsubtle. See https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/02/07/reeducating-xinj...
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by HuShifang 8y ago
Well, when a philosopher considers physics, s/he is less a physicist than a meta-physicist -- literally considering that which is goes beyond physics and its premises. Take Lawrence Sklar[1] for example. (Obviously, this sort of thing
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by HuShifang 8y ago
Obviously not vegan . But, according to everything I've read, the so-called "Blue Zones" feature significantly fewer animal products in their diets than shorter-lived regions do in theirs. (And, Sicilians tend not to eat a l
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by HuShifang 8y ago
...Pending the next election -- which generally occurs 2-6 years later. (Or, in the case of passed referendums, some future election, depending on when the modifying referendum makes it on the ballot.) Leaving the EU is far less readily rev
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by HuShifang 8y ago
A 2-in-1 Chromebook (folding form factor) with a stylus and Crostini support for Linux apps may serve you well. I've been fairly happy with my Samsung Chromebook Pro on BART in the SF Bay Area -- in tablet mode I watch lectures using V
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by HuShifang 8y ago
I can't speak specifically to this topical domain, but generally speaking (assuming the research topic isn't politically sensitive) there are professional incentives to do transnational work -- whether it's publishing in Angl
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by HuShifang 8y ago
I think Velleman's "How To Prove It" might be useful.

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