knolax

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by knolax 7y ago
What stood out about the author being from Guangdong? It's one of the most populous and economically/culturally influential regions of the country. Also Canton is just an archaic spelling of Guangdong, similar to Peking/Beiji
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by knolax 7y ago
The article you cite lists no source for the crematorium factoid. In addition to that, it also cites the Daily Mail, a tabloid that is banned from Wikipedia. If you google around for the crematorium factoid, you will find that almost all ar
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by knolax 7y ago
Disclaimer: I don't agree with the opinions presented on Sixth Tone or any other publication for that matter. We've now progressed to the point where even objectively true information that isn't prefaced with "I HATE THE
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by knolax 7y ago
You're doing the same thing as GP by being unnecessarily condescending.
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by knolax 7y ago
But does your mother read Wired?
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by knolax 7y ago
> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells Who's the target audience for this analogy? If you understand what a brain cell is then you probably know what a transistor is too. I would bet that more people know w
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by knolax 7y ago
It's not irrational to not want to run arbitrary, poorly sand-boxed code just to read some text.
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by knolax 7y ago
> Most were doing chores or actual work throughout history. I have to disagree, the young of other social animals like dogs and lions all spend most of their time "playing". This, combined with the fact that a human child is co
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by knolax 7y ago
Don't forget their "market moving bonuses" https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/12/the-bloomberg-m...
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by knolax 7y ago
> which I assume isn't primarily Japanese speakers, otherwise they wouldn't be using romaji for the names Romaji gets used for stylistic purposes for plenty of things that aren't meant for non-Japanese. Surely as a manga r
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by knolax 7y ago
> I have to say that running into a partisan defending the honor of the late Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the internet is a new experience That's a really unnecessary quip to make against GP, especially since you failed to address the s
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by knolax 7y ago
The aesthetics would be ruined by left to right writing. You don't make a website about "traditional" colors and purposely use a Mincho font and not also use the traditional orientation. The color name underneath isn't &
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by knolax 7y ago
I see Latin characters embedded in vertical CJK text a lot and have encountered both the method the website uses and the one you proposed. In my opinion your method is harder to read because most people read entire clusters of letters at a
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by knolax 7y ago
First sentence I see: " You remember the editorial in issue 9 of the newsletter on why adapt space to humans where can adapt humans to space " Am I having a stroke?
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They're going to have to use Rabbis to decipher this stuff in the future.
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by knolax 7y ago
The keycaps are beautiful. What switches did you use?
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by knolax 7y ago
I find your opinion regarding the Latin Alphabet to be very common in conlang communities. However, I have to disagree with this sentiment. I have not in years encountered a system that does not use some sort of Unicode as its character set
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by knolax 7y ago
I feel that this paranoia of bots has become a modern Red Scare. It becomes impossible online to express certain unpopular opinions without being instantly labeled a bot or shill no matter how well backed your argument is. In fact I've
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by knolax 7y ago
I think there's more nuance to that. Not all truths are as easily proven as 2+2=4. Usually an echo chamber is only considered as such when the people parroting a "fact" do so with confidence that far exceeds any proof that th
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by knolax 7y ago
In my experience monolingual people underestimate the effort it takes to use your non-dominant language(s). For example, I could theoretically communicate in Spanish, but the effort it takes to deal with romance language conjugation is a le
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by knolax 7y ago
More like an electronic typewriter. Seems like outside of that one application, all the other software running on the Raspberry Pi is still the standard Linux stack. According to the translation in the other comments, the article likewise o
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by knolax 7y ago
What is the technological advantage of proving the ABC conjecture? Seems like any application for it would comparatively take much more time to develop than whatever time advantage can be gained through obsfucation.
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by knolax 7y ago
Is there a Japanese version fo the paper available?
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by knolax 7y ago
I would be pissed too if I were a professor and some undergrads insisted on speaking about mathematics to me in Japanese simply because they view it as a "lingua franca". The argument that "English is the lingua franca"
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by knolax 7y ago
The thing I've always wondered about ponchos is how they shape them. Unlike serapes they're usually not squares, so how does the weaver know exactly where to stop weaving to get the right shape? Or are they just cut from a square
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by knolax 7y ago
Repeated exposure to the idea that anything wrong with one of Musk's projects is the end of the world could probably produce an extreme opposite response, even if they weren't interested in Musk at first.
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by knolax 7y ago
Is there a difference between "tired" amd "stressed" in this context?
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by knolax 7y ago
https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/NVIDIAExternalCareerSit... https://jobs.amd.com/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=&locatio... The Nvidia WeWork link might not work but you can look for job po
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by knolax 7y ago
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=china-CHNC&team... Look for yourself how many postings they have for software and hardware positions in China.
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by knolax 7y ago
So does Apple.

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