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by naravara 7y ago
Do Turks call it the word for coffee or is it referred to as "Turkish coffee?" though? In Thai the Thais themselves call these things "X Thai" in their own language. Like it makes sense to me that we might have domestic
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by naravara 7y ago
This article and your comment actually clarified a lot for me. I always thought it was strange how many quintessentially "Thai" things have the word "Thai" in their names (muay thai, pad Thai, Thai tea, etc.) It didn&#x2
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by naravara 7y ago
Sadly I can't find a non-JSTOR link[1] but there is an argument out there about the general value of maintaining a "nuclear taboo" in preventing escalation of the type you're talking about. The idea being that even if yo
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by naravara 7y ago
I remember Thai restaurants being fairly fancy back in the '90s and early 2000s. Its evolution into regular "take out" food over the past ~20 years has been interesting to see.
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by naravara 7y ago
>I believe because the unions have an interest in increasing their membership, not letting it atrophy and decrease due to time and deaths. It really depends. The smaller the organizing unit, the more short-sighted they're going to b
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by naravara 7y ago
>That aside, I also believe that I have a right to bias. This is equivalent to having a right to an opinion in almost all cases. If not, please specify the difference. This is like arguing that you have a "right" to have your c
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by naravara 7y ago
It wouldn't need to apply to ALL media, just whatever uses communal resources, like radio spectrum. Even if there is BS out there, having sources that are regarded as "sources of record" can help with establishing an authorit
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by naravara 7y ago
>I don't think we really want a centralized entity deciding what is "honest, fair, and equitable". I think what we want to do is reduce the incentive for media to be dishonest. I'd be interested to hear ideas about ho
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by naravara 7y ago
Reverse causality would be an interesting conclusion. Essentially asserting that articulate people with good memories are less likely to find TV appealing and would prefer to read or do something more interactive instead.
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by naravara 7y ago
>Maybe, but the problem is that smokers cost the company a lot more than non-smokers, due to this country's strange expectation that your employer should subsidize your health insurance. This gets dangerously close to validating dis
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by naravara 7y ago
>People aren't going to give up single family detached homes with garages and yards until they have to. That housing stock will eventually rot away as people age and their local governments can't afford to maintain the infrastr
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by naravara 7y ago
>Which is more likely to end the suburban madness: land war / security breakdown or carbon tax? The hollowing out of the middle class will get there first. Already the outer ring suburbs and excessive McMansions are becoming concent
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by naravara 7y ago
>Like, sure single family homes in suburbia tend to look the same. You know what also looks the same from the outside? Apartments. Literally all you can see for each one is a window and maybe a balcony, and they all look identical. It re
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by naravara 7y ago
I haven't run afoul of the IRS, but my state tax collection agency didn't even bother notifying me of underpayment, they just sent my account straight to collections to have me hounded by debt collectors. After contracting with a
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by naravara 7y ago
>There was a Golden Age when Google would actually return results for interesting small sites on a regular basis. This was before they declared defeat in the Great Webspam War and (apparently) just upranked major sites and downranked min
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by naravara 7y ago
I feel like content discovery in those days didn't primarily happen via search so much as word-of-mouth though. Blogs kept a blogroll on the side which had an overlapping network of other bloggers, people in IRC channels or BBSes would
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by naravara 7y ago
That change wasn’t even because they didn’t think American kids would understand it. It was because they had a low opinion of the readership and thought nobody would read a book with “philosopher” in the title.
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by naravara 7y ago
Same with “Inside Out.” They replaced the broccoli on the plate with other vegetables in Japan because broccoli isn’t coded as something kids are disgusted by over there.
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by naravara 7y ago
If there were pinstripes and candy colored buttons it would have been OSX. If the windows were boxy and square it would have been one of the “classic” OSes.
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by naravara 7y ago
> I'm guessing that business processes in a company as big and successful as Amazon are well beyond the point of turning into a religious cult. And now we see adepts of such cults, sometimes familiar with only a single cult, without
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by naravara 7y ago
I think Amazon as a store is probably being deprioritized in favor of Amazon as a giant e-commerce facilitator that handles all the payment processing and backend logistics. The consequence has been ruining the storefront experience, but th
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by naravara 7y ago
> couple of decades ago I worked at a company that had about 200 Mac's and a similar number of PC's. One of our favorite practical jokes was to disable the mouse on Mac's. The victim quite literally could not do a thing wi
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by naravara 7y ago
Most of them should have a phone number somewhere on there that you have to call and ask to be taken off their list. There are also DMAchoice and CatalogChoice to take you off, but I'm never quite sure if it's working because I st
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by naravara 7y ago
>Many - if not most - of the residents of inner city slum areas were raised by single mothers who had them very young without the means to support them. They turned to drugs and gangs. They never graduated high school. In short, they nev
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by naravara 7y ago
>How could this come so far? Reagan began the process of "deinstitutionalization" which involved shutting down mental institutions and throwing their wards on the street. In theory, they were supposed to be sent to homes and pr
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by naravara 7y ago
>To motivate this with a somewhat blunt example, what if we had a typical GUI but named each control (button, field, etc) with a short code (1-2 letters), in the style of Vimperator/Tridactyl/Vimium? Excel basically does this.
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by naravara 7y ago
>The thing with Google Maps was that it was actually reasonably good and intuitive on mobile until sometime 5 or 7 years ago when someone (probably a UX designer : ) decided it had to be simplified. All Google stuff ended up doing this w
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by naravara 7y ago
>I agree. Err on the side of caution. If it "can't be done", it'll be figured out soon enough when trade is completely cut off. No. It took thousands of years of civilizational development to even create the state cap
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by naravara 7y ago
>Do you know how hard it would be for Apple to check out a mining operation? A plane trip and a few days of a couple people's time. No. Not at all. It takes more than that to vet suppliers in a place as developed as China. If you th
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by naravara 7y ago
>They can know more if they want to Sure they could. They would basically need to set up a modern version of the East India Trading Company, build themselves a mercenary army, and go in there and set up a proxy government that adheres to

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