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by pqhwan 6y ago
Well, I’m no pacifist. I’m saying that the latest US move will leave the world with two one-eyed superpowers still in conflict, still on equal footing, when we could’ve taken an arm or a leg.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
That would be above my paygrade, but you’d start by asking what cards the US holds on the world stage: the dollar, oil, technology (for now anyways).
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by pqhwan 6y ago
It’s hard to argue that an eye-for-an-eye response is unjustified, sure. But it’s easy to see that, in a conflict, direct, equivalent retaliation is often the least strategic response. It signals desperation (which reveals weakness), and a
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> “I don't like the persons who do the law enforcement, I want to become the law enforcement" IMO that’s an overly pessimistic view of those who push for community policing. In reality, it’s more like “we want people with stak
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by pqhwan 6y ago
I say this knowing that it is a blunt statement, but if you believe that being born (and your ancestors being born) in America (the continent) entitles you to the land more than newcomers, the notion doesn’t hold much historical water.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
I take it that you find this frustrating. But in this political climate, I find it understandable that people are “triggered“ when you put emphasis on the current state of things, even if it is a fact, than how we ended up here. Underneath
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> very few whites are as intelligent as blacks like Neil deGrasse Tyson or Barack Obama There is a stereotype of self-righteous closeted eugenics believers that I’m reminded of, when I read statements like this. But you go just short of
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by pqhwan 6y ago
> “they did A, B, C, etc. so we are responding with X after 10+ years“ It’s the same, reactionary logic, that fails to give first concern for the desired end state. Delaying reactionary measures is what many call patience.
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by pqhwan 6y ago
I dunno, it worries me to see popular narratives sinking back into nationalistic perspectives. This entrenches us in the “ they did A, so we will respond with B” logic, and from there, it only takes a few “reasonable” exchanges between
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by pqhwan 6y ago
I’m sorry, but of all the things I’ve read on HN regarding this pandemic, your lack of empathy truly stands out. Of the “millions other people” you mentioned, there are two types: those who feel a sense of duty to bear their share of burden
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Big or small, inefficient govt is inefficient. Pushing for “small govt” either misses the point, or is dishonest, possibly with an ulterior motive. I couldn’t possibly know what that motive is, but seems clear to me that a small inefficien
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by pqhwan 6y ago
Effectively US is pulling US-made chip design tools from under huawei’s manufacturing process. Seems that the political calculus is that this will damage huawei’s standing, at the expense of global technological cooperation. But to what end
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by pqhwan 7y ago
> which it says will save an estimated 4 million metric tons of carbon per year by 2030. Can anyone speak to the significance of this estimation? What’s the global carbon reduction goal?
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by pqhwan 7y ago
It is yet another (and much easier) question whether we should be gambling with the habitability of the one and only planet available to us, especially when technological advances are beginning to offer a way out.
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by pqhwan 7y ago
More than just “condoned.” The Japanese systematically forced some 400K women from their colonies into sexual slavery, most of whom died over the course of the war.
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by pqhwan 8y ago
Huh, I thought I was the only one playing this weird game in my head. I used to live in a country where license plates are all numeric digits. But with 4 digits and my limited knowledge of math operations (I was a child), it was hard to fin
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by pqhwan 8y ago
I think about how language, in a utilitarian sense, is a tool for individuals to program each other. I guess, in gaining the ability to tell convincing fictions, we've discovered more powerful primitives, and were able to spread consis
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by pqhwan 8y ago
I thought that’s what college was for — a once-in-life-time 4 year contiguous block of time for building caffeine tolerances.
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by pqhwan 8y ago
Interesting, similar to how the korean alphabet works; letters are composed into syllabic units. “Lol,” for example, is 롤, which is a combination of ㄹ + ㅗ + ㄹ. It’s easy to see how they match up with their latin counterparts.
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by pqhwan 8y ago
Not necessarily a bad practice. Most of the graphs I've seen use this technique, do so to make the changes in value visible, not to deceive the viewer.
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by pqhwan 9y ago
Something better; pinch your nose when you're about to sneeze. This kills the sneeze immediately.
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by pqhwan 10y ago
It may be misleading to call it a "similar block structure". The structure may have been inspired by the way chinese characters are composited to form new ones, but it's really just a way of chunking phonetic letters into syl
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by pqhwan 10y ago
The threat of a botnet is something any service that depends on popular vote has to overcome; it'll take engineering and operations effort, but it's not a showstopper. As for the hostile vote exploit, remember that a play is &quot
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by pqhwan 10y ago
You misunderstand my point; by "scrutiny," I mean the media coverage on + testimony of things that amazon is doing wrong. I am all for bigCos being subject to watchful eyes. My qualm is that you somehow see this very specific prob
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by pqhwan 10y ago
It's because not everyone gets so emotionally carried away by what the media love to make of Amazon. The company employs 230,000 people. But for every one of them, it's just a day job after all. The scrutiny is justified given the
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by pqhwan 10y ago
I learned about this multiplayer segregation recently, and It puzzles me. Is this a business decision? Or do they just not bother tp build their multiplayer protocols to be platform-agnostic?
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by pqhwan 10y ago
May be slightly off topic, but what's the time commitment like for this program? Are people with full time jobs expected to be able to take full benefit of it?
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by pqhwan 10y ago
Wasa"Vi": https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wasavi/dgogifpkoil... It allows you to turn any <textarea> into a small vim-style editor (by simply pressing ctrl+enter). This and vimium re
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by pqhwan 10y ago
I'd say that in this case, providing job opportunities to diverse groups of people is part of the ROI (to a certain extent)
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by pqhwan 10y ago
There was a webcomic (or something like it) I saw a while ago that was about a single-buttoned gadget that could always predict whether you will press the button or not (don't remember the exact mechanism, but that was the jist). The s

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