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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
900m is a huge elevation difference. The highest pumped power dam currently in Japan (by hydraulic height, after looking at almost all the Japanese hydro pages on English Wikipedia) is about 780 m; the median is just under 400 m. Presumably
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
A Google search for "actor maimed by robot lawsuit toolbag" leads back here. What event are you talking about, more specifically?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
An analogue of this might make a very interesting California ballot measure: All bills which gather or correlate data must be applied such that their provisions first be applied to legislators. Or something like that
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
My guess would be that in previous generations people were not exposed to as much abstract information, nor were they expected to remember it, and if they were expected to remember something there was a social structure or a regular habit w
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Hotels are locally regulated, with side effects for maybe one town if a few go backrupt. This gives nationwide startups leeway to out-innovate regulators. Banks can have a much larger reach if they fail, and so are federally regulated. This
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Anything in a 15 day orbit of its host star would be tidally locked, no?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Author known for highly imaginitive galaxy-spanning settings writes a novel about AR and a down-on-his-luck poet on a UC campus. (IIRC!) The story is good, but it is a book about California in the proximate future as imagined from the 2010s
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
In Korean elevators the standard is to press the button once to cancel. Like a normal press. I wonder if these button press conventions are localized.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
What's really interesting about this is that the FTC is now considering labor to be a market in which anti-trust rules apply. That is a development of the past two years.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
> The only proven way to live longer and reduce your risk of essentially every disease is to reduce caloric intake. Has this been proven in humans? The last review article I read mentioned that it was true for lab mice, but resulted in a
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Probably because the counterparty is the dealer, so the dealer has to manipulate prices and terms in their favor to turn a profit. Also, since no actual stocks trade hands, there is no effect on stock price and no investment value.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
You're right. The machine remains a big single vulnerability. However, there is a process to catch this: one (used to?) have the option to get a text by SMS following the transfer. This (used to) list the recipient. For whatever reason
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Sorry about that. My bank still provides me with cards. I never asked about a OTP dongle and I don't want to enable mobile banking, so cards it is. But almost everyone in Korea (who isn't paranoid about a single compromised device
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
It's definitely about full device control. How else would the mandatory "anti-keylogger" software work?
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
It is worth mentioning that to make a bank transfer in Korea (used to[1]) require 3 factor authentication: the user's website password, the user's PIN, the user's encryption certificate signature/공인인증서, and two randomly
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Korean banking apps usually are disabled in rooted Android, probably because in rooted Android the integrity of the binary cannot be verified.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
My guess would be that a lot of what makes Tokyo work is its high-trust society, rather than its (homogeneous) demographics per se. Building a society with high trust seems historically path dependent, so a lot of the things that work well
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Probably in getting used to the forms of the language, but for best results you will want to stay near things you can almost understand. I had two relevant experiences: (1) graduate school advisor told the lab to copy down one paper per wee
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Interesting. I found I was able to naturally switch keyboards between machines and even OS'es on the same machine, but if I tried it within a single window it would confuse me. Ssh would freeze me up, too. But then I've been switc
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
I saw it mentioned offhand recently in a way that indicated it was an Omicron (BN.5? BA.3?), but don't know where that strain ID came from. I would assume 1.4B new hosts provides plenty of possibilities for the virus to explore the spa
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Interesting. That's also the route our hospital took for Monkeypox: negative pressure isolation wards until proven not airborne. I'm quite satisfied that Korean public health authorities understand the precautionary principle.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
You may have misinderstood, and I also oversimplified. The word "sex" is translated by the main online Korean-English dictionary as 성, the local pronounciation for the classical chinese character for the category of sex, or 성별, wh
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Much much sooner than 38 days. Most of the big cities have already peaked, as measured by Baidu searches. Half of Beijing was already infected last week.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
You probably just met someone from a non-English culture. The sex/gender distinction is an invention of the past 20 years, and outside of the English world has probably only been picked up by people who interface with English speakers
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
This reasoning is fallacious. Assuming the theory, the number of worlds in which humanity doesn't exist or already died off also increases exponentially, as does the number of worlds where you are not the last human. These exponential
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
In my country the vaccination was by prescription. People who wanted to be vaccinated would sit down for 3 minutes with a doctor who would tell them their probability of complications if they got Covid vs adverse events if they got the vacc
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Other countries got it right. When the CDC was dithering about whether masks work and whether the virus was airborne (which should have been clear by early February with all the case evidence we had from Asia), their South Korean counterpar
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
The large language model would still need training data, which necessitates those high-quality support calls still be recorded for training data.
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
That helps explain part of why Hyundai was running hydrogen ads on Korean broadcast news for years. I assumed it was because they knew they had fallen behind in battery tech research, but being able to source hydrogen (green or not) from Au
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by ravel-bar-foo 4y ago
Why is this 4G band saturation never a problem in Seoul? The only place I ever had cell connectivity problems was in a stadium. Does the UK not use LTE? Maybe the Seoul providers installed lots of wifi access points?

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