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by teractiveodular 2y ago
https://archive.is/E3jam
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Why China is losing interest in English(economist.com)
21 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|31 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
All that verbiage about robotaxis and not a single mention about China, which by all accounts is well ahead of the US in deploying them out on the road. (With a distinctly mixed track record, it must be said, but still.)
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Creating software is an economically profitable activity that many people are willing to pay top dollar for. Throwing a disc really far by hand, not so much. That said, the "hobby" angle is irrelevant here. As the article points o
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
> Brands are doing what they can to lift the appeal of alcohol-free alternatives. In Indonesia and India, public alcohol advertising is basically banned, so for decades you've seen huge outdoor ads for Bintang Zero (which is terri
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
https://archive.is/2025.01.06-190547/https://www.economist.c...
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The figure "$40B" is bandied about uncritically in the press, but I gather this is the highest notional market cap of Terra/Luna, not a reflection of actual money (fiat) put in? By contrast, SBF of FTX fame was convicted of
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
¿Porque no los dos?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
There's a legendary Reddit comment that lays out the many, many other ways winning the lottery (or, more importantly, letting people know you won the lottery) is bad for you. Can you debunk its claims as well? https://www.r
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Assuming the "one guy [who] bought a nightclub" in question is jwz of Netscape fame, his blog is a trip: https://refhide.com/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/ (routing through refhide because otherwis
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Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes(partysquasher.com)
39 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|62 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
New Glenn's main customer will be Kuiper, Amazon's answer to Starlink.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
We're at 12 years of design and 5 years behind the originally announced first launch of 2020 now. Space is hard, rocketry is harder and I wish them luck, but Blue Origin has an awfully long way to go if they want to catch up to SpaceX:
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Australian police: "We're not saying all tobacconists are linked with the sale of illicit tobacco, but what we are saying is that people are being targeted, businesses are being targeted because the organisers police allege are l
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
No, there absolutely is a huge demand for transshipment hubs. By shuttling cargo through Singapore, goods from all across Asia can be consolidated in one point for delivery to various European locations, and vice versa. It's the same
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
"Successful" seems a rather generous description. If an apartment building is built on quicksand and collapses overnight, are the people who bought apartments the ones to blame?
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Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people(noahpinion.blog)
8 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|3 comments
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PixLens: Lens That Pixelates Objects(monoli-shop.com)
1 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|1 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Dying rural villages in the UK are not NYC. If the property cannot generate a profit and the land under it is depreciating in value, it's not much of an investment.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Most of these pubs in dying rural villages are hardly high value property. Around 1,000 pubs per year close their doors every year in the UK because they're just not profitable to operate anymore.
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Can confirm, Gen Alpha is all about Snapchat, and their DAUs bear this out: https://www.statista.com/statistics/545967/snapchat-app-dau/
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
I'm not talking about healthcare etc or claiming Japan as a whole is bad/worse, I'm simply stating that the Japanese government's industrial policy of trying to pick winners has a long track record of subsidizing losers
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Japan has a long and storied tradition of pumping immense amounts of government cash into failures. Off the top of my head, there's hydrogen fueled vehicles, fast breeder reactors, and more or less every Japanese attempt ever at export
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
https://archive.is/2024.12.18-025438/https://www.bloomberg.c...
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China building biggest artificial-island airport in Dalian(scmp.com)
2 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|0 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
High-frequency trading, which lets them frontrun orders.
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Principles for a New Democratic Urban Agenda Amid the Big Blue Reckoning(thetransitguy.substack.com)
1 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|0 comments
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
Doesn't sound like a terribly formal setting either?
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by teractiveodular 2y ago
The strings are neither random nor independent. There are many English cognates, groups of related words, patterns of word formation, etc. It's still an insane feat, since it typically takes actual language learners years to get anywhe
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Guide to Saudi Arabia's mad stadium plans for 2034 World Cup(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by teractiveodular 2y ago|0 comments

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