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by thedailymail 2y ago
Besides the intrinsically fun story, I really enjoyed the small-town news vibe of the whole article – the local guy who discovers the sunken taxi while fishing, takes a photo of its hubcap, samples some of the whisky, and takes a selfie sho
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by thedailymail 2y ago
As icing on the cake, one of the authors of the retracted study written about in Science is named Dr. Perfecto. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01749-9#Sec8
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by thedailymail 2y ago
It looks like it is still a going concern - the company website and phone line both seem to be active. https://nakamurasyaji.co.jp/
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I just bought my first cell phone ever last weekend, for exactly the reasons you describe: my bank (in Japan) stopped letting me log in to my online account without 2FA, which can only be received as SMS. I don't need or want a phone,
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by thedailymail 2y ago
"This brought him into contact with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Despite his fame, his accountant did not allow Page to have much money, so he approached Magee for a loan to buy an esoteric bookstore. The loan was never repaid.&q
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by thedailymail 2y ago
The Pikachu name is also partly derived from the pika, a small rabbit-like mammal native to Asia and North America.
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by thedailymail 2y ago
The full text is "OpenAI on Thursday backtracked on a controversial decision to, in effect, make former employees choose between signing a non-disparagement agreement that would never expire, or keeping their vested equity in the compa
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by thedailymail 2y ago
Rule 1 for when you discover a nice place with few tourists: Don't tell anyone.
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I think it may be that his income went up eight times (= on eight separate occasions), not 8X (800%).
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by thedailymail 2y ago
Minor pedantry (sorry!), but it's giongo (擬音語) not giyongo. There's a related term gitaigo (擬態語）, both of which fall under the catgeorical giseigo (擬声語). All are generally translated as onomatopoeia in English. The basic distinct
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by thedailymail 3y ago
How about the BS (Bank of Sweden) Prize?
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Lowering the recruitment bar was tried during the Vietnam War - it didn't end well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100%2C000
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by thedailymail 3y ago
The J&J case is one of the most famous examples of "Texas two-step" bankruptcy, but I didn't know until now that there have only been four companies that used this strategy (all represented by the same law firm). https:&
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by thedailymail 3y ago
2 Kings 6 24And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold fo
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by thedailymail 3y ago
It's a bit confusing, but often when a government agency issues a statement about something being "not recommended" it is intended to mean the government is not strongly encouraging people to do [whatever]. This is very diffe
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. App Store sales (not profit) for 2020 was estimated at around $64B. Apple apparently does not make the profits from the App Store public. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/apples-ap
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by thedailymail 3y ago
I was curious about the assistants to Hephaestus you mentioned - apparently Vergil describes two cyclopes, Brontes (thunder) and Steropes (lightning), as helping him at the forge. Earlier myths about cyclopes describe three of them (Brontes
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by thedailymail 3y ago
What is "uncomfortable" to one user will be very comfortable to another. One of the most common criticisms of LLM chatbots is their tendency to impose arbitrary moral/ethical standards in response to user prompts. This may be
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Japan was never colonized in the usual sense of the word. I guess the first event you're referring to is Perry's gunboat diplomacy that brought an end to the Tokugawa isolationism, and the second is the occupation post WWII. Neith
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by thedailymail 3y ago
I guess the availability of effectively limitless AI-based characters that can be designed or tweaked by users will result in a normalized shift away from having "a" girlfriend or boyfriend, and toward maintaining a gamut of virtu
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by thedailymail 3y ago
I'm a white American guy who is a longterm resident of Japan, which has one of the world's lowest rates (~8%). When comparing Japan to the US, the three possible factors that stand out to me (anecdotally!) are 1) smaller portion s
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by thedailymail 3y ago
As an academic, the real surprise for me is how thin her publication record is. At my institution someone with only 11 papers would be considered early career, not president material. (I do realize that different fields have different metri
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by thedailymail 3y ago
https://archive.md/wbjSX
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Only somewhat related, but many of the comments highlight the importance of not using "rat" as shorthand for "rodent." Cats will happily sport-kill their way through mice, moles, and even rabbits, but they tend to leave
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by thedailymail 3y ago
How can we be sure this comment isn't motivated skepticism in the service of Big Toxo?
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Thank you!! I have been wanting exactly this function trained on exactly the EEBO corpus, and was even considering paying some one to build it. This made my day.
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Hijacking this post for some history trivia. The first patent on a rotary dial was granted to a guy named Almon Brown Strowger, a mortician who had become convinced that the wife of one of his rival morticians was using her position as a te
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by thedailymail 3y ago
In recent profile, it was stated that he jokes in private about becoming the first trillionaire, which doesnt seem to reconcile with the public persona he sought to craft. Reminds me of Zuckerberg proclaiming he would bring the world togeth
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Maybe it's not dead center in the mesopunk genre, but Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster is a great and gritty fable of a protagonist/unreliable narrator shifting back and forth between life as an eagle warrior in Tenochtitlan and a mi
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by thedailymail 3y ago
Agree with many of your points, but to make the 84+ million families in the US richer by $2.5 million each would require more than 200 trillion dollars. (Current GDP is around $25 trillion.)

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