thematrixturtle

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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Most Burkinabes live on subsistence agriculture, not making or stealing money.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
> Traditional Chinese characters have strong visual relationships to one another depending on how they both sound, or whether they have similar meanings, or whether they were linguistically derived from the same historical source. This
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Thai script "compresses" quite well compared to English because it does not use spaces between words, the vowel "a" is implicit, and many (but not all) other vowels are diacritics, not full letters. However, tone markin
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Most Indian scripts including but not limited to Gujarati are syllabaries: each letter has a default vowel (a) and the shape is altered in systematic ways to indicate a different vowel.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
FWIW, Tokyo actually has very few skyscrapers for its size, because it lies in an active earthquake zone and much of the city is built on reclaimed land. For a long time the only significant cluster of skyscrapers, including the epic Metro
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Skyscrapers tend to start construction during an economic boom, but because they're so slow to build, by the time they're complete the boom has usually ended. South-East Asia (Bangkok, Jakarta, KL etc) after the 1998 crisis was fu
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Bingo. Working from home also exacerbates this, since there is no longer a physical division between "work" and "home", plus there is virtually no social pressure not to slack off.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Psst: https://kagi.com/signup?invite_code=morehumaneweb
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
If you're looking for an alternative, try Kagi. Much better search results than DDG/Bing, but it supports all the DDG !bangs. No Google-style knowledge graph/instant answers though, and while the beta is free, they plan to
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Unless you've Gavin Belson.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Japan, being an island nation, shows many strata of imported words in its vocabulary. Chinese was the original source as the language of the intelligentsia for centuries. When first the Portuguese and later the Dutch came along and were g
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
This is why engraved stone tablets remain the standard storage medium for religious texts. Easy to read anywhere, especially if you use a burning bush for lighting.
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Pyrophone(en.wikipedia.org)
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Shields Down (2016)(randsinrepose.com)
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Work is very much a game. The reward function is your paycheck, and optimal gaming strategy involves outcompeting others for promotions and warping into new jobs to maximize that paycheck.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Unfortunately all those advantages also mean that the experiment would be less than useful for simulating a Mars colony. There have been many attempts at self-sustaining/closed ecosystems over the years, with a distinctly mixed track r
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
That seems unlikely, since the magnitude was only 4.0. The relation between magnitude and actual impact is complex, but big ones tend to be 6+ and really big ones 8 or even 9.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Sorry, but it sounds like you're missing the experience bit? But if you speak English and a local language, check out the careers page of your favorite FAANG, there may still be something for you.
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A rundown of what it's like from the inside in Big Tech(twitter.com)
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Teletext was popular in much of Europe, but the big difference to Minitel is that it was essentially broadcast only: you could browse pages, but not contribute to them. This obviously vastly limited its utility, since things like reservati
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Speaking as someone hiring engineers in APAC, it's extremely difficult to find developers who are competent, experienced and have sufficient command of English to operate in an English-speaking team. The few that tick all three box
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No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm has(twitter.com)
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Not if the platform can leverage its position to move upmarket, as Japanese, Korean and now Chinese manufacturers have.
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Hong Kong Faces Worst of Both Worlds as Omicron Ruins Covid Zero(bloomberg.com)
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
It's the airport equivalent of a land tax: making people pay for hogging scarce resources is a strong incentive to either use them or sell them off to somebody else who will.
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
This has been repeatedly proposed for busy airports like Heathrow. Unsurprisingly incumbent airlines who already have slots hate the idea though. http://travelweekly.co.uk/articles/324401/heathrow-slot-auct...
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
India is by far the largest poor country by population, it's reasonably advanced technically, and English is widely spoken. It's no coincidence that the other country we often associate with scams, Nigeria, is also large and has m
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by thematrixturtle 5y ago
Yes, I think that would be an excellent idea, and quite a few countries are in fact moving in that direction. Early evidence is that the protection against transmission from the booster appears to be quite fleeting (weeks, not months), so t