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by tkgally 7y ago
I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the humanities at a university in Japan. We don't know yet what will happen with our new school year, which begins in April, but some of the faculty have already started to experiment with
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by tkgally 7y ago
> I sometimes think the story about high-efficiency urban living is myth. Chicago and Boston are valid examples, of course. But I had more in mind cities like Seoul, Shanghai, Mumbai, Manila, Paris, and Dhaka.
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by tkgally 7y ago
> It really depends on the style of rural living we're talking about. It also depends on the style of urban living we're talking about. People living in single-family houses and driving everywhere consume much more resources pe
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by tkgally 7y ago
I have a similar experience with Instagram. I am an American male living in Japan, but most of the Instagram ads I see are in Hebrew and for female-targeted products (including menstruation supplies). I know no Hebrew and have no connection
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by tkgally 7y ago
> the difficulties of a successful “AI” company are the same difficulties a “web” company had in the 90s. I had a similar thought reading the comments here about AI hype. In the mid to late nineties, there was a lot of hype about the Int
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by tkgally 7y ago
My go-to site for copying special symbols is Wikipedia, which is, of course, well-behaved: Dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash Diacritics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic Precomposed
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by tkgally 7y ago
I'm not an art expert or an artist, but I spent a lot of time in art galleries and museums forty years ago looking closely at and thinking about abstract art. Some of the pieces here strike me as remarkably good and interesting to look
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by tkgally 7y ago
I see your point. But we're exposed to many risks in this fragile, densely populated metropolis, including flu epidemics, traffic accidents, terrorism, typhoons, earthquakes, and tsunamis, that we could avoid by staying home or living
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by tkgally 7y ago
Thank you for the correction!
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by tkgally 7y ago
I can second that. While more people are wearing masks than usual and Chinese tourists have nearly disappeared, things seem otherwise unchanged. I'm sitting in a cafe a few steps from the Hachiko Crossing in Shibuya right now—half past
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by tkgally 7y ago
It has traditionally been a part of the culture for businesses both small and large. In the case of small shops like the barbershop I visited, an often-reported issue in recent years is the reluctance of the younger generation to take over
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by tkgally 7y ago
A few days ago, I went into a barbershop in Fujisawa, south of Tokyo, to have my hair cut. When I entered, the sole barber was slumped on a sofa looking at a computer screen. He didn't seem particularly happy to have a customer. The sh
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by tkgally 7y ago
> This article doesn't reflect my experience in academia... Nor mine (also in a different field and country). It does, though, reflect how some academics, especially younger ones, seem to view academia: as a politicized, factionaliz
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by tkgally 7y ago
> the electronics stores of Tokyo, particularly Yodobashi Camera and Yamada Denki And not only Tokyo. Yodobashi has a couple of dozen stores throughout Japan, some of them, such as Yokohama and Umeda (Osaka), as big as the flagship in Ak
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by tkgally 7y ago
Search for "bodyweight exercise" and you'll find many types of exercise that require little or no equipment, can be done almost anywhere, and provide similar benefits to other physical activities. One I would recommend is Ani
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by tkgally 7y ago
When I think back on the science fiction I read and enjoyed as a child and teenager a half century ago, the wrong predictions that amuse me most are two central plot elements in Robert Heinlein’s 1953 “Starman Jones” [0]. Faster-than-light
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by tkgally 7y ago
Earlier this year, I created a simple "Donate to the Internet Archive" logo for a website and e-book that I compiled from 19th- and early 20th-century books archived by IA. The logo links to the above IA donation page. Perhaps oth
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by tkgally 7y ago
Translation is always difficult, but especially so when the translator does not know the overall context and intended use of the text. If one is translating a novel, most of the context necessary to understand, say, a line of dialogue is ri