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by wrp 3y ago
First some context. Since long past, I've heard that public school teachers in the USA generally come from the bottom 20% of their class. In contrast, applicants for teacher training in South Korea are required to come from the top 1&#
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HN is nice as a place to have (sometimes) well-informed and moderated discussions about technical things. It would be great to have an equivalent forum for political subjects, but it doesn't exist and probably can't. I'm afra
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I just went through a search for a new pharmacy, so I can tell a bit about the general situation. I've heard that supermarket pharmacies traditionally operated at a loss, just existing to draw in customers. I'm speculating that on
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Better explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_inactivation Go down to "Solvent/detergent (S/D) inactivation".
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That style of narration is what I'm accustomed to hearing in children's programming in the USA. I've often found Japanese English-language productions rather irritating because the script and narration style seem targeted at
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The Book of Hallowe'en is a light treatment, but it was sort of a landmark in trying to be careful with the history. If you are interested in the development of holiday traditions, Halloween in North America is a really interesting c
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I've seen more than a few kimchi fridges in use, and haven't seen one used for general purpose storage. Kimchi fridges, especially the chest type, are designed to be efficiently filled with uniform-sized containers, which would be
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by wrp 3y ago
As mentioned, aoi ringo (blue apple) is a common term. When I moved to Japan many years ago, on my first visit to a McDonald's, I was initially excited then let down by the prospect of getting a "blue apple" milkshake.
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by wrp 3y ago
> "For many Panamanian voters, the Darién Gap represents a popular border fence" against an influx of undocumented Colombians." That alone might be sufficient explanation for the continued halting of development.
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So, they strapped an M72 LAW on the back of a little robot dog. I can see a couple practical problems with getting anything like this configuration to work. One is that since the M72 is unguided, it takes fine targeting skill to make a hit
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by wrp 3y ago
In the late 1970s, I bought a chess computer at J. C. Penney, the one in a brown plastic case with the chessboard printed on top and a keypad to the right with a red LED display. I returned it after about a week because it cheated. Whenever
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by wrp 3y ago
Although TFA is about the psychological aspect of handwriting, this subject usually draws comment on the learning of handwriting. As a counterpoint to some typical comments, I'll point out that handwriting is a motor skill and that it
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I bought a variety of magazines in the 1980s (Modern Photography, Scientific American, etc.) and I felt you really got your money's worth in content. Before the end of the 1990s, magazines had become much thinner and content was lame a
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> Business people top post I started top posting and keeping the complete history because people were requesting it. They want to be able to quickly get the information at the top, but have the context below if they need it. > People
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I teach text processing to linguistics students who usually have had zero programming experience. I start by introducing regular expressions in the environment of a text editor. The students take quickly to the declarative nature of regexes
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by wrp 3y ago
This was the sixth down from the top when I googled "windmill noise kilometers". https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2019/06/19/wind-farm-noise... It is notable that the two papers mentioned used
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The main problem with wind turbines is the noise. There is a long-running court case in Oregon (can't remember the name) over a community driven from their homes by noise from a wind farm. There are similar cases in other countries. It
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It's not the decibel level but the frequency spectrum that is the problem. Windmill noise is low frequency and can be intrusive kilometers away.
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It's just my natural pedantry from years of helping students clarify their research statements. :-)
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Responses to this seem to be missing the point. When you renounce citizenship, you pay tax on your assets EVEN THOUGH you did not dispose of them. It amounts to having to buy your freedom for a price based on your financial worth.
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by wrp 3y ago
Three issues to distinguish here. Parent is referring to a change in usage of "computational social science" from meaning agent-based modeling to meaning statistical data analysis. This change in usage may have been driven by phys
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by wrp 3y ago
Maybe it's just me, but when I hear "computational social science" I first think of agent-based modeling. But yes, when I look at recent work, it's all about statistical analysis of historical data. Ugh... So why can&#x2
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by wrp 3y ago
I'm not familiar with that community or even ones closely related, but I've worked several years in Japan and Korea, so I'll take a stab at it. For Japan, I'm pretty confident it's the language barrier. As in most c
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by wrp 3y ago
If you read TFA, you will see that it's about elderly having cognitive problems, not a matter of etiquette.
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Cybernetics did eventually become a hot fashion in the USSR. There is a good history of this, Slava Gerovitch's From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (2002).
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This is an interesting question, why it took cooperative gaming so long to become popular. I remember looking into cooperative games about 20 years ago, and they were rare. The whole genre was generally regarded as a boring activity that pa
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I've seen practically every B-grade and up WWII movie made in English, and I don't remember ever seeing the use of "hack". Anybody please point to movie references if they know any.
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There's a funny Japanese movie about small business tax shenanigans, A Taxing Woman (1987). Several of Nobuko Miyamoto's movies take a humorous look at Japanese business. Perhaps the best of those is Supermarket Woman (1996).
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Growing up in Oregon, it's just the way it was that we socialized with people we met through work/church/school/hobby, but not neighbors. I've lived next door to people for decades and not even met them face-to-face
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Although this is well known among more educated English speakers, an interesting bit that's not well known is that French as a literary language arose in England. At the time Normans conquered England, Latin was still the literary lang

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