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by yongjik 2y ago
One thing not mentioned in the article is that apparently someone manually switched the sprinkler off shortly after the automatic system detected sign of fire. Of course it's hard to know if a functioning sprinkler system would have p
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by yongjik 2y ago
Don't anthropomorphize an authoritarian regime too much, especially one made of millions of officers with different career goals and ambitions. You end up with an oversimplified model, and you're in danger of projecting your own
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by yongjik 2y ago
Not just that, but they also wrote the numbers in decimal - they didn't even want them in the code as an example of what not to do. Maybe someone was having too much fun and got carried away, but what an odd sense of humor.
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by yongjik 2y ago
There's no way it would work out economically: compared to Mars, it would be literally cheaper to build every one of these 100 billion people a US style suburban house with all the power, water, and sewage connected. Probably by an or
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by yongjik 2y ago
Everything is arbitrary if you look at it hard enough. Why do we have to drive on the right side of the road? Arbitrary. > So you’ve “protected” Americans from the competition of Italian producers who can’t pay to repackage. Any food p
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by yongjik 2y ago
I went to an ear doctor recently, who was so old that I think he graduated when I was a toddler. But when I describe my symptom he says "Well, let's also see what ChatGPT says." So some part of new medical information might
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by yongjik 2y ago
In my country (Korea) they broadcast vote counts, per district, in real time as data pours in from all over the country. It's a big entertainment going on for the whole night. And you can log onto the website of the office of the ele
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by yongjik 2y ago
The "inherent advantage" of English is basically the same advantage of Facebook and Instagram: people use them because other people use them. When a Korean meets a Greek, chances are that neither knows each other's language
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I think you reversed cause and effect. English became the world's lingua franca not because of its inherent quality, but because the British Empire once conquered the world, and then the United States took up the baton. Basically th
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by yongjik 2y ago
The comment by cool_dude85 was a bit impolite but I agree that this is a low quality article. E.g., almost any linguist will tell you that you can't objectively measure a language's difficulty, because it always depends on what&#
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by yongjik 2y ago
> there is a long list of long-dead languages that attests to this. Look up Ainu and Okinawan languages - Japanese is the dominant language that drove its neighbors' cultures to extinct. It has more native speakers than French, G
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To be fair, you cannot really open a door of an airplane mid-flight (due to pressure difference), so passengers were in fact in much less danger than they perceived.
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You misunderstood the problem. That's not what it's saying at all.
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> He is not able to hold his own in a debate. Yet you believe he's strong enough to lead the nation and decide when to go to war or not? Because when he has to decide when to go to war or not, he's surrounded by a group of trus
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He's still competent enough to be president. He just doesn't have the chops to skewer a lunatic in a live TV debate, which is unfortunately very important, because if he can't, the lunatic might be the next president.
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by yongjik 2y ago
Yeah it's pretty crazy considering Musk's own family backstory. Is he butthurt that his transgender child went no-contact on him before he could kick them out of the family himself?
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I remember seeing a comment in HN that went like "So some group of people walked into a government building. Big deal." I guess, for people whose world view is so malleable that they can look at an attempt to overthrow the govern
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by yongjik 2y ago
> Trump proved in two minutes that whatever else you can say about him, he's very capable of responding well to pressure. Come on, it's not like the world hasn't watched Trump's tweets in the past eight years.
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Slack does this and I absolutely hate it. It's impossible to search for a keyword in a long thread. The native app will simply hijack the search function, and even opening it on a browser won't work because it only renders the p
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by yongjik 2y ago
Cupertino School District had to close three elementary schools recently because there weren't enough students [1]. This didn't happen in an aging town in the middle of nowhere. This happened in the middle of the Silicon Valley,
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how ironic to call others entitled, when the NIMBYs are trying to tell builders what they can build on someone else's land, just because they enjoy the "character" of the 99% of the town they don't own.
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by yongjik 2y ago
One might even argue that the stupidity began when he decided to visit NK.
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That doesn't sound right. Chevron doesn't mean the government can do whatever they want - the court always has the authority to step in and say "Hey, that's unconstitutional," when it is actually unconstitutional.
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Meh, I've been hearing "credible rumors" that North Korea would start a war (or, alternatively, collapse) any day soon, pretty much my entire life. Somehow, NK has failed to do either. I'd trust these rumors about China
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by yongjik 2y ago
You don't need to observe people around you to know when a storm is coming. Instead you look at barometers, winds, and satellite photos. If a storm is coming and people around you are arguing about how much they should be paid for cl
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by yongjik 2y ago
Hard disagree. I find Le Guin's prose breathtakingly gorgeous. And then it hits you like a brick wall. > The second year I was in Elbow, I was worklister, the mill syndicate cut rations. People doing six hours in the plant got ful
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by yongjik 2y ago
As you just said, if we use geoengineering to delay the catastrophe as much as we can, and if we aren't going to wake up until the catastrophe hits ... ... then it's questionable whether geoengineering helps at all, isn't it?
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The problem with climate geo-engineering solution is not that they won't work, but rather that they don't solve the problem we need to solve. As people say, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. If we had stopped diggi
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I don't think this should be flagged.
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IANAL so could someone explain to me - does this ruling apply to the "porn actress hush money" trial or is it a separate issue? (I'd like to think that there's no way it's an "official act" of a president,

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