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by yongjik 2y ago
Err, we've seen what happened when the Bad Guys (TM) won the election. They pack the Supreme Court with their friendly Bad Guys (TM) so that the Court can make decisions in their favor. (If you object, feel free to switch Good/B
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by yongjik 2y ago
I think you're too optimistic. My reading is that the police is investigating low-level employees and subcontractors. I.e., profit for the corporation, consequence for the employees. And especially subcontractors. (Workplace discri
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South Korea at least used to have blazingly fast internet infrastructure . Of course that didn't make up for shitty banking websites that you could only use by running Internet Explorer and allowing it to install "security plugi
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by yongjik 2y ago
To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Greece. The US sits at 6.4/100k, with the safest sta
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China is already suffering heavily from desertification; I don't think global warming would do it much favor.
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> physicsts don't want to give up the beautiful and geometric simplicity of 1/r^2 Eh, just like MOND proponents don't want to give up the beautiful simplicity of "If something is attracting me gravitationally I'd
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by yongjik 2y ago
I'm not exactly sure how OP expressed any problem with "colonialism", when China never colonized Malaysia and Chinese diaspora in SE Asia happened long before China started to show its own imperialistic ambition. It sounds m
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Now try the same argument on Jewish merchants in 30s Europe and see how that sounds.
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by yongjik 2y ago
The nice thing about nuclear is that you can plan how much electricity you're going to generate. (Well, not counting project delays and stuff...) Ergo, if you're using nuclear and energy became "too cheap to meter" then
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by yongjik 2y ago
Am I dense, or is it actually showing how much total global CO2 mitigation we can expect from each sector? I.e., it shows we expect countries to build much more renewables than nuclear until 2030, which may be a good choice for them, but
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by yongjik 2y ago
While they could be valid Korean syllables, they don't sound like Korean names, either. The only words containing "gyang" or "nyam" I can think of are slangs or onomatopoeia, and I don't think I've seen
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by yongjik 2y ago
> He may have lied, or he was in a manic episode. I really don't know. I think you're lying and you actually know.
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by yongjik 2y ago
They consider tofu as ultra-processed food? That doesn't make much sense - it's just boiled soybeans which are then ground and mixed with coagulants (such as magnesium chloride, which you can get from seawater). It's about
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by yongjik 2y ago
Meh, fabs in South Korea and Taiwan are funded and operated by domestic corporations. There's no international body assigning capitals according to a grand master plan, it's just South Korean and Taiwanese corporations' capi
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by yongjik 2y ago
Civ 2 was the last one I played (after that... I became a dad), but you could station a phalanx in frigid arctic and it will stay put, for two thousand years, being a phalanx. Battle realism was not really something the series cared about.
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by yongjik 2y ago
> Considering that Japan and Korea do just fine is proof that youre arguing with a straw man. Not sure about Japan, but anybody who thinks Korea is doing "just fine" has not been following Korean news. Daycares are closing lef
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by yongjik 2y ago
I guess it depends on whether Chinese speakers collectively like you or not. E.g., Germany (Deutschland) => take the initial sound "De" => find a good character with that sound => Germany becomes "De Guo" (&quot
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by yongjik 2y ago
Maybe it's me, but I'm not sure someone who interprets coding interview as "hazing" can make an authoritative judgment on other people's skills and motivations.
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I don't know where you got the idea of "under US influence", but mixed Korean/Chinese character writing was common in South Korea well into 1980s, long after Korea became its own country. For example, in 1987, the newly
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by yongjik 2y ago
That buses take 1.5 hours to an urban center while cars don't is not an immobile fact of life: it is the result of decades of policy decisions that used limited budget on more roads rather than buses and trains. If, for example, Denver
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by yongjik 2y ago
I don't speak Chinese, but my understanding is that it's not a totally fair comparison: classical Chinese text was often highly abbreviated, to such a degree that you have to be an expert historian to interpret it correctly. For e
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by yongjik 2y ago
I'm not a physicist, but a massive Wikipedia article on Alpha Centauri says nothing about the system not being gravitationally bound, and at least one scholarly article says they are gravitationally bound: https://www.aand
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by yongjik 2y ago
Nuclear-happy France is burning way less fossil fuels than anti-nuclear Germany. If I'm in Germany and I want fossil fuel companies to make more money, I'll fund anti-nuclear protests.
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by yongjik 2y ago
Have we lived through the same pandemic? People will absolutely insist their loved ones dying is a coincidence, as long as they can frame their action as standing up to the government (or whatever they hate). All you need is someone describ
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by yongjik 2y ago
Well, for starters, whose bright idea was it to start building from Bakersfield to Merced. Approximately nobody needs to travel between these two cities. Until you connect it to either SF or LA, it just becomes an expensive money pit. Wh
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by yongjik 2y ago
As an avid fan of railroads, I honestly don't think we can blame the press for the clusterfuck that is California HSR ...
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Again, this assumes some kind of overarching relationship among these countries with a shared goal. But what does North Korea gain by, say, keeping South Korea busy while China invades Taiwan? It basically means Pyongyang is flattened by
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by yongjik 2y ago
> Are graffiti artists not part of the public? In the same sense bike thieves are.
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I'm from a country where they once called up the fucking Interpol when someone vandalized a subway car and ran away. There are many things I complain about my country, but this isn't one of them. You wouldn't admire it if yo
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by yongjik 2y ago
> Blessing arbitrary "bUt I tHoUgHt It WaS aBuSe" complaints with the guns of the State is, the overwhelming majority of the time, not in a child's (or society's) best interest. I can totally buy that it happens some

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