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by yongjik 2y ago
Homicide rate of Japan is about 0.2 per 100,000 people. According to Washington Post [1], the US police killed 1,162 people in 2023, which is about 0.3 per every 100,000 Americans. I.e., an American is more likely to be killed by a cop than
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by yongjik 2y ago
> It would have been a lot harder if advocates went around saying that the ozone layer is guaranteed to collapse unless we stop using refrigerators! Correction: It would have been a lot harder if multinational companies went around sayin
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by yongjik 2y ago
I'm not sure why you're complaining about instagram/tiktok, because "everything aside from unions do not work in the interest of the people" is the kind of facile, black-and-white statement that is perfectly suited
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by yongjik 2y ago
Searching for "coal pollution death europe" would give: https://www.wwf.mg/?272333/Dark%2DCloud > It reveals that in 2013 their emissions were responsible for over 22,900 premature deaths, ... https:&#x2
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by yongjik 2y ago
While I agree that the generational change is definitely there, I think the author's first example (street lights at San Francisco) is not a good example because it's the result of a different trend: Americans no longer believe th
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by yongjik 2y ago
Forget lightspeed: melding your body with worms give you first-person access to memories of your ancestors. Like, your ancestors who lived in Ancient Greece. And all others. Sophon is downright mundane compared to this.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Well, as a non-citizen US resident, having to do my own taxes definitely makes me think "They can't even build a tax filing system? What the fuck are they doing with all that money?" I guess the difference is that my mind im
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by yongjik 3y ago
Market consequences for something like drinking water is such a wild concept. Forget lead, imagine how many can get dysentery before the bottled water business stops blaming random local Chinese restaurants the consumer went to the day bef
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by yongjik 3y ago
The problem is that it's the job of the government to ensure that private companies meet their consequences. So, if you cannot trust government, you cannot trust private companies to not poison you either. I guess it's possible t
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by yongjik 3y ago
I guess an honest, no-clickbait title could have been "The question that no LLM I tested could answer".
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by yongjik 3y ago
What you're proposing is not an objective measure, it's a popularity contest. And yes, in a lot of such surveys you'll find Chinese/Japanese/Korean sitting at the top of the list. Sometimes with Arabic. Maybe Japan
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by yongjik 3y ago
Where I grew up (Korea), we write 7 with an extra serif at the upper left corner, like this: https://pop.yesform.com/pop/16113 It never gets confused with 1, but in America, people were confusing it with 9 (!!), so I h
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by yongjik 3y ago
"Complicated" is in the eye of the beholder. It looks daunting to someone who didn't grow up using a heavily inflected language, but also consider the reverse direction. "A reading room" means a room that is for re
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by yongjik 3y ago
Two planes collided in LAX in 1991 due to what was clearly a controller error, killing 35. Investigators decided that anyone could have made such a mistake given circumstances. The controller wasn't punished, and instead a bunch of c
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by yongjik 3y ago
Not sure about that. North Korea still remains an international pariah, nuke or not, and Russia isn't doing too well in Ukraine either. Of course Japan periodically complains of NK threat, but considering how much the Japanese right
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by yongjik 3y ago
Yet, if you're living anywhere north of Mexico City, it's almost certain that 12 weeks from now it will be much hotter than 12 weeks ago. In fact, it is such a basic knowledge that our ancestors with stone tools figured it out. W
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by yongjik 3y ago
> As I often say, Ukraine of today may be East Asia of tomorrow. Well, I get that Kishida wants to position himself firmly on "Team America" side, but this is a bit rich, coming from a country that did to East Asia what Russia
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by yongjik 3y ago
Why would my boss ask for a piece of wood which is 1/3 meter long, when everyone who ever learned the metric system knows it's base ten? It's the kind of thing that never happens in practice, just like an American boss would
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by yongjik 3y ago
Oh, I can totally believe that Saudi's crown prince does believe in the project. After all, if you're a Saudi government officer, what are you going to do? Say no to the Crown Prince? I'm sure a lot of underlings are making
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by yongjik 3y ago
I agree with your concern, but the problem is that Harvard will have to choose somehow, and most other ways of choosing are even more biased toward rich parents: some high school kids are writing conference papers and starting a venture, ju
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by yongjik 3y ago
Acid rain "scare" went away because people were rightfully scared, they told the government to fix it, and the government told the industry to fix it (or else!), and the industry did fix it. It would be GREAT ACHIEVEMENT if PFAS w
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by yongjik 3y ago
...and if China ends up accelerating worldwide EV adoption through their ambition at war-machine industry, it would be a net win for humanity. Also, Elon Musk (with Starlink) is not a stranger to American military complex. I'm not con
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by yongjik 3y ago
In the days of Wright Brothers, it would have been perfectly safe to take off and fly your airplane in any direction as long as you can see where you are, but it's obviously no longer safe these days, and there are strict rules about w
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by yongjik 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's "fucked" but it's unreasonably lenient on white-collar crimes. Most people say it's because judges and prosecutors see those white-collar criminals as "one of them" (i.e., the rul
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by yongjik 3y ago
I've seen some discussion about him in the Korean internet, and everybody was cheering for the prospect of him getting dragged to the US. Apparently, nobody trusts the Korean court to bring him to justice.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" That was a statement made when the Caesar was a nonbeliever, he ruled the world, and he could literally crucify you for believing
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by yongjik 3y ago
"." repeats the last command in vim, so I'd consider it quite plausible as a typo, if we didn't know about the rest of the stuff.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Yeah, but that still shows people's perception of wine is barely above noise level, if it can be so easily misled. For comparison, imagine someone showing a piece of Picasso to art critics and saying "Could you please describe the
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by yongjik 3y ago
> Have one array grow normally from location#0, and the second array grow backwards from location#End. Fun fact: Itanium had two stacks, one for manual push/pop and another for cycling through the register file. One stack grew up
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by yongjik 3y ago
I don't buy it. Most private companies would require a face-to-face meeting when you start. Even if you're fully remote, the expectation would be that at some point you would meet your coworkers at meetspace, most likely before

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