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by yongjik 3y ago
It's really not, not even for professionals, but anyone playing at a decent hobby level. Consider, for example, Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique (accessible to many amateurs), starting with Grave (very slowly) and changes to Allegro
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by yongjik 3y ago
Orlando Airport served 50 million passengers last year - who also arrived without a car. I don't see why it's suddenly a problem for train passengers.
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by yongjik 3y ago
That's not very convincing. My mother and my mother-in-law are both grandma to my children, but I doubt many languages use the same word for them.
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by yongjik 3y ago
I think the second and the third was okay, but the fourth was... hmm maybe "decline" is not the right word, it was as if I walked into my favorite coffee shop and they decided to drop a bunch of bricks and PVC pipes on my laps bec
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by yongjik 3y ago
Nobody was worried about national debt when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The fact that we cannot solve the climate crisis by dropping bombs on bad guys doesn't make it any less of an existential threat.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> And as the population declines, the number of resources per citizen increases. So people may be better off than before. Japan's resource is its people. Engineers, teachers, government officers, train conductors, and so on. Whe
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by yongjik 3y ago
Uvalde, TX disagrees.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Morality aside, "cannibalizing itself" is what all successful corporations are forced to do at some point, lest they go the way of Kodak. I guess it's the same for California.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Seems like we're talking about different things. For one thing, I could see the possibility that some part of Google may have engaged in unethical behavior. It might even have been at the C-level. It might have crossed the antitrust
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by yongjik 3y ago
Google: Don't use words that make it sound like we're doing illegal things, when taken out of context. If you have a genuine concern, talk to our legal department. Your interpretation: "Don't let anyone hear you say we
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by yongjik 3y ago
Your suggestion will result in a toxic workspace where anyone who does not like a product decision will simply say "Why do you want to hurt our users?", or even worse, "Why do you want to violate the law?" Companies ask
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by yongjik 3y ago
> I've never heard any actual concrete proposal beyond "vote democrat". Trump called the global warming a "Chinese hoax." If you're looking for leverages to influence the global climate as a US citizen, &qu
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by yongjik 3y ago
> She started to give a lot more details, but after a minute, Musk interrupted. > “This is making my brain hurt,” he said. > “I’m sorry, that was not my intention,” she replied in a measured monotone. > “Do you know the head-exp
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by yongjik 3y ago
Glaciers are obviously important to people and wildlife in the region, but I don't think it's important as global heat reservoir. Glaciers are only 1.74% of total water on earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by yongjik 3y ago
Not this thing again ... Dark matter is in a sense the opposite of an invisible dragon in your garage. Nobody wants to have an unexplained, invisible cloud of particles hanging around. It's as if every time you get into your garag
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by yongjik 3y ago
Speaking of oddities, Korean gogi (고기) means either "meat" (beef, pork, chicken, etc.) or "fish" the animal, but not the fish on your dish (which is saengseon 생선), because otherwise it would be too confusing.
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by yongjik 3y ago
In Korean, "mamma" is baby-talk for food, "eomma" is mom, and "mama" is "Your Highness" (which is also a euphemism for... measles).
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by yongjik 3y ago
You could equally say ending the war means handing NK over to SK because that's what South Korea's constitution says. Less flippantly, "ending the war" means reaching a mutual agreement that preserves the two Korea'
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by yongjik 3y ago
> With the recent advances of turning CO2 into other substances, such as propane, should we be focusing more on closing the carbon cycle and simply be producing fossil fuels from the waste products of yesteryear? That's much harder
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by yongjik 3y ago
Meh, that's a gamble that only rarely works. Japan during WW2 spread propaganda that Americans will kill everyone, and forced even civilians to die rather than surrender. Look how it worked out for them.
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by yongjik 3y ago
Uh, ads were Google's initial business plan. Saying it was their worst decision is like saying founding Google was a mistake.
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by yongjik 3y ago
> The English spoken in America is from immigrants from the UK. Yes, but immigration involved language mixing. It's not like a remote village in Scotland could elect two hundred people to hop on a ship, cross the sea, and settle do
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by yongjik 3y ago
People don't just decide to speak differently to feel different from their neighbors. The reason why the British English is more diverse is very simple: they have been speaking English for much longer than Americans, so they had more
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by yongjik 3y ago
I work as a developer in Silicon Valley, and my wife also works. So we probably have a better insurance (and better income) than 95% of Americans. My wife probably burned 10+ hours of her life making phone calls that amount to "No no,
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by yongjik 3y ago
It's kinda ironic that an example of "great HN comments to start a collection of friends" was written by someone who so thoroughly and publicly nuked their own career at Google that everyone who was at Google at that time wou
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by yongjik 3y ago
Ah, the deep-seated caveman urge to hunt down utility poles, shoot the electricity out of your neighbors, I mean, enemies, and hear the lament of their melted ice cream ...
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by yongjik 3y ago
> if the signs in China are not translated into English TODAY Could you give me an example? I just Googled "beijing airport sign" and everything seems translated as expected, e.g., Gates, Beijing Capital Airport, International
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by yongjik 3y ago
This page interactively shows antarctic sea extent all the way from 1979 to now. https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-... (Click on "Antarctic", and then click "Show all years.&quo
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by yongjik 3y ago
GP posted the exact same comment twice - AFAIK that's generally frowned upon. Duplicate comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37251025
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by yongjik 3y ago
That article is from 2018.

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