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by yongjik 3y ago
As a Korean, I can confirm that chopsticks serve as a great germ distributor. Their ends go into your mouth and then end up poking everything else on the table. :)
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by yongjik 3y ago
I think you're misinterpreting GP's intention. People generally don't want the tips to be gone so that they pay less. People want the tips to be included in the price so that when they buy something they know how much the
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by yongjik 3y ago
The current title of the article is: > As more electric vehicles hit the road, our charging habits must change - here’s why With these bullet points: > The race is on to decarbonize road transport and get drivers to switch to electric
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by yongjik 3y ago
If you think not being allowed to carry backpacks is an oppressive policy (and yeah, you may have a point there), think how it would feel like to watch news of school shooting every month, and still having to go to school every day, while w
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by yongjik 4y ago
Going in the other direction, the official spelling of Pfizer in Korea is 화이자, which sounds a bit like why-jah. A game of telephone going through Japanese, which somehow stuck.
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by yongjik 4y ago
Another example is when Samsung aired an ad for their phones in the UK last year, featuring a woman jogging on 2am in the city. Apparently, that ruffled some feathers, with people questioning how Samsung could be so tone-deaf about women&#
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by yongjik 4y ago
Hmm, I don't think anyone with a passing knowledge of Japanese would look at that "hyun" and think it sounds Japanese ... It's spelled that way because it was born before Korea's industrialization, when regular tran
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by yongjik 4y ago
It feels like the argument is upside down. Civilization scaled because increased agricultural productivity allowed a smaller number of farmers to feed the rest, freeing them up to do other things. These people also naturally congregated t
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by yongjik 4y ago
FYI, OP submitted essentially the same story two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35496700
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by yongjik 4y ago
Meh, the majority of people buying SUVs and flying for vacation aren't in their 80s ...
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by yongjik 4y ago
Thankfully these regulations don't seem to hurt much. Here in California, every grocery store has a corner where cow milk and all kind of plant-based milk products are displayed side by side, so it's made extremely obvious that t
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by yongjik 4y ago
IANAL but it sounds like this defense would be received about as well as "Your honor, the defendant was in grave stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison. That's why he completely forgot why and how he parked
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by yongjik 4y ago
It's not tone - at least not in the same sense Chinese is a tonal language. Standard Korean does not have tones. Maybe a better term would be intonation: it's similar to how the same English sentence could have multiple meanings
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by yongjik 4y ago
In a sense, sure I guess my brain almost always knows whether I wanted a question or not - after all, native English speakers have no problem asking questions. However, it's hard to get used to it, when I've never done it before.
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by yongjik 4y ago
You are absolutely correct - I oversimplified. On the other hand, nobody says "As for me, ramen" in English (it's not even shorter than "I'll have ramen"), so there's that.
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by yongjik 4y ago
Oh, and there's one really succinct way of expression that's not found in English: One can say something like 난 라면 - literally "I am ramen" (or something like that - it's a bit fuzzy because the "be" verb
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by yongjik 4y ago
Korean has a crapload of complex speech patterns (degree of politeness - that's sheer madness) but the nice(?) thing about it is that it all comes at the end. So you can start your sentence without even deciding if it's a stateme
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by yongjik 4y ago
I see, yes I think you do raise a very good point, but on the other hand, the issue could be quickly resolved by talking about it. Any good interviewer would say something like "Ah yes that's a very good point, I forgot to consid
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by yongjik 4y ago
Yeah, sorry, I don't think I'm following your argument. When you compute hash keys of a string, of course you want to read the whole string at least once, so the time complexity is at least O(N) (where N is the length of the stri
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by yongjik 4y ago
I don't think that's fair. The kind of candidates who are good at these questions won't view it as being walked through how clever the interviewer is, but as an opportunity to solve an interesting problem (and show how cleve
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by yongjik 4y ago
Why would you think that? Tyrants love gullible people with guns. Stir up the trouble, dispose of opponents while keeping your hands clean, make people cry for law and order (so that you can enter the stage as their savior), and when all
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by yongjik 4y ago
On the other hand, I'm sure it also has the highest amount of total stock grants per square mile. Which is a totally valid statistics and proves that SF is the city to live if you want to succeed as a software engineer.
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by yongjik 4y ago
> Republican complaints about education being an avenue for indoctrination now make much more sense to me The funny thing is that these exam questions are mostly aligned with Republican values. I'm sure it also happens the other wa
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by yongjik 4y ago
As of 2020, South Korea generated 29% of electricity from nuclear, while solar and wind together amounted to 4%: https://ember-climate.org/app/uploads/2022/02/Global-Electri... I'd gladly take expen
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by yongjik 4y ago
Meh, he's an ex-president. Of course indicting him is political. Not indicting him would be also political. It's not like there's a "non-political" Oracle that will tell us the most impartial course of action.
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by yongjik 4y ago
During the brief time the US enjoyed being an uncontested global superpower, it managed to invade Iraq, creating a power vacuum, leading to the rise of ISIS. Let's not pretend history ever stopped repeating. It was always repeating.
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by yongjik 4y ago
I still find it hard to believe. I've been at Google until 2015, which was a long time ago, but at that time the separation between Search and Ads was considered near sacred. Ads representatives couldn't even ask "Hey, my c
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by yongjik 4y ago
Whoa whoa, slow down. You'll land some innocent person in prison if you keep thinking like that. AI cannot make a very accurate guess of what the human looks like: it simply makes a very plausible high quality picture that looks lik
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by yongjik 4y ago
> They seem to want net-zero energy at any cost, even if it means people will suffer. I think you misspelled "net zero carbon." And forget politicians, I want net zero carbon. Though I wouldn't exactly say "at any
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by yongjik 4y ago
It could happen simply because the candidate was also interviewing other companies (because who interviews just one company these days) and they got an offer from their preferred company. Basically, assume that candidates can drop at any ti

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