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by yongjik 4y ago
According to Wikipedia, after the End-Permian Extinction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Triassic > Early Triassic faunas lacked biodiversity and were relatively homogeneous due to the effects of the extinction
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Yep the noise was always an issue, and from what I've heard it's actually getting worse because construction quality is going down. (In the old days, Korea didn't have much experience in construction, so they compensated b
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I grew up in a 15-story apartment in Seoul - every day there's a stream of students walking to schools and back, passing along stationery shops, snacks, barber shops, groceries, and what not. Even now, when I visit the place (my paren
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If we were to stick to the legal fiction that there is only one China, you will have to follow through, instead of switching the narrative in the middle. Show me an international agreement where the government of ROC is a considered "
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You can't choose to die on every hill you meet in your life: sometimes you have to compromise. Having two teenager kids, my experience is that generally "I'm your parent and I know what's good for you" goes about a
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I'm just saying, if "the other country made threatening remarks" is a basis for justifying things, then it will justify a whole lot of things, including stuff Israel would not appreciate at all.
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The USA once grouped Iran in the "Axis of Evil," including North Korea and Iraq. And then Iraq got invaded based on made-up evidences, its leader was executed, and nobody in the US faced any legal consequences for those made-up e
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This. Many of those vilified "high-paying tech jobs" are young and have school-age kids. I am one of them (well, except I'm not that young), and almost all my friends in the SV area are the same. I go to work and half of th
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> Also you just know that schools are going to start serving crap. O ye of little faith. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. When everybody believes schools are going to serve crap, schools are going to serve crap, because everybody e
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Considering how many different combinations of PC components and applications Windows is expected to support, you might as well call it random variation.
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Minimum requirements don't work like that. If you buy a TV that requires minimum temperature of 40°F, and you find that yours work at 25°F, that doesn't mean the manufacturer was lying.
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> Internet giant Amazon is providing $1.6 million in funding for the development of the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm, which will be located between the turbines in an offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. I'll assume
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I'm not totally sure if it works like that. I grew up in Korea, where peanuts are consumed but not much: I never even heard of peanut butter growing up. Interestingly, peanut allergies are also rare: again, I don't think I heard
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by yongjik 4y ago
> Buttons can't use text anymore, they must show cryptic icons even when there's plenty of screen space. Figuring out icons' meanings is left as an exercise to the user. That's not really about "infantilization.&
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Well, if the answer to "not enough food" is "throw away my baby," the answer to "get bit by a stray dog" is "guess I'll catch infection and die," and the answer to "Thag from the next cave i
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The flip side is that services with an immediate need will get upgraded, and others won't, and six months later you will be saying "Why am I still seeing this bug in production, I already fixed it three times!" Of course, the
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Effort to update something is high because there's a lot of code, not because it's in a monorepo. Updating the same code scattered across multiple repositories takes as much work in the best case. More realistically, some copy o
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It's not an externally imposed constraint that Germany's heating and industrial processes require natural gas; it's the result of Germany's conscious decision to build them on gas instead of electricity. Hard to interpr
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> The fossil fuel industry is funding pro-nuclear PR because they realize that renewables do pose a major economic threat to their business in the short term Last time I heard, it wasn't pro-nuclear France that urgently built a new
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Same. I had a TCL "smart" TV which was pretty straightforward to use, and then my teenage daughter decided to get tripped up on the cord. Ruined the TV, decided to buy one with sturdy feet that won't trip, ended up buying S
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by yongjik 4y ago
As a South Korean, well, I don't like the Chinese government either, but these aggressive rhetorics don't help. My own country was under decades of pro-American dictators, all the while conveniently enjoying the membership of the
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While being watched by the US military, thus giving it potentially valuable information on how China conducts its surveillance. It's turtles all the way down.
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> Has the fear of losing your HN karma ever stopped you from expressing yourself? "Fear" is an unnecessarily adversarial way to view it. (After all, what bad thing happens if you lose all your HN karma? Do you lose your lunch
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Occam's razor works when the two alternatives are equally likely. In our case, we have the ratio of primordial elements (which is well explained by the big bang) and the cosmic background radiation (which is extremely well explained
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They were explicitly sold as humidifier sanitizer by "respectable" companies, so people believed it was safe. It's like buying a dish soap - you'd assume that whoever's made the product did the necessary certificat
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That's a very uncharitable take. By the time Mayer took over Yahoo, it was already a sinking ship and had been so for a few years. It would have taken extraordinary leadership (and a lot of luck) to turn it around. Turned out Mayer
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IMHO, an important consequence of gerrymandering is that it makes districts less competitive. Instead of a district where neither party has clear grip (so the winning candidate needs a broader appeal), we have one which is either clearly R
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> deeply xenophobic monoculture society that restricts immigration and promotes traditional gender roles Keep in mind that this doesn't just describe the modern Japan, it also describes South Korea, North Korea, China, and Japan of
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Even better: there are (well defined) real numbers whose N-th digit provably cannot be computed at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
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> 1. What do you do for fun when not at work? … dig into to questions from here. Sorry but I think it's a bad question. What if the answer is "Oh I don't have much spare time these days, I make dinner for our toddler son

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