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by yongjik 4y ago
Then you should be happy as this policy will directly interfere with India's and China's exports to Europe, resulting in less demand for coal power and also less money for them to build coal plants.
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by yongjik 4y ago
> It's easy to make the argument against charter schools when the "majority" of people supposedly using them are using it for "bad" reasons, but what if the situation were reversed? I don't think that's
813.
by yongjik 4y ago
Probably this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
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by yongjik 4y ago
I don't know if you're aware of it, but your framing is uncomfortably close to the North Korean diplomatic position, where it pretends that it's a matter to be settled between NK and the US, and any other countries are bystan
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by yongjik 4y ago
> live-fire exercises every year where its army practices invading North Korea It's "practicing invading North Korea" in the same sense North Korea's missile tests are "practicing dropping nukes on America."
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by yongjik 4y ago
Let's consider a simplified example. When China cannot buy Australian coal, it must instead buy, let's say, Indonesian coal, which is more expensive. (Otherwise there would have been no need to consider Australian coal at all.)
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by yongjik 4y ago
I'm not a fan of American car culture, but this complaint sounds misplaced. Seoul has no shortage of 10-lane streets, sometimes right next to residential areas. I've yet to hear about anyone "taking over" the street. W
818.
by yongjik 4y ago
Did I miss something from the article? Why are you talking about lithium batteries when the lawsuit was clearly about a coal mine? Also, cutting off coal production sounds like the most direct way to promote alternative power sources?
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by yongjik 4y ago
Japan was just as monoethnic as it is now when it was sending their own soldiers to die in the Philippines, when its guards murdered a British merchant for not yielding the way[1], or when it executed christians by thousands. Any long-live
820.
by yongjik 4y ago
If it were actually efficient we'd see less issues. I'd say the Korean economy is hyper-competitive but fairly inefficient. Lots of social problems because people who secured a nice, well-paying job don't want competitions
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by yongjik 4y ago
But if you need 0.1% tolerance resistors and the circuit diagram requires a 13.3 (±0.1%) kΩ resistor, you can just order one ...? I have a hard time imagining situations like "We need a very precise 57kΩ (±0.5kΩ or about 1%) resistance
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by yongjik 4y ago
Well, in terms of money-making, the bronze age settlement would have made, at best, a small provincial museum that attracted a negligible number of people. Nobody drives an hour to see some stones arranged in the shape of a house. Builders
823.
by yongjik 4y ago
Well, come to think of it, if you want your ideas to be implemented in Twitter, tweeting publicly at Elon Musk (and staying the hell away from Twitter HQ) seems like the way to go. Plus, no danger of being fired.
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by yongjik 4y ago
> A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas? Willingness to consider his new ideas. Not your new ideas. He's the idea man, your job is to imple
825.
by yongjik 4y ago
> Twitter employees strolled into work at 9am, drank smoothies for an hour, "relaxed" ...then had lunch at 1130, followed by meetings, and then didn't start work until around 2 or 3pm, and then went home at 4:30. > We h
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by yongjik 4y ago
> the only solution here would be the systematic guarantee to punish such politicians ... Yeah I don't think it would work, even in principle. Being an idiot is not a crime, and you can't prosecute politicians for being grossl
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by yongjik 4y ago
I do think Legoland should never have been built there (they found one of the largest bronze age settlements ever found in Korea - they built freaking Legoland on top of it anyway), but it was built, and defaulting on bonds was probably the
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by yongjik 4y ago
But under your definition, if something becomes "three times as fast" (i.e., 200% faster), it will have to finish its task in negative time!
829.
by yongjik 4y ago
Are we now complaining that an artist's depiction of a hominid that lived 480,000 years ago (not even an anatomically modern human) does not look like a proper Englishman? What is it missing? An umbrella?
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by yongjik 4y ago
> actually going after the big fish and not ignoring their excess because they are more "important" than the little people Is this yet another allusion on Al Gore and his infamous private jet? Last year, 506,769 airplanes eith
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by yongjik 4y ago
If a few days is enough time for a new leader to decide half of the workforce is redundant, then it's enough time for others to decide the leader is an idiot. You can't have it both ways.
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by yongjik 4y ago
> At cloud-top level, temperature, pressure, and gravity are all close to Earth-normal ... ... and the cloud is made of sulfuric acid droplets. Don't breathe in, and make sure that nothing important is ever exposed to the outside a
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by yongjik 4y ago
In a sense, the fact that we're debating whether Bezos's personal beliefs influenced The Washington Post or not is already a point in favor of Bezos. If he was like Musk, we'd be instead arguing "When Bezos ordered The
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by yongjik 4y ago
Well, of course if a solution is "cloning a vector many times" then arguably you're using the vectors wrong - in which case it's totally appropriate to find a different data structure (or a better way to use vectors, if
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by yongjik 4y ago
Now that you mention it, yes, pincers do remind me of training chopsticks: https://www.google.com/search?q=%EB%BD%80%EB%A1%9C%EB%A1%9C+... ... though I guess a restaurant owner might be hesitant to put these on a table :P
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by yongjik 4y ago
> The pincers have a good grip, are easy to manoeuvre and are the right size and weight. They make it so much easier to eat anything from sushi to chicken wings. Oh dear god, I'm both horrified and intrigued ... but mostly horrified
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by yongjik 4y ago
> > Without enough money, some people will cancel their planned trip to Hawaii. > By this logic, why doesn't Congress illegalize travel? Is that going to reduce the cost of travel? Will that reduce CPI, which measures prices,
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by yongjik 4y ago
Oh, but people will stop buying so much food and gas, just not directly. Without enough money, some people will cancel their planned trip to Hawaii. That's a lot of gas not burning right there. Or they won't buy another TV, whi
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by yongjik 4y ago
> Younger, cheaper people who have strong ideas of how to fix Twitter and would actually try to push these ideas. That's... horrifying, to be honest. Imagine the kind of young, cheap, starry-eyed people who think they know how to f
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by yongjik 4y ago
I've seen it unfolding real-time with the famous Lee Sedol / AlphaGo match. On the day before the first match, people were saying how the match would be a joke, as machines would never understand the deep philosophy of go. A few

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