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by yongjik 4y ago
There were videos of people drinking and dancing right next to a dozen flashing ambulances. I don't think that kind of protocol would work, even in Korea. (Also most people grossly underestimate this kind of danger - by the time someo
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by yongjik 4y ago
I don't think I've seen "cardiac arrest" used like this in Korean news until recently. Might be a recent shift by journalists.
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by yongjik 4y ago
John Carmack founded id Software in 1991 and stayed until 2013. Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is still there. These are not the kind of people we talk about when one asks "Is two year too short to be a tenure?"
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by yongjik 4y ago
I'm not sure if this experiment means anything. Consider a much more mundane(?) example: echolocation. Bats can "see" the world around them via ultrasound. Humans can research everything about how it works, including acous
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> Heretofore every observation of perturbances has correctly presaged the presence of a large mass (a planet) that was quickly found, but this time we have looked and looked but not found anything. Should we presume that it must be an in
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by yongjik 4y ago
Reminds me of this comic: https://abstrusegoose.com/235
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That's a bold example to use, considering that humanity learned that CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) created the ozone hole, so we agreed to stop use them , and then the nature recovered, without causing any noticeable hardship or economic
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> A lot of real estate agents took the lesson that they just shouldn’t talk about schools. I doubt it. As a parent and homeowner in CA who also had rented in several places, "which school district does this house belongs to?"
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by yongjik 4y ago
> A. The climate is getting hotter. This is, of course, easier to prove. In fact, mountains of evidences support this claim. It can be considered "proven" in the same way the heliocentric theory or the existence of Pangea is
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> “but it snowed massively at N event, thus climate change is expected variance and false” A lot of confusion in those comment could be cleared up by agreeing on this one simple fact: CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING. We already know it, and
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by yongjik 4y ago
Yeah I very much doubt that. Until last year, the energy policy of Germany, one of the richest countries in the world, depended on cheap gas from Russia. It took Russia's invasion of Ukraine to force them to reassess their policy. An
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by yongjik 4y ago
I'd say this motion is basically meaningless and all it means is "Fuck you Russia, in five hundred different ways, and if there's one more way I can say Fuck You I'll find it and do it!" Last spring, the Ukrainian g
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by yongjik 4y ago
Hacker News: Children over ten should be able to walk around the town by themselves! Also Hacker News: Children shouldn't be on the internet by themselves until sixteen! Yeah I know they are not the same commenters, but come on.
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There's also a famous Dutch physicist, Gerard 't Hooft, whose family name is "'t Hooft", including the initial(!!) apostrophe. Imagine that.
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Isn't this comparing, umm, apples and oranges? China doesn't want to lose Apple's business. China can't lose all business relationship with America (or maybe it can, but it will be extremely painful), which is what w
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by yongjik 4y ago
What? Of course those $20,000 economy EVs will be sold in places where $20,000 vehicles are considered "economy" vehicles. Does any car dealer in California consider the price of used cars in Havana before pricing theirs? If any
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I have to disagree. Proposing social change and living the change is better than just proposing social change, but (in many cases) the latter is still better than not proposing the change or actively working against it. When you use &quo
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by yongjik 4y ago
I always feel the talks of private jets are missing the point. (Besides, it's always the private jets of Al Gore and Bill Gates that are in question. People never ask about the private jets of BP execs.) To simplify, let's assum
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> If the people who advocate addressing climate change actually believed this, ... They’d be willing to compromise on everything else to gather the broadest possible support base for solutions. "If anyone believes X is the most impo
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> The US started putting impossible demands on Japan to suffocate them economically and militarily ... This is the same historical revisionist nonsense floated by Japanese right wing to claim that Japan was somehow "forced" to
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It's been half amusing and half depressing to watch so many people espousing the freedom of cars, and the moment the government says it won't force homebuilders to include parking spaces, they are all up in arms decrying the los
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You start with a (valid) complaint about misinformation, utter "Reality check", and then conclude with this which has never happened in the history of mankind? > When a dictatorship with nukes attacks a country without a nucl
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by yongjik 4y ago
> Sweden and the usa are quite similar for gun homicide. Moreover, they are for exactly the same reason. Eh? Sweden has 1.2 intentional homicide per 100,000 people. The US has 6.3 [1]. France and the UK have 1.2, Germany has 0.8, Japan
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by yongjik 4y ago
> You could learn everything there is to learn about the actual city and not have a clue what it meant. I don't think that's what "descriptive" means. The term is as descriptive as much as "laconic" or &quo
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by yongjik 4y ago
Interesting, I wonder how many of those 100,000 $(currency) bills are associated with hyperinflation vs. regular run-of-the-mill inflation over a very long time. South Korea has 50,000 KRW bills (= about $36 these days), but its currency ha
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by yongjik 4y ago
...and is also used, unsurprisingly, as a euphemism for penis.
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28% of Americans flat out oppose America becoming carbon neutral by 2050 [1], and that's before we even ask them how much they're willing to pay. Only 31% supports phasing out fossil fuels completely. I don't think "vir
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Eh, I'm not trying to defend the conservative position, I'm merely explaining what they are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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In general, you're right, but the difference is that evangelical Christians normally don't go around telling how Muslims are their brothers in the holy fight against the evil of atheism. One of the historical core tenets of South
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Not commenting on the article itself, but in general Joong-ang Ilbo is right in the center of conservative, pro-chaebol, pro-trade political section. It's owned by members of Samsung's royal family. If anything, I'd expect J

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