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by yongjik 4y ago
Reminds me of a Chinese menu item that was translated into Korean as "서부 아프리카 원주민의 쓰라린 추위" (bitter coldness of indigenous Western Africans). Made rounds in the Korean internet some years ago.
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by yongjik 4y ago
It feels weird to argue against suburbs while I'm living there, but... Most pro-density/pro-mass-transit people aren't arguing against rural lifestyle. They're against suburban, car-dominated lifestyle. I'll conjec
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by yongjik 5y ago
Money quote: > “Wind turbine blades at the end of their operational life are landfill-safe, unlike the waste from some other energy sources, and represent a small fraction of overall U.S. municipal solid waste,” according to an emailed s
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by yongjik 5y ago
> The scientific consensus used to be that the sun revolved around the earth ... Ever thought about why it took so long for this particular "scientific consensus" was reverted? Because geocentrism could explain the motions of
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by yongjik 5y ago
Unless you are specifically hiring for low-level network performance tuning (which is not how 99% of Googlers are hired), this still seems like a trivia question that's only marginally related to a person's C(++) competency. My
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by yongjik 5y ago
Meta comment: I find it pretty amusing that the usual "No to the government! There should be no more regulations because it leads to more government power, corruption, and tyranny!" crowd is conspicuously absent this time. ...but
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by yongjik 5y ago
This isn't a "don't teach sex to third graders" bill. If Florida teachers were spending too much time talking about sex to third graders, it would have been a totally uncontroversial decision at each district level to t
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by yongjik 5y ago
As I said, the blog makes weak arguments. This wikipedia page in Korean [1] shows seven KAL accidents in 1990s, with three of them causing deaths (one being the crash at Guam). If you went back in time and asked an average Korean "Wh
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by yongjik 5y ago
> It was exported to Japan (Senpai and kōhai is a direct model of Korean sunbae, hoobae) ... Hmm I don't exactly know which way the terms were exported, but many people blame modern Korea's ageism on colonial Japan (at least pa
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by yongjik 5y ago
Malcolm Gladwell may have overstated his theory, but askakorean is itself a biased source, and IMHO shouldn't be trusted too much. It is a fact that (1) Korean Air had a string of preventable accidents during that time, (2) pilot hier
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by yongjik 5y ago
The funny thing is, Google doesn't care that you have three years' Kubernetes experience. They want you to solve leetcode problems. So, it would have been better for everybody if you chose a boring technology, kept the system run
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by yongjik 5y ago
> is a reduction in the standard of living of many > requires the power of the individual to be reduced > empower central authorities > our new rationed, austere society > a recipe for catastrophic war > our only solution
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by yongjik 5y ago
> In fact, in 22 of 250 U.S. metropolitan areas, women under the age of 30 earn the same amount as or more than their male counterparts ... In other words, in 228 of 250 US metropolitan areas, women under the age of 30 earn less than the
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by yongjik 5y ago
> If you're looking for that kind of exposure you might want to spend twenty minutes testing the code first. Eh... I think that part is explained by "University student" ...
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by yongjik 5y ago
I can't agree, considering that California's major problems stem from "my city over everyone else" politics. Cannot build a functioning public transit system if every microcity along the way has different opinions. Peo
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by yongjik 5y ago
It's not really a western thing, it's just that "natural" stuff is much more expensive to produce in a modern industrial world, so --- naturally --- it's perceived as higher quality. Centuries ago sugar was extremel
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by yongjik 5y ago
Seismic waves only propagate at up to ~14 km/s. If New York is bombed, it would take ~5 minutes (I think) for the wave to reach Los Angeles. Twitter would be much faster (assuming Twitter survives the attack).
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by yongjik 5y ago
Which is great. It means when you pick up something, you know you're getting the "fair price," or at least the same price as everyone else. You can just look around, pick whatever you want, and you know exactly how much you
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by yongjik 5y ago
Eww, take your regular expression elsewhere.
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by yongjik 5y ago
It did happen with Soviet Union in 1978, though it was caused by a pilot error (the plane wasn't supposed to fly over it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902 Edit: To clarify, there wasn&#x2
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by yongjik 5y ago
I don't know if it's the author or if the HN crowd selects for these kinds of stories, but every time, the "Oh my god I'm stuck with these idiots" vibe is just too strong for me to enjoy anything. And without that
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by yongjik 5y ago
It's all a matter of degrees. People love to bathe in sunshine, but when someone builds a mirror powerful enough to boil water, it would be wise to keep your head and limbs well out of the focus.
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by yongjik 5y ago
I'm saying that it's silly to argue that Tibetans don't deserve their own government because ancient Tibetans were horrible people, when the current alternative is Tibetans being ruled by China with its own horrible ancestors
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by yongjik 5y ago
Are you sure you want to do comparison? As late as 1863, captured leaders of the Taiping Rebellion were sentenced to death by slicing flesh off the body until they died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Dakai
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by yongjik 5y ago
> The load-bearing pillar of the Russian identity is the idea that we are a nation of defenders, who fought off the biggest invasion in history. We defend, not intrude. Don't despair: this idea of a "peaceful defender" was
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by yongjik 5y ago
> Just listen to the settings that specify what language the user wants. That's what it's for. In case you haven't noticed: Users lie. All the time. Every day. If Google found that "just listening to the settings in
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by yongjik 5y ago
"It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me." Nine Princes in Amber, Roger Zelazny
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by yongjik 5y ago
The line must be useful for something; you can't prove it actually does anything; who cares, you can always just restart the server! (...when presented with a line in the script that randomly hangs the server.)
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by yongjik 5y ago
I think they're quite common in rural villages in Korea, but I never heard anyone poisoned by them. You are probably safe. (Now, murder hornets are a different story...)
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by yongjik 5y ago
Your exercise is already useful to you (and those around you): it keeps you healthier and reduces future medical cost expected by the society. It sounds like a fun project, so I'm not arguing against that, but I don't expect it to

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