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by yongjik 5y ago
It's pretty off-topic, but ... > Japan had centuries of peaceful self-imposed isolation while the continental nations of China and Indochina were engaged in endless wars, which was utilized to build up an empire while safely protect
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by yongjik 5y ago
> Taiwan would be easier to capture because it is an island. That makes no sense. Being an island is good for you if you are the defender. For it to be a plus to China, China will first have to capture it.
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by yongjik 5y ago
I really don't think it makes sense. The time to threaten occupying Kyiv was before the war. Now that they started, every day they can't take Kyiv is another public display of humiliation for the Russian army. Can't beli
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by yongjik 5y ago
> mass societal panic about Covid If anyone with clairvoyance predicted in 2018 that one million Americans would die from a contagious disease, while a third of the population would go on protesting anti-spread measures and wouldn't
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by yongjik 5y ago
I believe they are coming close when viewed from the Earth - that is, the second star (S5) may come directly behind Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri is only 1.3 parsecs from us, so it's actually much closer to us than S5.
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by yongjik 5y ago
> America had no plans to colonise Iraq or absorb it into its empire. Well, of course, because then America would have had to give Iraqis the same rights as other Americans, or build a discriminatory system where "real" America
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by yongjik 5y ago
People keep saying that Putin is threatened by democracy in Ukraine, but I find it unconvincing. Democratic countries had no problem making friends with dictators - just think of America's former (and current) allies. Conversely, t
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by yongjik 5y ago
Sweden had 47 gun deaths in 2020, with 10.3 million people, which is 4.6 deaths per million. Massachusetts, the US state with least firearm deaths per capita, had 34 per million as of 2019. US average is 136.
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by yongjik 5y ago
> I imagine contemporary politics would look very differently if officials that fucked up risked ten years of exile by public vote. Imagine Google hires new developers with one condition: if they fuck up they'll never get another jo
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by yongjik 5y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think the movie Baron was much more threatening. We only see a little glimpse of what he's like, but what we see is terrifying, and our imagination feels the gaps. I'm reading the book ag
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by yongjik 5y ago
With enough uninhabited desert to fit France in it, Australia is ideally suited for solar. It's great that they're pioneering solar, but I guess the numbers may look different for France.
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by yongjik 5y ago
You can't average percentiles - it's not mathematically meaningful, so your number will move depending on random details. E.g., if you changed your load balancing algorithm, and then observed the number go down, you can't co
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by yongjik 5y ago
This is probably too involved to be a question for your interviewer, but I kinda want to ask, "Imagine you have multiple instances of a production service with different 90% latencies, how would you measure the overall latency of the s
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by yongjik 5y ago
Interesting, I thought a lot of male words are related to games as well. aileron/azimuth/strafe: flight games bushido/yakuza/katana: martial arts or Japanese games howitzer: strategy games checksum: downloading
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by yongjik 5y ago
Hmm I'm not so sure about that. To a textile worker, the difference between sateen and corduroy would be as sharp and incisive as the difference between azimuth and altitude is to an astronomer.
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by yongjik 5y ago
UTF-8 is a great system, but all those dreadful code pages existed because they were under different technical constraints. Windows machines in 1990s had several megabytes of main memory, and people could barely get it to support one Ea
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by yongjik 5y ago
Math isn't concerned with "practically straight", so it won't make a difference. For example, consider the number 2 and 2.000000000001. To engineers and scientists, these two numbers are basically the same, and there&#x
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by yongjik 5y ago
Maybe, but even these people have the basic sense to not make "defund education" their foremost slogan.
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by yongjik 5y ago
Ah I see the Missionaria Protectiva doing its noble work ...
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by yongjik 5y ago
True, most places would need to run A/C or heater much more often than California, but I doubt they need three times as powerful an A/C at any given moment.
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by yongjik 5y ago
I doubt most North Americans need a 400A connection. (How much wattage is that? 48kW?) I live in an ordinary single house in a boring suburb in the bay area, and on hottest days, if I have to use the A/C, the oven, and the dryer at
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by yongjik 5y ago
Endlessly debating who is the most to blame is also a great way to make sure that all our problems go up in smoke. Or, at least, all the problems of some of us. (Just ask the residents of Lytton, British Columbia.)
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by yongjik 5y ago
And then there's Korea, where every party is re-created every few years. In the past decades liberals tried green, yellow, and (currently) blue. Conservatives had blue, red, pink, and now back to red.
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by yongjik 5y ago
Honestly, "every team in the same company having full control over what kind of stack they want to use" sounds like a nightmare. Soon you have services running in Python, C++, Java, Go, and node.js, with five different internal l
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by yongjik 5y ago
Funnily enough, the Japanese word for "(business) deficit" is literally "red letters" (赤字): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B5%A4%E5%AD%97 (Wiktionary says it was borrowed from English - no idea
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by yongjik 5y ago
"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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by yongjik 5y ago
Clicked "favorite", because I have a feeling that a year later I'll be like "Dammit, what was that comment that made me think 'Now this is peak HN cringe'? Can't find it again..."
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by yongjik 5y ago
I recently changed jobs (also interviewed at FB, though I didn't do well) and none of the interview questions were at LeetCode hard level. There was maybe one question that I'd say was objectively hard (because it was completely u
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by yongjik 5y ago
> Sounds like it might be a negative thing to have on your resume now though? Among all your potential future interviewers, the percentage of those who would judge you negatively for a Facebook work experience is vanishingly small - be m
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by yongjik 5y ago
> I say no, [photo IDs] would not solve it. (...) How would ever more restriction, requirement and verification, have helped here? This almost starts to sound like an Onion article: "No way this can possibly work," Americans sa

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