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by yongjik 1y ago
Well, let me see, America's sitting president recently demolished one third of the historic presidential residence to build a ballroom, government workers are not being paid for a month, and government-employed thugs are snatching peop
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Well as a Korean I can't say I'm proud of what happened, but if the choice is between "get robbed by someone who fancies himself a king" and "get robbed by someone who fancies himself a king, but also get a nuclear
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by yongjik 1y ago
I think you're looking at it from the wrong end. You're right that most people don't want to buy an ideological badge. They want a quality vehicle. The problem is that Musk turned Tesla into an ideological badge. Off the
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Trump tariffs are extortion. It's orthogonal to whether it's a good policy for the US, but nobody outside the US has any doubt about it being extortion. It's not even a back room deal kind of stuff; "Give America you
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Well, yeah, constitutionally speaking, Republic of Korea is the only rightful government with sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula (and if you go across the border, you will here the same in reverse, except they recently decided to c
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The term could refer to either South Korea or Korea as a whole, depending on the context. As for your example, I think people would agree with (b) because when you're talking about populations people implicitly assume we're talki
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Greetings from Korea, aka South Korea, aka Republic of Korea.
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Then the interesting question is whether computers can create more (better?) submarines, not whether they are thinking.
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It's also a rhetorical trick. The moment you admit "Yes, Bill Clinton should go to jail if he's on the list," they will start to pester you, "You admitted Clinton should also go to jail, so why are you only protest
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How do you feel that the paper bill counter in your bank is closed source? It does not matter because it's trivial to verify. The counter says "here is a pack of one hundred ballots for candidate A," and if you're in d
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by yongjik 1y ago
Stop me if you heard it before, but paper ballot with automatic counting machine is the way to go. You still get real time update, and you have a physical ballot box that's constantly under watch of volunteers from multiple parties.
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Funny, that's how I feel about the USA as a whole. Used to be a nice country. I might care a little more about how they fix the problem, but only barely. Somebody had better fix the country soon.
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When California lets NIMBYs ruin the housing market, conservatives hold it up as an example of how liberals are ruining the state. When California for once does the right thing and stands up to NIMBYs, conservatives hold it up as an example
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Well, both can be true. Before the industrial revolution, everyone depended on good weather, and people would starve if you had a bad year. But what are you going to do with all that rice on a good year? Somebody's got to eat it. Be
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You are not entitled to have a town with no bus service within a humanly drivable distance from you decent job, to which you aren't entitled either. Those who blame others of collectivism have the weirdest sense of entitlements...
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That could happen. But on the other hand, all those new housing will create more people living around stations, providing more ridership and more revenue for public transportation, and hopefully more stations along the way. Also, these new
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Well, if we lower the bar to "Would something like WW2 happen again?" then I'm not comfortable betting against it. After all, humanity has already managed to do that on its own without any help from the climate!
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I think you're probably right, but there's an enormous gap between "things start to go really bad for everyone around us" and civilization collapse. Remember, WW2 didn't bring civilizational collapse. In fact one c
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From what I've heard, language is unambiguously unique to humans, if you consider grammar an integral part of languages. You can teach chimpanzees hand signs, but they could never make the leap to stringing them together under a coher
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Now that full-tuition-paying international students are gone, the average US students will have even harder time affording that. Congratulations.
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I see some comments about North Korean hacking, so I feel I need to clear up some misconceptions. First, (as you guys have seen) South Korea's IT security track record is not great. Many high-profile commercial sites have been hacked.
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It's even worse. According to other articles [1], the total data of "G drive" was 858 TB. It's almost farcical to calculate, but AWS S3 has pricing of about $0.023/GB/month, which means the South Korean govern
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It's a problem entirely made up from America's insistence on guns. IMHO that's like when you have a website that serves a few requests per second, and then someone has the bright idea of using Kafka and Kubernetes because re
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Members of an ideological group that sees educational institutions as their enemies less likely to find jobs in educational institutions, news at eleven.
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America's greatest conservative government pressured a private business to fire a comedian for a remark on the death of someone who was basically a celebrity troll. ...and they turn around and complain about liberals' "moral
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Yeah it's more like "clamp down on higher education." I've said it multiple times, Trump and his folks see higher education as the enemy, the anti-Christ that corrupts their vision of America. Protests and admin bureauc
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I won't say the governmental fingerprint DB is great for liberty, but in the grand scheme of things, it's largely inconsequential. Case in point: South Korea. It has the total fingerprint DB of every adult citizen. Has been so f
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We can't even get the leader of the world's most powerful country (yet) to accept that climate change is a real problem. Along with half of its citizens. Reparations may sound nice in theory, but when we're in the middle of
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That sounds great in the context of a game, but in the years since its release, we have also learned that those who style themselves as champions of free speech also dream themselves our master. They are usually even more brazen in their
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I feel like we're living in different worlds, because from what I've seen, giving people platforms clearly doesn't work either. It just lets the most stupid and incendiary ideas to spread unchecked. If you allow crazy people

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