Clewza313

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by Clewza313 5y ago
The government in Singapore very effectively incentivises cleanliness by littering fines, Corrective Work Orders for repeat offenders (put on orange vest, go pick up trash for a day), and a small army of laborers cleaning up at night. Birth
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Chinese has tens of thousands of chengyu (pithy four-character sayings), it's hard to tell which one she used but maybe this: http://blog.tutorming.com/mandarin-chinese-learning-tips/che...
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by Clewza313 5y ago
CCP is hilariously bad at PR, period. Their idea of pacifying unrest in Tibet is to put up a giant middle finger facing the Potala Palace and surround it with posters of Mao and Xi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monume
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The game changer here is SpaceX's Starship. If you can lift 100T to orbit in one shot, that suffices to deploy around 6 MW worth of the current solar panels we use for the ISS, which clock in at around 120KW/2T. Solar panel ef
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by Clewza313 5y ago
It takes both engineering and leadership. There's no shortage of talent at NASA, but much of it has been and still is squandered over political machinations almost entirely unrelated to the task at hand. Case study: how the Space Shu
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by Clewza313 5y ago
I remain genuinely confused about what river you are referring to here. The Johor River?
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by Clewza313 5y ago
For better or worse, that's exactly what happened, so Madison's policy appears to have been quite effective.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
That's kind of the point of the article. We used to think "endgame" meant eliminating COVID, now it's become pretty clear that's not going to happen and the best we can do is get to state where we can live with it.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The only countries that have consistently managed to keep COVID at bay are China, Taiwan and New Zealand. All the rest of the former COVID Zeros, including Australia, Vietnam and Singapore, have succumbed to Delta, and it's a matter o
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by Clewza313 5y ago
McSweeney's had a great piece on the absurdity of outdoor dining enclosures: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-designer-of-thi...
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Singapore is a small island, and the mighty Singapore River, located on that island, is all of 3 km long.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The key thing here is that it's Reliance Jio rolling this out. Jio is India's largest mobile operator, and in fact the world's biggest operator outside China, with 4x more subscribers than (say) Verizon.
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Autonomous robots check on bad behaviour in Singapore's heartland(straitstimes.com)
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by Clewza313 5y ago
You're attacking a straw man of your own invention here. The Economist has devoted pages and pages to the Capitol attack, the COVID pandemic, climate change, social media, abortion rights etc. I find it kind of sad that the US is so p
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Chinese characters (used in Japan as well) are interesting in that you frequently have no idea how to write them by hand , but if you use an IME on your phone/computer and can enter it phonetically, you can trivially recognize and sel
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by Clewza313 5y ago
The change is for clearing individual cookies. You can still clear cookies per site .
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by Clewza313 5y ago
For better or worse, Australia is a federal state and individual states have a wide degree of freedom to impose rules on their populace. I'm a little surprised we didn't see similar moves in the US, but COVID spread so quickly the
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Denmark says Covid is no longer a ‘socially critical disease.’(nytimes.com)
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Shame about the clickbait title: something like "How SpaceX Starship makes orbital power solar stations possible" would be more informative.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Joke articles (and let's face it, this is a joke sport) tend to attract joke edits.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
"Rice Paddy" is also redundant, since the English paddy comes from the Malay padi , "rice plants". And while "original rice paddy" is a correct if painfully literal translation, something like "Mainfield&
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Were those incidents of street robbery, or armed home invasion?
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by Clewza313 5y ago
It's a rational response to the extreme social, political, financial and potentially criminal risks associated with profiting off content that may be identified as child pornography or sexual assault. The Traci Lords case is a good ill
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by Clewza313 5y ago
No need to wait! https://bosch-iot-suite.com/iot-devices/bosch-ovens/
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There are different grades of seals for different purposes. The secretary will have the garden-variety "The company has received this shipment" chop; they will not have the "The company has agreed to this contract" chop
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by Clewza313 5y ago
They're finally trying, but last I checked it remains incredibly polluted.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
A big store that sells everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_store
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by Clewza313 5y ago
Both Korea and Georgia would fit the bill here, except maybe the midsummer months, which are pretty hot & sweaty in Seoul. You may be able to take the edge off by living at higher altitude or by the sea.
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by Clewza313 5y ago
There are apparently at least two people claiming to be Zynga CTO in 2011-2012: https://mobile.twitter.com/om/status/1291146438265602048
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by Clewza313 5y ago
South Korea has been regulating its Internet with an iron fist for a long time, with dubious results. For many years, IE was de facto the only browser because the only authorized sign-in method for govt services relied on an ActiveX plugin

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