howlgarnish

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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Anxiety is complicated. For example, having airline crew on Ebola-grade hazmat suits emblazoned with biohazard logos would probably reduce COVID transmission by some fraction of a percent, but it would also increase anxiety for most of us.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
I can't claim to be an expert, but this is likely correct. The native Japanese words for color ( shiro, kuro, aka, ao, midori etc) don't use the -色/iro suffix.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Australia has joined the chat https://time.com/3882445/raining-spiders-australia/
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Interesting. Now that I think about it, /səˈrinj/ sounds quite American to me, while /ˈsirinj/ is more English? Also, you characterize the 2nd vowel in "orange" as a schwa, but to many people it's /i&
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
In many languages the distinction is quite blurred. In Japanese, most color words like 茶色 chairo (brown), 灰色 hairo (gray), 黄色 kiiro (yellow), 紅色 beniiro (crimson/red) incorporate the word "iro" (color), but while the
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
"Orange" is actually pronounced /oringe/, so "syringe" and "door hinge" sound like true rhymes to me?
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
But does anything rhyme with orange? Oh yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPcR5RVXHMg
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Putin's Palace: The story of the world's largest bribe(palace.navalny.com)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
No, we're not in agreement on that. It's clear that Ma's dress & appearance in the video was distinctly at odds with his own usual profile, no need for any stereotypes or comparisons to other people.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
With all due respect, you are presumably also not the multibillionaire CEO of one of the world's largest Internet companies. If I saw Zuck, Satya or Sundar do a video conference looking like they're chained to the radiator in some
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
The odd outbreak aside (and Shijiazhuang is nowhere near Hangzhou), lockdowns are long over in China, there's no need for Ma to cower in a basement. That said, I actually agree with you that the "hurr durr CCP torture cell" c
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Compared to Jack Ma's usual public image (see below), a frumpy pullover and a dingy room does seem rather odd. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jack+ma&iax=images&ia=images
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Mainland China's growth has been much slower because the madness of Mao's misrule set the country back by several decades. If you compare the country's growth since Deng Xiaoping took over and started reforming in the early
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Yes, China punches under its weight in software, and yes, China's services are not particularly visible in the US, but I assure you they're already making a huge impact, particularly in the developing world, and that impact is onl
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
That's not going to help a user in mainland China, because Singapore is a separate country and on the wrong side of the Great Firewall.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Is this meaningfully different from the user's point of view than just subscribing to a set of different subreddits? What does the user or the host get out of using federated servers? From my POV this seems to be the same issue that h
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
The AI-generated characters remind me of hentaigana, which are the obsolete variant forms of kana used before 1900: they're clearly Japanese writing, but weird and basically illegible to the modern reader. https://en.wikiped
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
"Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it's not like they'll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won't come back more often or refer more friends. So I&#x2
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
But what's the risk to having someone live for three months in an airport? He's gone through the same TSA security as everybody else.
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
They're running Wordpress, which is famous for scaling badly to the extent that there are large companies like WPEngine.com devoted to doing nothing except working around that.
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AI Coach – analyzing your sports form with Machine Learning(youtube.com)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
TIL! Looks like that flipped around 2000: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18924533/ This goes into some more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet#Longevity
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
That all sounds very wholesome, but based on what I've seen, reality is pretty different. That commercial baby food you mentioned seems to avoid salt entirely and make up for it with gobs of sugar. Snacks for kids like tamago boro
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Interestingly enough, Okinawa has the highest life expectancy in Japan. They also really got the short end of the stick during WW2 though (a third of the civilian population died during the US invasion), so this may be a statistical&#x2F
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
> people here wouldn't even look at you straight Quite the opposite! Random strangers will stare, and friends and colleagues will make blunt comments in a way that would send them straight to HR in the US: you'll be told to y
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Magary: I tested the dumbest PPE of all time – the Rich Guy Covid Helmet(sfgate.com)
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Fake 2FA works if it's stateless, eg entering a code from Authy or a physical token. However, stateful 2FA like sending an SMS to your phone, or popping up a notification on your banking app is much harder to spoof, and would have pr
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
The top HN story earlier today was a tale of how Google can effectively cripple a company that doesn't even use any of its services: https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-...
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Proper washlets are a different thing, the OP and I were referring to the basic bum guns which are not integrated with the seat: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33060246812.html
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by howlgarnish 6y ago
Speaking from on the ground in SE Asia, it's highly unlikely travel will be back to normal before 2023. The big question for travel is whether countries will start accepting vaccination as a substitute for quarantine.

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