jdtang13

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by jdtang13 3y ago
I love the tiny bars. In Tokyo and Osaka, it's really easy to walk past "apartment tower" style buildings where each floor has several different bars, each with different themes and aesthetics. The "bar per person"
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by jdtang13 4y ago
Great article. Loved the illustrations and references to specific medieval laws. A good example of how an earlier generation's "common sense" was totally different from ours today.
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by jdtang13 4y ago
People don't deserve to be scammed. Imagine if your own grandma or teenage cousin fell victim to this.
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by jdtang13 4y ago
Try using the STAR method: situation, task, action, and result https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/how-to-use...
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by jdtang13 6y ago
The "myopia is purely genetic" zeitgeist has been continually shoved down all of our throats in the west. Meanwhile, studies from Taiwan, Japan, and Korea show that myopia truly has an environmental component to it, e.g. childhood
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by jdtang13 6y ago
> This is something that has been studied pretty extensively. If it was actually a cure, it'd have been well-proven by now, and we'd all be doing it. Untrue and faulty reasoning. It may have been studied extensively on biased p
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by jdtang13 6y ago
In all my years of using Google Maps, I have never seen any message like "we cannot recommend a route for the destination you have selected". Considering that human lives are at stake, the product owners should be more generous to
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by jdtang13 6y ago
Agreed. From the wording in the article, you can say it's arbitrary or personal but not random.
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by jdtang13 6y ago
It's clearly art lol
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by jdtang13 6y ago
Human marketplaces are not perfectly efficient, and my guess is that restaurants, of all places, are very affected by subjective perceptions and trendiness. So I think that the growth-hack concern on early reviews makes a lot of sense.
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by jdtang13 6y ago
That is a really good point. But I would argue that His caste is used here to signal the fulfillment of prophecy and inheritance. Crown of thorns, beatings, ridicule, etc pretty much amounted to huge social disrespect in the end, anyways.
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by jdtang13 6y ago
Okay. Now, where are the details about her religious life? What did she believe in and care about? It was obviously very important to her, to the extent that she made serious monastic vows. When a movie actor is a life-long alcoholic, we ha
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by jdtang13 6y ago
Yes. It is absolutely horrible. You can press-hold on the mic icon to force it to offline mode.
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by jdtang13 6y ago
If you want to enable Apple's much-better offline dictation, you can press-hold on the microphone icon, then select "English (US)" or even any other language. Apple's online, presumably neural network based speech transc
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by jdtang13 6y ago
Not a fan of the patronizing tone the author uses to describe ancient Egypt. Reeks of chronological snobbery.
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by jdtang13 6y ago
This 99% number does not mean what people think it means. The Japanese prosecution system is a pipeline that strongly filters out unlikely-to-be-convicted cases from the very beginning. Long before you are convicted, you might not even be a
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by jdtang13 7y ago
Advaita Vedanta is the keyword to use for most modern day, Neoplatonistic Hindu philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta My understanding is that, although this teaching was technically formulated in t
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by jdtang13 7y ago
It's near mandatory for self-teaching yourself a new language.
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by jdtang13 7y ago
Yep. It's so true when it comes to Indian philosophy. There is a ton of revisionism and strange understandings where people pretend an idea invented in 1800s is ancient. It's also somewhat true for China and Japan.
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by jdtang13 7y ago
I don't really think this word is actually a thing that Japanese people really say. The Japanese wikipedia version of this article is also a stub, and there's only 550K results in Japanese google, which is pretty much identical to
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by jdtang13 7y ago
This tool has some insanely good performance -- kudos! What did you build it on?
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by jdtang13 7y ago
I completely agree. Foreign culture analyses like this are always tinged with bias and an incurable desire to find little small-picture justifications. I'm sick and tired of seeing every random quirk of Japanese people being explained
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by jdtang13 7y ago
Horribly written article. Is this what passes as English these days?
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by jdtang13 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocosm_and_microcosm
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by jdtang13 7y ago
The article is 90% delusional
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by jdtang13 8y ago
ExpressVPN also has a cancel screen like this. It's particularly insidious since they make it look as if the cancellation is confirmed, even though you need to press another grayed-out button to finalize it. They've squeezed 2-3 m
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Same here. It's not as interesting unless we know what the character represents.
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by jdtang13 8y ago
nah fam ur talking about urself
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by jdtang13 8y ago
Western "Buddhism" is totally messed up, and you can see this from the strange behaviors of its practitioners. The majority of Buddhists in the West aren't a part of a community with a living Buddhist tradition, and they don&
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by jdtang13 8y ago
or just "Washington State"

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