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It's difficult if not impossible to transcribe something in an unknown writing system, since you can't even be sure which glyphs are the same. Wikipedia has a few attempts: https:/…

Is there a solid source on what was actually collected?

Correction: Keyhole became Google Earth. (Fun fact: the K in KML is Keyhole.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#History Google Maps stems from an Australian company called…

Of all Murakami's books, the one that made the biggest impression on me was "Underground", his non-fiction book consisting entirely of interviews with survivors of the Aum Shinriky…

They can be trademarked, which is why you can't use "Harry Potter" without permission.

I've gotten those too. The letters/emails are carefully worded so the subject screams "Pending domain registration!" to make you think it's your actual domain expiring, but the sma…

Tungsten costs around $30k/ton, so you'd be looking at a cool $15M for that 500T cube. Lead goes for around $2k/ton, so this might be a more feasible compromise.

This proposal would likely be a lot more economic if they could reuse existing holes, like abandoned mines. However, mines tend not to dig down vertically and the cost of retrofitt…

I've worked for several companies that offered paid time off for volunteering. (With plenty of conditions and limits, of course.)

Midlife crisis is a thing in itself. One day you realize 20 years have passed, your spouse is no longer the person you married, you don't like your kids, you hate your job and -- h…

In Japan you need guarantors even for mundane things like renting an apartment. This is particularly difficult for immigrants if they don't know anybody and their employer won't sp…

The key insight (that older people count out seconds faster) is based on experimental science. The rest is more speculation. FWIW, I'm convinced that seconds felt slower when I was…

The modern Korean writing system (hangul) is unrelated to Chinese. Also, it's quite common for languages to be written in scripts originally developed for completely unrelated lang…

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As always, Chinese takes this to the next level, since there are historical characters for which both meaning and pronunciation have been lost. A famous one is 篪, used exactly once…

Good = tasty! As a random example, Yang's Dumpling http://www.xysjg.com/ sells exactly one thing, shengjianbao dumplings, and all their outlets have lines out the door. Even the ho…

I presume you're talking about America, since I can assure you that in Asia QR codes are alive and well. In China in particular everything is done with QR.

I'd beg to differ. Really good Chinese restaurants in China tend to specialize ruthlessly, selling only a few items. If anything, the "matrix menu" where you have X proteins in Y s…

Tampering with ballots will still be illegal, even if the company is private. That's also a bit of weird argument, since we're right now seeing how the USPS can easily be bent by p…

But should the USPS be a public institution? Many countries have opted to privatize their postal services, admittedly with varying results, but with quite a few successes as well: …

Is my summary inaccurate? The article is very careful not to extend any political slant to its data and findings, please extend me the same courtesy. (I'm not even American.)

TL;DR: DeJoy's changes appear to have made USPS slightly slower (0.1-0.5 days) in some places, but much less than the delta caused by a holiday like July 4th (see note buried at th…