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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 da…

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-ti…

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…

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, whi…

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 unrelat…

I remain genuinely confused about what river you are referring to here. The Johor River?

For better or worse, that's exactly what happened, so Madison's policy appears to have been quite effective.

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 t…

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 S…

McSweeney's had a great piece on the absurdity of outdoor dining enclosures: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-the-designer-of-thi...

Singapore is a small island, and the mighty Singapore River, located on that island, is all of 3 km long.

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 subscrib…

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…

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 ente…

The change is for clearing individual cookies. You can still clear cookies per site .

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 simila…

Shame about the clickbait title: something like "How SpaceX Starship makes orbital power solar stations possible" would be more informative.

Joke articles (and let's face it, this is a joke sport) tend to attract joke edits.

"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, so…

Were those incidents of street robbery, or armed home invasion?

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 pornograph…

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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 co…