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I'm certainly an outlier, but it seems intuitively likely that I'm experiencing a subset of what other people experience, rather than a disjoint. Ie, other people feel the socio-em…

I'm not sure that's true. I have little to no sex drive (am "asexual" as the kids say), but I've had intense crushes/obsessive feelings about individuals with no associated desire …

It's interesting how different "bubbles" of software development can be. For me, as an engineer whose worked across FAANG and YC startups in San Francisco, Angular has had absolute…

That's what the first image in the article is purporting to show (~33% of people in the general population over 85 have dementia)

While it's true that the article indicates FB views comments as positive signals, that's definitely not the primary focus of it, which is about likes vs "higher intentionality like…

It's weird to me that that article's headline emphasizes "angry emojis" have 5x higher score than "likes (and repeats it in the first paragraph) and then only lower down explains i…

Put in 3 M$/yr and you'll get 50.7%. Not a lot of people hitting that regularly, but I imagine it can sting a little if you've got a more proletarian salary normally and are hittin…

Roughly 0.6% of NYC has died from COVID, so it's impossible for its IFR to be 0.2%

Is Derby pronounced with the first syllable rhyming with "car" or "her" (/dɑ:bi/ or /dɜ:bi/)?

I imagine this depends on what circles you run in. I feel like in silicon valley, the modal image is of a FAANG employee making 400 k$/yr.

It is a protected title in Canada, requiring a license, but not in the United States. In the US, the title "Professional Engineer" is roughly equivalent and similarly requires a li…

He was right in a sense, the 00s and 10s were the era of the dynamic languages. In momentum if never quite in absolute usage. But my sense is that we're gradually swinging back aro…

My impression as a 30 year old het guy in SF is that the big 3 are Tinder/Bumble/Hinge, roughly sorted in order of "casual" to "serious relationship". According to friends, OkCupid…

Eh, luck + effort beats luck, but luck by itself pretty often beats effort. I'm a good deal wealthier than some much harder working + smarter friends of mine because I lucked into …

Seems to use the same uh, emphatic pronunciation so long as "gallo" is at the end of the translation sentence. Any text with something after "gallo" sounds more normal.

I believe it's true for most of the sprachbund, including my native language Kannada (which is a Dravidian language very much unrelated to Hindi)

Oh wow, my mistake! I personally have the merger, and so I misunderstood which direction the split went.

The goal of pinyin was not to make Mandarin words pronounceable to English speakers, but to be a consistent means of representing the sounds of Mandarin to Mandarin speakers.

Thanks for the suggestion. It was difficult for me to think of an example without resorting to IPA, since my own American accent is fully cot/caught + father/bother merged.

* Spanish: "hacer" * French: "pas" * Italian: "casa" * Mandarin (written using pinyin): "bàng" * German: "katze" * Japanes (written in romaji): "arigato" * Bahasa Indonesia: "bahas…

A good addition might be to point out good first guesses for the vowels in non-English names (Examples used assume a General American accent): * "A" as in "ah" (like "ah, I see") *…

The article alleges that sodastreams produce weaker fizz than commercial carbonated water. I personally haven't found that to be the case, but it seems like there's dozens of sodas…