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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 …

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.

Australia has joined the chat https://time.com/3882445/raining-spiders-australia/

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 …

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 t…

"Orange" is actually pronounced /oringe/, so "syringe" and "door hinge" sound like true rhymes to me?

But does anything rhyme with orange? Oh yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPcR5RVXHMg

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 compariso…

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 lo…

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 wit…

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

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 t…

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, particular…

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.

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 serve…

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 illegi…

"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 mor…

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.

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.

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

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 wi…

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 d…

> 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 …