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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 an…

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.…

People don't deserve to be scammed. Imagine if your own grandma or teenage cousin fell victim to this.

Try using the STAR method: situation, task, action, and result https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/interviewing/how-to-use...

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 ha…

> 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. I…

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 st…

Agreed. From the wording in the article, you can say it's arbitrary or personal but not random.

It's clearly art lol

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 gro…

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 mu…

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 monas…

Yes. It is absolutely horrible. You can press-hold on the mic icon to force it to offline mode.

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, presu…

Not a fan of the patronizing tone the author uses to describe ancient Egypt. Reeks of chronological snobbery.

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 begin…

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 te…

It's near mandatory for self-teaching yourself a new language.

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 …

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 …

This tool has some insanely good performance -- kudos! What did you build it on?

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…

Horribly written article. Is this what passes as English these days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocosm_and_microcosm

The article is 90% delusional