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Can anyone explain the rent seeker paragraph? Which companies are playing 0 sum game and which are not? Are all big players not rent seekers?

I would love to read "The Awful English Language" written in an alternative universe where Twain is German.

I'm a Korean currently learning Japanese, and while I do understand that this mash of Chinese characters and kana writing system can be appreciated for its exoticness, as a learner…

Watching Dr. Eric Lander's lectures in MIT OCW Biology course was a watershed moment in my life. I felt exactly the same way as this blog post after finishing the course, two years…

Nuance-wise I think it's better read as "How will you live your life?"

May I ask what library you're using for kanji to hiragana transliteration? I'm working on a language product as well and I'm using pykakasi which is certainly prone to errors. I tr…

Just curious about the economics of karma. For me, it takes so much mental energy just to even read a typical link shared on HN, so I usually skim through it and read the comments.…

Given enough advances in hardware and software optimization, isn't it reasonable to think that if we connect this level of language model to speech-to-text + image-to-text models o…

Introduction to Ancient Greek History with Donald Kagan https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL023BCE5134243987 Very engaging lecture. Some parts are surprisingly relevant to this…

Hey, added my email to my profile. Please shoot me a quick email if you're interested!

I'm curious too. Is there a HN Seoul group?

This is a very short-sighted view. Globalization requires certain level of operational efficiencies, such as speed and cost of communication and transportation. We have just recent…