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the US has a recent history of extra-terrestrial law enforcement, both in ally countries (kim dotcom, meng wanzhou), and non-ally countries (bin laden). that's the main fear. w.r.t…

i really quite like the quality of vba code you can find in excel sheets in non-tech corporate environments, well, at least, the range of quality you find in there. there can be so…

i mean, if you want to go all epistemological, sure, let me rephrase. each of us individual humans live in a specific world mapped on what we believe we know and our lived experien…

??????? emh doesn't mean everyone knows everything, it means the price accurately reflects available information. if an innovation was believed to be world changing, it would be wo…

This is what Singapore does. Although the government provides substantial aid to new citizen families, the unspoken preference is for the immigration authority to shape national de…

in my opinion i expect a vocational institute to teach the practical aspects of the industry, or at least be taught as part of OJT. And I believe many companies actually do provide…

>“We kind of suspect that fatigue is one of the major factors that is driving this effect, because when you’re working on something for a long period of time, you get tired and the…

Japan is not a high trust society. Japanese people are highly suspicious of other people, including Japanese. Japanese people are extremely concerned about how they are viewed and …

singapore gives generous subsidies to working adults with children who hire live-in helpers/nannies. the government spent a lot of money on subsidizing tertiary education and the l…

the most obvious anecdata is that for some female endurance athletes, menstrual cycles delay or stop altogether. that's one of many things the body can turn off to reduce energy ex…

in singapore a $60k/yr salary is more than enough to justify a small $200k honda civic.

the best case is that you make the firm a lot of money, and you were successful justifying your contribution and your deserved commiseration. the least bad case is that you realize…

how do you turn them on through local network? the typical solution using wifi connected arduino servos seems like overkill.

seems regional. i use tang for all cousins on my father's side, without exceptions. the cousin differentiation is probably one of the more meaningless differentiations anyway - whe…

this seems to be an internet trope because it's completely wrong in reality or completely lacking in nuance? the japanese usually have some kind of decorum when interacting with pe…

he said solar, which is pretty nice if (1) he is generating excess solar in the day (2) he cannot sell it back to the grid (3) it's not cost effective to store in batteries for nig…

The icons are made up of strokes and there are only a handful of strokes in Chinese writing. The combination of strokes and the location is arguably as complicated as spelling in E…

it could be more advantageous for china to, say, negotiate emissions and environmental agreements through multiple political groupings - like NE china, south china, and west china …

> immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions this is a myth. even if you just look at asian immigrant groups alone, many groups do very poorly economically - the …

there are hard paths, and there are easy paths of course. there are people holding 5, sometimes 10, directorships at different companies, collecting a nice little 30-50k paycheck a…

1/0 is undefined and 1/-0 is also undefined. what we have is lim(x->0+) 1/x = +inf and lim(x->0-) 1/x = -inf

the important part is to never let your glop go below 60C in its entire lifespan. keep it in the oven, the pot, wherever, and leave the fire running until you finish it.