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As a native Japanese speaker, I find this homonyms concern kind of odd. It’s like asking how Japanese people can speak to each other and understand one another given all the homony…

I’m a native Japanese speaker, so you don’t need to explain that writing kana with spaces is non-standard in most media (although some people -- both native speakers and non-native…

Most of the confusion in written Japanese stems from the use of kanji. The Kanamoji Kai (カナモジカイ) was established more than 100 years ago by Yamashita Yoshitarō (山下芳太郎), and it has …

The vast majority of books don't generate any profits past the first few years, so I prefer Lawrence Lessig's proposal of copyright renewal at five-year intervals with a fee. Under…

Tyler Cowen also did a podcast with Jonathan Haidt where he questioned Haidt's conclusion that the smartphone/social media are the cause of (some) younger people's poor mental heal…

I haven't read it but Steven Johnson wrote a book that argued the opposite: Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-ficti…

How about Australian rice, like the Sunbrown brand? Arsenic levels (mg/kg) in raw rice from different countries https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Arsenic-levels-mg-kg-in-...

This "algorithmically deciding what to focus on (exploration/exploitation)" idea is also discussed in the following book: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decis…

Brave has the built-in dark mode

> allocate tickets by lottery at lower than market price I think that's what Kid Rock does for the best seats in the first row, while selling the rest at market rate Kid Rock Vs. T…

You can just use the Brave browser on mobile. It supports background playback too.

Apparently it was popular among middle & high schoolers back in 2018, but probably not among adults https://twitter.com/livedoornews/status/1068834535838633986?...

Another master programmer Linus Torvalds seems to have the opposite attitude though https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3 Wonder if there's a difference in average attitude …

> Accent’s Way on YouTube > taught herself the American accent to a complete perfection Her oldest video is 12 years ago and I couldn't personally tell if she's just talented at mi…

I was gonna say the same thing. If she didn't use her domain for her email address and used e.g. Gmail, this problem wouldn't have occurred.

The book "Thinking in Bets" by poker champion Annie Duke made the same point about life being more like poker than chess

> I think Canada (CRA) is doing this behind the scenes Yes, I noticed that the CRA website displayed my T4 this year, although the problem is I couldn't simply hit "Confirm" and be…

DHH (who also happens to be from Denmark) gave the classic "Unlearn Your MBA" talk in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhAkNWC1qo

This could be Sam Altman reacting to the recent article about George Hotz [1] mentioning Sam Altman as actually being a pro status quo figure masquerading as an anti-establishment …

He also has a blog which is very entertaining to read https://geohot.github.io/blog/

I remember Coffeezilla did a video about that article The Untold Truth of Napoleon Hill - History's Most Beloved Con-Man https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDzb9ZplX0

Links are only one factor that gets your comment more likely to be deleted or shadowbanned by YouTube automod (in addition to channel owners' settings for filtering). It's a well k…

> Also, it's a bad practice to associate flags with languages There's even a website for this issue http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-re...

Well if the author you like chose Big Tech as their publisher, and you don't want to support Big Tech, and the author isn't asking for money in any other place, I don't know, maybe…