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When Costco came to Korea, it was a great source of American products at reasonable prices. They have gradually shifted to more Korean brands over the years. Even if you are only b…

This comment or something like it should be at the top, because it's the main point about polygraphing. It's the process, not the answers that matter. I knew a guy who did security…

There was an MS-DOS tool by James Korenthal called Babble[0], which did something similar. It apparently worked according to a set of grammatical transformers rather than by genera…

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> Sam Neil writes hilariously about the filming. That piqued my interest, so I searched for it but Google AI told me to give up. :-/ Sam Neill has not written about the filming of …

I recently watched the whole season of UFO, wanting so badly to like it because of its music and set design, but episodes were soooooo dull. The plot premises seemed promising, but…

I recently attended someone in the hospital. The constant beeping and alarms round the clock prevented any deep sleep for days, and seemed to hinder recovery.

Support for part of this from another source. I've read through the collected letters of many famous intellectuals (just for hobby), and I've noticed a common dramatic shift in per…

I was in Hokkaido many years ago for work and loved it. Compared to the rest of Japan, indoor/outdoor spaces are wider, food is better, and people are friendlier. I never could swi…

What would be the plot of a movie equivalent to Blade Runner for this scenario?

As a teacher, I have closely watched the effect of LLM use on student writing and attempts by colleagues to use automated detection. I plead with you, DO NOT USE AUTOMATED DETECTIO…

Problem solving is a well-explored field in experimental psychology. TFA is a bit unfocused, making both some generally supported speculations and some traditional ideas that haven…

There is an even longer history of denigration of the Anglo-Saxon-Jutes and mythologizing the Normans, but 11th century animosities were a different phenomenon that the modern Brit…

The traditional grand monuments in the West are arches and obelisks/columns. We already have an obelisk. How about a pyramid/ziggurat? After all, we have one on our money.

Speaking from knowing many people who once had jobs requiring security clearance, I think it's likely that a thorough search of their papers would uncover some stuff that officiall…

Japan used that strategy very successfully for at least a century. The high cost of imported goods encouraged consumers to buy domestic at prices that were also high, which subsidi…

I hang out with a mostly older crowd and often eat in downmarket neighborhoods, and I've seen that dish mixing after meals. Nice to learn that bit about long kimchi slices. I just …

A substantial restaurant meal in Korea is usually served with several standard side dishes. Due to the expense and effort of providing these to each table, restaurants often requir…

In medicine and law, it is unethical and sometimes illegal to choose your course of action based on profitability against the needs of the client. Teaching has been traditionally b…

They won't close. They will just rely more heavily on foreign students. The primary focus of academia is to remain employed, not to serve the needs of the domestic student populati…

I am professionally interested in the narrative structure of texts, as a teacher and researcher, so I ask this out of genuine interest. I often see posts like this in discussions o…

I have a hobby interest in pre-1066 England to the extent of studying the language so I can read literature in the original, and I do find it a very irritating feature of scholarsh…

Need to add, the idea of cultural homogeneity is entirely relative. Japan is or isn't homogeneous depending on who and when you ask, and I'm not even counting the Ainu or other not…

Funnily, when I read up on the state of the art, I felt let down that we are apparently still far away from being able to dissolve cataracts with eye drops. I'm hoping for that whe…