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Re:Ways to make flying less miserable
on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:40AM (#25858654)
Anxiety is complicated. For example, having airline crew on Ebola-grade hazmat suits emblazoned with biohazard logos would probably reduce COVID transmission by some fraction of a percent, but it would also increase anxiety for most of us. If you take the LA Blue Line (which goes through some of the worst neighborhoods in the city), the constant announcements about your safety being important and occasional patrols by jackbooted commandos are the opposite of reassuring.
Basically, it's difficult to show you care about a problem without making the problem appear worse.
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:45AM (#25856211)
I can't claim to be an expert, but this is likely correct. The native Japanese words for color (shiro, kuro, aka, ao, midori etc) don't use the -色/iro suffix.
Re:Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:35PM (#25855433)
Australia has joined the chat
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:47PM (#25855144)
Interesting. Now that I think about it, /səˈrinj/ sounds quite American to me, while /ˈsirinj/ is more English?
Also, you characterize the 2nd vowel in "orange" as a schwa, but to many people it's /i/:
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:35PM (#25855059)
In many languages the distinction is quite blurred. In Japanese, most color words like 茶色 chairo (brown), 灰色 hairo (gray), 黄色 kiiro (yellow), 紅色 beniiro (crimson/red) incorporate the word "iro" (color), but while the first two are tea-color and ash-color, ki 黄 and beni 紅 now just mean "yellow" and "red" respectively.
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:29PM (#25855014)
"Orange" is actually pronounced /oringe/, so "syringe" and "door hinge" sound like true rhymes to me?
Re:Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of “Orange” (2018)
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:59PM (#25854418)
But does anything rhyme with orange? Oh yes.
Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:04AM (#25844200)
No, we're not in agreement on that. It's clear that Ma's dress & appearance in the video was distinctly at odds with his own usual profile, no need for any stereotypes or comparisons to other people.
Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:21AM (#25843490)
With all due respect, you are presumably also not the multibillionaire CEO of one of the world's largest Internet companies.
If I saw Zuck, Satya or Sundar do a video conference looking like they're chained to the radiator in somebody's basement, I'd also be kinda concerned. (At least for the latter two. Zuck, maybe not so much.)
Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:18AM (#25843475)
The odd outbreak aside (and Shijiazhuang is nowhere near Hangzhou), lockdowns are long over in China, there's no need for Ma to cower in a basement.
That said, I actually agree with you that the "hurr durr CCP torture cell" comments are overblown. It's entirely plausible that he's keeping a low profile for a while, if likely in response to some rather heavy-handed advice.
Re:Jack Ma makes first live appearance in three months in online meet
on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:05AM (#25843370)
Compared to Jack Ma's usual public image (see below), a frumpy pullover and a dingy room does seem rather odd.
Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:15PM (#25842511)
Mainland China's growth has been much slower because the madness of Mao's misrule set the country back by several decades. If you compare the country's growth since Deng Xiaoping took over and started reforming in the early 1980s, it compares much more favorably.
Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:12PM (#25842495)
Yes, China punches under its weight in software, and yes, China's services are not particularly visible in the US, but I assure you they're already making a huge impact, particularly in the developing world, and that impact is only going to growing in the next 5-10 years.
Alibaba/Aliexpress are massive for consumer online shopping, particularly in Russia & Eastern Europe. Alipay payments are increasingly accepted across SE Asia. JD.com (which nobody ever hears about, but is considerably larger than Ali) operates directly and indirectly in many SE Asian countries.
Tencent Games owns and operates a huge slew of globally popular games, including Fortnite, League of Legends, the Supercell suite (Brawl Stars, Clash of Clans etc). Yes, most of these games are still produced primarily in the West, but for long?
Trip.com has been run out of China since 2017 since it was acquired by Ctrip. Meituan/Dianping dominate food delivery in China and are started to branch out to other markets like Australia and Singapore.
Re:China wants to build an open source ecosystem to rival GitHub
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:45PM (#25842357)
That's not going to help a user in mainland China, because Singapore is a separate country and on the wrong side of the Great Firewall.
Re:Storming Reddit's Moat
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:11PM (#25841338)
Is this meaningfully different from the user's point of view than just subscribing to a set of different subreddits? What does the user or the host get out of using federated servers?
From my POV this seems to be the same issue that has prevented federated social networks or chat services from taking off: there's no meaningful, concrete advantage to it.
Re:This Anime Does Not Exist
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:22PM (#25840356)
The AI-generated characters remind me of hentaigana, which are the obsolete variant forms of kana used before 1900: they're clearly Japanese writing, but weird and basically illegible to the modern reader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentaigana#Gallery
(That's hentai as in 変体 "variant form", not hentai as in 変態 "sexual perversion".)
Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @03:52AM (#25831310)
"Of course I always have the best interests of my patients in mind, but, you know, it's not like they'll pay more if I prescribe Lexapro instead of Zoloft. They won't come back more often or refer more friends. So I'd sorta just be, like, donating this money if I paid you for this thing, right?"
But you know who would pay more if they prescribe Lexapro? The manufacturer of Lexapro, and that's who he should have pitched this to. And they have the marketing muscle needed to make it scale.
That said, there's all sorts of conflict of interest/slippery slope issues going down that path, and I'm not sure they would buy this either, but they'd still have been his best bet.
Re:Man found 'living in airport for three months' over Covid fears
on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:15AM (#25821465)
But what's the risk to having someone live for three months in an airport? He's gone through the same TSA security as everybody else.
Re:Parler's home page is back online, but app still not in stores
on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:46AM (#25819632)
They're running Wordpress, which is famous for scaling badly to the extent that there are large companies like WPEngine.com devoted to doing nothing except working around that.
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Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:57AM (#25819343)
TIL! Looks like that flipped around 2000: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18924533/
This goes into some more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet#Longevity
Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:48AM (#25819296)
That all sounds very wholesome, but based on what I've seen, reality is pretty different. That commercial baby food you mentioned seems to avoid salt entirely and make up for it with gobs of sugar. Snacks for kids like tamago boro are little puffs of sugar and starch.
I'll readily grant that the universal free school food is a huge improvement on the US swill, although this too has its share on unhealthy practices: mandating that everything served has to be eaten whether you're hungry or not or you like it or not (kids are regularly told that sukikirai, liking/hating foods, is not allowed), and the mandatory milk & milk bun for that sugar kick. At least whale meat has become too expensive to feature regularly anymore.
Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:31AM (#25818846)
Interestingly enough, Okinawa has the highest life expectancy in Japan. They also really got the short end of the stick during WW2 though (a third of the civilian population died during the US invasion), so this may be a statistical/survival of the fittest type quirk too, plus the historically the local diet there was fairly different to the rest of the Japan (lots of pork, less seafood, sweet potato/taro instead of rice, chillies, bitter melon, etc).
Re:Japanese people may have gained longevity by balancing their diets
on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:25AM (#25818821)
> people here wouldn't even look at you straight
Quite the opposite! Random strangers will stare, and friends and colleagues will make blunt comments in a way that would send them straight to HR in the US: you'll be told to your face you're fat, asked how much you weigh, get poked in the belly, asked if you've tried sumo wrestling, etc.
A random デブちゃん's experience: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/fat-in-japan/
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Re:That's not how 2FA works
on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:56PM (#25816574)
Fake 2FA works if it's stateless, eg entering a code from Authy or a physical token.
However, stateful 2FA like sending an SMS to your phone, or popping up a notification on your banking app is much harder to spoof, and would have protected the user here.
Re:America’s New Corporate Tyranny
on Saturday January 16, 2021 @11:59PM (#25808287)
The top HN story earlier today was a tale of how Google can effectively cripple a company that doesn't even use any of its services:
https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-...
Re:A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2
on Saturday January 16, 2021 @11:53PM (#25808253)
Proper washlets are a different thing, the OP and I were referring to the basic bum guns which are not integrated with the seat:
Re:Show HN: RemoteClub – Best cities to work remotely across the world
on Saturday January 16, 2021 @11:51PM (#25808250)
Speaking from on the ground in SE Asia, it's highly unlikely travel will be back to normal before 2023. The big question for travel is whether countries will start accepting vaccination as a substitute for quarantine.