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> the fastest way for both parties is over the phone ASAP rather than through a bunch of emails

I don't disagree with your statement, but I read the sentence: "Would you be interested to hop on a call with us to talk about this further?" with a similar gross reaction as the OP comment did.

Reading that in response to Marsf's original message of airing grievances and feelings of disrespect towards his work felt entirely tone-deaf and corporate in nature. Especially in context of this being in response to the Japanese team, where Japanese business communication norms are often at odds with the American standard.

You might think that this method of communication is inefficient, but the heart of the matter seems that the Japanese team finds the very emphasis on efficiency as disrespectful when it comes at the cost of the human element of respect.

Read through their "industry advice" section and thought this interesting:

> If you chop something on a plastic cutting board (because wood cutting boards are outlawed in commercial kitchens, apparently), test before and after chopping.

Who banned wood cutting boards from kitchens and for what purpose? I did some digging and some sources cite that neither FDA nor USDA strictly ban wood cutting boards, but individual state health departments are often strict on commercial kitchens that use wood instruments. I get concerns of wood being porous and all, but with the alternative being I have to ingest shavings from the plastic cutting board with every meal... Maybe it's time for a paradigm shift.

>> on the vibrant business and street culture in Japanese cities and the seemingly very, very low barriers to entry for regular people to participate.

> An astute observation that allowing markets to operate without onerous licensing schemes and regulations often has wonderful upsides

I suspect you are reading too much into this line from the article. Japan is a country full of bureaucratic regulations to the extent that it's often stifling -- especially compared to the US.

The overall lowered barrier to entry is largely a result of zoning laws differences between Japan and the US. In the US, zoning laws are largely permissive (you CAN build this here) where zoning laws in Japan are restrictive (you CANNOT build this here). This leads to huge differences in urban planning where Japan favours mixed-used development whereas the US has huge swaths of contiguous blocks separating residential and commercial zones.

Add to that, the cost of visibility is higher in the US because transportation is already car-centric. Small shops thrive on pedestrian traffic, which there is little of in the US outside core urban environments. NIMBY culture has killed much of urban diversity in America.

> It's like starting to sing "happy birthday to you" and being surprised that people in the room join in and finish the song.

A very apt analogy that's funny in that the happy birthday song has its own history of copyright battles.

I love this comment and want to add another perspective.

The existence of video games brings people together on a level playing field where they are free to explore their ideas and refine strategies over a length of time far longer than anyone can actually play the game in reality.

You see it to a more immediate effect in games such as Dota2, League, etc. Professional level players regularly play with amateurs and non-professionals and you notice that ideas propagate throughout the community readily.

Obviously there is a certain barrier to entry for physical sports and the online equivalent to share in ideas, but with how far sports-based games will go striving for realism (all the iterations of Football Manager come to mind), it wouldn't be hard to imagine that in the future strategies will be tested virtually before being employed in real.

> I asked GPT3 to teach me about addition and subtraction and it produced pure garbage in very lecturing tone.

Sorry for laughing, but that's a rather funny thought to be given incorrect maths lesson via AI à la college professor.

The field of AI-applied to mathematics is already somewhat developed actually!

At the moment it's primarily done through proof assistants such as Coq[1], but there is work done to go further and apply ML to the field [2][3]. If you have any interest in the field, I would highly recommend you to take a dive and even play around with proving some simple theorems using Coq. This article[4] from Quanta is a good start to read a summary on the background and work up to now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq

[2] https://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/rg1/conferences...

[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05207

[4] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-close-are-computers-to-au...

Everyday I'm more inclined to believe that it's about equal. You've heard of single issue voters yes?

You're assuming people are following protocol. Humans undergo lapses in judgement multiple times a day and are just as forgetful. Just the other day, I found myself having scratched my face under the mask while at the supermarket, something I only realised after the fact.

Many people don't realise how much contact spread can occur in just half an hour as well, as seen [0]. This was modelling the spread inside of a dining hall of a cruise ship, but you can imagine similar behaviour in other public spaces.

[0] https://youtu.be/9cZTfUAYrF8

This is why I went back to Mojave. Apple has had a history of breaking dev environments on release for people who don't code under their ecosystem of dev tools (well on second thought, they make life difficult at times even for people that do), and I don't see that trend changing in the future.

Eventually every new release has stabilised, but it seems that doesn't hold true for Catalina.

I came in expecting a quick skim but was captivated by the narrative until the end. A truly fantastic bit of writing. Thanks for the share.

Depends on the dorm, but in some older dormitories there might be maybe one full size kitchen for student use allotted to the entire building.

I wonder if part of an issue is the generation gap? For older readers, I imagine that they're much more familiar with CNN referring to the Cable News Network. Whereas for younger readers heavily involved in tech, me included, we aren't as heavily tied to the former abbreviation, so CNN referring to neural networks comes more readily to mind.

Well, one needs to make the leap of faith somewhere.

Though if someone was faking their logs, I'm pretty sure it's possibly to see that there's something fishy going on.

At the end of the day, only you can make the judgement of what constitutes secure enough relating to your own infosec.

Well, I'd postulate the origins lie even deeper. Years of male brain-focused research in psychology and neuroscience have not done this misconception any favours. It's only just recently in the past decade that researchers are looking into differences sex has on biological impact wrt drugs. Heck, even until the past few years, consensus by scientists is that perception of pain is the same across males and females [0].

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00895-3

Excerpts from the paper with commentary [0]

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614764/chinas-crispr-babi...

Right? It's architectural prosody and super interesting to see how design can effect the very mood of the environment. I love cyberpunk and find brutalist architecture to be one of the primary styles in the genre that really helps to build the setting. There's a sense of impressive oppression that emanates from well executed brutalist buildings and sometimes mystery like in the case of 33 Thomas Street [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

This could be a nice OSINT tool for someone to have though a bit limited in functionality.

Somewhat important to note I think is that the Netherlands has the highest public charge points to electric vehicle ratios in the world [0] which adds to the appeal (and lowers the barrier) of owning an electric vehicle.

[0] https://twitter.com/TheICCT/status/915456384300281857

I think it's too hopeful to learn the ins and outs of a language through an app alone. As you mentioned, Duolingo is a tool and very rarely does one tool fit all use cases.

I see Duolingo as more of an interactive digital textbook, but as always there is a gap between completing exercises and applying your knowledge to the real world.

I feel it's important to make reference to primary material [0] to bring more attention to CCP goals. It certainly helped me in becoming aware of their actions as another major state actor.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine

Are these mutually exclusive ideas? I feel there's overlap between them. Acting based on emotional pull can also reduce cognitive overhead compared to the expensive process of making decisions predicated on logic.

On the other hand, lies don't necessary simplify worldviews either. We shouldn't forget that a significant part of the population is willing to engage in conspiracy theories that all too often draw lines between loosely correlated events.