Anybody aware of anything like this for mandarin ?
Readit Newsredmalang commented on Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese kanadojo.com... · Posted by u/tentoumushi
redmalang commented on The infrastructure behind ATMs bitsaboutmoney.com/archiv... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I was under the impression that selecting debit when paying at the cashier means a direct debit of your account happens (as this article seems to imply). Which isn't subject to laws protecting consumers which apply to credit cards.
However selecting credit by the cashier - while using eg a MasterCard branded debit card still gives you the consumer protections (eg when disputing charges the onus is on the bank etc)
Am I completely wrong about this? Is the only difference the payment rail that gets used - and that has no affect on whick consumer protection laws you fall under?
In the UK at least, afaik the Consumer Credit Act applies to Credit Card purchases.
IANAL etc.
redmalang commented on Borges: Recommendations from a life of lectures and essays laphamsquarterly.org/roun... · Posted by u/drdee
Borges´ memory was famously prodigious. But just as exceptional was his appetite for books. If you read his lectures or transcribed dialogues, you will feel that he has read everything He could cite the most obscure writers of any epoch and region by heart. Persian myth, medieval German writers, ancient Japanese poets or monks, Scottish folklorists, theologians and heresiarchs, belonging to antiquity, the Middle Ages or recent times. You name it. And then he would relate all of those with daily occurrences. He would hear a rhyme from a street peddler, find in it an implicit philosophical paradox and recite a verse from ancient Carthage or a medieval Chinese tractate to provide a solution. He also had a penetrating intuition, and his conclusions, reached by himself through personal intuition and later woven into his stories, often turn out to be confirmed by later scientific research. It´s hard to understand how he managed to grasp reality with such depth. It really seems as if his mind was of a greater order of complexity than that of mere mortals. In a way similar to Einstein´s.
I love these lectures, his sonorous, lilting voice and surprisingly acute comedic timing, like a native english speaker. Never never quite realised it until you put it down like that, just how he weaves a whole cloth out of these cross cultural threads.
If there are any other hidden gems, these dialogues for example, please do share!
redmalang commented on Borges: Recommendations from a life of lectures and essays laphamsquarterly.org/roun... · Posted by u/drdee
These lectures by Borges are seriously under-appreciated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV7t9DvN8
The fact that Borges was, apparently at this point blind and doing these lectures essentially from memory is just mind boggling to me.
redmalang commented on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other nytimes.com/2020/10/08/bu... · Posted by u/piker
According to his Twitter account, it's Herodot, The Histories, 1.133.
http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname...
Thank you :)
redmalang commented on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other nytimes.com/2020/10/08/bu... · Posted by u/piker
From a section on Persian customs, somewhere in 130-135 of book one (which is as precise as my copy gets): “If an important decision is to be made, they discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.”
Thank you :)
redmalang commented on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other nytimes.com/2020/10/08/bu... · Posted by u/piker
I really enjoy his writing, which is why I really want to know what this might be:
"Asked about the Etruscans, Mr. Levine said he thought Mr. Mystal might be referring to one of his favorite anecdotes from Herodotus. It was actually about the Persians, he said. He fetched his copy of “The Histories” and read it to me.)"
redmalang commented on Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once segment.com/blog/exactly-... · Posted by u/fouadmatin
... or they could have used BigQuery with a primary key on message ID.
BQ doesn't have primary keys. Perhaps you are thinking of the id that can be supplied with the streaming insert? This has very loose guarantees on what is de-duplicated (~5m iirc)
redmalang commented on Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once segment.com/blog/exactly-... · Posted by u/fouadmatin
Another possible approach:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/06/how-qubit-ded...
redmalang commented on A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry medium.com/@byrnehobart/t... · Posted by u/jessaustin
Whilst I'm not the target market (I enjoy cooking from scratch way too much), I think there are a few things wrong with the analysis:
- Surely this isn't the first business to make a loss on acquisition in expectation of breakeven. That in of itself doesn't make this untenable. I also feel that the Groupon analogy is a bit underbaked: Groupon (and the ilk) were also I suspect totally unsustainable for the end businesses.
- There is substantial scope for curation. This in & of itself may not not be enough of course, but this doesn't seem like total commodity land either. Also it isn't just about getting the ingredients bundled together. It is harder than you'd think making sure standard measures of stuff in the supermarket doesn't go to waste from spoilage when trying to cook whilst keeping repetition low. Optimising for this is probably an interesting and not super simple problem.
I've only been exposed to the UK variants. The above may not hold true for other places though.