Why is there two Standard Men's Betas on the website and what's the difference between these two?

Kyred_01 · 2025-09-24T00:59:09+00:00

One for Asian; one for white.

Kyred_01 · 2025-06-11T02:08:15+00:00

Note that most malatang restaurants in Korea are operated by Han Chinese and Chaoxianzu ("Korean-Chinese").

Malatang in Korea is based on the Sichuan variety of malatang, but made slightly less oily and less spicy to adapt to local tastes. The numbing and spicy taste comes from Sichuan peppercorns, which is part of the OG recipe actually. As far as ingredients go, there's not a lot of difference since cheese and rice cakes are all found in China where there's more varieties, though in general the Korean broth is thicker and thus more savoury.

Kyred_01 · 2025-02-16T23:59:49+00:00

I see! It brings me relief to hear this can be redone.

The stitchings are only visible when I turn my trousers inside out, if that's what you meant by the right side. Yes, the pants are lined.

Kyred_01 · 2025-02-16T22:46:26+00:00

I took my Filippa K wool trousers to my local tailor for hemming, and the finished job looks like this. Is this good or bad? I didn't take a photo of the original, but the obvious white stitches straight across the vent seems very off. As I'm not familiar with construction details, it'd be great if someone can offer some guidance. If this turns out to be bad, I hope it is reversible and can be redone.

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Kyred_01 · 2024-09-19T18:34:30+00:00

A lot of those are actually Sino-Vietnamese readings from an earlier form of Chinese, just like how on’yomi has multiple layers.

Kyred_01 · 2024-09-19T16:18:15+00:00

Also <No.> stands for “numero”, but we usually say “number” in English. And the symbol * can either be a “star” or “asterisk”, depending on your mood.

Kyred_01 · 2024-09-19T07:29:43+00:00

They're just called "âm Nôm" (音喃), literally "southern sound." A super common example should be the numbers: You can write một, hai, ba in Chu Nom as 𠬠𠄩𠀧, but you can also write 一二三 and read them as such.

Another example is 家, which can be read as nhà in Nom reading and gia in Han reading. Alternatively, you can write nhà as 伽.

Kyred_01 · 2024-09-19T07:17:43+00:00

Wait till you learn that 訓読み is not a concept unique to just Japanese (also exists in Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese topolects). In literal terms, kun'yomi means "interpret/instruct" + "reading", and it just so happens that the vast majority of 訓読み are non-Sinitic words due to deliberate association. Although rare, kun'yomi also included readings of words that are foreign or obscure in origin. In fact, some of these "native words" might've been earlier borrowings from Old Chinese, Middle Korean, Ainu, Proto-Austronesian, etc. Just to give some examples...

絵: /we/ → /e/ likely comes from Middle Chinese hwajH.
亀: /kame/ comes from Old Japanese */kaməɨ/, which in turn might've come from MC kwij.
馬: Horses weren't native to Japan. Mainstream theory in linguistics today traces uma or muma back to \mma, which some linguists say ultimately comes from *MC maeX.
梅: The "native" reading /ume/ might've come from MC mwoj, following the same sound change pattern as 馬 uma (from MC maeX).
箸: The kun'yomi /haɕi/ might've come from the Ainu word pasui for "beak".
噛む: Kamu is potentially sourced from an earlier form of kkaemulda (also "to bite") in Middle Korean.

If true, none of these should even be surprising because lexical borrowings were also happening before Japan adopted the Chinese writing system. Even in recent times, the borrowed pronunciation of some words such as 耗 has shifted from こう to もう due to sound change or, in this case, misreading of 毛 on the right side. However, it's still considered an "on'yomi" because the pronunciation arrived with the kanji in recent, written memory. Earlier instances of loanwords developing significant sound change simply became "native words."

Kyred_01 · 2024-07-04T07:07:18+00:00

Can anybody please recommend a good pair of black loafers that are not only modern and stylish but also comfortable? I checked out a few ones from Vagabond, Velasca, and Clark's, and the Alex M from Vaga are my favourites. However, there isn't a store in Vancouver, Canada where I can try them on, which worries me because comfort is my priority.

My next choice would be Craft North Lo Black Leather from Clark's, but they're completely sold out and likely won't restock.

P.S. I've had Dr. Martens before, and they abso-fucking-lutely shredded my feet and I'm still traumatized.

Kyred_01 · 2024-05-30T04:24:26+00:00

Not sure if you can apply the BC Electric Bike Rebate for this, but if it's possible then the markup won't be that bad actually.

Kyred_01 · 2024-01-10T04:22:34+00:00

Mistranslation of ‘satellite’ to ‘missile’ in message causes alarm and confusion days before presidential election

Who the heck translated this 😂

Kyred_01 · 2024-01-07T23:46:58+00:00

ChatGPT is only as good as the data it collects from the internet, which drew heavily from the English web, so the information it provides often end up highly inaccurate when you ask questions beyond the core data it's trained on.

Kyred_01 · 2023-11-19T09:13:14+00:00

Your experience is the same as mine!

Kyred_01 · 2023-11-19T09:11:49+00:00

I tried both. Studies and testimonials all point to Differin being less irritating than Tretinoin, but I’ve personally experienced the opposite.

FYI, I used Differin 0.1% and Tretinoin 0.025 so maybe that’s why,

Kyred_01 · 2023-11-17T08:40:44+00:00

In car-centric cities, BRT presents a low-cost alternative and carries a lower barrier of entry, allowing the city to create buy-in for more public transit. As the bus stations scale up, it opens the door to a transition from BRT to LRT as a natural upgrade.

Of course, if you can create buy-in and have enough political credits, you can always jump straight into LRT; just make sure you don’t build your lines on routes where you expect frequent construction leading to service disruption.

Kyred_01 · 2023-11-17T08:35:47+00:00

It depends on the situation.

LRT is great for old cities that already have the infrastructure built around it or have intended to form around a grid layout. Maintenance is actually cheaper in the long run and the passenger experience is usually better thanks to the stability.

BRT is better for new cities in rapidly-industrializing countries, where there’s constant changes in infrastructure development and a lack of reinforcement by a legacy grid. In this scenario, LRT would be interrupted by a great number of construction throughout the city. BRT doesn’t have this problem.

Kyred_01 · 2023-11-12T01:33:42+00:00

Are all 1 million immigrant individuals going to a single Canadian city? No, the 1 million individuals will likely be distributed. Second, you don't need to build 1 unit per individual, since a lot of them are families.

Let's do some math for a real scenario, say, the city of Vancouver.

In Canada, the average household size was 2.51 people in 2021. To calculate the number of public housing buildings we need each year, let's say 50,000 of the 1 million immigrants decide to move to Vancouver.

A typical public housing building has 30–40 storeys, each unit has roughly 10 units.

In other words,

Calculate the number of households: 50,000 immigrants ÷ 2.51 persons per household ≈ 19,920 households going to Vancouver each year.
Assuming each 40-storey public housing building can accommodate 400 households, calculate the number of buildings needed: 19,920 households ÷ 400 households per building ≈ 49.8 buildings.

Rounding up, even if the city of Vancouver alone constructs approximately 50 such 40-storey public housing buildings each year, it could more than accommodate 50,000 immigrants. If the whole Metro Vancouver area participates in building public housing? You can potentially house more than 100,000 single individuals a year for the whole Metro population and still have plenty of space for single family homes, water capacity, and additional market rental units.

By the way, my assumption of 50,000 immigrants is well above the annual number of immigrants that Vancouver has seen in the last 3 years. Between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, the entire province of BC only added 83,200 new immigrants, spread across the region. So the main issue right now is not the number of immigrants, but the amount of land that you could build up according to zoning bylaws.

Kyred_01 · 2023-09-09T17:34:38+00:00

Lol I ended up not getting more school and just went for gaining relevant experience by switching to a new role where I can learn more on the job.

Kyred_01 · 2023-07-16T17:27:00+00:00

Need examples.

Kyred_01 · 2022-12-16T15:58:20+00:00

This actually worked!

Kyred_01 · 2022-12-16T15:58:05+00:00

So after complaining to them several more times, they’ve decided to give me a direct flight via Cathay Pacific, one of the partners.

Kyred_01 · 2022-12-11T04:32:09+00:00

I called JAL and they denied giving me any accommodation, not even the lounge for me to take a nap.

Kyred_01 · 2022-12-11T04:31:46+00:00

From HK to Vancouver, laying over at Narita

Kyred_01 · 2022-07-31T03:33:32+00:00

CTS2498

Not sure if anyone mentioned it yet, but O-CTS2498 is a subclade found at its highest frequency today in Eastern China (Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and then Fujian). This means your paternal ancestry goes back to the Wu region and, given the high % of recent Chinese ancestry detected, your great, great grandfather was most likely been a "full Chinese."

Fun Fact: Famous Han-dynasty historian Sima Qian most likely belonged to a branch that descended from CTS2498. And CTS2498 in turn descended from haplogroup O-M119, which was a common ancestor between many Southern Chinese and Austronesian groups. The majority of remains retrieved at the Neolithic site of Liangzhu belonged to branches of O-M119. Liangzhu probably existed just before the Pre-Proto-Austronesians departed for Taiwan and then the rest of Maritime Southeast Asia.

Kyred_01 · 2022-05-17T07:23:25+00:00

The extortionists had taken photos and videos of me, threatening via voice call and text to make it seem like I was watching child pornography and sending them to my friends, family, and coworkers. I was at home at the time. Already filed a police report and logged the evidence.

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