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But it seems the author is talking about traditional Japanese words, and looking for ties in words and idioms like ("kokoro" & "corculum"), ("koi" & "cupio"), ("ganbare" & "quam vale"), ("omedetō" & "omen datum").

Seems a bit farfetched to me, but I'm no expert.

Comment · 2 years ago

This should matter if Kagi ever intends to do business in the EU.

I suppose a serious breach of regulations, and if Kagi decided to ignore fines, apart from a bad reputation, could ultimately lead to things like judicial decisions of blocking access to the website or blocking payments for EU customers.

Comment · 2 years ago

small nitpicking: it ought to be written as "20 m" instead of "20M" or else why bother including the equivalent in meters? (in the International System of Units, M is the prefix for mega: 10^6)

Comment · 2 years ago

Aren't kaomoji a subset of emoticons? most western old emoticons are turned 90° CCW, whereas kaomoji are mostly horizontal and often using CJK characters.

Comment · 2 years ago

> OLVID App by the French Government

Recently the French Government required its members to use it, but it's made by a French startup, AFAIK.

Comment · 2 years ago

Oh, it wasn't lost among all their replies, it was in the 4th paragraph of the header text section of that Show HN post.

Comment · 2 years ago

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759 its OP states "A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush."

Comment · 2 years ago

After asserting it's a rubber duck, there are some claims without follow-up:

- Just after that it doesn't translate the "rubber" part

- It states there's no land nearby for it to rest or find food in the middle of the ocean: if it's a rubber duck it doesn't need to rest nor feed. (That's a missed opportunity to mention the infamous "Friendly Floatees spill"[1] in 1992 as some rubber ducks floated to that map position). Although it seems to recognize geographical features of the map, it fails to mention Easter Island is relatively nearby. And if it were recognized as a simple duck — which it described as a bird swimming in the water — it seems oblivious to the fact that the duck might feed itself in the water. It doesn't mention either that the size of the duck seems abnormally big in that map context.

- The concept of friends and foes doesn't apply to a rubber duck either. Btw labeling the duck picture as a friend and the bear picture as a foe seems arbitrary (e.g. a real duck can be very aggressive even with other ducks.)

Among other things, the astronomical riddle seems also flawed to me: it answered "The correct order is Sun, Earth, Saturn".

I'd like for it to state :

- the premises it used, like "Assuming it depicts the Sun, Saturn and the Earth" (there are other stars, other ringed-planets, and the Earth similarity seems debatable)

- the sorting criteria it used (e.g. using another sorting key like the average distance from us "Earth, Sun, Saturn" can be a correct order)

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

Comment · 2 years ago

The etymology of "chauve" (bald) in "chauve-souris" (bat) is debated, but I've often read that it could be a deformation of a word designating an owl or a crow (it would be a cognate with the late Latin "cavannus" (tawny owl), for example).

On a similar note, the "cerf" (deer) in "un cerf-volant" (a kite toy) probably derive from occitan sèrp (snake) as a reference to dragon-shaped kites from Asia.