DigitalTurk

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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Well, I think the trick is the find meaning in small things and not to worry too much (all of the time) about how what you do fits in the grand scheme of things. Because, indeed, things that are meaningful on a small scale might be absurd
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Well, I'm happy it would only work for up to a year. Otherwise I'd be afraid that parents would inject their children with these vaccines—you know, 'for their own good'.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
As a rule, I prefer traveling on my own. That way I can take my time to walk wherever I want and get a better 'feel' for the city. For instance, I love to go out into the city without a map sometimes. I often even go out of my way to eat in
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Yum!
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Orion Blaster! I don't want to reveal my K5 nick but I'm happy you're still around. :)
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I thought we were talking about people who spoke Chinese? Can't they just ask? On a few occasions, in my own country, I've had old immigrants ask me to read something for them. I don't know if they are visually impaired or illiterate but it
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Sure. I guess we're just disagreeing on how much of a problem it is and after how much time this will get to you. I suppose it's a subjective thing.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Many, if not most, restaurants in China have picture menus. Update: that's in the major cities anyway.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Yeah. I had a similar idea a while back. I'm not so sure it really needs to be radically decentralized though. Drones travel slow compared to IP packets and I think this creates opportunities to optimize tasks in the cloud. I think the bigg
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Could you elaborate. How was not being able to read a problem? Did they have trouble navigating the city? Was this perhaps in a city without subways?
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I don't get it. If you're a foreign guy in China there are always tons of girls who'll go with you to wherever you want to go and who'll translate for you. If you speak just a little Chinese you can have a very comfortable life there.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I can't seem to find this app. What I want is a graphical representation of the tone of my voice (over time). I've been told that my voice is monotone when I speak Western languages so I don't really have a good feel for what I need to do t
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Speaking of apps for helping you learn Chinese. I don't know how difficult it would be to create something like this, but an app that could help with mastering tones would be very useful to me. I'd buy such an app even if it was very simple
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
For me to seriously consider that app you should have a mode where hanzi is deemphasized (or even gone entirely). For me it's just not worth the effort to learn. I have enough trouble with spoken Chinese as is and I have little to no use fo
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Not in India and Africa. And even in the West there are many dishes that people prefer to eat with their hands.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Not including a stylus with the iPhone and the iPad was brilliant from a marketing perspective. And not in a bad way by any means. It educated developers. It taught everyone that if a UI requires a stylus then there's something wrong with i
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
That's really nice to hear! I had actually never heard of the SSL Observatory before.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I've lived in China and I used Skype. I didn't think they did this. I don't think I should have expected this either since I knew Skype encrypts all communication. I wasn't expecting them to actively cooperate with the Chinese government. M
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Oh, I just noticed you're the author of the blog post. If I had realized this I would have changed my tone (FWIW). The point stands though. Your domain name and your use of bold scream 'quackary'. Like I said, I haven't read the post so, wh
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I don't know what it says
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
"professorhollybell.com" … seriously? Makes me think of all those new age books where the author's middle name is 'PhD'. The use of bold text doesn't help her credibility either. Too ridiculous-looking; didn't read.
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
But is there a (modern) society that had a birthrate drop like this and perished as a result?
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I understand that China has those problems you mention, but as you say, they don't apply to tech products that much. Does anyone really want to buy 'Made in the USA' products because they're afraid their Macbook or expensive designer clock
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
I couldn't agree more with your post scriptum! The ecology argument makes sense, of course, insofar more of the sales are in the US than Asia. Nonetheless, it seems to me that it's usually more of a convenient side-effect than the actual mo
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
You know, as a European who used to live in China I have to say that those 'Made in the USA' slogans are really off-putting for me. To me it almost reads like 'More expensive because we're jingoists'. Whatever happened to globalization? Has
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by DigitalTurk 14y ago
Me too. This is with a Chinese iPhone in Europe. I noticed that my carrier settings get erased on OS upgrades, though, which is annoying.