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by Jongseong 13y ago
I'm only relying on memory, but I don't think screen resolutions on high-end personal computers improved significantly between 2001 and 2010, even as drastic improvements were seen in smaller devices such as phones. The reason is
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Such high resolution displays may sound like overkill for many people, but improved resolution is a big deal to those who care about screen typography—specifically, in layman's terms, about how fonts look on screen. When displaying let
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Other than in matters of spelling (which belongs to the realm of written language and is thus outside the scope of usual discussions about language and cognition), Noah Webster did not introduce any significant differences in American Engli
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by Jongseong 13y ago
My point is that there were instances of Jews being discriminated against in the Soviet Union, and in the case of the Doctors' Plot, even being targeted in purges. I agree that many other nations suffered far worse under the Soviet reg
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Proponents of linguistic relativity (or "Whorfianism") have come up with some fantastically absurd claims over the years about how thoughts are constrained by language. And in the popular imagination, these claims would inevitably
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Yes, Stalin killed people of all backgrounds. But so-called reactionary nationalities were specifically targeted for NKVD operations. For example, the NKVD would round up people with Polish-sounding names from telephone books during the Gre
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by Jongseong 13y ago
What you say might have made sense if not for the fact that countless other Jewish students were similarly denied from MGU. Did they all have uncles that lived in the West? In Frenkel's story, the lady from the correspondence school he
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Take a look at what I said. I said that after the death of Stalin, antisemitism in the Soviet Union was couched in the language of anti-Zionism. Stalin died in 1953, by which time the state of Israel was already a few years old. Incidentall
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by Jongseong 13y ago
So the whole Doctor's Plot purge in the fifties just so happened to target mostly Jews and people with Jewish names? This was the most overtly antisemitic episode in Soviet history. Just because Jews were overrepresented in the Bolshev
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by Jongseong 13y ago
How does any of that contradict the assertion that antisemitism is older than Socialism? Are you denying that antisemitism continued under the Soviet Union, even after the death of Stalin, couched in the language of anti-Zionism? If you are
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Unless you claim that the officials of MGU went great lengths to keep young Edward Frenkel out of the university for some other reason than his Jewish surname, you are giving an ex post facto excuse for the continued and long-standing discr
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by Jongseong 13y ago
The Resident ID Card of the People's Republic of China still lists the bearer's ethnicity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Identity_Card
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by Jongseong 13y ago
"The fifth line" on the Soviet passport which listed the bearer's "nationality" (what we would usually call ethnicity in English) was only removed from Russian passports in 1997. But Edward Frenkel was picked out as
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Columbus was a particularly unsavoury individual whose instinct was to sell the Taino natives he encountered as slaves, but it is difficult to imagine a scenario where the inevitable large scale contact between the Old and the New Worlds wo
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by Jongseong 13y ago
'Fourth of July' is pretty much the exclusive form for the Independence Day of the U.S. and is an exceptional case. It is preceded by 'July third' and followed by 'July fifth'. Even other significant dates usua
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by Jongseong 13y ago
In South Korea at least, Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is built into a lot of phones and portable media devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Multimedia_Broadcastin... But this requires special DMB sig
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Another example where the tree diagram is incorrect: https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+oligarchy The current tree diagram makes it look like the Greek oligarkhia came from Medieval Latin, not the other way round. Th
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Some initial remarks after playing around with this for a bit: Currently, this seems to only include the etymology for English words. Proper nouns are not included, except those also used as common nouns, like Newton. Nor are most compound
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by Jongseong 13y ago
My company uses the French version of MS Office and after upgrading, I can't quite get it to generate CSV files in the right encoding needed to work with the company's proprietary software. So I need to go through the hassle of ma
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Groundwater will become an increasingly important resource, and it will be especially critical in a region that experiences periodic droughts like East Africa. Kenya faces a water crisis, and water cuts were not uncommon even for those with
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by Jongseong 13y ago
That's a great example. I just hope that at least the changes they made to maximize Rwanda's ranking on the ease-of-doing-business index were genuinely beneficial rather than merely cosmetic.
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by Jongseong 13y ago
To defend the author's position, I would be wary of providing a single ranking because the metrics are going to be different for different needs. Say you're ranking different lodging options at a holiday destination. You can come
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Well, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, today Turkey tops the world in the number of imprisoned journalists: http://cpj.org/imprisoned/2012.php No journalists are jailed in Russia at the moment, but Ru
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by Jongseong 13y ago
I share the author's aversion to reducing complex information to rankings. At the same time, at first reflection it seems that countries would have less incentives than universities to "juke their stats" (to use the expressio
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Increasingly, professional typeface designers working today are coders as well. The OpenType format for fonts allows designers to program font behaviour, often in pretty sophisticated ways. These range from standard typographic niceties lik
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by Jongseong 13y ago
Not that I expect to change anyone's world views with a comment, but for the sake of those who are simply curious: The North Korean regime is the brainchild of Stalin, whose one consistent foreign policy was to set up satellite regimes
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by Jongseong 13y ago
As a South Korean living abroad, I am regularly asked about North Korea by curious foreigners despite having no special expertise on the subject besides having followed the news all my life by the virtue of being from the south of the DMZ.
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by Jongseong 13y ago
HVPT is of course only part of the solution; I hope I didn't make it sound like a cure-all. Being able to distinguish the phonemes that you hear is just the first step, and it should logically be followed by learning to produce the sou
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by Jongseong 13y ago
I was looking at the sample image provided on the linked article for hue differentiation where for each of the three rows, the strips of colour differ by 5%. The three rows differ by brightness only. The article used this image to illustrat
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by Jongseong 13y ago
One thing I noticed as someone with red-green colour blindness is that while the article claims that "darker magentas are more distinguishable than lighter ones", I saw lighter magentas as being more distinguishable than darker on

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