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Not all lecturers welcome questions, it depends on the country and culture. Certainly my own undergraduate experience consisted of a "human text-to-speech engine" experience where the lecturer lectured mainly from a text, while st
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Yes, definitely the "were they white or not?" discussion is silly. I just wanted to emphasize that whatever Iranians look like, you can't assume they represent a look that moved down from the steppe just because they speak an
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This isn’t remotely true. The Berber-speaking population of North Africa, i.e. the autochtonous population that was living there before the Arab invasion (and, of course, before Roman influence) is generally swarthier than those who can dem
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> Even Persians are (largely) of Indo-European ancestry, migrating from the same steppes that filled Europe. It is worth emphasizing that "Indo-European" is a linguistic description, not a genetic one. The Indo-European languag
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> However, this also trivializes games because you can simply look up a guide for a game. Reliance on guides predates the internet. For 1990s console RPGs like Final Fantasy, me and everyone gamer I know bought a (paper) guide for it.
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You are an outlier, writing a novel from a phone keyboard (and, of course, writing a novel at all). The general public that Reddit targets does not invest the same energy in longform text from their phones. The device you see as a means to
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HN, as its name indicates, do not aim at a universal demographic. The demographic it does cater to is also very likely to use a keyboard heavily during the day, and so retains some good habits of longform discourse even when contributing vi
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In the Maghreb and West Africa a decade ago, there were still some scribes in public squares who would type up correspondence, because literacy was so low. I wonder if some of them are now working with laptops or tablets.
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> The police want to catch the bad guys too, but after 8 hrs has passed, it becomes virtually impossible to succeed. There are places around the world with extremely wide rollout of CCTV cameras across the city, where the crime is record
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I am convinced even had Reddit kept the old design, it would still suck now, because any site focused on a universal demographic will inevitably get most people coming in on mobile, and mobile inherently discourages longform text and encour
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For some fields the for-profit problem never happened at all. For example, in some branches of linguistics, history and archaeology the main journals have always been published by the same non-profit learned societies for decades (since the
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> Cease to supply this system with the fruits of your research labors. Historically academics have felt forced to support this system, because for-profit journals are the high-prestige ones they must publish in in order to get tenure. Th
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Even before likes were introduced to Facebook, the site was still capable of delivering a blow to one’s self-esteem, because comments were another sign of attention given to you. Plenty of people can tell you how in the period 2005–2009 the
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I agree. I stopped using Reddit when I saw that even if I avoided the new design, its culture of discussion was being formed by 95% of people being on the new site. The new interface has only exacerbated problems with memes replacing substa
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When you use Bermuda like that, you pay various fees to do so (registration fees, banking fees), and money ultimately goes into the national budget from that. The state then invests in infrastructure and some job creation from that national
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Even in countries where you can still buy a SIM card without ID, once you use your bank card to buy more credit for the SIM (and in Sweden you always will, because cash is basically dead there), it is trivial for the authorities to link the
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Indeed. I recently noticed this while relying on DDG for documentation for Common Lisp, a language I still learning. The top-ranking site for any Common Lisp function was an SEO scam site, where clearly someone had hired freelancers to take
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This is a view held by actual Eastern European Jews who first survived the Holocaust, and then after the USSR's arival saw their compatriots either imprisoned locally or deported to Siberia, or living in constant fear of such for the l
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> Can you name a poor philosopher? Diogenes.
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Poe entered the general literary canon in Eastern Europe (where he is read, of course, in translation). Lovecraft, meanwhile, is not on the radar except for some genre readers.
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No, they aren’t. Foreigners in China often get around the Great Firewall through foreigner-specific SIM cards or VPNs. A tiny, tiny amount of locals is able and interested in avoiding the Great Firewall. But for the vast majority of Chinese
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Belarus is among the repressive countries that have not made it too difficult to get around censorship. Sure, sites get blocked, but you can fire up Tor or create a proxy with ssh -D and you are good. Unfortunately, Nigeria (like several ot
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Indeed. And history shows that often the problem isn’t quite the first revolution, inspired by democratic values, but a subsequent revolution that takes advantage of the temporary power vacuum and institutes a dictatorship. One example is t
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It does indeed happen in the developing world that adults in their mid 20s are supported by older members of their family, it just might not be their parents. In West Africa, for instance, it is common for entire families to be supported of
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Amazing to see these statistics when, to a foreigner, South African businesses already seem to intentionally overemploy (I would assume as a way of maintaining social stability). It is not unusual for there to be twice or even three times a
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The etymology of the word "Ashkenazi" is irrelevant (argument from etymology is a fallacy), as for a long time now the word has been used in a different, wider meaning. And Ashkenazi is a valid distinction versus e.g. Sephardi Jew
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I scan heavily from academic libraries in order to contribute to LibGen, but even with Scantailor it is very time-consuming. For example, if you are scanning scientific literature from the Eastern Bloc, it was often printed on low-quality,
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While the technology you are developing may allow that proof of COVID status, as the OP mentions, it is questionable if it will actually be used broadly in many countries. When countries have already reopened their hospitality sectors to al
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Denmark is an outlier among EU countries in using an app for internal travel and activities. Many other EU countries have already reopened their restaurant sector without requiring any proof of vaccination.
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When the new apps and digital certificates were announced, being able to revoke certification at any time was touted as one of their major advantages over traditional vaccine certificates. This way, if a new variant arises that preexisting

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