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by SiVal 12y ago
versus making native speakers an active and equal part of the actual decision-making process. As I explained, native speakers are the primary decision makers, and not just any native speakers but whoever the native speakers choose as th
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I had a female coworker by that name, so your assumption that I just assume that people who write articles like this are female and need to have my consciousness raised to "fix" my unconscious sexism is something you should try to
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Yes, things have changed. When I first learned both Japanese and Korean, they were considered part of a "Uralo-Altaic" language family that included Finnish and Hungarian as well as some Northeast Asian languages. I'm not awa
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by SiVal 12y ago
Is Bengali your first language? A better question is, Are there any native Bengali speakers creating character set standards in Bangladesh or India? If not, why not? If so, did they omit your character? I ask, because although you prefe
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by SiVal 12y ago
No. Using different code points for the same character used in different languages creates big problems. It would be like having different code points for 'A' depending on whether it was used in English, Spanish, German, etc. If y
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by SiVal 12y ago
I still think we disagree a little on [2], but I love your "Groundhog Day" metaphor. It's perfect, couldn't be better. If you've seen the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day , you'll know what I mean when I say th
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by SiVal 12y ago
I strongly agree with your point [1]. I think the 10x programmer exists, and the phenomenon is primarily as you describe: you spend a long time figuring out how to do something with a lot of moving parts and hidden gotchas. You eventually t
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by SiVal 12y ago
Because you can't really tell how well software is working when looking at the device edge-on, and that's apparently the way Apple looks at them most of the time. I mean this more metaphorically than literally, but I'm so tir
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I'm going to third the advice. Sorry, I know you said you didn't want a bunch of postings saying, "find a good therapist," but you are describing a painful problem, begging for help, then prohibiting mention of the help
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If your question doesn't require interrupting the lecture for everyone and forcing the lecturer to respond to you at the moment a question occurs to you, then you have multiple options. You could pause the video and ask a chat room. At
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by SiVal 12y ago
When was the last time there was a battle with thousands of causalities anywhere on earth? A few weeks ago, inflicted by Boko Haram, according to Amnesty International: http://watch.ooduapathfinder.com/watch/?p=10555
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by SiVal 12y ago
The purpose of admissions testing for almost any organization (businesses for prospective employees, military for recruits, schools for students, basketball teams for players) is to find those who are most likely to succeed at what they wil
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by SiVal 12y ago
I can't stand Stack Overflow. Quite obviously it is dominated by people who would much rather show you who's the boss by competing, not for who can provide you with the most useful answer, but by who can be first to find a reason
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by SiVal 12y ago
What is the story of VLC and the Apple App Store. Has Apple rendered any verdict or is it just submit each version, hope for the best, sometimes yes sometimes no, randomly with no comment?
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by SiVal 12y ago
I strongly hope that there will be a drive among the major browser makers to do what it takes to make the future Web as powerful a platform as possible, even at the expense of delegating support for some old websites to legacy-support plug-
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by SiVal 12y ago
An allergist I spoke to said that the recent explosive increase in child peanut allergies has them examining the possibility that some recent change in the ingredients in some medication, or possibly a food, given to pregnant moms or babies
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Feynman did his Nobel work a long time ago and early in his long career. I suspect that achieving a science-Nobel-level breakthrough these days usually happens many years later in a career, because getting to the outer edge takes many more
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by SiVal 12y ago
I'll toss in another nudge to intuition. You select one of the hundred doors. Then Monty takes the other 99 and opens door after door, displaying goats, but when he reaches one of them, he carefully skips over it, then continues to the
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by SiVal 12y ago
Good for you. Stay that way. Many years ago, I was in my early twenties and being a non-drinker served me well. I have various other regrets about life, but not drinking as a young adult was, in retrospect, a wise choice--the opposite of a
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by SiVal 12y ago
Actually yes, I do consider the horrific, mass atrocities committed by Marxists in the name of Marxism to be relevant to the credibility of Marxism in just the same way that I consider similar consequences when Nazis came to power to disc
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If eating isn't slavery, couldn't you choose to not do it? Needing to do a thing for practical reasons does not automatically make you a "slave".
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Without a doubt, Marx and Engels have been hugely influential in the deaths and enslavement of countless millions over the past century. They have indeed been among the most popular philosophers for several of the most murderous tyrants in
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That's right, in all US states as I understand it. Windowless underground warrens are firetraps.
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When someone offers to sell you unmeasurable benefits, guard your wallet. I don't deny that there are things of value that are hard to quantify with precision. That doesn't mean they can't be measured at all. For something to
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You can substitute the international PISA, TIMSS, or the national NAEP for SAT in my final statement and all that I wrote will remain the same. The rest of my comment wasn't referring to the SAT. And even the SAT depends on how big you
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When I hear some people talk about homeschooled kids being "weird", I have to wonder how weird they themselves would seem to others if transported to some other time or place where the local conformists had conformed to a differen
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In most places in the US, the amount paid to schools has gone up far faster than inflation over the past several decades, while the schools have produced no significant improvement in educational proficiency with the extra funding. It chang
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by SiVal 12y ago
With respect to your CS prof at one of my favorite places (Go Cavaliers!), this is not an issue of discrete vs. continuous. If your structure can have either 9 or 10, but not 9.001, supports, it is discrete, not continuous, regardless of fa
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Globalised capitalism does not have winners. Only losers. As opposed to the blessings of life in an isolated socialist workers' paradise? Which was more exposed to globalized capitalism, South Korea or North Korea? Which better match
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And others don't realize what's going on, but they do care when they find out. So, they ought to know.

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