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by Tor3 2y ago
1) Daylight saving time has absolutely nothing to do with this, and in any case a lot of people, me included, are of the opinion that DST is a Bad Thing and should be abolished. 2) If you want to let everybody in the world know when somethi
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by Tor3 2y ago
Huh? We're arguing that timezones make sense and that keeping the world in a single timezone ("UTC everywhere") would not be a good option. You seemed to argue that if timezones hadn't already been invented then the idea
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by Tor3 2y ago
The point is really that as long as we don't live on Discworld we have to divide the world into time zones. Either using different local time zones, or using local awake/sleep zones. Either way you have time zones.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Why would that look insane at all? It's like saying that letting everybody everywhere be able to say "I work from nine to five" is insane. Or that saying that the date changes to the next day when it's midnight is insane
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by Tor3 2y ago
>That means in NYC you’d get to work at 13:00 and go home at 21:00, Fine.. so I'm going to have a teleconference with a company in NYC. Due to what you wrote above I now have an idea of what UTC time window to plan for - after all,
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by Tor3 2y ago
And when processing satellite data.. if you're not in agreement of the time, that one second error results in a ~7km geographical error for your typical polar orbit weather satellite.
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by Tor3 2y ago
As someone living north of the arctic circle.. there are other issues than just clouds.
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by Tor3 2y ago
No, it wasn't because of vocabulary, which has only very slowly increased over time. The reading difference is instant and very noticeable. I can't read hiragana fast enough (matching speech) to follow subtitles which are all in h
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by Tor3 2y ago
I would like to see actual research into dyslexia vs spelling systems, because I've tried to find it and I haven't been able to. Instead I see only claims as the above, which, so far, appear to be based on "common sense"
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by Tor3 2y ago
For me the Heisig method was a great help for learning the first few hundred kanji. Knowing those made it way easier to learn to read words containing said kanji, because the meaning of the kanji more often than not helped remembering what
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by Tor3 2y ago
As someone who switched to using a keyboard for writing at the age of 14.. yes. But at least I can write my own language by hand, if I have to, even though it looks horrible (always did). I can draw it instead of writing it, and it looks
432.
by Tor3 2y ago
And Italian. Way back in time I used to get phone calls (at work) from Italian customers not speaking English, and I could always write down what they said on the phone, and get it right. Always. I knew very little Italian at the time.
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't really know why, or if, there's a problem for native English speakers to learn or "get" pitch accent. For speakers of many other European languages Japanese pitch accent
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by Tor3 2y ago
Well yes, that's (I believe) the reason English actually works as an international language, despite being horrible in so many respects (pronunciation, tons of exceptions, etc etc): It also has so much redundancy that even if you get a
435.
by Tor3 2y ago
> "The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families." Wow.. I had to read that sentence three times before I got it right.
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by Tor3 2y ago
For what it's worth, writing Japanese on a normal keyboard is easy, even for me. Fast too. And my wife is super-fast. I have no knowledge of how this is done in Chinese, or Korean for that matter (not to mention other non-Latin languag
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by Tor3 2y ago
To call a language silly is.. silly. I don't know Chinese. But for a person like me, Japanese is incredible. It's so extremely logical. Exceptions are almost non-existing. Sentences are modular. Etc. I love it, as a person with a
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by Tor3 2y ago
When I started Japanese a long time ago I would read (small) children's books because all I could read was hiragana. With spaces, for the smallest children. And that was all I read and could read. And yet.. as soon as I could read var
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by Tor3 2y ago
Pitch accent is not accent as in English, it's not any "the" syllable. If you've ever seen any of those videos about it, you'll see these down-up-flat patterns over the whole multi-syllable word. From high to low, f
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by Tor3 2y ago
Japanese doesn't have tones, it has pitch accent, and pitch accent applies to words, not phonemes. You would have to invent a system where pitch accent could be indicated for each word. The difference between 橋 (bridge) and 箸 (chopstic
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by Tor3 2y ago
In addition to the phoneme problem, it's about readability. Yes, really. The first time I saw わたし written as 私 I just about instantly remembered the latter (it is, after all, used constantly in writing). That kanji is much easier and f
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by Tor3 2y ago
Bronze, though, was also not just expensive, it was also in practice tightly controlled because it depends on tin and copper which had to come from elsewhere - in particular tin, which seems to be mainly sourced from Cornwall and Devon (or
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by Tor3 2y ago
It seems to just barely be in time: Again, from wikipedia: "In Anatolia and the Caucasus, or Southeast Europe, the Iron Age began during the late 2nd millennium BC (c. 1300 BC).[3] In the Ancient Near East, this transition occurre
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by Tor3 2y ago
The simplest suggestion/explanation for the collapse I've seen is that it happened simply because iron became a thing. Unlike bronze, iron could be worked nearly everywhere by nearly everyone, and because of that the whole protect
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by Tor3 2y ago
One data sample - the Norse settlements in Greenland: Average for men was 171cm, but many were 184-185 cm (wikipedia). Women's average height was 156 cm.
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by Tor3 2y ago
So then it depends on taxi services. I'm not in the US, and all the three points you listed are more than guaranteed by actual taxi companies around here. In addition to that, I also will be made aware of the price in advance.
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by Tor3 2y ago
In this particular case I'm pretty sure the taxi app was completely independent. Nobody actually expected Uber around here (and in fact I've yet to see any), and everyone and their mother added app support for their services. They
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by Tor3 2y ago
There's no way it's as easy and clear-cut as that. Nothing I've seen says it is. Citation needed.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Well.. maybe.. but when that app appeared there weren't yet any Uber drivers in my country. They were considered illegal by the authorities.
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by Tor3 2y ago
How is the situation with Uber and insurance these days? I remember from years back that Uber drivers didn't have the insurance that taxi drivers need (though that may vary by country). As one who has actually experienced a car crash i

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