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by Tor3 3y ago
I experimented with this when I was young and I concur - it's really like this. Astonishing but that's how it works.
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by Tor3 3y ago
I've had tinnitus since I was around 20 years old, got it on new year's eve when some fireworks exploded very close to my left ear. Was deaf for two days and got an 8kHz tinnitus in that ear, permanently, after those two days. It&
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by Tor3 3y ago
I remember the time before that particular Japanese hoax was exposed by the Mainichi newspaper. That guy wasn't alone in claims about extremely early finds in Japan, he was part of a section of society which believed that the Japanese
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by Tor3 3y ago
It's so long since I was using VMS, but one thing I do remember is the constant purging. It was necessary.
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by Tor3 3y ago
It's not ridiculous at all. I learned English in exactly that way: Massive input. I learned nothing back in elementary and middle school - they tried to drill grammar, in the form of "I am, you are, he/she/it is, we are,
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by Tor3 3y ago
I most definitely don't see myself as anti-social, quite the opposite if anything. I would like to see a more specific example of what you mean by sophisticated rules and norms. What would a real-life example be? I still don't ge
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by Tor3 3y ago
I'm really scratching my head at the comparison of Mormon society and Japanese society. Have you tried living in Japan?
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by Tor3 3y ago
1) What does "sophisticated" mean in this context? What is a "sophisticated" rule, or a "sophisticated norm"? 2) If anything, "a [..] set of shared rules and norms" sounds like an environment which tr
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by Tor3 3y ago
I didn't first realize that you were commenting my post - but I did say two things: 1) There's no such thing as a culture which doesn't change. Culture is a living thing. It changes, even if you never have a single immigrant.
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by Tor3 3y ago
I don't know about that. In my experience, with smaller places I'm familiar with, the cultural input only enriches, there's no degradation (though I am of course aware of certain areas of certain countries where they failed t
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by Tor3 3y ago
The people I know who would come home way after dark never worked for black companies, it's common to work that way in almost every area. And in education too - at my stepson's university the students were expected to stay in the
702.
by Tor3 3y ago
You have to look at why the birthrate is low. People are working themselves to (nearly) death, and the worsening demographics is not helping. It's hard to commit to have three children (which is what everybody will have to aim for if t
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by Tor3 3y ago
Not impossible. Other countries could. Also remember that culture is a living thing, it's not static. It changes and adjusts and adapts and incorporates. My little hometown was just us "natives" in my childhood, now at the o
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by Tor3 3y ago
Japan has a way to go, but gradually they're thinking more about immigration as a necessity, which was pretty much never an issue before. In those Japanese newspapers I read there are more and more articles about how local governments
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by Tor3 3y ago
The problem is that the transition period is not a transition period, as long as the birthrate is too low the population will continue to be age-heavy, and that will always be a problem. As for resources, Japan's resources are of the t
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by Tor3 3y ago
My father had polio when he was 3. He learned to walk again before he was 5, but he always had a weak right leg (polio kills nerves, so there weren't enough nerves to serve all the muscle - so he lost most of the muscle mass in that le
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by Tor3 3y ago
From what I've gathered the issue was simply that for the HD 3.5" floppies the density was actually more than the medium could take. 720KB had lower density and didn't have that problem.
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by Tor3 3y ago
That is funny of course (in hindsight), at least if you tried to save on 1.44MB 3.5" floppies. When I was restoring all of my old tapes and floppies I could recover nearly all my 9-track CCT tapes, nearly 100% of my 5.25" floppies
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by Tor3 3y ago
I'm not inferring anything, in my opinion. Those sentences _are_ different in English too. That's why people will decide on one more than the other, depending on circumstances - not depending on a random roll of the die.
710.
by Tor3 3y ago
English has a lot of redundancy. This is kind of complex, but it also means that you can do a lot of "mistakes" and still be understood. I believe that's one reason English has managed to become "the" international
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by Tor3 3y ago
The second sentence, "Tonight, I'm going to Budapest" is different from the first example, even though the net result is the same - you're definitely ending up in Budapest. The second example introduces a topic (to be sl
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by Tor3 3y ago
Please explain its true purpose then. The "exclusive rights in exchange for publishing" seems to have been the very idea behind patents for hundreds of years, all the way back to Jerusalem and Venezia according to Wikipedia, and a
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by Tor3 3y ago
The point of patents is that you get an exclusive monopoly for the invention for a limited time, but to get that monopoly you have to publish (as a patent) the design and it's a free for all _after_ the monopoly time has passed. You ar
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by Tor3 3y ago
I've been a touch typist since I was a boy, and a programmer for more than four decades (started out on teletypes), and I've never had any kind of hand or wrist problems with normal keyboards ever. I'm choosy when it comes to
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by Tor3 3y ago
Humans have divergent genes, it's just that there's no particular grouping to talk of. You can find that generally speaking people from Thailand are mostly lactose intolerant while people from India are mostly not, to take one exa
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by Tor3 3y ago
Somebody fixed the title from 0.11.0 to Zig 0.11, so it's ok now.
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by Tor3 3y ago
The point is: There is no biological concept of "race", therefore you can't have "race research" or "comparisions". "race" is a purely social construct more common in certain countries than other
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by Tor3 3y ago
What you're saying makes no sense. Humans don't have "races". So there's nothing to compare in the first place.
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by Tor3 3y ago
The concept of "race" is social, and not used in science. The vast majority of biologists will laugh you out of the room if you start blabbering about "race". To go from genes varying the amount of melanin in your skin t
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by Tor3 3y ago
Indeed - it is pretty easy to "get" the language as it is (for Europeans). But I'm sympathetic to the suggestion of ditching those distinctions - not everyone has a Indo-European language background. My Japanese wife still

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