Typhon

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by Typhon 9y ago
You can pay attention to politics, you can do politics without necessarily following obsessively every little happenstance of things. Once you know some politician is a racist crook, you don't need a reminder every day. You especially
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by Typhon 9y ago
Client-side Javascript is executed in the browser, not on the desktop, it is sandboxed, it has no unlimited access to my local data on the disk.
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by Typhon 9y ago
Maybe so, but why include the sentence I quoted, then ?
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by Typhon 9y ago
" Linguists are undecided about Esperanto " Indifferent would be a better word. In any case, Esperanto has no feature which set it apart from other European languages, whether in lexicon (obviously) or in grammar, it is thoroughly
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The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure(bloomberg.com)
433 points by Typhon 9y ago|542 comments
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by Typhon 10y ago
It is fascinating indeed.
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by Typhon 10y ago
You know who definitely agrees with you ? Linguists who specialize in conversational analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and interactional sociolinguistics. It makes me kind of sad when people assume that "Chomsky's work = the
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by Typhon 10y ago
Actually human languages are much better suited for all kinds of communication : To the best of our knowledge, most animal systems of communication don't allow reference to either the speaker (i.e "I"), the hearer (i.e "
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by Typhon 10y ago
Not every linguist agree with Chomsky.
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by Typhon 10y ago
Neurons are constantly being replaced Are they ? As far as I know, neurons last more or less from before birth to death. There is neurogenesis in the hippocampus but it doesn't replace existing neurons, and the new cells themselves l
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by Typhon 10y ago
Seconded, it's worse (better) than TvTropes, in this regard.
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by Typhon 10y ago
I agree that however hateful and ridiculous he gets, Trump is not a nazi. I roll my eyes whenever someone calls him a nazi or implies he is a nazi. For example, this guy : https://twitter.com/paulg/status/785769454
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by Typhon 10y ago
I disagree completely with you on this. Nazi violence was just as much a product of culture and social forces than Aztec violence, it's merely much closer to home and we know a lot more about it. I think this 'outlier excuse'
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by Typhon 10y ago
Well I thought Viet Nam was a more clear cut example of America being barbarous but yeah, Iraq works as well, let's not forget Abu Ghraib. Anyway, as far as I know, although my country has committed its share of horrible massacres arou
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by Typhon 10y ago
70 years after the Holocaust, 40 years after Cambodia and Viet Nam, 20 years after Rwanda, as Syria is partly occupied by ISIS, what I truly can't fathom is how anyone would single out senseless bloodlust as "that alien thing fr
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by Typhon 10y ago
You failed to paste your second link correctly.
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by Typhon 10y ago
We often hear about that kind of thing happening, but it is rare to see a specific example going into details and making specific accusations towards a specific person.
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[pdf] an example of incorrect behaviour from a senior mathematician(ihes.fr)
2 points by Typhon 10y ago|1 comments
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by Typhon 10y ago
What he did say : « I don’t think object-oriented programming is a structuring paradigm that meets my standards of elegance » ( https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/E... ) I guess s
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by Typhon 10y ago
I could never find a reliable source for this oft-quoted remark about Object-Oriented Programming. As far as I know, Dijkstra never said this, not in this exact phrasing anyway.
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by Typhon 10y ago
I thought I'd written 'North America', but apparently I didn't, so yeah, point taken. Even if there are more minority languages in SE Asia and South America, I'm not sure they're treated better there than in Eu
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by Typhon 10y ago
Tu as tout à fait raison. Pourquoi perdrais-je mon temps à apprendre ta langue pour ton bénéfice , c'est une perte de temps total. Merci de m'avoir ouvert les yeux. J'aime bien aussi ta deuxième phrase qui sous-entend qu&#x
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by Typhon 10y ago
Uninflected languages usually have a more complex, constrained syntax, whereas inflected languages are more free.
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by Typhon 10y ago
Europe wants to achieve anything in common It's unclear if "Europe" wants anything of the sort at this point, and you seem to assume that English would be the common language, which is not unreasonable since it's the o
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by Typhon 10y ago
It all depend on what you count as connotation, but I'd argue that if anything can be expressed verbally, then it can be translated. There is no such thing as untranslatability.
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by Typhon 10y ago
Weirdness of a language is completely subjective, and easyness too. Overall, the intrinsic qualities of a language matter little if at all in driving its adoption.
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by Typhon 10y ago
I'm quite pessimistic concerning the future of multilingualism. Small, isolated communities manage to preserve their language for century, but a community the same size in a big city can lose its language in the space of a generation
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by Typhon 10y ago
It's much more complicated than that, and unless you know french, I doubt you'd guess what a "logiciel" is or an "ordinateur". Furthermore, there is no such thing as a "concept that cannot be expressed&quo
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by Typhon 10y ago
Possibly merely "don't run open-ended online polls with unclear rules for submission". Don't be too quick to generalize.
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by Typhon 10y ago
I'm not sure what kind of new tools we need ? All the tools to create personal websites existed more than 20 years ago. They haven't disappeared. If anything they're probably cheaper, easier to find and to configure now, and

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