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by ajuc 3y ago
-naście in Polish
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yeah I know, but it blew my mind when I first heard it, because nobody splits the numbers like that in Polish. Probably because we have a postfix for hundreds, so 200, 300, etc are single words (dwieście, trzysta, etc). Maybe English could
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by ajuc 3y ago
Most (all?) Slavic languages just go oneteen twoteen. There's a word for 12 (tuzin) and 60 (kopa) but very rarely used. On the other hand we have a word for 1.5 which is sorely missing in English - półtora. On the other other hand Engl
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by ajuc 3y ago
It ran since 1992. They were mostly physical cause there were no widespread digital books yet :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
> I've been told in school that male is just male, doesn't matter it it's person or object (CI mężczyźni) vs (TE psy, TE stoły) = (male people vs everything else) widzę (TEGO mężczyznę, TEGO psa) vs (TEN stół) =
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by ajuc 3y ago
Thanks, should have double checked. I always mess up long and short scale when combining from different sources.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Original study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02779...
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by ajuc 3y ago
Depends on how you count. For 200 years people can't agree :) The most common count is 3 because in singular nominative there's 3 - male/female/neutral - same as in English, but he/she/it applies to all nouns n
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by ajuc 3y ago
Humanity uses around 25 000 TWh of electric energy yearly. With batteries storing that is technically possible but it would take the whole world decades to build the required infrastructure. With propane or other similar hydrocarbons it&#x2
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by ajuc 3y ago
The russian media strategy is what Timothy Snyder calls "applied postmodernism". Basically you don't want to persuade anybody. You just want people to stop believing in anything and to accept their fate. So you spread as much
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by ajuc 3y ago
That's a valid opinion :) What's your opinion on "the" vs "a"? Cause in my language there are no articles. If you mean "a book" you say "any book". If you mean "the book" you say &
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by ajuc 3y ago
My native language is Polish, you can pretty much reorder words as you please (almost all permutations are valid, but there's usually like 3 or 5 that are used most often - you put the noun that you want to highlight as the first or la
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by ajuc 3y ago
> These extra structures are superfluous if you think about it If they were completely superfluous they wouldn't arise in the first place. You could argue they aren't worth it, but that's a separate argument. I'm Poli
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by ajuc 3y ago
For sure there's a minimal necessary complexity but I don't think natural languages are anywhere close to it, and I don't think different natural languages have to be the same distance from it. For example English is pretty s
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by ajuc 3y ago
I default to monologue too and it has some serious disadvantages. I always had problems remembering to do stuff I "told myself" to do with some delay. Later in life I learnt a trick from my wife who uses visualization for this. Fo
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by ajuc 3y ago
When you try to catch a ball playing some sport are you thinking "I need to catch this ball", or are you imagining its path and yourself moving to catch it? I'm usually talking to myself in my mind, but I can't imagine d
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yup, I'd even say in medieval period Poland was less christian than in 17th/18th century :) In 1500s at one point majority of nobility went protestant, and there was still a lot of orthodox nobles from Lithuania. Peasants were ort
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by ajuc 3y ago
They were common in middle ages. And there was a reason for the superstition - rabies and other epidemics. > the natural consequences of de-christianization Poland in middle ages was less catholic than Poland in 17th century. If anything
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by ajuc 3y ago
People are fine. I work with some Russians that escaped from Putin to Poland. The country is the problem. It's almost like radioactive material. If you have small number of Russians they are perfectly normal people (with some quirks bu
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by ajuc 3y ago
When lobbyists in Germany advocated for increased cooperation with Russia and against letting Ukraine into NATO because "we Germans have a moral debt towards Russians" - it seems ethical, humble, self-depreciating and anti-imperia
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by ajuc 3y ago
Russia is unique in that it was european enough to be the colonizer not the colonized (so it didn't get modern law from its colonial masters), and yet not european enough to develop a modern approach to human rights by itself.
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by ajuc 3y ago
> her resistance to the idea that russian secret services might be out to kill her, and especially her refusal to believe she might have been poisoned, is rather striking. During stalinist cleansings people almost always believed others
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by ajuc 3y ago
This is what freedom of speech is all about, not insulting the minorities you dislike.
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by ajuc 3y ago
When you move mass around - the spacetime curvature responds with light-speed delay. I thought gravitational waves are just that - delayed change of curvature of space-time in response to the mass distribution changing in one place?
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by ajuc 3y ago
This again? I've read his book and it was mostly ok (despite the right wing paranoia around him). I really hope this is taken out of context, because if not it's fucking insane.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Some people (mostly the same that think global warming isn't happening, then that it's not our fault then that there's nothing we can do - anything to justify not changing our behavior basically) like to complain that beaver
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by ajuc 3y ago
I was trying to make an AI for my 2d sidescrolling game with asteroid-like steering learn from recorded player input + surroundings. It generalized splendidly - it's conclusion was that you always need to press "forward" and
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by ajuc 3y ago
Let's say we get AGI that costs billions to run, can't do some simple things well, don't have good cheap robots to use, but discovers a way to lengthen the human life significantly and cure most illnesses. Pretty transformati
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by ajuc 3y ago
Why is this here? Is this just an add on hacker news?
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by ajuc 3y ago
3 years vs 30 years. And you usually regulate the river around the dam so it can't meander, beaver dams make the river meander around them. So after 30 years you maybe return to status quo with a small, abandoned human dam. In that tim

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