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by b6 11y ago
I can tell you some thoughts I have, but please be skeptical. If the number of combinations of sounds in your language's sound system is lower than the number of things and actions you want to talk about, words might have to get pretty
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> How much extra space would it really take to write out chinese, if it had it's own phonetic script with a few dozen characters? I'm not a linguist, but my intuition is, that's not the problem. We could come up with a sys
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Wow. I am an intermediate speaker of Mandarin, and I think this article is pretty unfair. It's true that there are many tens of thousands of characters, but relatively few are actually used. To me it's very similar to there being
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Throughout China, the chengguan have a reputation for brutality. If you meant to say "Asia (except for China)", is it possible you stated your point too flippantly?
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I don't want to be unpleasant at all. But let's please not build up artificial walls between us. Humans moved to different parts of the world and developed slightly differently. But let's not think that being born into the &q
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Here are the most concise and accessible instructions I've found for entering one meditative state of note: http://www.leighb.com/jhana3.htm
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I'm very happy to see an article like this on HN. This is the type of stuff I'm very interested in lately. The sources I've found most helpful so far are the books _Mindfulness in Plain English_ and _Beyond Mindfulness in Pla
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This was really painful to read. I don't often think I have vision or significant insight, but it's been obvious to me for as long as I can remember that egregious use of technology in classrooms is a profoundly terrible idea. Wha
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Back when I was way into Haskell, Johan Tibell was the guy I tried to be most like. I learned a lot from him not only about Haskell, but good software development practices in general, and how to work better with others. Great guy.
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Really interesting subject. I'm more like a forest than an animal! If humans are higher-order animals on top of cells and bacteria (us not caring much about them and them not being aware of us), are humans also the cells of some super-
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Could you please reread what I wrote and say if you disagree with any of it?
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> I don't know what the issue with is with criticizing. No issue, abstractly. But it seems to me that in this case, Apple is providing opportunities that many people are choosing them for themselves, opportunities that they would ot
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Are you criticizing a person/organization who provides opportunity to hundreds of thousands of workers because he/it did not tweak the knobs exactly as you would have, if it had been you? Many people have decided that working at F
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> profits from exploiting factory workers in countries where workers have less rights and where labour is cheap At least in China, the "exploited" workers you speak of have chosen to work at factories rather than do the kind of
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by b6 11y ago
I think it's often a good approach to take the time to understand the current situation, understand the future desired situation, and commit to a doable plan to get from the one to the other. For example, if someone wants to quit cigar
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"America" doesn't hate Latinos. Small groups of people will always hate any given thing you name. The same is true of wherever you're talking about going instead of America. Suppose it's true that there are a lot of
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We don't want to care more about ethnicity, we want to care less . We don't want ethnicity to matter more than it does today, we want it to matter less . Right? Please help me understand how it's useful to have a specia
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by b6 11y ago
There are some companies working on synthetic rhino horn, like Rhinoceros Horn LLC and Pembient. But I think there are concerns that it will just increase demand for the real thing. I'm not sure how to handle it. Maybe marketing campai
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Would it help children achieve higher scores on standardized tests? I find it easy to believe it would. But does that actually help anyone? Might some children prefer it over less regimented styles of education? I find it easy to believe th
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> "In light of the law and the guidelines and what the court heard during the trial, I know Judge Solis followed the law. He's a very fair man." This is where the rubber meets the road. We all need to think about what type
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by b6 11y ago
gwern, you are an absolute force of nature when it comes to generating and collecting and presenting information in a useful way. Thank you.
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When we say we want diversity, I think we tend to mean we want diversity of perspective and experience and way of thinking. But when we try to implement diversity, we tend to do it by body shapes and colors and genders. > I think the big
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by b6 11y ago
One of my basic life strategies seems to be: either don't do something, or do it and don't be sorry. I use this all the time, for all kinds of things. For example, I'm not insightful when it comes to dressing myself. Recently
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For uncooperative web browsers and apps: link is intended to excerpt 52:12-56:36.
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Thich Nhat Hanh on the propagation of suffering across generations [video](youtube.com)
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Hmm, I have complicated feelings about this. I love Chinese people. I've lived in China for about two years, and speak Mandarin like a 5-year-old or so. I'm in awe of their construction projects, their facility with electronics an
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I'm sorry to be one of the people risking derailing the actual discussion. But there is a traditional plague in this world of using nearly meaningless filenames for academic papers. In this case, the filename is the concatenation of th
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Years ago, I was seriously involved in trolling, here's why: some people behaved in ways that I found painful, and I wanted to be as ugly to them as they were to me. Someone actually beat another person in the face over who would get t
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This is amazing. Thanks so much for posting this. I "listen" to music all day in my head but never thought about using it to be able to sing the specific notes. I'm looking forward to trying this later with my guitar.
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Parts of this story are not ringing true to me. Do dealers really drive around with balloons in their mouths, prepared to swallow them if stopped? Do buyers really receive calls from dealers asking them whether they're satisified? Do b

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