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by blintson 17y ago
1.Did the large number of homophones emerge through use of the written language? No. Modern Japanese is the standardization of a 3 different scripts. Kanji, which are Chinese characters, katakana, which is a phonetic script made by simplify
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by blintson 17y ago
No. Japanese has a LOT of homonyms. Kanji are necessary to tell the difference between all the possible meanings of a given set of sounds^. IANAL^^ but from my experience it seems Japanese is much better for speaking and reading than it is
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by blintson 17y ago
I am a meat-eater who's made an intelligent, intentional decision to eat meat. I sometimes hunt deer and turkey, and I've caught and gutted fish. I've seen slaughterhouses where cows and chickens are killed, and animal cruelty doesn't bothe
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by blintson 17y ago
It should absolutely not be open-sourced. I know a few people in the car industry, and there is no doubt in my mind that in the long-term open-sourcing car software will make car-reliability worse. 1.Writing software for a car extensive dom
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by blintson 17y ago
I think doping is awesome, and it should be legal. Treatments that are proven safe for athletes could then be used by everybody else. I would love to never need to exercise, or sleep again.
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Ask HN: Do you ever worry about running out of monetizable problem space?
1 points by blintson 17y ago|3 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
Emacs in Scheme. I really, really hate dynamic scoping.
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by blintson 17y ago
stopacta.org,.com and .net are all registered. It'd be great if there could be a way to directly call politicians to complain from the website. GizmoCalls is an in-browser VOIP client, wikipedia says they've recently been acquired by Google
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I Bemoan the State of Computer Science(ibtsocs.com)
1 points by blintson 17y ago|0 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
<tin-foil-hat> He could be doing all this because he wants to run for office. The site frequently refers to Gates in the third person, it's kinda structured like a lot of political candidates sites. </tin-foil-hat>
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by blintson 17y ago
According to the People's Republic of China everywhere is a region of People's Republic of China. Yes, it's technically part of the PROC, but they've been independent from the mainland for hundreds of years.
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by blintson 17y ago
If HP's 3d printer is anything like their 2d printers it'll probably be cheaper to order 3d printers in bulk and throw them away when they run out of plastic.
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Medical Slang(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by blintson 17y ago|0 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
I'd like to purchase a head-mounted display for coding. Anybody here with experience using a HMD who could recommend one?
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by blintson 17y ago
Anybody here know if Apple + Intel own a patent on the LightPeak connectors? Like, maybe, they want everybody to use LightPeak, but more importantly, pay Apple and Intel for LightPeak licensing? If I'm wrong, and they're really promoting a
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by blintson 17y ago
No, doing something is a good idea. Bitching about it in an online forum does nothing. Call your senators, set up a website, do something!
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by blintson 17y ago
Well it's about fucking time. I posted a link to wikipedia in mid-December showing that treaty negotiations are set to conclude in January, and I tripped the spam filter. I said it there and I'll say it again, we've got to do something. It
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by blintson 17y ago
Title should be: Apple users rank apple as greenest electronics maker.
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by blintson 17y ago
The blogger is completely right. I think games should always, always favor frame rates over better graphics. A game isn't a picture, a game is something that's alive, something that moves.
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by blintson 17y ago
This company apparently wants to be associated with an oppressive government. It's like if Apple ran the 1984 ad, and Apple was the dictator on the giant screen, instead of the young woman smashing it.
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by blintson 17y ago
I'm writing a javascript chess game write now and I'm currently at 200 lines + 50 of HTML. The source code of mine is larger than the byte code of his program. I am a moron.
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by blintson 17y ago
Anybody here know how DeviceVM makes computers boot up fast?
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by blintson 17y ago
No, with more evil. They introduced open source so Intellectual Ventures could sue the writers for patent infringement.
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by blintson 17y ago
50 lines is long as I'd ever let it get, not how long I try to make a function. I think hearing from people about why they had to write long functions is like listening to an airplane's black box. It could provide insight on what a language
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Ask HN: Functions: how long is too long?
4 points by blintson 17y ago|12 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
I think the diploma mills, for the most part, make the world a better place,and the Secret Service has no business doing anything about it* . The primary obstacle to getting a an undergrad. degree is paying for it. Most white collar jobs re
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by blintson 17y ago
If it's not illegal yet I hope it is soon.
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Professor describing the revolutionary turbo-encabulator(youtube.com)
1 points by blintson 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Your favorite tiny feature?
17 points by blintson 17y ago|18 comments
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by blintson 17y ago
Wouldn't touch online payments. I was thinking you take cash at a store front and get a randomly generated key that gives you bandwidth for a certain time.

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