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by fgf 16y ago
"there is nothing inherently special in "culture" which is distinct from it's component elements" I disagree, there are expressions that correspond to modes of thought that get legitimacy/relevance from their connection to the history and i
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by fgf 16y ago
And the people who don't speak it well are those you don't have to speak to anyway (professionally). In europe english is becoming the language of higher education, academia, all kinds of "niche" writing/communities (hackers, libertarians e
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by fgf 16y ago
I'd much rather just not be monolingual. When I think and write (notes, plans etc.) I use norwegian and english together. Both languages have useful features that makes thinking well easier; english has an enormous amount of words norwegian
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by fgf 16y ago
did he use the method of loci? it's very popular in memory competitions but doesn't seem popular for language acquisition
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by fgf 16y ago
I think he's funny. And his point is less about the need for sacrifice (in general) and more about the need for future time orientation.
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by fgf 16y ago
I'm norwegian and this pretty much sums up my experience. I have never studied english grammar and didn't really start reading a lot of it until I was around 16. From then on I mostly read english. I haven't really tested my english formall
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by fgf 16y ago
"So has the removal of prohibition removed problems due to trading in illegal substances? Answer, by your own admission, is no :)" "For your scenario to take affect all drugs have to be legalized." "I feel the problem would not go away" You
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by fgf 16y ago
Prohibition of a substance people wants leads to illegal distribution. Illegal distributors can not use private property protection normally used by those who distribute legal goods. So bootleggers, crack dealers etc. kill each other to enf
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by fgf 16y ago
Do you know of any corruption free economic system? If corruption is ever present (to varying degrees) is it still a fundamental flaw?
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by fgf 16y ago
You seem to be under the impression that they give a shit about the results. I think it's just a publicity stunt. (They do, of course, care about getting votes but there are more effective methods for finding out what voters want them to sa
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by fgf 16y ago
You need to learn some basic economics. (First question: Cocaine, heroin, opium, alcohol and marihuana used to be legal in the UK (and most other places), there was nothing like todays gang violence. Why? Second question: Why did crime incr
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by fgf 16y ago
that's very interesting, I mostly find seo garbage trough google , any links to more on this? http://indonesianlanguage.net/learn-bahasa-indonesia
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by fgf 16y ago
This is hearsay from some linguists studying and some native speakers of the mentioned languages. Looking at the comment again I realize that it's not really up to the rigorous hacker news standards.
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by fgf 16y ago
I'm not sure about the most part as the "?" implies, but there is more fluff in english than in chinese, scandinavian languages and hebrew. This goes for daily speech of the I need to ask someone for the butter kind.(what's up with the down
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by fgf 16y ago
This is difficult to understand.
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by fgf 16y ago
The notion of two existing languages as differing in age is problematic. They are ever changing. How do you compare the age of contemporary french to that of contemporary chinese? If you look at the list you see that it is always (except fo
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by fgf 16y ago
Me too, it's five in the morning here and I'm afraid I woke up my roommates when I (repeatedly) laughed out loud.
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by fgf 16y ago
The point that english employs more polite words and phrases than many (most?) other languages is still valid tough.
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by fgf 16y ago
Collective action protects those who do use their free speech. If all western newspapers printed the original cartoons threatening all of them would be impossible. If one guy gets killed for making a movie and a hundred directors makes simi
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by fgf 16y ago
A hundred years ago those positive symbols of gay lust would have merited a beating by riot police. A prison sentence was a very real fear for otherwise "respectable" but (somewhat) openly gay men. That stopped when people refused to back d
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by fgf 16y ago
It was rambling.. you said: "The attackers in Sweden are not deliberately trying to cause fear - thy are just trying to hurt a guy." What I was trying to say was: of course they were creating fear, they must have know that they were, wich i
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by fgf 16y ago
The reason it's called an analogy is that it's not exactly the same thing. Afro americans are not swedish muslims, they are both more violent than the majorities in their respective countries and thus scary to old white guys tough. But, yea
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by fgf 16y ago
Not trying to create fear? I think they knew that they were causing fear and that they got a kick out of it. I feel pretty certain you're white and not that tough.. Imagine yourself in a room with lots of black guys talking about ending AA
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by fgf 16y ago
So people like those who attacked the professor in sweden are all coordinating to get the media all riled up and scare the shit out of me and thus making me ripe for manipulation by evil politicians? I think not. My strategy is easy. Repeat
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by fgf 16y ago
How will this "compromise" look? What do they give us for their continued moderation? Could it really be that liberalism, after a 200 (should we count the enlightenment too?) year winning streak (at least), might have found it's kryptonite.
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by fgf 16y ago
This has to be the 1080-backflip-while-juggling off cognitive dissonance avoidance. Explain the goal of these extremists.
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by fgf 16y ago
They are not virtually powerless. They effectively use intimidation to coerce people to not offend them.
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by fgf 16y ago
From MODERN christianity. Did it get that way trough compromise? Will we get a MODERN islam trough compromise?
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by fgf 16y ago
Luddite^2
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by fgf 16y ago
I agree. The latter part was ok though.

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