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by fiblye 6y ago
I mean, that's normal. "Germany" isn't what the so-called "Germans" call their country. And if we're being pedantic, referring to the country as "Vietnam" is absolutely wrong. It's "Việ
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by fiblye 6y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. You're absolutely right. I'm only a year into learning Chinese, but I can often guess the sound of a new character just by recalling components of similar characters. The tone takes memorization
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by fiblye 6y ago
Zhuyin is also relatively new, at around 100 years old. Historically, the closest thing Chinese had to phonics was fanqie, which was a comparatively obtuse way of representing sounds with other hanzi.[1] Basically, any hint of a true phonet
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by fiblye 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidy Governments often pump money into things seen as having long term benefits for a country. Examples: investing in agricultural independence, roads, phone networks. An entirely free
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by fiblye 6y ago
A lot of people in other comments below are criticizing take-home tasks, but honestly, this sounds nice and balanced. I'd much rather have a couple days to think about a problem and a few hours to implement it over having to take time
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by fiblye 6y ago
The government has incentives to invest in things that boost its own economy. A government that pays for 10 engineers will likely get a bigger return that one that pays for 10 art history majors. Paying for something that has little industr
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by fiblye 6y ago
Supply and demand. Demand for certain fields is high, so governments are willing to put more money into them because they're more likely to pay off in the future. Meanwhile, certain art majors are in very low demand and supply is high,
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by fiblye 6y ago
Nobody cares when "Hanoi" or "pho" is written without proper tones marked. Strange to draw the line here. It's not even a disregard of another language or culture. It's a word that's been assimilated into
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by fiblye 6y ago
While your circumstances are unfortunate, this is about the government maintaining stability during a widespread disaster. If a fire burned down half the country, nobody would be saying “well those people should get back to work.” We’d have
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by fiblye 6y ago
I think the point of the person you responded to is it's not really reasonable to tell the poor and homeless to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to work some low wage job during a pandemic. The problem is until the world manages
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by fiblye 6y ago
What's the cost of living in Shanghai vs the Bay Area? I know people who live on a couple hundred bucks a month in Shanghai and I've had satisfying meals for $2 there. I think if companies were paying anywhere near half of what Ap
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by fiblye 6y ago
That's the reasoning behind people recommending wooden cutting boards over plastic. Supposedly, bacteria just stick in the little crevices made by every cut in a plastic board and remain there, while they end up dessicated or absorbed
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by fiblye 6y ago
That's my main concern too. Right when people started taking plastic pollution seriously and progress was beginning to be seen, suddenly everyone is wearing cheap plastic fiber masks that litter the streets everywhere; food items are q
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by fiblye 6y ago
More countries are on track to have declining populations than there are countries that have anywhere near enough people to export a labor class to do hard manual labor around the world. In fifty years, the countries above the replacement r
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by fiblye 6y ago
I hear this a lot, but does every bit of that really just go up into the air? Don’t trees often break down and become soil, and new trees grow on top of them?
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by fiblye 6y ago
It shouldn’t be impossible. Diff the latest revision with the first. If it’s simply a revision of an existing product, things don’t change that much. If it’s substantially different, it’s simply a new product. Even small revisions of prod
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by fiblye 6y ago
Picasso potentially made more paintings than Bob Ross, but his paintings are still regarded as having a high value. Some are quite good, but I’ve seen a few where if it didn’t have “Picasso” attached to it, it’d be in a Goodwill for $2. Bob
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by fiblye 6y ago
Guys have been called “dick” forever now. Words like “Karen” provide a very clear mental image of a specific type of “asshole.”
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by fiblye 6y ago
Not reading beyond your first paragraph because I clearly didn’t assert that it’s “designed to facilitate criminals.” That’s a bizarre claim. The talking down tone is also a little much. The problem is the law is merely broad enough to be m
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by fiblye 6y ago
That’s not the point of defamation laws. If someone assaults you and you post a video on twitter, most first world countries will use that as evidence against the person who assaulted you. In Japan, it’s perfectly legal to record someone, b
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by fiblye 6y ago
Japan also has strong privacy laws, extending into excessive and absurd defamation laws. For example, if you have piles of proof of someone committing a crime like sexual assault and the cops refuse to take it seriously, you can reliably po
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by fiblye 6y ago
Cities virtually everywhere in East Asia have convenience stores on almost every corner. They manage pretty well.
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by fiblye 6y ago
The problem is America isn’t making an effort to not silence other people and give them a platform to talk about their concerns. It’s becoming a crowd of endless screaming with almost zero listening, and people actively trying to silence th
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by fiblye 6y ago
People do complain about that. But people usually concerns themselves with the actions of people closest to them. Meeting someone and calling them an asshole about a vacation they took once 3 years ago is a different level than telling a go
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by fiblye 6y ago
Xinjiang’s situation didn’t start in a day, and neither did Hong Kong’s. We’ve been watching HK boiling for the past year and things have finally overflowed. It’ll only get worse from here. America is following a similar course. Massive det
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by fiblye 6y ago
Those shitty little cups cost more than regular cheap-o coffee, generate more waste, many involve running incredibly hot water through cheap plastic (I’m sure that’s great for our health), and have a weaker flavor. There’s zero benefit to i
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by fiblye 6y ago
> Having these examples in their hands or on their screens likely initiates a mild cognitive dissonance You’d be surprised, but no, it doesn’t. And from my experience, older people sometimes just kind of don’t like America, in the same w
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by fiblye 6y ago
> The oligarchs would be furious and the media would never shut up. It’s not hard to find people who follow along party lines 90+% of the time, and who support policies basically because they’re told that’s what they should support. It’d
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by fiblye 6y ago
He was clearly joking, but Japan’s suicide rates have dropped. Meanwhile countless Americans are dropping out of life, overdosing on drugs, and their deaths are counted as a separate statistic. There were about 46,000 suicides in America in
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by fiblye 6y ago
Space research necessitates research into water recollection, purifying, and usage. Going to the moon isn't just dumping money into getting from point A to B, like paying for gas during a daily commute. It's about advancing techno

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