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Lost in Robo-Translation(nybooks.com)
6 points by footpath 8y ago|1 comments
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by footpath 9y ago
You can click on one of the other links and change the 'Subject' filter manually in the left column, like this: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/?_=1494882330433&f%5Bcol...
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Introducing Source Han Serif, a new open source Pan-CJK typeface(blog.typekit.com)
1 points by footpath 9y ago|0 comments
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by footpath 10y ago
I'm curious about that as well - I have always thought "zhun" is one syllable. There can be confusions though - the standard way of writing pinyin groups whole words rather than individual characters, so something like "
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by footpath 10y ago
Maybe it's a misspelling of supercentenarians? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercentenarian
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by footpath 10y ago
谋 is more like "strategize" and "scheme" than "think", there's a certain connotation associated with it that limits its scope. Both 思量 and 考虑 as suggested in the blog do not work too well as mottos, I feel
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by footpath 10y ago
You're right about Bopomofo - both it and pinyin are based on the same pronunciations so there's actually a one-to-one correspondence between the two systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo#Pinyin
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by footpath 10y ago
There is a quote from one of Roger Ebert's movie reviews: "No one with a feeling for literature and poetry can read the typical best-selling business or self-help book with a straight face, because their six rules or nine plans or
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What the Trump win means for tech, science, and beyond(arstechnica.com)
4 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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All chats and social media posts can now be used against you in court in China(qz.com)
1 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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John Nash’s Nobel to Be Auctioned(nytimes.com)
2 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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Why isn’t your old phone getting Nougat? There’s blame enough to go around(arstechnica.com)
3 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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Jason Rohrer and the Art of the Video Game(newyorker.com)
3 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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How the New York Public Library Made Ebooks Open(boingboing.net)
3 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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by footpath 10y ago
Which doesn't really matter in this case. The character for "he" in vernacular Cantonese is "佢", which isn't used at all in Mandarin. The characters for "don't know how" in vernacular Cantonese a
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by footpath 10y ago
Although in the case of Hong Kong, neither Pinyin input nor Zhuyin input are likely to be used, as both are based on the phonetics of standard Mandarin Chinese. There are alternative input methods that are shape-based ( https://en
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by footpath 10y ago
It is true to some extent. While 青 and 靑 have different codepoints, there are plenty of characters of the same codepoint that are rendered differently depends on the language specificed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha
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Tending my Internet archive(theparisreview.org)
1 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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by footpath 10y ago
It's possible to transfer your number back to Google Voice after you cancel Project Fi: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6079398 However, it's not guaranteed: "Google Voice’s number availability
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Twitter’s Chief in China Raises Eyebrows Over Military Past and Résumé(nytimes.com)
1 points by footpath 10y ago|0 comments
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Ithaca’s Anti-Heroin Plan: Open a Site to Shoot Heroin(nytimes.com)
1 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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Quantum Go(arxiv.org)
1 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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A Different ‘Darkness at Noon’(nybooks.com)
1 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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Ai Weiwei, Snowden, Pussy Riot take place of online ads to protest censorship(amnesty.org)
3 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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Opera 12 and Opera Mail security update(opera.com)
3 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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by footpath 11y ago
The HN discussion on Ebert's comment was quite fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1273241 Jason Rohrer lived a very minimal lifestyle before 2012, as described here: http://hcsoftware.sourcefo
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Project MKUltra(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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The Real Legacy of Steve Jobs(nybooks.com)
2 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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Pakistan unblocks access to YouTube(bbc.com)
2 points by footpath 11y ago|0 comments
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by footpath 11y ago
If you look up the term "dies" in HN Search, you can find obituaries for all kinds of people submitted to HN in the past, from Gabriel García Márquez to Roger Ebert to Kim Jong Il.

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