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by geowwy 8y ago
The goal of Pinyin was to be a pronunciation guide for Chinese people who have no preconceived ideas about what letters make what sounds. It works great for that. The problem is when foreigners try to pronounce Pinyin using their existing k
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by geowwy 8y ago
Most Taiwanese use bopomofo* for digital input, so it's not an issue :) * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Keyboard_layout_Zhuy...
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by geowwy 8y ago
Taiwan used to have an official Romanization system called MPSII. I wish they pushed it harder because it's a lot easier for non-Mandarin-speakers to get right. • "Gong Xi Fa Cai" becomes "Gung Shi Fa Tsai" • "
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There are journalists that do that, e.g. Tim Pool. I watched a series he did on the so-call "no go zones" in Sweden which is worth watching. You can see he tries hard to push through the competing narratives and get to just the fa
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by geowwy 8y ago
Cities have always been population sinks (i.e. deaths outnumber births), so I think what we're seeing is just a result of urbanisation.
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We've always been 1 natural disaster away from total destruction
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Bisqwit makes some awesome content. Glad to see him on HN.
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US intelligence has embedded themselves in virtually all major players in Silicon Valley. They'd be stupid not to.
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by geowwy 8y ago
How do we define natural predator? Dingos are an introduced species, they've only been here around 6000 years.
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by geowwy 8y ago
It's like very lean beef but more gamey. Most people don't like it. It's usually used as pet food.
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Effectiveness of burglary security devices(link.springer.com)
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by geowwy 8y ago
They give pretty good reasons for what they're doing on their website: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/05/26/intro/
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by geowwy 8y ago
The way he rationalises his advice is pretty whacky. But the advice itself is what he found works in his experience as a clinical psychologist, and it seems to ring true with most people who read it. As far as self help books go 12 Rules is
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by geowwy 8y ago
Nope, and I’m guessing this is the main reason for China’s Belt and Road project. Their reliance on maritime trade puts them at the mercy of the US navy.
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by geowwy 8y ago
It's not just an opinion that Firefox regularly phones home. It also uses privacy-hostile services such as Google Search by default. It has an economic incentive to do that since Google, etc. are the ones who fund them. As the website
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by geowwy 8y ago
Brave is a little better than Firefox in terms of trustworthiness: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html Neither is great though.
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by geowwy 8y ago
The theme from XP development builds was much more timeless. I wish they used that in XP. I would be happy still using that today.
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by geowwy 8y ago
The leaked emails are pretty damning. I don't know how you can say there was no conspiracy against Sanders.
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by geowwy 8y ago
> when class Player hits() a class Monster, where exactly do we modify data? Monster's hp has to decrease by Player's attackPower, Player's xps increase by Monster's level if Monster got killed. Does it happen in Play
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by geowwy 8y ago
fzf is awesome. I use it in vim and bash. https://www.tecmint.com/fzf-fuzzy-file-search-from-linux-ter... ---- I use the Silver Searcher all the time. Very fast. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_sea
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by geowwy 8y ago
Not every populist does either.
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by geowwy 8y ago
Progess means updating legal and cultural definitions. What do you think happened with gender and marriage?
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by geowwy 8y ago
It's not for us to decide. If he feels younger then he should have the right to identify as younger. Scientifically there are certain biochemical changes that happen in the brain as we age and there is strong scientific evidence that
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What country was this?
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by geowwy 8y ago
Probably not bots. In those days they actively encouraged upvoting everything as a way of gaming the front page algorithm.
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The RoC also promotes Mandarin, it's not unique to the PRC. Nearly every modern state promotes a national language.
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We still have records of what happened at Nicaea. Basically they standardised the date of Easter and condemned Arianism (against the will of Constantine who wanted a compromise position). The Council of Nicaea actually didn't have anyt
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by geowwy 8y ago
There are 3 state sponsored churches in China. The trouble is they don't experience much growth compared to the underground churches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Self_Patriotic_Movement https://
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by geowwy 8y ago
Israel has also been very successful at reforesting their land. You can see the borders of Israel by looking at where green stops on satellite images. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_image_of_I...
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by geowwy 8y ago
He was unfairly maligned about the medication thing. After that he decided to play troll but got arrogant and took it too far.

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