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by geowwy 8y ago
Chinese is interesting because the spoken form has no gender but the written form does (he/she/it are written 他/她/它 but all pronounced “tā”)
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by geowwy 8y ago
The real value of this tool is as an objective measure of how pleasant your communications are. Now that Codes of Conduct are the norm rude/abusive behaviour is not tolerated, but this can cause problems because one person might see ru
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by geowwy 8y ago
Even $5 is not bad, I’m guessing most HN readers wouldn’t miss $5 a month. Anyway services like Facebook extract around that amount from you via targeted ads, I’m happy to pay if it allows to me to isolate myself from that a bit.
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by geowwy 8y ago
$3 per month is very costly?
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by geowwy 8y ago
Since WWII the UK is definitely the junior power.
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by geowwy 8y ago
English has around 40 phonemes so 40 letters makes sense
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by geowwy 8y ago
Restricting yourself to the basic Latin alphabet is a nice feature and digraphs work fine IMO. You could easily solve the this/thin problem by spelling them "dhis" and "thin".
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by geowwy 8y ago
There are some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
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by geowwy 8y ago
This seems to be the key paragraph: > A confident power permits debate to flourish, unthreatened by ideas; a fearful > one will seek to manipulate or shut it down. The party is increasingly obliged > to try to replicate its
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by geowwy 8y ago
> Sure. But some people feel unhappy all the time. Sometimes for years, sometimes for their entire life. In their case, it is a mental health issue. Sometimes it is, not always. When I went through long periods of unhappiness it was beca
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by geowwy 8y ago
How is that about mental illness? I genuinely don't get it. People can be unhappy without being mentally ill.
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by geowwy 8y ago
> author trolls the mentally ill in standard way, says they're doing it for attention. Where does she say that?
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by geowwy 8y ago
I'm in the process of switching over to fastmail. I'm pretty happy with it so far.
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by geowwy 8y ago
$3/month is quite reasonable
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by geowwy 8y ago
I wonder if fast-forwarding through the ad break is also theft?
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by geowwy 8y ago
`gt` will still be slow because you're using the same finger for both keys.
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by geowwy 9y ago
I don't think your spouse is considered a blood tie.
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by geowwy 9y ago
Do you have the figures? According to this Hillary got more support from PACs etc too: https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/
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by geowwy 9y ago
Relevent paragraphs: > [An intelligence researcher] led an investigation at ThreatConnect that tried to track down Guccifer from the metadata in his emails. But the trail always ended at the same data center in France. Ehmke eventually u
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by geowwy 9y ago
> A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. IANAL but it seems like it applies to people not militias Wikipedia gives some historical c
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by geowwy 9y ago
I think they would be more interested in the shipping routes and warm water ports it might create.
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by geowwy 9y ago
It is surprising if you believe the insulin-obesity hypothesis. A lot of people do these days.
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by geowwy 9y ago
I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet
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by geowwy 9y ago
Typing Chinese isn't that hard. I can do it easily even with my very, very basic Chinese. I think voice messaging took off in China mainly because they don't have the same cultural barriers to voice messaging that we do.
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by geowwy 9y ago
Skype is used a lot by businesses. When Skype introduced end-to-end encryption the government tried to block it, but the backlash from businesses in China was so big they had to unblock it.
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by geowwy 9y ago
We have plenty of problems in our own time too. Obesity, metabolic disease and cardiovascular disease are out of control and we seem to have no idea how to fix it. Rates of unhappiness are as high as they've ever been and people are be
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by geowwy 9y ago
Pinyin is cleaner but really misleading if you’re trying to pronounce a word just with your knowledge of other Latin based writing systems. X- is pronounced like sh Q- is pronounced like ch C- is pronounced like ts -iu is pronounced like yo
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by geowwy 9y ago
English and lots of other languages have word with apostrophes in the middle, seems like Google would have worked out the technical issues. And for hashtags you just omit the apostrophes. It doesn’t even look that inelegant to me: Bar
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by geowwy 9y ago
Since getting some computer glasses my eyes have gone from deteriorating every year to getting slightly better. Might be a coincidence but I suspect not. Next time I'm in Asia I'm going to get an even weaker pair and see if my eye
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by geowwy 9y ago
⎡I just want my next president to be boring. Just some dweeby guy/gal in a suit who isn’t part of some political dynasty, that went to school, studied hard and got a law degree, and served for a few years in a relevant public office, l

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