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by gruseom 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. The prescriptivist intervention wasn't in the past century, though, it was in the 18th. It's been traced to a single grammatical treatise—I forget the name but can look it up if there's interest—whic
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by gruseom 13y ago
What a lovely comment. Thank you.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That’s very, very hapless coming from Mr.Graham (and is pretty offensive to people who had lobotomies for medical conditions, they are surprisingly normal). Is this parody?
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's possible, because I don't remember the details. But I distinctly remember the feeling that Curtis' portrayal of Laing was badly distorted, and I recall that a commenter who had known Laing personally said the same thin
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The Reality Show(aeonmagazine.com)
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“Some people like the visibility. I don’t” (salon.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
I was speaking only about the thing where native speakers are insensitive to learners. You may be right that English is harder to pronounce. Being an insensitive English speaker I defer to your expertise!
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by gruseom 13y ago
Laing was an anti-institutionalist who became famous for challenging the inhumane practices of psychiatry (his profession) and helping to set up safe houses where people having psychotic episodes could undergo them with emotional support fr
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Fast and Flawed Inspections of Factories Abroad(nytimes.com)
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by gruseom 13y ago
Both points can be true: startup CEOs need to be understandable in English, and native speakers are insensitive to the difficulties of someone trying to learn their language. The insensitivity is greater if the person hasn't tried to l
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by gruseom 13y ago
"shire reeve" -> sheriff Well I'll be. That is so cool. Thanks! http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sheriff&allowed_in_... Edit: Allow me to repay in kind. Did you know that rhubarb is called &q
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'm curious. What do you dislike about Adam Curtis' work? He has a considerable gift for digging up and presenting historical material. For example, the stuff about Bernays and Freud at the beginning of Century of the Self is ri
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by gruseom 13y ago
Miles Copeland, the CIA officer whose book Curtis relies heavily on in the article, was an interesting character. I've been meaning to look up that book for a while. Has anybody here read it? (He was also the father of Stewart Copeland
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's classic! You should make a post out of that link—it's great HN material.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Martin Wolf reviewed Mazzucato's book in the Financial Times a couple weeks ago: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/32ba9b92-efd4-11e2-a237-00144... HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.
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by gruseom 13y ago
No, it's just that Daniel can't be bothered to deal with LinkedIn. I did just go and change the headline, though. Or tried to—they don't make it easy! Vladimir worked with me on an early incarnation of the program but left be
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by gruseom 13y ago
Good grief, I'm on HN this much and miss it when someone posts about my own startup? Skysheet is alive. It's taking so long because it's hard, yet mysteriously doable, so (assuming sufficient stubbornness) there is reason to
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by gruseom 13y ago
I'd like to hear more about how these kinds of architectures were programmed. I know about scalar kernels being applied in lockstep across data-parallel arrays. What other patterns were there?
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by gruseom 13y ago
(Replying to both you and dylangs1030 here) The "18th century" thing stuck in my mind from some media piece, and now that you mention it, does sound rather obviously like a myth. But the place exists—I think it was probably Tangie
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by gruseom 13y ago
I occasionally have—some Newfoundlanders, people from certain parts of the UK, and so on. There's a whole lot of variation in the English-speaking world, and the line between dialect and accent isn't well-defined. There's eve
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by gruseom 13y ago
What a great idea. One of those clever ideas that are immediately obvious once you see them (but not before). I find man pages a chore to read, and that has definitely held back my skills, so if this actually works—i.e., you can type in any
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by gruseom 13y ago
The defense of "accents so strong you cannot understand" holds no water. It was an after thought. If that is right then PG has missed the obvious in his own data, since several high-quality YC startups have CEOs who speak Americ
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Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking Obedience Study(npr.org)
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by gruseom 13y ago
What are the main differences/annoyances you've noticed with Fastmail? Do you happen to know if they support "undo send"? i.e. where you can configure a 30-second delay before the email is actually sent, so if you think
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by gruseom 13y ago
It was Feynman who first popularized this metaphor. The Wikipedia article on cargo cults is surprisingly fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
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by gruseom 13y ago
I set a default "full screen" but that didn't take in replies. That is one of my biggest grievances with the new Gmail UI as well. But there are so many other annoyances and so many little things that just don't work,
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by gruseom 13y ago
How about we avoid both trollish sarcasm and tedious back-patting, and say what we really think politely? That's not so hard.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Remarkable! Thank you. And that site is very well written: If all this sounds rather rough, you are beginning to get the picture. Your comforts have to be carried in.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I like Ed Byrne's standup bit where he finds increasingly outlandish ways to interpret the song that actually are ironic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
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by gruseom 13y ago
Does "illegal" really mean anything in the international system? Certainly governments cite "international law" to score propaganda points, but to show that it really means something, it's not enough to show cases w

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