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by jgwil2 5y ago
I don't think you can really call this escalation. Escalation would be responding to military force in kind. Instead, the West is is confining itself to economic sanctions and material support. I don't really see how they can do l
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by jgwil2 5y ago
The GHOTI example is rather contrived as it ignores so much context. For instance, you're claiming that "ti" can be pronounced "sh" on the basis of the pronunciation of the Latin-derived suffix "-tion," bu
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I think Duolingo is good for learning vocabulary but should be supplemented with other forms of study.
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As an English speaker who learned French, Spanish, and German I'd say that of the three, French has the biggest gap between written, formal language and spoken language, especially in informal contexts (e.g. conversation among friends
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To put it into perspective, children learn their native language through ~10 years of complete immersion, so of course they speak it incredibly well. Very few adult learners will ever have the opportunity to be immersed in a foreign languag
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> with french subtitles (!) This is crucial. Watching movies in a foreign language can be difficult because of how fast the dialog is, but if you use subtitles in your language, you will always be thinking in your language first, then tr
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Ah yes, the "bad faith accusation of racism to score rhetorical points" retort. You're apparently a lawyer, so you're obviously willfully misreading the comment you're replying to.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
I think that Reddit is a degree better than Twitter: it's still possible to find long, substantive discussions on Reddit, but the artificial length constraint on Twitter really pushes all users toward pithy "burns" and other
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We're likely going to need such programs to save thre North American ash species from the Emerald Ash Borer as well.
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> It's not Amazon, the whole modern society works like this. Don't let Amazon off the hook like this.
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Eileen Gu: Born and Raised in America, Skiing for China(washingtonpost.com)
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I don't think that is necessarily true - people reject potentially lifesaving treatments all the time for many different reasons. Yes, the desire to live is very strong in us, but it's not infinite.
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Interestingly, I recall reading that when they've experimented with having people live in caves, absent of sunlight, for extended periods, they did tend to shift their "day" length to 25 hours.
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I seem to recall somebody (AO Scott perhaps?) had a surprisingly positive review of that movie, seeing it as possibly some kind of experimental cinema. I wonder if there was anything to that or if he was just being contrarian; still haven&#
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Also one phenomenon, multiple phenomena.
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A classic sendup of the New Yorker from Seinfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fSMUOzufI
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> In software, a programmer calls a sort function from the supplied library. An engineer writes the sort function, and can tell you its complexity and why the algorithm he chose (or invented) is the most appropriate one for the particula
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Wondering that myself. There is no link to any kind of official statement on this page as far as I can tell.
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In North Dakota coal country, officials rally to save a coal-fired power plant(washingtonpost.com)
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That's not without risk if you don't already have an offer in hand, though. And it really is part of the manager's job.
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Somehow you found a way to advocate for kindness and empathy while still coming off as a bit of a jerk... it's kind of impressive actually. The little brag about the size of your paycheck was a nice touch.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Yes but the question is, is prolonging the pandemic in such a way that minimizes strain on vital services worse than just letting many such services collapse under the pressure?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
It seems to me that we now face two options: we can prolong the pandemic by continuing to enforce basic safety measures like lockdowns and mask mandates, in order to reduce the load on the healthcare system, or we can just say fuck it and t
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by jgwil2 5y ago
If that's a hard requirement, you should consider adding it to the guidelines because it is currently undocumented.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
Not suggesting Google per se. Obviously it's not easy to get in. I'm just holding that up as an example of a place that has high comp and low stress and I don't think it's the only such place out there that meets those r
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I think there are jobs in the industry that are both well-compensated and not a major source of stress. Google is widely known for both high comp and a relaxed work environment, for example. I think maybe you just haven't found a job t
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by jgwil2 5y ago
It's not normal. I think maybe OP's perspective has been affected by seeing a lot of people experience exceptional success, and feeling comparatively like a failure, but that doesn't reflect the reality for the vast majority
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Houses also have locks and yet presumably the police can and will bypass that security measure in this scenario. The point is that nothing will protect you in the face of overwhelming force.
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by jgwil2 5y ago
What kind of car appreciates in value?
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by jgwil2 5y ago
This is by the way but I love the phrase "upstart startup."

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