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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The US made a war against the "White Separatism" (Confederate States of America), in order to protect the US Constitution and citizen rights. Well, there was a bit more to it than that. If it had just been a matter of the Const
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Food startup Hampton Creek fires three executives amid claims of planned coup(theguardian.com)
3 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Is it "extreme left", "xenophobic" or even "anti-tourist" to actually enforce pre-existing requiring that flats be properly licensed in order to serve as short-term rentals? If 90% of the population is, in fact
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It is a huge problem in corporate internal software too. Because that would involve caring about (1) the future, or at least (2) the experience of your fellow teammates in tending after your code. Both of which are highly disdained in suc
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
And why should they? That's not what they test for in interviews.
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Giant Antarctic iceberg 'hanging by a thread', say scientists(theguardian.com)
4 points by kafkaesq 9y ago|2 comments
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Your background knowledge is impressive, This sounds a bit obnoxious, actually. I should have said something like "Your clarification is very helpful, and your points are perfectly valid."
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
She talked to the press when her allegations were found to be unmerited. When the company "said" they were unmerited, that is.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Why would she even want to continue working there? Because she's not independently wealthy. And she's perfectly aware of the negative impact on prospective employers' willingness to hire here -- until and unless she's
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The blue states go on to prosper and the red states languish. The inverse of Atlas Shrugged, as it were.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Something tells me a proper analysis of the net impact of their propose recycling scheme would be a bit more involved than the two numbers you came up with (and leaving aside such questions of how many customers will actually participate; a
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I suspect you missed it because you are not used to thinking in terms of signal processing or information theory. And we can end the discussion right there. Being as -- "to give you this hint", and "to spell it out more slo
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Your background knowledge is impressive, but this is way off topic. Recall I was simply attempting to explain why Russian verbs are sometimes confusing to foreign speakers. My quantification of the distinctiveness of the Russian system may
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
shipping recyclables from UK to China is still net-beneficial as opposed to landfilling That's shipping it from the local recycling plant , ton for ton. But the "net benefit" of shipping millions of box of crumbled alumin
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
That's a perfectly valid point, above, which definitely should not have been downvoted. This business about "just ship it back to us and we'll recycle it" is obviously suspect. If anything it sounds like a scheme they c
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I don't think you're precisely correct in all of what you're saying, above. But that's precisely the point I was trying to get across: for the purpose of this discussion , such distinctions are basically persnickety.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Obligatory aspect marking is extremely common all around the world. Right, but usually (except in a few corner cases) this is done with separate helping words (e.g. in English: "to cook up" v. "to cook") which are usu
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Well, having re-read their sentence... it definitely doesn't read that way to me. But you can read it that way, if you want to.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's not like they are out to harm fellow humans or society. Right -- it's not that they're "out to" cause harm. They just don't give an F. So in that sense, it 'antisocial' seems more apt.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
This is the point where I could (in principle) accept the idea of "conditional collaboration" -- as in, "OK, I'll loan you, generally destructive and disreputable person that you are, the appearance of credibility, as lo
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
No what the commenter was saying was that there are some pretty obvious differences between Spanish and Portuguese (not even remotely comparable to the differences between the mainline variants of English). See also: https://e
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'll leave it to the native speakers to provide some examples. But basically, Russian (along with a few other Eastern Slavic languages) has an entire system of verb organization (this business of "aspect") that has counterp
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I get your drift, but it depends on the context. If you're communicating with Prince fans (or you are Prince), substitutions like U, 4, 2, etc might be appropriate. If you're applying for a job (even as Prince's sound engin
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You can go find a linguist to debate this if you want. My basic points are simply: (1) the author of the original article wasn't making much of a point, and (2) in regard to what you were saying, where exactly English sits on the spec
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
A very high proportion of loan words, along with significant differences in grammar, phonetics and orthography. That's why people think of it as more of creole (or hybrid) language.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'm not going to get into the fine-grained (and for the purpose of this discussion, basically persnickety) nuances of where English sits on the creole/pidgin/hybrid spectrum (especially since none of these terms have formal†
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Overdrawn. Nearly every language has certain features (or annoyances) that very few other languages have (except for closely related ones). There's a "fat tail" of these weird-isms, basically, and English is just another dot
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
In short, this is a good groundwork, but I think it needs a human editor to push the individual definitions from "acceptable" to "correct". Good point. A StackOverflow-style upvoting system may provide exactly that.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'm not "extrapolating" from anything. OK, I'll take that back. You aren't extrapolating; you're outright jumping the gun, by pure force of will. The direct analysis is easy and obvious. It is if you choos
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Well, they were pretending to be Marxist at least. Which is about as pretty close as any modern state gets to actually being "Marxist".

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