knolax

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811.
by knolax 7y ago
There are a lot of conspiracy theories surrounding Waldorf Schools. Some say that it's a cult.
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by knolax 7y ago
Elementary school these days actually put a lot of focus into making sure kids are used to the basic mechanics of using computers (typing, mouse-clicking etc...), which is all you're gonna at that age anyways.
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by knolax 7y ago
> Kids in Japan lead carefree "be home by dark" lives up until late middle school and high school, when they start studying 4+hrs/day and sleeping <5hrs/night to prep for standardized tests. In my experience the sa
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by knolax 7y ago
I wonder what's the benefit of this versus learning whatever the common ancestor of the Slavic languages is.
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by knolax 7y ago
I don't see why self discovery has to involve external expression. Isn't the whole point to delve inwards?
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by knolax 7y ago
That website looks really useful. Thanks for sharing.
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by knolax 7y ago
> if you can't speak certain words, then you can't think certain thoughts Are you saying that you're incapable of non-narrative thoughts?
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by knolax 7y ago
This is just a confirmation of Zipf's Law[0], which applies to all languages. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
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by knolax 7y ago
> You are potentially biased by native speaker instinct. What you understand just fine is only what you think it means. You could apply that argument to my interpretation of anything in any language. All this time I thought F=ma was abou
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by knolax 7y ago
This is the mysticism I'm talking about. You're literally arguing that the meaning behind the poem comes from the shape of the characters themselves. You have the common sentiment amongst westerners that Chinese writing isn't
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by knolax 7y ago
Given that they seem baffled by wedding invitations, they don't seem like they're very proficient. There's a ocean of difference between "Where is the bathroom" and "We hold these truths to be self-evident&quot
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by knolax 7y ago
It seems that without knowing Chinese, most Westerners can only resort to appeals to authority to make their points.
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by knolax 7y ago
> where they think their ancient philosopher were all Confucianists That's a very big accusation to make without anything to back it up.
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by knolax 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that's the route most Korean and Japanese speakers go. The differences between the two are exaggerated anyways.
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by knolax 7y ago
You do realize that "Lower"/低 Is a verb right? In fact if you look at the complete poem every line contains a verb except the first one. The full poem is: 床前明月光 Bright明 Moon月light光 before前 (the) bed床. 疑是地下霜 (The) suspicion疑 i
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by knolax 7y ago
Anybody who speaks more than one language knows to not trust translations(even those made by humans), especially if they're made by some black box algorithms. It's one of those tasks where quality is almost (objectively) immeasura
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by knolax 7y ago
Reminds me of Rainbow Codes[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rainbow_Codes
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by knolax 7y ago
As far as I know sig figs aren't a primitive type in most languages so the author's point is moot.
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by knolax 7y ago
> How do you define 'core set of glyphs'? There are more than 150 different written scripts in the world — at least those that are well-recognized. Only a small portion of them are Latin-based ... Then, there's the Greek a
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by knolax 7y ago
There's a lot more information in the Italian page.
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by knolax 7y ago
And giving a platform to them creates a legal liability.
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by knolax 7y ago
Have you considered that they're not being rejected on the basis of their beliefs, but because they're coordinating/encouraging acts of domestic terrorism on these platforms? "I hate X" is free speech, "Let&#x2
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by knolax 7y ago
Does anyone have more specifics on how the cancer avoids an immune system response?
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by knolax 7y ago
Isn't Technology Review just some college newspaper? I've always found their articles be at buzzfeed quality.
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by knolax 7y ago
Yeah and let's burn down the Vatican and turn it into a cancer research center.
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by knolax 7y ago
It was eventually caught and euthanized.
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by knolax 7y ago
Well there are clearly multiple denominations of this death cult. How else would each denomination justify their funding, if not to prevent the wrong denomination from making offerings.
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by knolax 7y ago
> Why don't they just require candidates to list five mumble rap artists or Instagram influencers? This bitterness and contempt for the younger generation might be why a company full of young people might be reluctant to hire you.
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by knolax 7y ago
Literally everything you said also applies to the suburbs though.
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by knolax 7y ago
Of those 1.5 Billion, how many speak it well enough to prefer to watch anime in it? I "speak" Spanish but I would never watch anime in Spanish because the cost of trying to comprehend translated Spanish is already too high for me

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