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by knolax 8y ago
The argument that Chinese writing has to be made phonetic because Chinese is too hard only holds sway to non-Chinese. Most Chinese people do not consider Chinese writing to be too hard. Therefore the most common argument for phonetic writin
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by knolax 8y ago
So both China and the US should adopt newspeak?
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by knolax 8y ago
>doesn't make much of a statement about the practicality replacing hanzi with a phonetic writing system for everyday use. What is everyday use? Surely a writing system should be capable of more than "Hello, my name is Knolax?&q
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by knolax 8y ago
>But only essentially though translation. Classical works are not translated into Modern Chinese. I think that's the source of our disagreement. When the writing system is focused on semantics, then the threshold where something is
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by knolax 8y ago
But it's still phonetic.
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by knolax 8y ago
The anger isn't towards Pinyin specifically, but towards attempts to switch the writing system to phonetic writing. Pinyin is still taught in schools today starting from preschool. Most of the current generation of Chinese people are f
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by knolax 8y ago
Yet Classical Chinese is still a large part of Chinese literary canon, partially because the writing system allows for written Classical Chinese to comprehended by modern readers. There are no examples to "Lion-Eating Poet" in Ita
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by knolax 8y ago
>is unlikely to happen due to political pressures from the elites, whose family's positions are secured by the higher barrier to entry to becoming an intellectual. I'm sorry but this is veering into the realm of conspiracy. If
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by knolax 8y ago
Homonyms don't exist in every language to the extant that you can write an entire essay with them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
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by knolax 8y ago
Direct Link to DOD Report: https://media.defense.gov/2018/Dec/14/2002072642/-1/-1/1/DOD...
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by knolax 8y ago
It's always annoyed me that in KiCad, when associating all schematics to footprints as a list, there's no footprint preview by default. Yet when individually associating then the preview does come up.
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by knolax 8y ago
I'm surprised .sexy is a tld at all.
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by knolax 8y ago
On tangential note, this post reminds me of a bizarre project by London Trust Media[0] [0] http://irc.com/
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by knolax 8y ago
I usually only ever see a sliver of my wallpaper in between the gaps of my i3-gaps windows. I think at this point it's less of a wallpaper and more of a texture for my window borders.
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by knolax 8y ago
Hacker News Guidelines: "Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycom
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by knolax 8y ago
https://outline.com/sScq5j
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by knolax 8y ago
Presumably, some of those that are selected to be a "jury of your peers" are going to be the same demographic as you, that is if you have a good lawyer who can select the right jury.
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by knolax 8y ago
The quality of people?
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by knolax 8y ago
Direct Link: https://www.secorvo.de/publikationen/headsetup-vulnerability... Seinhouser Headphone SDK installs a certificate on the trusted root certificate store but also gives anyone with the SDK the private key.
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by knolax 8y ago
"Digital preservation is a topic to be addressed in a forthcoming CoPAR Bulletin No. 15" Yet it doesn't seem to be on the site. Was Bulletin 15 ever published?
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by knolax 8y ago
I understand the value of providing hypothetical situations, but the constant mention of Black Mirror episodes with very little other substance here is getting tiring. Without having seen Black Mirror, that synopsis doesn't add much to
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by knolax 8y ago
interested, but no contact info.
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by knolax 8y ago
It seems from the trial that the link you use to look at the pdf is a page with a custom version of pdf.js . I don't think it can actually track you from your own pdf reader.
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by knolax 9y ago
in the post this apostrophe: [‘] is used instead if the standard ['] apostrophe or [`] grave. It's pretty trivial to check just by opening it in any non-Unicode supporting terminal. In fact the zero width characters show up explic
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by knolax 9y ago
Not an actual prince but merely from a rich (birth) family.
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A Killing in Congo Reveals Human Cost of Conservation(spiegel.de)
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by knolax 9y ago
I checked out the biohack.me forum mentioned in the article and it's really disappointing that the only implants currently being tried are either magnets or NFC/RFID chips. I was expecting to find a vibrant sub culture with all so
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by knolax 10y ago
It's a Dutch court.
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by knolax 10y ago
My guess is that some people are not comfortable with inequality amongst nations. If that person went to Cuba because it was cheaper it would either mean that: A) the quality of care in Cuba is somehow worst. or B) The quality of care is t
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by knolax 10y ago
Honestly as an outsider I feel that India is in a position where it speaks the same language as the west(English) but is still mocked inside of the English speaking sphere as an outsider would be. If you can go on Reddit you can tell how mu

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