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by knolax 6y ago
> The Japanese Wikipedia is not a translation of the English Wikpedia. Yeah that's the point. "猿" and "monkey" are unrelated terms that only have a little bit of overlap. Translators ignore this.
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by knolax 6y ago
> Translation is not something to be avoided for the adult language learner. We should use every advantage at our disposal. Because you're relying on the translator to accurately convey the meaning of words to you, which translators
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by knolax 6y ago
So you want to be in a safe space where you never encounter unpopular opinions? It's even worse than I thought.
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by knolax 6y ago
Because HackerNews is not some haven of rationalism, especially if the not-west is involved. A well cited well reasoned opinion will be downvoted to oblivion and accused of astroturfing if it goes against majority opinion in those cases. I&
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by knolax 6y ago
I wish I could tag people who insinuate astroturfing or whatever every time they find an opposing opinion and not see any of their whining.
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by knolax 6y ago
> what this does in practice is that these companies will likely no longer provide videogames at discounted prices for countries with lower purchasing power Do you have any examples of this? Valve didn't lower the price for low inco
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by knolax 6y ago
Maybe using human corpses as compost might not be the most sanitary thing.
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by knolax 6y ago
I've gotten into more fights in the suburbs than in the city. My n=1 says the suburbs are more violent.
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by knolax 6y ago
OP of the tweet probably doesn't want the attention of the orange website. If something of mine got posted on HN I'd delete it too.
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by knolax 6y ago
I was arguing against OP's case claim that Chinese is a "syllabary". But even then your example is far more cherry picked than mine. Translated your phrase means "is it not theirs". It doesn't have any common n
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by knolax 6y ago
I wouldn't call UFO conspiracy theories harmless given the past occurrence of UFO suicide cults like Heaven's Gate.
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by knolax 6y ago
Another crackpot theory by a non-native speaker. Chinese is logographic. You can't simultaneously claim that different dialects are seperate languages and also claim that they were secretly writing phonetically all this time. They woul
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by knolax 6y ago
You forget the final step: Logography. Anyone who thinks English spelling is phonetic is either delusional or illiterate. The fundamental unit of language is the morpheme, not the phoneme. Otherwise deaf and mute people wouldn't be abl
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by knolax 6y ago
Hawaii has already required passengers of all incoming flights to get tested for a while now.
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by knolax 6y ago
> Maybe the point is that armed people in a democracy is not that big of a deal, but armed people in a dictatorship can be a real problem. You can scroll down a couple posts to see people being outraged that those who stormed the Capitol
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by knolax 6y ago
> People have this idea that an enormous unified China is somehow natural. The linguistic variation of Chinese is larger than the romance languages today. China being some unified country speaking Mandarin is about as natural as Rome com
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by knolax 6y ago
> How many firearms, and ammo you can buy How would you feel if I advocated for arming communist rebels in your country? It's disturbing how normalized calls to violence are on HN when the violence happens far away.
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by knolax 6y ago
That's not how international relations work. Appealing to some arbitrary set of conventions (that you prove in your own comment don't get followed) and then complaining that the other side is "uppity" does nothing.
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by knolax 6y ago
A century old treaty signed at gunpoint can be dissolved at gunpoint.
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by knolax 6y ago
I never understood why people act like the expression of DNA is a deterministic system unaffected by external inputs, as if it were just some code being compiled. It's obviously a hugely complex emergent process that can be affected by
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by knolax 6y ago
The ROC officially adopted Pinyin a couple years back. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/09/18/2...
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by knolax 6y ago
I run a Mastodon instance. The creator of Mastodon is actively against the concept of free speech. When Gab tried to join the fediverse I remember there was a mass effort by developers of Mastodon clients and instance owners to prevent this
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by knolax 6y ago
Am I the only one that felt a wave of relief when opening the article and seeing that the drone was palm sized and not actually bug sized?
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by knolax 6y ago
As some was who was recently #canceled I gotta say stuff like this does nothing. Rallying against "cancel culture" is as pointless as waging a war on drugs. There is no such thing as a "culture" of cancelling; it's
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by knolax 6y ago
You programmers can't even get machine translation right. I'm not trusting you to predict my bowel movements right.
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by knolax 6y ago
Does anyone know mote about what/how information is being stored in the car? Is it all in the infotainment console? What about sensor data? Is that logged and for what purpose is it logged? And how the supposed Privacy4Cars app is supp
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by knolax 6y ago
Another machine translator polluting the internet with garbage text.
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by knolax 6y ago
Sure thing, Chinese amd American tastes are trashy but European tastes are ohhhh so sophisticated!/s If a European company designs an ugly car it can't possibly be because the enlightened European designers have bad taste, i
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by knolax 6y ago
I'm tired of whiny Europeans blaming everything on us. If one of your companies designs a shitty car that's your fault.
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by knolax 6y ago
You don't have a source for this. Quit racebaiting.

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