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by laurieg 8y ago
I wouldn't worry too much about student feedback. I have got feedback like "This class was terribly organised." and "This class was extremely clear and well organised." from the exact same class, just look for the
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Population density helps with making deliveries more efficient, at least in urban areas. Just down the street from me there is a mini delivery center (just the 1st floor office in a regular building) where packages are sent before they are
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by laurieg 8y ago
Good riddance. I live in rented accommodation in Japan. A couple of years ago an Airbnb was set up next door and it was a nightmare. People coming and going at all hours, large groups of drunk holiday-makers having loud parties into the
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by laurieg 8y ago
I have a little experience in this area. I would sum up the reasons as: 1. Children put in more time. An adult who puts in an hour a day of study is studying hardcore, but a child will play with people or watch cartoons in a new language
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by laurieg 8y ago
My place is about 40sqm, which is quite big for a single person in Japan. My place before was in a similar location but 25sqm and is quite representative of a Japanese single occupancy apartments.
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by laurieg 8y ago
Just for a bit of perspective, my city center rent(non-Tokyo) is 45,000 yen and a meal in a restaurant with drinks is around 3000.
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This is actually somewhat close to how spoken English works. We change many vowel sounds to the neutral 'schwa' in real speech. Also, many accents use very different vowel sounds (think New Zealand) but are still easy to understan
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by laurieg 8y ago
Interestingly, I've was unable to attend a developer event in Japan last year due to my gender. I find all sorts of different types of sexism in Japan, but also lots of young hardworking people who have no time for it.
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That is a striking illusion! Does anyone know how to recreate this illusion with other sentences?
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> So they don't take even 1% and only the top 4% of students even bother applying. I went to the college with the highest number of state school students. After participating in outreach events to get more people from a variety of
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by laurieg 8y ago
I did my undergrad at Cambridge University and I was surprised at how normal people were. Of course, there were a couple of utter geniuses, but they were the exception. I think an undergrad friend of mine put it best: "Cambridge doesn
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Some people are using "just looking for friends" as a filter. They want the person who talks to them to be ok with being friends first before they switch to being romantic. There is often an element of self-deception too. "
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"I don't have time to do x" is almost always code for "I have other things that I want to do more than x" So it sounds like these people would make time to go on dates, or have a romantic partner, but they find onli
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by laurieg 8y ago
Teaching math to young interested people (9-14). It was different every lesson. The content was easy so I never had any confusion about what I was actually teaching. There was a lot of freedom to teach how I wanted, so I could be creative
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by laurieg 8y ago
It is very informative to make a an online dating profile of the opposite gender. I'm a man, but when I made an account on tinder with a female friend's pictures I was blown away by just how radically different the experience was
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by laurieg 8y ago
I think most people live life based on a schedule, to a greater or lesser degree. The schedule is informed by clock time. I get up at this time, I eat lunch at that time and so on. When I was on the island I felt like I was much more in t
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by laurieg 8y ago
How is calling out descrimination cultural imperialism? I don't think we should be selecting engineers, tax accountants and so on based on their gender, so I call it out when I see it. The rest of your post makes a lot of assumptions
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by laurieg 9y ago
Gender equality is not nearly as big an issue in Asia compared to the west. My experience is in Japan, but I could summarise a common opinion as "Men and women are different and should be treated differently". Recently, when askin
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by laurieg 9y ago
I really recommend unplugging for a few days. It helps you notice how you are interacting with technology. I spent 4 days on a tiny island (population 11) a few years ago. I was there with one friend and we decided that there would be no
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by laurieg 9y ago
Japan shows an interesting contrast to the UK housing market. In Japan there are many small single occupancy apartments. I rent one right in the middle of a large city for around 300GBP per month. Sharing is almost non-existant outside o
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by laurieg 9y ago
I think the difficulty of Riven is definitely cranked up a couple of notches too high. Myst seems to hit the sweet spot perfectly. I felt like there were far too many moments in Riven where I didn't look in just the right place (the s
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by laurieg 9y ago
Kids have incredible motivation and time far beyond any adult. If you spent 1 hour a day learning a new language most people would consider you a dedicated language learner, but a child spends almost every waking our in contact with languag
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by laurieg 9y ago
I spent a year abroad studying in Japan with a group of 10 westerners. At the beginning of the year some people were apprehensive when they learned about the word 'gaijin'. By the end of the year every member of the group used &
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by laurieg 9y ago
In Japan there is a similar phenomenon. Trains going to the capital (or other urban center) use the word 'going up' (上り) and trains going away from the capital use the　'going down' (下り). This is so well used that signs
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by laurieg 9y ago
Voice UI has some use cases where it is great and some use cases where it is terrible. "Fire and forget" commands are great. "Hey alexa, set an alarm for 8am". Once you trust alexa to do these tasks you don't need
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by laurieg 9y ago
It's there a path into management without being a developer first?
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My normal accent is British but I affected a crappy American accent and got 98% first try. I think this will classify you as American if you just put in rhotic Rs and ham up the vowel sounds.
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by laurieg 9y ago
I'm from Britain but I've lived in a non-English speaking country for 7 years so my accent seems to have tended towards American English. I got 90% British. Also, this is measuring my "reading accent" which is much more
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by laurieg 9y ago
Instead of an app I think we need to rethink our living arrangements. Where I live (Japan) living alone is the new norm. After I moved out of university dorms I've lived in little shoebox apartments with my own little kitchen, my own
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by laurieg 9y ago
Sorry if my statement was inaccurate. The legal advice I have received states that if I were to start a company I would need to change residence types or would be unable to renew my current visa. So how does your friend renew his visa? Do

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