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In the United States there exists a slim majority for much of the country's legislative houses. That indicates at least that there's a good chance if you don't have to right now that in your lifetime you will have to treat th
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I think it's a kind of fine distinction... for now. My primary concern with Apple's proposed implementation of CSAM detection hinges almost entirely on the fact that it is performed on device. I use iCloud photos right now knowing
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It's not a misrepresentation whatsoever. If Apple wishes to scan what's on their servers, that is their prerogative. They can use their compute resources and energy to do so. You needn't install spyware on a person's dev
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The entire reason to encrypt data before transferring is to preserve privacy of the individual, which is completely irrelevant when you have a system in place to scan everything before it ever gets uploaded. It's like living in the gla
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There is no such thing as a trustworthy third party and even trusting yourself is questionable at the best of times. We are constantly balancing a bunch of different considerations with regards to the way that we compute, purchase devices,
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by least 5y ago
To be fair to Apple, it is not an Apple employee or VP that is calling people concerned a "screeching minority" but NCMEC's executive director of strategic partnerships, Marita Rodriguez. The whole thing though is a load of c
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I don't have to, you can look at pretty much any of their language curriculum and find a huge presence of English in nearly all their education systems. Certainly you will find people learning other languages for trade depending on the
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Auxiliary languages are kind of inherently doomed to fail to function as they're intended because in order for them to function as such, commitment needs to be made to adopt it multilaterally by governments with sufficient influence. I
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Felt experience is not relevant. Your own evaluation of your speaking vs listening skills is incredibly irrelevant.
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Yeah, you're right. Maybe we should decimate Google's chrome team while we're at it.
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Ironically Apple ensuring that every browser on iOS runs webkit is one of the only things preventing Chrome from having a complete hegemony of the web. If you actually want stronger competition the best thing you could do is separate Chrome
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When we're speaking of proficiency and comparing them between reading, listening, and speaking, you look at them through a similar lens. How well can you understand or communicate ideas in the language? Can you convey complicated and n
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Learning Language with Netflix is a great resource and I'm really happy to see you're expanding! This looks awesome! And yeah, anyone that's trying to learn a language should definitely try immersing with a tool like this. Co
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The language resources were largely designed in house as the other comment mentions, so unfortunately unless you attend DLI, you probably won't get to see them. I don't think there's much in terms of content that you can&#x27
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Yeah, the Dari course was notoriously bad quality and rife with controversy with some of the highest failure rates in the entire Presidio at the time. Not sure if anything's changed at this point?
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Speaking in this case isn't simply speaking words out loud intelligibly, but the entire process of thinking and communicating ideas in a foreign language. There is almost always a gap in your knowledge with regards to what you can unde
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by least 5y ago
Obviously I knew my language well enough to perform a job which required some amount of proficiency in it. I'd imagine that some people might describe my level of proficiency as fluent. If you were to compare it against university, it&
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by least 5y ago
> Listening is easier than speaking only when what you listen to is easy and at a pace you can follow where you can have things repeated. This is definitely not the case. Yes, listening to difficult audio is really hard to interpret. Yo
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> According to the test specifications. ...Which define proficiency nearly identically between the different skill sets. Your relative proficiency for speaking is expected to be worse until you reach native proficiency, where you are st
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I in fact did indicate that reading is the easiest in my post. Speaking is harder than listening because it requires you to produce language and convey ideas from your own mind, with proficiency in pronouncing it in such a way that a native
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I'm glad that it worked out for you! I can't comment on the quality of every individual course, but if it propels you towards your language learning goals, then it's definitely doing its job. I do think that for many language
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Immersion is absolutely essential to language learning and English has an abundant amount of resources, as you say. I understand the difficulties you've had with getting immersed with German, given that my target language while in th
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If you're watching TV in your target language it can actually be very productive for your language learning and definitely better than Duolingo. Granted, you have to get to a point in your language learning for that to be the case. Per
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That's fair, though I think in the case of wanting to be able to be a tourist in a place with a foreign language, you'd be better suited using phrasebooks and a translation app. Duolingo isn't going to really prepare you to h
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Yes, I agree. I think that there's a lot of value to be extracted from people's desire to learn a language, whether or not the product is actually effective at creating that environment to do so. That's kind of what I meant i
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I was a cryptologic linguist for the army and went through a 16 month course of 6-7 hours of classroom instruction per day M-F, native speaking instructors, tons of immersion, and a couple hours of homework each night and left still feeling
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I'd suggest you really reflect on what you're saying here. Plenty of languages present unique challenges when it comes to a typing system that was designed essentially to only work with block letters, not just east Asian ones. Sug
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There is certain advantages certainly of being able to design and impose a new writing system as opposed to one that developed organically. Hangul is an elegantly designed writing system for sure. But to suggest that makes them the "sm
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> Who's Apple to decide what I consider to be secure or not in my own free will, on my device? They're deciding what is secure on their platform that they can be held liable for. Once you buy an iPhone, you can do whatever you
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> Thinner devices are better up to a certain point, no argument there. However, it does start leading to usability and maintainability problems past a certain threshold. We have definitely reached and passed that threshold for many devic

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