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by mac01021 8y ago
> I get less work done, but I don't feel like a miserable piece of a machine now. Why don't you just do that work faster without being on twitch, and then use the extra hours to go outside and participate in an actual community
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by mac01021 8y ago
Any of his works in particular? (Sadly, it looks from the wikipedia article like I'm not likely to find an english translation for most of his work)
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by mac01021 8y ago
Do they have any scifi to speak of in TV yet? I wonder how long it will take, given the growing popularity of these novels.
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by mac01021 8y ago
What is the less moronic theory that I should read up on instead?
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by mac01021 8y ago
You're saying you care nothing for the absolutes and only consider relative wealth. Granted, it's not the case in reality, but all the numbers in the the post you're responding to are compatible with a world where the wealth
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by mac01021 8y ago
The sitting president 50 years (minus 10 days) ago was a Republican.
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by mac01021 8y ago
> especially with names. That makes sense! Since names will always lack disambiguating context. And I've seen that in Chinese movies come to think of it. It happens in English too: Is your name Kerry or Carrie?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Even without considering other cities, we're starting to stretch the definition of "a select few"
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by mac01021 8y ago
Except that 70 million probably contains a lot of people not in the workforce. So it's not "apples to apples".
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by mac01021 8y ago
Most?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Naive thought/question: if CP becomes easily accessible for free through search engines, won't that cause less CP to be produced, since the producers will be less able to make money from it? So maybe that's not all bad?
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by mac01021 8y ago
"British left waffles on Falklands" is a moderately famous, ambiguous, historical newspaper headline from the UK [0] If you have absolutely no context and know nothing about politics or human society, you'll probably take it
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by mac01021 8y ago
So you're saying that, when conversing via speech, the problems created by ambiguities such as "I heard a wail and I saw a whale" or "The knight was black" are more tractable than the problems arising from "Whe
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by mac01021 8y ago
> In Chinese this is not a problem because by people usually learn this type of stuff on paper first. The additional context helps reduce the ambiguity in spoken conversation. I read that, but I'm having trouble imagining how that w
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by mac01021 8y ago
> There are still way too many hompohones which can introduce a lot of amibiguity. Is this a problem when speaking? How many times a day do speakers of Chinese have to ask a collaborator which homophone they are using?
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by mac01021 8y ago
That's a very nice poem (thanks!), but not a good example, mostly because it is a poem. As a poem, it has no equivalent rendering in colloquial Chinese. Also as a poem, it deliberate sheds information, permitting (or even pursuing?) a
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by mac01021 8y ago
Never thought I'd hear an aversion to being punched described as pathological.
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by mac01021 8y ago
That's interesting! Do you have a good example of a common sentence/thought/idea that is expressed with much greater concision in written chinese than spoken? Surely a basic sentence like "mingtian wo xuexi yihou qu ti
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by mac01021 8y ago
If you include an indication of the tone along with the pinyin, doesn't it end up being just about as informative as spoken word?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Is that really true? I mean, it might well be true that most people could live an extra 20 years with a suitable change of diet and lifestyle. But even if that's the case, isn't everyone going to die of cancer or heart failure at
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by mac01021 8y ago
What kind of abuse?
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by mac01021 8y ago
Except the school only gets the money of people who attend the school. And the school is not incentivized to sell worthless degrees because it won't get paid when it does.
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by mac01021 8y ago
Yes. It used to be called a "tuition fee". but people are lazy and don't know where their words come from.
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by mac01021 8y ago
> I'd be willing to bet for most of us, paying 17% of our income (once we made $50k) a year, for two years, is a vastly preferable to whatever we've paid. Except the Lambda School ( I think it says in the article) is a 6-month
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by mac01021 8y ago
Except it's not. "Public education and taxes" (1) means everyone pays into the system and then people can enroll without any additional payment (or maybe with diminished additional payment). You could also have publicly insur
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by mac01021 8y ago
You prefer them for their sheer size, rather than for the safety provided by the licensing process?
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by mac01021 8y ago
I've witnessed this first hand. For a nonemergency even. A friend with bad English went to the ER to have a rash looked at (not understanding what the more appropriate action would have been). The ER don't doctor spent about 2 m
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by mac01021 8y ago
Doesn't overall health depend on lifestyle much more than on healthcare?
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by mac01021 8y ago
If we're going to help people based only on need, there's probably a long queue of folks who need help more than he did.
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by mac01021 8y ago
> Their compliance costs are enormous. You are totally free to use an unlicensed daycare provider. They will be entirely unencumbered by regulations from the state, and you will have to assess the provider's quality and safety on y

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