mchaver

25 ms·

271.
by mchaver 10y ago
I know China has a lot of protectionism, but I have not heard of it being difficult to get your software/app into other Asian countries. Which ones have a lot of protectionism in terms of software/app stores?
272.
by mchaver 10y ago
What are the protectionist policies (not cultural or linguistic causes) that prevent non-Korean mobile apps from succeeding in South Korea?
273.
by mchaver 10y ago
Generally representing dialog is not a problem. In the case that they want to represent a word/sound that does not have a character assigned to it there are a number of strategies to deal with it: romanization (pinyin), zhuyin fuhao (p
274.
by mchaver 10y ago
That's quite a strange argument. You can be fluent in "Standard American English" and AAVE. I know plenty of Americans/American residents who don't speak English natively/make grammar mistakes in speech that ha
275.
by mchaver 10y ago
That is a big assumption. They would still need to get a work visa and have the desire to leave. There is a lot of culture at play as well, which would still be there if everyone in Japan was a native English speaker. English is certainly a
276.
by mchaver 10y ago
It is already happening in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
277.
by mchaver 10y ago
It could probably get really messy. Mariano Rajoy has already threatened the status of Brits in Spain in the case of leaving the EU. Amazing what a little patch of land can do. Anyway, I won't try to speculate more than that.
278.
by mchaver 10y ago
I think the assumption is that once UK leaves the EU, Gibraltar will no longer be EU and Spain may try to exercise more muscle by making border crossing more painful and try to use that to pressure Gibraltar. I imagine they import a lot of
279.
by mchaver 10y ago
My guess would be that there is a lot of interesting public data available in SQL/CSV/Excel formats. If a journalist can browse that data efficiently they can probably find some interesting stories and leads.
280.
by mchaver 10y ago
It's often not a choice if you do not meet the countries requirements which are generally: be wealthy, have a higher degree and already have secured a job, or be married to a citizen/permanent resident. As another comment mentione
281.
by mchaver 10y ago
I would imagine it would be similar for a local student (minus visa issues and interest in immigration) in the case where the family is supporting them financially, particularly in countries where university tuition is a significant portion
282.
by mchaver 10y ago
I agree, but I don't think that is a good reason not to share that information.
283.
by mchaver 10y ago
Wouldn't the biological assumption be that the grandmother was raised by her grandmother?
284.
by mchaver 10y ago
Since Angular 2 is so different from Angular 1 and there is not a universal solution to upgrade from 1 to 2, do you think there would have been a better PR/current user reaction if it was named something else?
285.
by mchaver 10y ago
Right. I understand the resource curse and the need to diversify one's economy and develop strong, trustworthy institutions, but I didn't understand what hackerboos was referring to when they said "revenues outside your own e
286.
by mchaver 10y ago
My understanding of Economics isn't very strong. Could you explain how investing the revenues outside their own economy is the right strategy?
287.
by mchaver 10y ago
Fogus also makes a nice list of books and other things at the end of each year. http://blog.fogus.me/2015/12/29/the-best-things-and-stuff-of...
288.
by mchaver 10y ago
>> It's surprising that we're seeing so much Chinese influence in our languages. What languages, outside of neighboring ones, are being heavily influenced by Chinese?
289.
by mchaver 10y ago
Another point is that advanced degree in the right subject make acquiring a work visa easier in many countries, though US work visas are challenging to get regardless.
290.
by mchaver 11y ago
I think that's the right line of thinking. To me it seems that people build and update rationality models and base the rationality of their decisions and thoughts on their personal model, not on some universal model. Conflict occurs wh
291.
by mchaver 11y ago
I also thought it was interesting to learn that South Africa did not introduce television until 1976 (assuming this article is correct). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_South_Africa
292.
by mchaver 11y ago
There are also certain obstacles related to internal migration in Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement#Russia
293.
by mchaver 11y ago
For me search if one of GitHub's key features. It's nice to take a look other people's code, explore other coding styles, find examples of library usage which is great for under documented code. Unfortunately it does let you
294.
by mchaver 11y ago
At the very least it would make sense to provide the source that outputs the document. That could be something like OpenOffice or Latex. There are probably some WYSIWYG solution for Latex. If you are referencing a table from another paper a
295.
by mchaver 11y ago
It looks like the Library of Congress has an appropriation of funds to help produce braille books and provide them to public libraries. I'm not sure if this is the most up-to-date information though. https://www.loc.gov&#x2F
296.
by mchaver 11y ago
I still think localized programming languages are a good first introduction for students with low English proficiency. The less initial barriers there are for the student, the easier it is to gain interest. Moreover, it takes students a whi
297.
by mchaver 11y ago
I think words as images is also a common strategy for reading. That's why designers say signs in all capital letters take longer to read than signs with lowercase or standard capitalization practices because we remember the shape of th
298.
by mchaver 11y ago
I would guess part of the reason why native speakers (and probably fluent speakers) can read that text is because of linguistics probability (Bayesian probability). Humans seem to use probability of phrases to fill in blanks in speech/
299.
by mchaver 11y ago
I think that is a hypothesis worth investigating. A good data point to look into would be what educational backgrounds do Western extremists come from.
300.
by mchaver 11y ago
If context is missing (paper is torn, parts of conversation are missed) then "overloaded words" can easily be misinterpreted. People have various techniques for correcting these communication errors: make an assumption based on on

More ›