morningseagulls

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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Because it's hard. You sound all wrong to yourself. And after years of conditioning to sound "right", it's very hard to unlearn all that and sound "wrong", in order to perform that accommodation.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>That is, written English is a sane language, and spoken English is a sane language as well. What's your definition of "sane" here? >The problem is that they are two unrelated languages Sounds like Chinese/Mandarin
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Trying to explain to a child why a certain word is pronounced the way it is, even though it looks nothing like how we are pronouncing it, usually falls back to "that's just the way it is" unless I want to try explaining t
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>My main experience is with Romania Fair enough, that would explain your reaction. To be fair, Malaysia is more like Romania than some of the other countries I've mentioned. >just excuses at spending money, badly Yes, and funding
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Governments that do this are either clueless or thugs. See hogFeast's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165893 You've basically dissed the governments of the US, the UK and the EU, plus every cou
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>First, this kind of thing has been going on for decades. Exactly. Silicon Valley itself has its roots in DoD funding. Then, there's a glut of highly-educated STEM people who can do research, and the VC funding. We now have all thre
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Ah yes, governements like to think they can create a startup eco system by throwing money at it. They have to start somewhere. And if they don't, other governments will, as in the case of Malaysia, which lost a home-grown startup t
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. However, Malaysia isn't alone in doing this. A lot of governments are pumping money into developing their own startup scenes, and the article's mentioned the other ASEAN countries that have been doing
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>No, the startup scene is a side effect of a lot of money floating around in a place where there is little job security and surplus of people ready to gamble a couple of years of their life in return for a very small chance at success. E
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>a cunning plan to funnel money into the pockets of the 20-something children of well connected people. You're thinking of Silicon Valley/NYC. The money in Southeast Asia is going to washed-up 30- to 40-something financial type
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products. Worse. I once attended an agile community meetup, and felt like I had just stumbled upon a weird cult. It's
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>It's not just management that gets into cargo culting. I've had the misfortune of attending a meetup for agile coaches. It's definitely a cult.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to see how different experiences can lead to different political views in populations.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Ah, so that author is looking for "the most religious countries". Still, it doesn't make sense to highlight Mongolia (53% Buddhist), Laos (67% Buddhist) and even the Democratic Republic of the Congo (50% Roman Catholic), but
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Thanks, these look good.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
The CIA Factbook? I'm making the observation that the creator of the infographic has made some errors when translating the data into graphics.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
TIL Australia, Canada, Germany have no majority religion. This is not true, according to the CIA Factbook that was, ironically enough, cited by the infographic: - Australia: 52.1% Christian. ( https://www.cia.gov/library&#x2F
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
People think doing mathematics means you solve equations all day, but they're wrong - sometimes it's about finding that you've drawn the arrow the wrong way in a diagram... At 4am, in bed, breaking out in cold sweat.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>This was expected at least 3 months ago Here's the Quanta report they quoted: https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-nevens-law-describe-quan... I remembered seeing that and still feeling a bit skeptical. It seems lik
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
The relative military capabilities of the two parties, like the resource dependency, is a side issue. Kuala Lumpur shows no sign of wanting Singapore back because Singapore would significantly alter Malaysia's demographics and push for
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Social housing just manifests the imbalance in waiting lists instead of prices. It's not like people who get stuck in the queue are having a better time than people who can't afford the market rate. This is under the assumptio
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Without establishing any ground rules All right, ground rules. My arguments are evidence-based and I assume that you'd have read any evidence I've cited. Any arguments that you make that are contrary to the evidence I've
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
The article notes: >the city looks to the mainland for most of its resources. So does Singapore, which looks to Peninsular Malaysia for most of its resources (water and food). That's the main problem with that opinion piece. Here&#x
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I'm not an expert on Catolonia and Spain Here, let me wiki that for you (lmwtfy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Catalan_independence_refe... >I've likened Hong Kong to Singapore. I love how people