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While we don't have ancient audio, we can learn something about how a language was spoken by analyzing poetry with strict pronunciation rules. There's research in Chinese (I believe the original researcher was named Chen Li) to re
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What leads you to this conclusion? I find stories about fraudulent journalists fascinating, but despite my interest in the topic I only see big stories about journalistic misconduct once a year or so, whereas scandals involving politicians,
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You've probably already heard of this one because Ezra Klein appears regularly, but the Weeds is my go-to policy podcast.
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Of course they do. In fact, there are two main types of Chinese dictionaries: phonetic dictionaries organized by pronunciation and character dictionaries organized by radical.
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Good places to start for writing fiction: - Writer's Digest publishes large yearly lists of places to submit books and short stories. - The Writing Excuses podcast covers all steps of the writing process, from research and planning to
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I assumed the gendered usage here was intended, since it's not a poem or a format where character count matters. Unfortunately it's ambiguous without further clarification.
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The short poem "I will not die an unlived life" by Dawna Markova has had a profound impact on me. I don't think about it often, only when I am making big decisions, but it has convinced me to take some of the biggest and most
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I find this to be one of the funniest supposed differences between genders. I'm trans male, so I've gotten both female and male haircuts. Female haircuts generally took much less time. Put the hair in a ponytail, one snip, tidy
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Doctors want money, but that does't mean they're completely useless. I wouldn't want to perform surgery on myself. I recently read "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong, which covers the evolution of religion and va
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The biggest difference in the US is that "treated like an employee" also means being paid a minimum wage. As an employee in the United States, your employer is also responsible for paying a portion of your social security and medi
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Working from home is already allowed at my company, but if they moved to everyone working from home indefinitely I would absolutely leave the company, even if it meant taking a significant pay cut and changing careers. I don't want to
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At the University of Washington (which consistently ranks at the level of MIT and Stanford for Computer Science), someone with a bachelor's in Computer Science would generally be expected to complete at least two of: * Operating System
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I find that a lot of people in the software field confuse maximizing information density with finding valuable learning materials. Almost all books have relatively low information density. You can condense "How to Win Friends and Influ
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Positive feedback is nice, but feedback on how to improve is incredibly useful. I really value constructive feedback and I spend a lot of time on providing helpful feedback when people ask for it. A short statement that a colleague did some
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The approach I took in college was to ease in to it, not by slowly dialing down the amount of times I ate out, but by buying boxed meals and adding to them: Buy a cheap food that you can stand that is boxed (mac and cheese, canned soup, ram
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I can get an entire season of one of my favorite TV shows on DVD at the used bookstore for an average of $15. Not only does it usually take me a month to go through the 24 episodes in a typical season, but there's special features to e
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There's usually tax implications for working for an extended period of time in another country. As a result, big companies may require employees moving to a new country to negotiate a new job offer for a regional office and smaller com
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Even worse, when I was studying abroad in Germany I'd get the Microsoft English-translated-to-German page and then Chrome, which I had originally installed in the US and configured for US English, would "helpfully" translate
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A corollary to this, don't ask users for information that you don't need. There are a number of popular web services (Spotify was the most recent) that I haven't signed up for because they keep asking for information I don&#x
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To each their own. I love Vox. Their Weeds podcast has given me a whole new understanding of public policy and research papers in the social sciences. They also do research on topics I didn't even know I wanted research on. For example