nandemo

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by nandemo 9y ago
> (I understood 8/10 words! And I even know that word 4 is a past tense verb! But not at all the meaning). That's an important point. Knowing 80% of the words in a text doesn't mean you understand 80% of its meaning, that
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by nandemo 9y ago
While I support that, I also understand why some people -- especially outside the US, or in the US but outside the tech hubs -- would be cautious about posting salary ranges. Quoting who_is_firing: > Every HN hiring thread has someone c
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by nandemo 9y ago
It's not just an idea, I've used it to learn about 2000 Hebrew words, albeit in a somewhat different form and along with other methods/materials. I'm a somewhat experienced language learner. I'm fully aware that wor
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by nandemo 9y ago
How about this? 1. Get a frequency list. The most common word's rank is 1, the second is 2, etc. [0] 2. Then use your favorite Spaced Repetition Software (such as anki) to learn the words in that order. 3. Define a sentence's diff
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by nandemo 9y ago
Interesting. How about a president that orders bombings on a country (or several of them) which hasn't attacked the US? Or a president that orders drone strikes that kill civilians?
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by nandemo 9y ago
How do they know it's an ancestor instead of just a node that has a common ancestor with Homo sapiens?
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by nandemo 9y ago
Thanks for explanation. I haven't studied AlphaGo games against Lee Sedol. I wonder if Ke Jie played that way because he saw AlphaGo playing a good counter to the more usual moves (an approach on the right side).
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by nandemo 9y ago
> In this game, black playing 3-3 (bottom right corner invasion) would have never been played before AlphaGo in the state of human theory. I was taught 15 years ago in my first beginner class how bad doing that is. There are lots of 3-3
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by nandemo 9y ago
> Better than your 95% number, but not Nordic country levels. People were talking about the US being "third world", you're clearly moving goalposts. > Also, shantytowns aren't really allowed to exist in the US. ...
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by nandemo 9y ago
That's such BS. Have you actually lived in a developing country? If you're American and you care about poverty -- as in relative poverty -- in your country and you want to do something about it, more power to you. It's not li
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by nandemo 9y ago
Presumably it's the fact that syntactic analysis involves assigning parts of speech and function to tokens, which in English and Spanish are usually words separated by spaces: Say it to me V Pronoun Preposition P
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by nandemo 9y ago
> Do they have huge profits because of not having enough competition, or because they don't they have to return profits to the investors? The second alternative doesn't make sense. You can't say a company has lots of pro
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by nandemo 9y ago
The technical ability to show the films in movie theaters isn't the issue. The problem is that Netflix hasn't arranged for the movies to be actually shown in French movie theaters: > The two movies included in Cannes’ lineup
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by nandemo 9y ago
On the contrary, the artificial housing scarcity in California (as well as in NYC) contributes to inequality and hinders GDP growth: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.jp/2016/06/how-to-raise-gdp-10...
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by nandemo 9y ago
> (PS: apologies for the 'thousands of kg' units. I thought it was more readable than Mg or fully written out numbers.) Just write tonnes (= metric tons)?
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by nandemo 9y ago
> The hyperbole just smacks of virtue signaling, which some people enjoy and others don't. Why is everything that democrats/liberal say deemed "virtue signaling" now? Do liberals have any genuine principles at all
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by nandemo 9y ago
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -- Grouch Marx
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by nandemo 9y ago
> Do you people seriously believe that 4/23 is the same period of time in NYC as it is in London? Honestly, it sounds like you didn't read the article and/or you misunderstood grandparent comment. The Date class in Java
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by nandemo 9y ago
No need for the snark; obviously "other stuff" includes things you need for raising a family.
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by nandemo 9y ago
The idea that "the increase in cost of living wipes out the salary increase" always comes up in these threads, and I think it's way off the mark. For example, I used to live in Fukuoka, a mid-sized Japanese city, and now live
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by nandemo 9y ago
It doesn't have to be a downgrade in the aggregate. You can downgrade your housing but upgrade other stuff.
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by nandemo 10y ago
Unless you're working a startup that's intentionally "doing things that don't scale" (because e.g. you're still yet to get to product-market fit), I can't see how it makes sense for a developer or SRE to g
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by nandemo 10y ago
Also Cho Chikun's All About Life and Death and Fujisawa's Dictionary of Basic Tesuji .
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by nandemo 10y ago
The article is talking about college graduates in general. The study you linked to is about young college graduates (age 21 to 24).
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by nandemo 10y ago
I don't think "rebranding" is a term of art but... the Koreans replaced Chinese characters with hangul; compare it with the Japanese, who despite having developed a phonetic script have kept using Chinese characters till toda
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by nandemo 10y ago
US was openly funding and training rebels as early as 2013: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-cr... And the US had been covertly funding the opposition for at least 5 years before the
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by nandemo 10y ago
There's nothing particular unusual about Japan's taxation here. If you buy stock at the stock exchange at $100 and its price increases to $150 but you don't sell it, you don't pay any taxes. If a company pays you with st
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by nandemo 10y ago
> These 15,000, or 0.0833% of the company, were available to him at $0.27/share, or $4,050 total. So he had the opportunity to buy 0.0833% of the company at a $4.8MM valuation. Given that they recently raised $20MM at an undefined v
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by nandemo 10y ago
As others replied, it varies. In Japan, an ATM inside a bank might hold up to 40 million yen (≅ USD 350k) while an external one might have up to 30 million (≅ USD 270k). Japan's a fairly safe country but there have been many cases of A
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by nandemo 10y ago
> But productivity (amount of $ per hour of work) has been dropping for 30 years, What, what? Except for some years during the 2008~ financial crisis, productivity has been rising steadily all over the developed world. https:/&#x2F

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