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by onyva 7y ago
At least you didn’t say antisemitic. Assuming there’s anything “Semitic” about Eastern Europeans Jews (as per the above linked research paper). BTW talking of which, it’s always fun to go back and read Arthur Ruppin's ideas about race.
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by onyva 7y ago
"Ashkenazi Ultra-Orthodox community" ... that's my point. They are not "Israeli" in the sense understood by this term today. They might as well be in Brooklin or some shtetl in Poland. Israel is not relveant for the
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by onyva 7y ago
Eastern-European, not Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi is associated with German, secular Jews, emancipated and mostly assimilated already by the end of the 19th century. Eastern-Europeans are neither of that and BTW, using religious study as "edu
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by onyva 7y ago
Semitic languages have a root and pattern system which is central to the language and does not exist in Yiddish, that's why it's "forced". The Aramaic is of course a central connecting element in all these languages, inc
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by onyva 7y ago
Which are not Israeli... some are anti zionists in fact, but that’s not the issue. Equating American jews, Hasidic community or not, with being an Israeli is a common mistake and a real put off to most us.
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by onyva 7y ago
To be accurate, Ashkenazi jews don’t speak Yiddish they speak German. There was a cultural disconnect between these two groups themselves. The term oestjuden for example was used pejoratively. It’s fascinating still to read, for example, He
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by onyva 7y ago
Beautiful. Really impressed. I think a search function would be nice to have...
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by onyva 7y ago
Yiddish really has nothing to do with Hebrew other than the script and borrowed words which are forced into it. Sort of like Farsi and Arabic. It’s unfortunate that because of the number advantage Eastern Europeans (and historical events)
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by onyva 8y ago
Absolutely.
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by onyva 8y ago
org-mode, lisp... Adding vim like layer to Emacs made sense but its best features are lisp and modules like org... I don’t think it works the other way around...
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by onyva 8y ago
Does anybody really trust google with any of their services? It’s here today gone tomorrow.
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by onyva 8y ago
Agreed about iMessage. Didn’t mind deleteting my Facebook and Instagram accounts (with couple of hundreds of followers) but WhatsApp is almost a requirement in some respects (work, school, family over seas). Would love to get rid of it ASAP
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by onyva 8y ago
Here’s an idea: turn churches, mosques and synagogues into cooperative worship centers and kill two birds. “God” only knows there’s a lot of work that needs to done to repair the bad rap organized religion is getting lately: from children a
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by onyva 8y ago
We've discussed this Mozilla is a "corporation" many times before, here and elsewhere. https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2005/08/mozilla-foundation-fo...
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by onyva 8y ago
I love the irony in “You are not a product“ from a commercial product (open source, I know) designed to monetize surfing (aka pay-to-surf), as if this is what the internet is about. I think we should resist such an effort and stick with pro
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by onyva 8y ago
Absolutely. And the idea that he’s trying to convince us that as users we would like to support this “economy”, is preposterous. I want it to go away. If it needs ad revenue to exist, it’s very unlikely to be of value to me. I’ll stick with
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by onyva 8y ago
Seems like you can’t upload unless you have an account registered with an academic email address.
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by onyva 8y ago
Yet down voting me not making you sound very confident in your arguments.
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by onyva 8y ago
Rules of the game, really? You mean colluding with a foreign government against your own people is playing by th “rules of the game”? Isn’t it exactly the oppsite? Whichever is the case with this narrow “win” they for sure did not get manad
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by onyva 8y ago
The “wining” team, this time, didn’t really win, now did they? They lost by 3 million votes. Without going into what Russia did to tip this elections, which were won by mere 70,000 votes in the 3 key states. This is for sure not your usual
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by onyva 8y ago
yakhchal (it’s kh of خ) actually means fridge. It’s the word still in use to describe an ordinary modern fridge (or maybe just freezer, I forget). Regardless, enlightenment in Europe really distorted the west’s underdretending of east’s con
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by onyva 8y ago
What a wonderful idea! I've used it with an episode of "This is Us" (to Arabic, which I'm currently studying) and it works perfectly well. Suggestions: 1. Please make it possible to review the original and the translatio
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by onyva 8y ago
True about Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. Not so true about Assange. And it’s not just the legality. He didn’t simply release documents, he collaborated (as far as it is understood) with another country, to undermine the governments th
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Flatpak – a look behind the portal(blogs.gnome.org)
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by onyva 8y ago
It's not going to work. If you're at the stage where you doubt the Holocaust, flatness of the earth, or what have you, there's really nothing much that can be done. People that hold these views are ignorant. It's like cl
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by onyva 8y ago
Really? It's either of the two: they're deliberately lying, or, they're so ignorant you would not have been able to have a coherent conversation with them to begin with. Facts are not negotiable.
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by onyva 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying what it means, though it's amusing free software detractors are still using this trick (guess that how "fake news" is used to make people act against their own interest.) There's no other browser de
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by onyva 8y ago
Holocaust denial is illegal and punishable by law in many countries. Spreading lies and disinformation is not free speech. Outcome is dangerous and already led to disastrous events in the USA, India, Myanmar etc.
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by onyva 8y ago
Stick with Mozilla Firefox. Don’t understand why people still believe a for-profit Corp will prioritize users rights. ... not to mention Brendan Eich’s divisive and controversial behavior befor he was forced out of Mozilla.
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by onyva 8y ago
I like it that there are attempts to change the status quo and not accept Facebook in our lives as a fact, and push back against the monetization of personal information. But shouldn’t this be backed up by an organization with some trackrec

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