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Conversely, the opposite happens as well, where people have higher mutual intelligibility of different language families than other dialects within their own language. I've heard of this in places like India, where "Hindi" is
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A lot of this impression about the difficulty of quitting smoking arose in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time, smoking was omnipresent and taken for granted. Nobody asked permission to light up any place. If you were a nonsmoker out with frie
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by panglott 10y ago
I was puzzled by that as well. It sounds like what they mean is that they tried to replicate the construction methods, not merely the exterior form of a Viking ship, or replicate a specific Viking ship.
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No wonder people may assume the philosophy of language is outdated, if Aristotle is a contemporary contributor ;)
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In the exact same way that mathematical notation expands cognition of math. By giving us a way to agree on and define ideas in a way that allows us to discuss, think about, and develop further, related ideas. As we grow, we construct a mass
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It is one thing to improve the IQ of rapidly-growing children who have developmental disorders, and quite another to improve the fluid intelligence of adults. Brain training games don't boost IQ http://www.vox.com/2016&
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The metaphor I like is that "language is a tool for thought". It's a technology that dramatically expands human cognitive potential, to the extent that they could be confused. There's a great Radiolab episode about the
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I'm not claiming that anyone is entitled to anything; I'm simply pointing out that the labor market is a shit sandwich for a very large class of workers. The OP frames nonparticipation in the "gig economy" as a failure o
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by panglott 10y ago
There's no indication that secessionist violence is at all warranted. There was a whole referendum on independence 2 years ago...does anybody think that that if Scotland had voted "Leave", the referendum would have been ignor
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Praising the "gig economy" means he knows nothing about what the "gig economy" means for ordinary workers. The gig economy is when you have to spend more time scrounging up odd jobs than actually working to get paid. The
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by panglott 10y ago
Gator skins are heavy, but they do protect you from punctures on the road.
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Actually, I wonder if de Tocqueville has anything to say about Trump.
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> billions worldwide speak languages that are inefficient and ambiguous All humans speak languages that are inefficient and ambiguous. Thank goodness!
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To clarify, I didn't mean that the discrimination/abuse of the Roma happened a long time ago. I meant that most discrimination/abuse of the Roma has happened in Europe, not in the US. Anti-Roma racism in Europe is obvious, ug
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Frequently in the United States, people interpret mainstream white culture as "normal" and not culturally distinct. Thus they use "ethnic" as a synonym for "nonwhite" or "non-American".
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Common? I've never heard this.
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Because the American speakers who use it don't have a history of discriminating and abusing Roma people? There are barely any Roma people in America to abuse. Certainly in much of Europe Roma people have been treated very badly. It&#x2
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Semantic bleaching is common enough in word change. Words change enough over time that the actual origin of words can become very obscure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammaticalization#Semantic_bl...
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Do you culture your own parasites? How do you collect the eggs and culture them?
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Catchup is a fun game, but prototyping it would not be difficult, for the kind of person that plays games like Havannah at Little Golem. Cat Herders is similar. I suspect that people who play lots of different abstract games have a lot of p
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by panglott 10y ago
If your complaint is that the UNIX layer of Mac OS X isn't ~exactly~ like Linux, then the only way you're going to solve that problem is by running Linux instead. It's easy to get more up-to-date software with package manager
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"[The officer] told me that the honorarium and letter of invitation only applies if the company inviting you to the UK is based in the United Kingdom. This clarification was not on the gov.uk site I and the organizers poured over.&quot
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Also, I usually read "Mac OS" as Mac OS 9 and earlier. Ancient.
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Taking this question seriously, is there any legal system that has ever operated like that? What would it entail? A state monopoly on legal services where lawyers are assigned by lot? A system of "loser pays legal costs" where law
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The difference (as described in her post) was that the conference was sponsored by a German organization, not a UK-based one, and that was not detailed on the Web site.
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This wasn't "her mistake", in the sense that the crucial difference "giving a talk at a conference" and "attending a conference" have meaning within the bureaucracy that is totally inscrutable to outsiders
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She found out later she had a right to legal counsel and a hotel room. She wasn't able to sleep for 30+ hours.
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Privacy is a foundational value. It is necessary for trust and sharing. Without financial privacy, online commerce would not exist because people wouldn't trust to share their banking information. Without some modicum of social privacy
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Mac OS X borrowed that stuff from BSD, not Linux.
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...as a means of coordinating harassment and intimidation campaigns.

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