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by panglott 11y ago
Language shift occurs in nearly every immigrant community in the United States, and nearly all indigenous communities. It's not natural so much as it's that language ideology and policy in the U.S. is very hostile to anything but
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In Louisville I hear a lot about the Civic Data Alliance working with local government and local nonprofits, on things like accessibility for people who are blind, &c. They're part of Code for America. http://www.civicd
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The thing is, these benefits are very small to most Americans while the costs of metrification are pretty large. Most Americans need to drive to an airport and spent half a day or more flying in order to get to a region where metrification
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The whole "[SI] just makes more sense" argument just falls apart when you realize that hundreds of millions of people do just fine with the imperial system. ;)
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Metrification certainly solves a problem for the military, that involves NATO collaboration and international operations. The military already spends a lot of energy training soldiers, so the costs of metrification are lessened. This is not
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The largest factor in educational outcomes is not any in-school factor, but rather the socioeconomic status of a child's parents. Use the educational system to reproduce the privilege of social elites and then launder it as "merit
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On some level there's a tradeoff between individual autonomy and social interdependence, and different cultures fall at different places on the continuum between them. Clearly the U.S. is at one extreme. But I don't know that one
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Metrification is fine for engineers, but what problem does it solve for people driving cars? Miles are miles everywhere in the United States, and it causes noone confusion. Again, what problem would switching from Fahrenheit to Celsius solv
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Well, that appears to be real science about acupuncture. Acupuncture isn't a science based not on whether it works or not (there appears to be some scientific evidence that it can), but rather because it is based on handed-down traditi
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Thanks, it's not too hard to grok, but some of the specific words like "Lightning" are hard to understand.
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But hey, at least it's just text instead of an image. This is good for accessibility.
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Never shirk in learning skills. But there's just too much to learn. http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
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Yea, my initial read was that he suggested individually marking each casing. Which is no doubt quite difficult, but certainly more feasible than the bullet. Or maybe we could require armor-piercing rounds.
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Your needs are such that buying gift cards with cash is not secure/anonymous enough for you, yet it is too painful to use open-source software from outside the App Store? I would suggest that this may be too small of a market to be com
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Is it really so much harder to search for "django framework" instead of "django unchained" or "django guitar"? When you type in "django", DDG will suggest some searches to autocomplete as well. Is the
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There are real external costs that impact the neighborhood, but what's needed is a more rational way of managing local real estate externalities. A bad solution is a solution of a kind, even if it's not a very good one.
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Yes, the original other way to read the image in the OP is as "localities with an insufficient supply of housing". Barracks-style housing is just so much further than higher-density housing though. About the only time true barrack
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Who is actually building these barracks-style accommodations for minimum wage workers? That is something that occurred in the early days of industrialization, and still occurs in factory towns in newly industrializing economies, but not in
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I think "very poor" is a little inaccurate. Hunter-gatherers are "very poor", but don't have a population explosion problem. The societies that have population explosion are traditionally agricultural economies with
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I remember some discussion of this in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars", IIRC: he points out that it's simply too energy-inefficient to ship a few billion human beings out of Earth's gravity well, and no extraterr
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Scots is an amazing language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU Though it seems like Scots is so overwhelmed by British Standard English to exist more on a creole continuum. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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English is perhaps the most successful world interlanguage in the history of the world. My point is that, it would still be considered a failure by the standards that Esperanto set for itself. I take that more as an indication that Esperant
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There are lots of things more immediately valuable than badly-learned languages. But languages learned well seem to measurably improve a person's cognitive performance. IT improves memory, creativity, staves off mental aging, &c.
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Certainly it is much more valuable to teach kids language early on, beginning in primary school. Dual immersion schools seem to be very successful at teaching bilingualism. The problem is that in the US, the status quo is instead minimal cl
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Good lord, Google Translate is even worse with Japanese than I remember. Sorry! This is a very common phrase in Japanese, that comes up all the time. It means something like "Please work very hard", but it's meant to be very
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Esperanto is a "failure" only if help up to standards and goals that are completely unrealistic. Compare English: Britain spread it throughout a global empire for centuries. America is the world's fourth most populous country
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Pretty awesome, that you learned some Dakota! At least it gives you something to work with, if you wanted to expose your kids/nephew to it. Bilingualism from childhood is a really powerful and amazing gift to a child, and really it doe
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ごんばって、ね！
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These days we have good models for how to teach bilingualism to kids: dual-language immersion schools, in which both languages are used extensively in coursework. The problem is that this labor-intensive model will be impractical outside me
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On a day to day basis, the average American is simply actually a lot likelier to encounter Latin biological nomenclature or legal or religious terminology than, say, a fluent conversation in German. The United States is largely monolingual

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