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Yes, the grammar of Japanese has a very simple internal logic and is easy to learn, although quite different from European languages. The problem is all the words, and there are no cognates.
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The Great Firewall works amazingly well, if not perfectly well. It is a little leaky at the edges, but certainly influences how a very large proportion of Chinese users experience the Internet.
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Interesting summary text: "Prior to the bout, MMA fighter Xu had criticized traditional martial arts for being outdated and “a lie” without combat purposes, strongly insulting Tai-Chi in particular. In response Wei challenged him to a
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I don't necessarily think that either—pistols can be a lot harder to use in combat than people think, such as when your opponent can close and grapple before you can draw. Sports and games are organized by their rules, and combat sport
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"Martial" historically refers to stabbing armored men with spears more than it has meant punching and grappling people on TV.
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Fighting styles are always geared to the situations people expect them to be in. MMA is a combat sport based on unarmed street fights and holding to the ideal of as quickly and effectively subduing an opponent. Fencing, for example, is not
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by panglott 9y ago
The medical model of mental and behavioral problems is a lot better than the moralistic model. But physical health is also a poor metaphor for mental health, and this article reveals some of the reasons why. Like the doctor comparing the an
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I'm not going to modify my stove to cook at 800 deg F., so for my money the best way to get half-decent pizza at home is to make a soft, elastic dough and then cook on a surface that has some thermal mass. I've had good luck with
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by panglott 9y ago
You can say there's two "New York style"s. There's the average storefront selling slices, and then there's the coal-fired brick oven pizza places, which is what this is about.
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It's not that all mass media is fictionalized so much as the popular stories about pirates have been fiction. There's no need to conclude that a PBS Newshour story about Somali pirates is fake news because "Pirates of the Car
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When all the capital flows to small companies that strive to become monopolies, it's no surprise that a market dominated by near-monopolies is what you get. Some of these are natural monopolies, or just large companies with a moat of n
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by panglott 9y ago
The electoral college system has obviously been a terrible idea for years. Plenty of people also vocally complained about it in 2000, for example. But changing it requires changing the Constitution, which requires a supermajority of state l
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Remember that a minority of Americans voted for Trump—a majority voted against him. He is president because a majority of states voted for him, not people.
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Farmers' markets have a long history and were the main means by which consumers bought produce for a long time. http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/singleitem/collect... http://digital.librar
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by panglott 9y ago
Free market economics always works best in an actual marketplace, where vendors are competing stall-to-stall. Most Americans buy groceries from a large corporate-owned store that they drive to and has everything, which compete with other la
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Are they particularly secret, or just filtered through social networks?
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"for whatever reason" says it all. If you can't even pretend to care what they think, don't try to pretend you've been welcoming.
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It's possible that men feel unwelcome in female-dominated areas for the same reason women may in male-dominated areas: it can be intimidating to enter a group of people of the opposite sex, with their own norms and microaggressions and
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by panglott 9y ago
It's a little unclear in the article why unemployment should lead to this family structure of single mothers having kids with three different fathers (US family law strongly favors motherly custodyy), until this: "For many men in
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by panglott 9y ago
The situation can be a bit different with 2nd generation immigrants, especially based on the parents' attitudes towards English. I do see occasional reports in the US of punishing and shaming students for speaking non-English languages
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The term of art is "language shift", but it's nearly always a case of internal colonialism. Nearly any time you see a linguistic minority abandon its language for the majority language, you can bet that the government was tak
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by panglott 9y ago
Why not allow developers to build their own Macs? The situation today in completely different than 1995-1996, when Apple briefly allowed Macintosh clones, before Jobs killed the project because they were cannibalizing Apple's high-end
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"Ian Faith: The Boston gig has been cancelled... David St. Hubbins: What? Ian Faith: Yeah. I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town." Boston and New York at least have large populations of college st
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by panglott 9y ago
The National Maximum Speed Limit law was passed in 1974 and repealed in 1995. It's been repealed for longer than it was in effect. Virtually all of the lower 48 US states have an interstate speed limit on the order of 70-80 mph.
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In Oklahoma specifically, central Oklahoma was largely settled in the land rush of 1889, and within a year or two OKC, Norman, and the University of Oklahoma were all founded. Oklahoma didn't even become a state until 1907. Norman was
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There are different kinds of "college towns" in the US. Boston is a big college town because it has several of the nation's most important/prestigious institutions of higher education—but it's also a distinctive and
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Where I live, running red lights, easing through right-on-red turns without stopping or looking, and speeding in school zones are very common. In my view, these are related problems: people develop an entitlement to speed 10-15 mph on the i
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by panglott 9y ago
Changing the speed limit isn't the question, since the speed limit is low enough but simply not enforced. Enforcing the existing speed limit is a strategy that can be tried. but yes, most streets are built to encourage fast auto traffi
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The problem isn't that the posted speed limit was too high, it's that the road mean is 55 mph in a 35 mph zone with little room to pass. Then they built a ped bridge, and threatened to kick off cyclists because cyclists are vehicl
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Probably, but the title of the article is "Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?" People seem have a bias towards thinking about speed limits in terms of interstate travel speeds, which frequently have been raised to 70–80 mph anyway. Per

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