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Wikipedia has very good resources on the International Phonetic Alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe... But the question is why you would want to do that? No human can speak all the wo
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...but I did NOT know that their actual logo is a Pepe the Frog. Good grief.
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The only thing I've heard about this is that a bunch of white nationalists were talking about migrating here after being banned from Twitter for harassment. If that's what their community is like, I'd have zero interest.
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There are some differences: a significant death is changed from an accident to cancer (probably a good change). The movie adds some extra international conflict plot, which perhaps raises the stakes somewhat but seems like weak plotting, an
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Yep. A better title would be "Build a robot with a $9 CHIP computer and a $100 robotics kit" Still, this is a very useful tutorial on how to adapt a RaspPi robotics kit to the CHIP computer.
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Capitalist and market economies rely on political systems that can deliver private property rights, independent courts, and inclusive economic and political institutions. Economics and politics are simply conjoined topics.
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It is amazing to me how little of the Chinese historical classics are widely available in the US in affordable, accessible editions. Part of this is the longer history of Classical studies, so contemporary scholars have to compete with the
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I used the nix package manager for a while, but it's arcane, so I went to MacPorts. Homebrew is obviously the main one, though. It's always been better to install more up-to-date software, since the system default unix software ha
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Lots of CRPGs understand that gamers want to explore different identities, and thus have strong character customization. But conflict in the game is often framed around violence and murder. It shouldn't surprise anyone that lots of peo
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People have very different fantasy lives. Some people have fantasy lives that revolve around social relationships. Others have fantasy lives that revolve around power-tripping and murder-hoboing. But I suspect that the former are actually m
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Different people like different kinds of games and gameplay experiences. But most of the video games industry is oriented around violent, twitchy games and RPGs. I can sink hundreds of hours into Civilization, X-COM, or Minecraft—games of s
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by panglott 10y ago
I see a bunch of licenses there... GPL, Apache, &c. I suppose this has been addressed elsewhere, but isn't everything produced by the federal government in the public domain? Doesn't releasing it under a free software license
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My main point was about how Franklin's methods used a lot of tedious overwork. Hand-copying is an illustrative aspect of that, yes, but memorizing the text of an Italian grammar book is of similarly limited value even if you are using
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He printed a local newspaper and invented the farmer's almanac, but is Benjamin Franklin actually a paragon of prose style?
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The problem with looking at how Ben Franklin developed his skills is that he had relatively fewer books to read and he had many fewer demands on his attention. For example, I read a piece a while ago discussing how Franklin learned Italian:
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The single biggest factor on student performance is not any in-school factor, but rather the socioeconomic status and educational level of the parents. The best American student mathematicians are the equal of anywhere in the world. But whe
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The Jimmy John's burger flippers had the power to individually negotiate their contracts? Here your #2 conflicts with your #3. If a person is so desperate to find entry-level minimum-wage work that she would pay any price to do so, the
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Imagine the Pacific flights. How many flights LAX > Tokyo or Hong Kong were there in the 1970s relative to today? Apparently the Concorde was only purchased/operated by Air France and British Airways, on transAtlantic routes.
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Yea, but we have an awful lot of drab cinderblock buildings or their equivalent, that are basically eyesores the moment they're built.
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Often art requires engineering (sculpture especially, but some computer games are essentially literary or art projects). Should engineering require art? Maybe our built environment would be pleasanter if more of it did.
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Or rather, art's primary function is expressive or communicative, while craft has other primary functions.
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Indeed. The purpose of craft is to create beautiful, functional things for people to use. The purpose of art is to create elite consumer goods through which the socially privileged can both advertise and justify their elite status.
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Culture is learned behavior that is transmitted from one person to another. If your parents don't know elite cultural norms and your schoolmates don't know elite cultural norms, then how exactly is a child supposed to learn elite
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It seems like ExoMars spent years shopping around between the US and Russia for launch, and major budget problems, which caused it to be redesigned more than once. I guess NASA doesn't usually have problems like that? https:/&#x2
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The hegemony of English is unquestionable.
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HTML5 just gives you lots of scope to overcomplicate the UI with animations and effects. I'm talking about this: http://www.courier-journal.com/ News stories are displayed in internal pop-up windows—unless they don&#x2
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Whether something can be inherited by your children is an intrinsic part of its value and the incentives of the producers. Say you have an elderly novelist that is concerned for his wife's income after his death, and is pondering wheth
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"Online editions offer a 'less-than-satisfactory' reading experience, she writes, cluttered with intrusive ads and hampered by poor design." Our local newspaper's Web site is terrible. It's not just lack of inv
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What are time crystals? Try this: Physicists Predict The Existence of Time Crystals https://www.technologyreview.com/s/426917/physicists-predict...
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Don't start at the beginning. Start with what you really want to write, then go back and see what the beginning should be.

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