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by quant18 16y ago
don't miss the animation in the middle showing how "Al Jazeera" in Naskh (printed Arabic form) gets transformed into their logo.
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by quant18 16y ago
English and plenty of other languages don't distinguish between "ethnic Foo" and "Fooland citizens" for most Foo who have their own country named after them. Pretty much the only exception is in Central Asia (where you have e.g. "Kazakh" vs
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by quant18 16y ago
I find LiveMocha particularly interesting for their use of crowdsourcing --- which has evolved quite a bit since I joined. Basically, they have generic course templates in English, and then give people "MochaPoints" (which as far as I can t
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by quant18 16y ago
The whole "once I land in a foreign country I'm going to stop speaking my native language" advice is only applicable to people with very specific personality types and life situations. To the rest of us, it's not inspirational, it's demoral
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by quant18 16y ago
I remember a similar situation from the news a few years ago. May have been in Indonesia, though I can't remember clearly anymore and Google isn't helping me. Basically a flight between A and C which stopped at B (for refueling or to take o
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by quant18 16y ago
In non-Roman-alphabet countries, it's quite common to have two-sided business cards with English on one side and the local language on the other.
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Google Translate adds Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, Basque, and Urdu alpha versions(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by quant18 16y ago|0 comments
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Full Internet access restored in Xinjiang, says Chinese government(translate.google.com)
1 points by quant18 16y ago|0 comments
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by quant18 16y ago
And now they seem to be automatically installing new "search engines" for you in Chrome, with the default keyword as the name of the website. So now, if I type "site:en.wikipedia.org blah" into my Chrome addressbar, it automatically redirec
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by quant18 16y ago
Well, "computerized trading" covers a lot of things. I suspect a big part of the problem last Thursday was caused by broker algos automatically routing client orders to alternative venues when the NYSE market data feed delay gets too high,
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Japan's #3 newspaper will print yesterday's reader Tweets in paper edition(translate.livedoor.jp)
1 points by quant18 16y ago|0 comments
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by quant18 16y ago
Are we sure the security hole was limited to merely viewing your friends' live chats? Sure, the "review how your profile appears to another person" search box will only give you your friends --- but you can change the "viewas" id manually.
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by quant18 16y ago
When I first saw this title I thought it would be talking about cage homes, e.g.: http://www.theedgeproperty.com/global-market-watch/2840-rent... I was happily surprised to find something much cooler.
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by quant18 16y ago
I particularly enjoyed this quote: "[I]t's reasonable to expect to find a large number of retained legal representatives under a legal system in which people feel that their property rights are constantly threatened by rent-seeking litigiou
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Economic analysis of medieval trial by battle(peterleeson.com)
2 points by quant18 16y ago|1 comments
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by quant18 16y ago
Well, it's a nice engineering trick, but it seems kind of like featuritis --- doing something neat because you can. For me, in fact, pencil bluntness is a feature, not a defect. Thicker lines disguise the fact that my kanji handwriting isn'
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by quant18 16y ago
It gets even worse if you try to incorporate a business abroad and own more than 50% of it. Form 5471 and 8832. Wrangling with the definition of a CFC, qualified dividends, etc. Subpart F (the rules for when the U.S. government considers yo
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by quant18 16y ago
You could try learning something really obscure. As far as I know I'm the only hacker within 1000 miles who speaks any Mongolian as well as fluent English. Someday, two buyers are gonna show up in that market and keep bidding against each o
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by quant18 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_brake Seems like it's everywhere these days. Even in urban metro lines where you've got like 1km between stations. HK subway trains have been doing this since the 90s. Wikipedia sez Delhi Metro ha
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by quant18 16y ago
No, emigrating doesn't help. U.S. citizens and green card holders living overseas still have to pay U.S. taxes on all their investment income, as well as on wages over $91,400. Giving up your U.S. citizenship doesn't help either, they make
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Identifying individual penguins with machine vision instead of flipper tags(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by quant18 16y ago|0 comments
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by quant18 16y ago
Yes, when you ask a committee of linguists to design an orthography for you --- you get a godawful almost-IPA "one phoneme = one grapheme" academic exercise which is utterly impractical for everyday use. (Again, an object lesson in the robu
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by quant18 17y ago
If you have a topic whose entire history consists of a bounded, publicly-observable, enumerable series of events with clearly-defined consequences, then odds are that topic will have a good Wikipedia article. Why? Because those topics are e
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Social media users in the Arab world(almasryalyoum.com)
1 points by quant18 17y ago|0 comments
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by quant18 17y ago
And, oddly enough, for Persian (fa), Kazakh (kk), Kyrgyz (ky), Uzbek (uz), and Mongolian (mn) too ... http://www.google.com.hk/preferences?hl=fa etc. (replace the fa by your desired ISO 639-2 code) YMMV. I'm in Hong Kong at the moment.
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by quant18 17y ago
sure they'll have to change laws, but I haven't gotten the impression that that's an obstacle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law_Article_23 Last time China tried to change a law here, 500,000 people marched through the ce
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Where Have All the Entrepreneurs Gone in Japan?(miter.mit.edu)
23 points by quant18 17y ago|20 comments
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Theflyonthewall.com's instant reposts of Wall Street research banned(reuters.com)
1 points by quant18 17y ago|0 comments
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by quant18 17y ago
If unusual characteristic "X" is important to you, you probably gravitate towards coworkers and friends who are good at X, or striving to improve themselves in X, or at least respect X --- basically, people who can damp the broader culture'
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by quant18 17y ago
Well, I have very mixed feelings about this. (I grew up in a multi-generational household.) A multi-generational home environment means your dinners and weekends are spent with gossiping great-aunts and competing cousins. That tends to push

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