rainydaybook

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by rainydaybook 5y ago
That's cool, the same languages as me, aside from Scandinavian!
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by rainydaybook 5y ago
I really recommend interlinear editions for Latin. And also again want to mention Lingua Latina Per Se. If you are ever in NYC there's East Village bookstore that has a lot of interlinear editions in Latin at affordable price. Other th
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by rainydaybook 5y ago
Which languages and how well did it work for you to transition into reading books?
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by rainydaybook 5y ago
Depends on the book. I usually used Alice in wonderland, through the looking glass, and wizard of Oz as my first books in these languages, (except latin), and though I don't know the exact starting word count, I think a couple of hundr
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by rainydaybook 5y ago
I've always found Duolingo too boring and it didn't help me at all. I was able to learn 7 languages using different routes. I already knew Russian, I've learned English the usual school + moving to the country route, and I&#x
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by rainydaybook 6y ago
12 Chairs + Golden Calf by Ilf and Petroff; A dog's heart and Master and Margarita by Boulgakoff. I've heard Zosh'enko was also considered very funny at the time, but I'm not sure how well his stuff has aged..
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by rainydaybook 6y ago
Lol, a simple explanation is always far more likely than an intricately complex one: that censorship is subjective and was enacted by different people with varying tastes and preferences, guided by vague and contradictory directions from ab
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by rainydaybook 6y ago
I have to disagree a bit, even when I was watching the movie on Soviet TV, when there was nothing else on for weeks or months, I was always bored to tears by 'White Sun of Desert'. To be fair, acting and characters are pretty good
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by rainydaybook 6y ago
It was just easier to do some kind of a propaganda film. No risk, no reshoots, no script rewrites, just stamp it out and make a little bit of money and a trip to Yugoslavia and a black sea vacation.
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by rainydaybook 6y ago
One of my favorite films too! I saw it first on soviet TV, and found it amazing that all characters seems so human, naturalistic; and the world building is so organic. There are no flaws in this movie, everything just hangs together so well
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by rainydaybook 7y ago
What's odd is that there are many instances of odd use of color in descriptions but there is no normal (to us) usage, and from what I've read the same applies to other ancient sources. Honey is green (in Homer), but there's n
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by rainydaybook 7y ago
The obvious question is, do white sharks of similar size flee from Orcas or ones of smaller size? Otherwise, there's nothing surprising here. There's examples of Elephants fleeing from large prides of Lions, Lions fleeing from lar
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by rainydaybook 8y ago
Why not show a simple map of the room you're in, at least? It's a fairly simple change, but would make the orientation in space and remembering of location and few previous locations much more intuitive.
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by rainydaybook 8y ago
No, that's not the reason. Also it's not a direct competitor, I want to focus more on microtips.
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by rainydaybook 8y ago
I didn't mean a clone of Patreon or anything like that. On the tech side, it's quite different, but on financial side it's similar, so the easiest way to ask about it was to refer to Patreon as the most widely known service w
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by rainydaybook 8y ago
That article is about creating a marketplace rather than a "support" type of setup that Patreon has. From a financial & compliance POV it's quite different because it's not a payment for a specific product.
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by rainydaybook 8y ago
How did Patreon start exactly? IIRC it was just two guys without major backers, I'm really curious what was their MVP like.
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by rainydaybook 8y ago
Does Stripe actually allow this type of use though? Does it have to be special agreement / account with them or just a regular plain stripe account?
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Ask HN: How to create a service similar to Patreon?
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