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by redthrow 7y ago
There have been notable Japanese people who argued that the Japanese writing system should adopt Latin alphabets since ~150 years ago. https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%... I'm personally
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by redthrow 7y ago
I'd recommend playing the excellent SNES game Mother 2 (マザー２）, a huge hit in Japan and nobody complained about the text being difficult to read. Or you can watch one of the let's play videos with narration here: https:/&#x2F
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by redthrow 7y ago
I'm a native Japanese speaker but as far as the writing system goes, I fully agree with the linguist Geoffrey Pullum's following statement about Chinese characters / kanji: In consequence, this horror-show of a writing syste
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by redthrow 7y ago
If Japanese people just used kana (like Korean people use hangul today), kids in Japan don't have to spend countless hours learning this complex (and often irrational) writing system. http://kanamozi.org/hikari959-04.ht
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by redthrow 7y ago
> Yahoo Mail is an underdog too: It represents 6.3 percent of email clients, versus Apple’s 43.6 percent, Google’s 30.3 percent, and Microsoft’s 11.4 percent When I read this I thought this Apple's 40%+ email share can't possib
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by redthrow 7y ago
Wire's "not tied to a phone number" part is good but constant delayed messages and lack of (useful) time stamps for each message (a la Signal) make the app pretty much unusable for me (and probably many others).
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by redthrow 7y ago
There are people who only tip good money in restaurants when the waitor is not so good looking, to counter balance this tendency for many people. Looks should not matter when it comes to serving food (although they seem to do in reality). W
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by redthrow 7y ago
>> guitar player who is always talking about the best amps, pedalboards and shred techniques... but haven't really written any noteworthy music To use the music analogy, isn't Gwern's point that since most people won&#x
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by redthrow 7y ago
>> Considering that we are trying to automate all manual labor in the not so distant future, copyright is more and not less important to our society. The number of people who derive meaningful income from their copyrighted work is and
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by redthrow 7y ago
At the end of the article the author is somewhat hopeful that some floss alternative will catch on, eventually. What happened to MobileCoin that Moxie was advising? When will it be integrated to Signal?
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by redthrow 7y ago
Sorry, what "argument" did I make? It's more of an observation about how even people who are vocally pushing for renewables/sustainable energy aren't personally following what they preach (while seemingly not feelin
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by redthrow 7y ago
If it makes you feel better, Elon Musk flies around in his private jet while tweeting "why not go renewable now?" rather than taking a more nuanced stance.
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by redthrow 7y ago
For example Bruce Schneier recommends writing down the password and keeping it in a relatively safe place like the wallet (where people keep other sensitive information like credit card numbers). https://www.schneier.com/b
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by redthrow 8y ago
Korea's hangul is pretty neat. As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum says, English has the spelling system that positively stinks, but the Chinese/Japanese writing system is a whole nother level.
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by redthrow 8y ago
Yeah, I'd recommend actually learning the language (vocab, pronunciation etc), rather than trying to learn the characters and trying to improve the retention of them.
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by redthrow 8y ago
Yeah I should've said "I don't recommend learning how to write the characters by hand in the first 2-3 years, or ever". As gibolt said, it's much easier to just learn to recognize characters, without being able to
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by redthrow 8y ago
Like Prof Victor Mair says, if someone is a beginner, I don't recommend learning characters at all for the first 2-3 years. (If you are a Japanese learner, learning kana wouldn't hurt, it takes a few weeks at most anyways vs years
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by redthrow 8y ago
You must have misunderstood, when I said "write", I meant handwriting, with stroke order and all. There's no need to learn to write this way, at all, for almost anyone.
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by redthrow 8y ago
Yeah, you would think native Chinese speakers are somewhat invested in writing those characters. http://thepenngazette.com/characters-in-search-of-writers/ That aside, as it currently stands, yes, if someone were to le
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by redthrow 8y ago
French isn't held back by its script, even though its script is far from great. Chinese and Japanese are definitely held back by their awful script + many people who confuse language with script.
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by redthrow 8y ago
>> Incredibly valuable tool for learning mandarin, I bet. If someone were actually trying to Mandadin, Prof Victor Mair at Penn tells people to mostly ignore the characters for the first few years. Victor Mair, at Penn, remarks (in
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by redthrow 8y ago
> most users have a "consumer" relationship with computers and not a "producer" one. Linus Torvalds avoids Linux distributions like Gentoo or Arch because he believes the whole point of a distribution is to make it
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by redthrow 8y ago
So the content of email gets encrypted automatically if the other party uses Delta Chat but it's in plaintext otherwise? I can't tell from their website if 2 people who use a Gmail account + Delta Chat reveal the content of their
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by redthrow 8y ago
There's an Econtalk episode on the economics of recycling. http://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-recycling/ Aside from aluminium, there doesn't seem to be much of a point of recycling even though city governments
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by redthrow 8y ago
I also bought a lemur several years ago, paying ~$150 for customs for Canadian shipment (obviously not S76's fault). Thought it was worth it because I was supporting a Linux-friendly company. The laptop had constant fan noise issues an
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by redthrow 8y ago
There's an Economist article about how the spending habits of the rich people have shifted over time in the US. Today, they spend less money (in relative terms) on fancy cars and watches, and more money on things that are less visible
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by redthrow 8y ago
There's also a Netflix series called Manhunt: Unabomber which is pretty good.
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by redthrow 9y ago
Do people who run the centralised, private Signal app have more power over the user than people who run decentralised, non-private Mastodon instances? Or do Mastodon people say it's strictly for broadcasting and encourage people to use
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by redthrow 9y ago
> not his Twitter account I stand corrected. I'll have a look at Mastodon.

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