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by redthrow 9y ago
It would be more convincing if the author had their Mastodon account info at the bottom, not their Github / Twitter account. Also I'd like to hear the author's thoughts on GPG's viability, as discussed below: https:&#x2
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by redthrow 9y ago
The economist Bryan Caplan wrote about the topic here: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/01/californias_gre....
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by redthrow 9y ago
I'm saying the prof is out of touch with reality when he says "But though it remains easy to get music free, no one really does it anymore".
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by redthrow 9y ago
>> But though it remains easy to get music free, no one really does it anymore. Why? Because the introduction of the iTunes store in 2003 made buying music even more convenient than illegally downloading it. Convenient beat out free.
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by redthrow 9y ago
https://today.law.harvard.edu/internet-privacy-afraid/ SCHNEIER: I use an encrypted chat application like Signal. By and large, email security is out of our control
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by redthrow 9y ago
"The future of Chinese language learning is now" by Prof Victor Mair http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11580
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by redthrow 9y ago
Many automatically distrust news sources whose URL include "true", "real", "natural" etc
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by redthrow 9y ago
More importantly, aren't we settled that email is fundamentally insecure? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/12/giving_up_on_... Shouldn't they be funding projects like Signal or Wire?
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by redthrow 9y ago
What about the Kik messenger that has a large investment from Tencent, the creator of WeChat? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_Messenger Company CEO Ted Livingston stated Kik's aspirations to become "the
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by redthrow 9y ago
It feels like there are many market-based solutions these days even if you had poor credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1AKOVHd3r4
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Only 2.5 percent of Journalists solicit end-to-end encrypted communication(schneier.com)
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by redthrow 9y ago
Why not just search "weather city " on Duckduckgo and bookmark the page?
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by redthrow 9y ago
I like Brave's block-ads-and-tracking-by-default approach.
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by redthrow 9y ago
Lesspass seems nice but how about keeping all passwords in a .txt file and password protecting that file? One benefit of the password-protect-text-file method over Lesspass is you can also save answers to so-called "security questions&
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by redthrow 9y ago
Elon Musk says entrepreneurs should work 80-100 hours a week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtaxU6DZvLs
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by redthrow 9y ago
Matt Mullenweg advocates audition/tryouts instead of job interviews. https://hbr.org/2014/04/the-ceo-of-automattic-on-holding-aud...
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by redthrow 10y ago
SimpleTax.ca is great. I think they were initially run by just 4 people (Accountant, Designer, Programmer, and Sales).
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by redthrow 10y ago
One thing that's lacking in Brave that I miss from Opera: the arrow button that appears on the right side when you scroll that takes to the top/bottom of the page. This is so handy and I hope Brave adds the feature.
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by redthrow 10y ago
> Economists believe in full employment This doesn't sound right. It's laypeople who tend to measure the economy by employment. Economists tend to measure the economy by production.
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by redthrow 10y ago
Bill Gates, on the other hand, is in favor of switching from income tax to progressive consumption tax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar0ri9NLArs
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by redthrow 10y ago
You read my conversation with T-R and your takeaway is I think teaching kanji to beginners is a bad idea because "I run into a kanji I don't know"? Please. > English spelling is just as complicated, in my opinion That&#x27
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by redthrow 10y ago
> strict hiragana character set are readable by natives because they're already fluent in speaking This is an argument for spending more time trying to become fluent in speaking (by learning vocab/grammar/etc) than spendin
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by redthrow 10y ago
> They're not reasonably separable They are very reasonably separable. If they weren't, countries like Korea couldn't have switched their orthography (which they did). Also Japanese people enjoyed playing games like マザー２.
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by redthrow 10y ago
Mair's point is that "building up a foundation" means learning the language not the script. > characters-last approaches I think it's more accurate to call what Mair's advocating a "language-first-characters
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by redthrow 10y ago
I'm sorry but I think the book is getting priorities wrong when the learner's goal is to learn practical Japanese. Also I think some example sentences in the book would sound awkward to native speakers. (e.g. "今日自転車で帰り中で転んでしま
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by redthrow 10y ago
I agree, I'd recommend learners to learn kana because you can learn it in a few weeks (as opposed to many years for kanji, and even after that many years, people - including natives - don't remember them very well). https:/&
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by redthrow 10y ago
The first link is about both Japanese and Chinese. I think Mair's advice of not focusing on the script is valid. Look at Kanamoji-kai for example (if you can read Japanese): http://kanamozi.org/
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by redthrow 10y ago
This doesn't seem to be a good resource to learn the language as a beginner. For example Prof Victor Mair is against teaching Chinese characters to beginners: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10554 http:&#
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by redthrow 10y ago
Why Education Does Not Fix Poverty http://www.demos.org/blog/12/2/15/why-education-does-not-fix...
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by redthrow 10y ago
That's my take away too. I won't name names but there are a lot of "ecologically wealthy" countries that nobody in the right mind wants to live. People should aim for maximum human flourishing, not minimising human impac

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