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Thanks for the cool IPA! I think that seems totally reasonable that the word boundary itself is phonetic, as such it could be intentionally accentuated (as a longer than usual pause) to clarify. Oh wait but isn't [pʰ] word-initial only
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You got me thinking about minimal pairs of /p/ and /pʰ/ in English (at least my British English anyway). I'm not a linguist, but is this not a minimal pair? Mice pour (water into a jug) My spore (as oppose
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I don't use the mouse much, but yes, certainly in my Alacritty/tmux terminal, the mouse selects, moves pane boundaries etc. I've never actually tried a multi-cursor, I have a feeling it might suffer the same fate as the auto
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I actually use Vim like this, in fact I wrote a plugin to go all the way and make it a completely "normal" editor [1]. It's endlessly surprising to me that still to this day Vim is most commonly considered through the lens of
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SEEKING WORK, South America (British digital nomad), remote or onsite ok. I made https://brow.sh , a text-based web browser that's been on HN a few times. Making connections with like-minded people is just as important as th
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This is a misunderstanding of my viewpoint that I often get. I'm not defending China, and I'm not engaging in Whataboutism. Although I certainly understand how it seems like that. My point is that words are more effective when the
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150% browser zoom here
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I don't actually remember, I think it was something like $250. And that was through an agency, so surely it could have been even cheaper if I understood enough Russian to buy the ticket directly. There are first class rooms as well, fo
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Over a 6 month period in 2016 I did London to Beijing by train. I blogged/tweeted the The Trans Siberian leg of it https://tombh.co.uk/tweets-from-trans-siberia
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Just one example: the entirety of the American continents are culturally European. Imagine if North America was North Chinese speaking Mandarin and South America was South Chinese speaking Cantonese. Not to mention the entire concept of a n
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I'm about to go watch the sunset with some snacks. Though to be honest, the main thing is just getting out, rather than what I do specifically once I'm there.
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My metaphor is not to pointing to project management as an analogy, it's pointing to how criticism of one side does not automatically mean support for the other side. Unless I've misunderstood your point?
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I'm British. I was specifically taught the gruesome details of the Holocaust in school. But I only learnt about the horrors of British colonialism much later in life, and through my own efforts. British genocides are conspicuous by the
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Could you give more details?
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Just for the record, and to be 100% clear. I hereby explicitly denounce the Chinese government's murder of innocent students at Tiananmen Square, and the genocide of the Uighurs. But I think you are completely missing my point. I don&#
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In Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust [1] it is argued that the Holocaust was not merely a tragic aberration of the ideals of modern Western civilisation but rather a logical realisation of it. Hitler himself, in both Mein
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To give a metaphor, I think it is perfectly reasonable to criticise my project lead when she criticises me for not meeting my targets but turns up hungover and spends the whole day on Facebook. I am criticising her because I want her to be
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Whilst I readily admit that focussing my attention on the West's criticism of China depletes my limited resources to affect positive change in China, I actually believe I am ultimately having a greater impact. What I'm saying is t
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I am 100% British. You misunderstand me. I am saying that if we truly have China's, or namely humanity's best interests at heart when we criticise China, then we could profoundly increase our effectiveness if we demonstrated even
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I believe the psychological process involved is the malignant form of projection[1]. To give a metaphor: when I know myself that I've not been productive enough at work (and I secretly berate myself for it), I mis-perceive perfectly no
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Doxxing myself, check my comment history and website https://tombh.co.uk
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I lived there for 18 months
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I must offer another data point. I'm British, and often find myself in these threads criticising criticism of China. Not because I'm being paid by the CCP, but because I believe that mainstream anti-Chinese sentiment tells us more
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Thank you for your thoughtful, even-handed and constructive reproval. You clearly took the time to read and digest my comments. I feel embarrassed for doubting my capacity for patience. I will strive to not let your good intentions and effo
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It seems you may think I'm Chinese? I'm actually 100% British. I think something to bear in mind with the topic of comparing the West and China is that they aren't actually 2 independent entities that have now come of age, ea
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In what way did George Floyd not disappear? Blackness isn't even an outspoken geopolitical position, yet significantly more African Americans have disappeared, whether literally, or effectively in prisons, than Chinese dissidents. I do
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Dozens of millions? You want to talk history? How many slaves were taken from Africa? How many Indians did Churcill starve? How many Native Americans died from colonialism? You think you have a big number, but you don't even know the h
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You are so out of your league here. Whilst you state facts, it is comical to imply that China can hold a candle to the West's atrocities. 18 different border disputes, 18!?? I mean how can you seriously think that's a big number?
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Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor. It's considered one of the founding books of the secular Buddhist movement. Not only did it open me up to the depths of the meditative path as a therapeutic practice (rather than religio

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