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by tty 13y ago
>whether society should value descriptive over prescriptive policies on its language is a huge debate among linguists There's no such debate at all, whoever told you that is not a linguist. Linguistics is a science and it is inheren
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by tty 13y ago
>So it’s okay to use literally to mean figuratively as long as you really, really, really need to do so? Hmph. No need for the "hmph". It's how language works. Yes, a word can indeed have not only multiple meanings but als
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by tty 13y ago
>Since there's no proof of this "positive", this claim sits in doubt. ...and since there's no proof of his story, his story sits in doubt. Right? Is that the modus operandi? I was commenting under the assumption that
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by tty 13y ago
> where false positives happen often and are explained away with lesser screening Can you offer an alternative scenario of how you would have reacted if you were one of the officers?
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by tty 13y ago
>There are far more efficient ways to flag people that fit a certain profile. They should have checked all of his belongings and let him go, and not focused at all on his "attitude". Did you miss the part where the machines gav
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by tty 13y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248010
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by tty 13y ago
>It's probably much more likely that google translate did a literal translation of the city's name. Running the article through GT shows that GT doesn't translate the name of the city. It keeps it in its original French fo
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by tty 13y ago
The length of his sentence is similar to that of Jeffrey Carney, who was sentenced to 38 years for >espionage, conspiracy, and desertion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Carney >While working at the Marienfel
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by tty 13y ago
>Calling Trois-Rivières "Three Rivers" is as weird as calling San Fransisco "Saint Francis". Is it really _as weird_ as calling SF Saint Francis? This link would suggest that the name "Three Rivers" exists a
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by tty 13y ago
Decided to google some, In all of EU, 40% of people have a credit card. You're right that it varies greatly throughout the countries. The highest credit card per capita rate is in Luxembourg, with around 3 per capita (for comparison&#x
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by tty 13y ago
I would think the percentage of people who don't use ATM machines and don't have a credit card is likely higher than 22%, actually. Using only cash is much more common in Europe than in the US.
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by tty 13y ago
17.5% of EU's population is in the 65+ age bracket http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....
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by tty 13y ago
My point was regarding the usage of bots to scrape that content and adding it to a specific Wikipedia in an attempt to boost the article count, as has been happening on certain Wikipedias. The article that you linked to was created by an ac
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by tty 13y ago
>I often find myself clicking on the Dutch translation link - it regularly has more concise, useful data. For content that you care about, perhaps. Not for the content that they use to raise the article count number. The latter is mostly
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by tty 13y ago
Here's a comparison of all the versions of Wikipedia http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#All_Wikipe... Take a look at the "depth" column. Dutch and Swedish used to be your average Wikipedia
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by tty 13y ago
>1. Because car tax is between 300 and 1800 euros a year, with a few exceptions (some "green" cars are exempt). It's worth noting that the use of motor vehicles in Netherlands isn't _low_, Netherlands is still a _heav
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by tty 13y ago
VentureBeat caught reporting on stories that aren't stories.
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by tty 13y ago
>OP never says Western Languages descended from Sanskrit, you are making that part up. The fact is that many Indian languages descended from it (or rather from the natural form, Prakrit, as opposed to the classical form). This is similar
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by tty 13y ago
Do you know something we don't?
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by tty 13y ago
What an insightful contribution.
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The Pirate Bay is now hosted in North Korea(thepiratebay.se)
257 points by tty 14y ago|274 comments
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The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture (2011)(neojaponisme.com)
102 points by tty 14y ago|33 comments
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by tty 14y ago
Still too high.
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by tty 15y ago
This looks interesting. I prefer the (even more) minimalist design of OP's site, but lyrics automatically loading makes this one a winner (for the time being).
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by tty 15y ago
>I believe Arabic is the language with the largest variety in sounds. You believe wrongly. There are languages with far bigger phonological inventories. Practically every language spoken in the Caucasus region would fit this criteria.
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by tty 15y ago
I'd say the fact that Japanese is a head-last language is enough to complicate the matter greatly for any non-native speaker of Japanese.
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by tty 15y ago
>English in the 10th century was basically the same language as German (Althochdeutsch or Old High German, to be precise). In 1066, the Normans conquered England, bringing French which became the official and court language of England f
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by tty 15y ago
>But it's weird to get downvoted for merely asking why DuckDuckGo was special in this story. But you didn't ask.
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by tty 15y ago
Actually, no I did not know that and I find it hard to believe because I don't have a Facebook account.
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by tty 15y ago
>Linus isn't the target audience for Gnome 3. But who is the target audience for Gnome 3?

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