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by wrp 4y ago
With Serbo-Croatian, Croatian uses the Latin alphabet and Serbian the Cyrillic alphabet. Also, I think Hindi-Urdu qualifies. Thinking more, there was maybe Hopi-Navajo.
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by wrp 4y ago
What is the age distribution of the subjects? I'm reminded of the joke that "human psychology" is actually the psychology of 19-year old psych majors. Edit: From the article. Online adult participants. Online adult participan
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by wrp 4y ago
Advocates of going all digital argue that a sufficiently capable browsing interface could reproduce the experience of physical browsing. Even if that were true, it doesn't mean the resources would ever be allocated to make it happen. O
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by wrp 4y ago
I do most of my materials hunting online now, and I think I'm pretty good at it, but for discovery/serendipity it is still inferior to going into the stacks. A big problem with digital searching is that even if everything you coul
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by wrp 4y ago
HN is intended for discussion of technical news, but social/political subjects of current interest often show up. Some people resent that, but those threads are obvious from the title, so you can just ignore them if you want. As for th
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by wrp 4y ago
"Leaked from a lab" and "created in a lab" are different issues.
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For the non-British here, the history of the English language can be a toxic political subject in the UK. As an American who studies Anglo-Saxon-Jute language and literature as a hobby, I'm intrigued by speculation on how the language
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by wrp 4y ago
I thought I already saw that movie, but turns out I saw a remake[1] of an earlier movie[2] which that movie is a parody of. And...they are still getting mileage out of the idea[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sink
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by wrp 4y ago
Summary: At time 2:19:55-3:03:30, former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett discusses acting as mediator between Zelensky and Putin in the first weeks of the war. He explains his military strategic reasons for trying to keep Israel neutral. He was
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Naftali Bennett on his Putin-Zelensky mediation(youtube.com)
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> ...the Japanese would rather die...than change. This is literally the case. Already in the 1980s, as Japan seemed headed toward becoming the world's dominant economic power, there was debate throughout Japanese society over how mu
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by wrp 4y ago
This looks like a good opportunity to ask a question I've had for a long time. In what field(s) of research is it respectable to ask, "Has this paper been peer reviewed?" I've spent nearly four decades working mostly in
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by wrp 4y ago
> All debate, from Socrates to this part, is bound to be heated and messy by nature. Strongly disagree on that. In an academic environment, I regularly observe and participate in exacting debates that remain cool-headed and civil. Now, t
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by wrp 4y ago
"Hafu" originated as a Japanese term for half-Japanese persons, though usage has spread to other cases. I chose it because most terms used for mixed-heritage people have derogatory connotations but "hafu" leans somewhat
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by wrp 4y ago
I use "heritage" instead of "race" so as to cover any situation where a person's dual ancestry can mark them as an outsider. This could be based on race, religion, ethnicity, or any other factor by which people deci
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by wrp 4y ago
Before the dawn of the Internet age, when rotary phones walked the earth, I was an ardent college student of foreign stuff, surrounded by other equally ardent students, many of them actual foreigners. In an environment so full of youthful a
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by wrp 4y ago
We have two different meanings for "nepotism" here. His is "hiring within the family because I know their qualifications better." Yours is "hiring within the family even though someone outside has better qualificati
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by wrp 4y ago
Exactly. I see a lot of book reviewers complaining about the presence/lack of characters of some type and I'm baffled, because in my reading of the text there was no revelation of that information. I want to know what particulars
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...some gay character who is essentially 'straight acting'... I often see (edit: readers) mention that a story has gay/straight characters, even when (to me) there is no opening in the plot for characters to express thei
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by wrp 4y ago
Given the crude form of the letters, I like your interpretation better. Books were extremely expensive and cherished items. I expect an adult wanting to personalize a book would have taken greater care.
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by wrp 4y ago
I think her experiment with the notebooks is misleading. This is a well known issue among stationery enthusiasts, that you are afraid to begin using a nice notebook because it means committing it to a specific use. People buy Moleskines or
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by wrp 4y ago
Can you think of any restricted-use items that do not degrade with use, so that the cost/trouble of replacement is not an issue? I don't think something like Christmas decorations would qualify. I don't use a hammer when I&#x
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by wrp 4y ago
I've been in several countries where the State Dept has made a habit of advising Americans not to stay. At least with the crowd I hang out with, it is generally seen as crying wolf. On the other hand, back in Soviet times, false arrest
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by wrp 4y ago
Maybe afraid it will get taken down or edited. The original link is https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/judiciary.hou...
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by wrp 4y ago
Can someone explain the mechanics of why this needs to be in the form of a long paragraph rather than a list of command statements?
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Her story in articles: The initial event. ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-tv-emp... ) She was fined $280. She was offered political asylum by France but declined it. ( https:/&
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by wrp 4y ago
The gist of this story is that the T-14 project failed due to technological limitations. An additional perspective circulating is that T-14 funding was at least partly influenced by patronage and that Russian tankers were not particularly e
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by wrp 4y ago
Yandex has become my first choice to search for articles and documents outside of academic journal articles. The results are better curated than Google and often shows things Google misses, especially with unpublished documents.
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by wrp 4y ago
> If this were in the US or UK, Perry would likely be hated... The context you are missing is that the forcible opening of Japan led to the overthrow of the Shogunate and advent of the Meiji era, which was/is seen by most Japanese a
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by wrp 4y ago
Yeah, it most cases it would be like renovating a used kleenex.

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