Kolya

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by Kolya 1y ago
The article you linked to specifically says there are only voiceless plosives in Mandarin!
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by Kolya 1y ago
The examples are cherry-picked. I took a photo outside my office window in a built-up area, o3 thought for 5m 7s (!), and it got the location wrong by 40km. Doesn't look solved to me.
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by Kolya 2y ago
There are ways you could establish eligibility without a birth date. For example, they may have a WW2 service record but no record of their birth.
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by Kolya 2y ago
Yep. Anybody who’s ever read written Cantonese or Shanghainese would realise they are often unintelligible unless you speak those languages and understand how they’re written. eg 「佢冇做乜嘢」 And yet the incorrect parent comment has been voted t
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by Kolya 2y ago
Writing the pronunciation above a character is normal when the character is rare or has an unexpected pronunciation. For example recently 龘 was often written with the pinyin above. Writing a different pronunciation with a different sense is
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by Kolya 15y ago
I would prefer if Darwin remained on the £10 note and Turing was put on the £5 note instead.
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by Kolya 15y ago
$0.0013 doesn't sound a lot. But it's equivalent to about $1.50 if somebody listens to an album 100 times. That's less than if they were to sell the album in a shop. However they don't have the same distribution costs and Spotify users are
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by Kolya 15y ago
The title should be "Xinhua Applauds UK Move To Restrict Access To Social Media". The relationship between Xinhua and the Chinese government is complicated. Treating them as synonymous is a little clumsy.
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by Kolya 15y ago
Based on what they showed on UK news this evening, much of the police aren't well-prepared.
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by Kolya 15y ago
In Africa and the Middle East, the riots were heavily motivated - the rioters had strong political reasons to be there. In London, it's just some socially disaffected youths and looting opportunists. So I don't think they are all that compa
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by Kolya 15y ago
Well, they were in a big town and were told by the county council that there were no charge points remotely nearby. Whatever you think of Top Gear, that fact does not reflect well on electric cars.
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by Kolya 15y ago
The most popular crosswords in the UK are the same type as those in the US. But some newspapers have an additional 'cryptic' crossword. (I don't know more than a couple of people who actually do the cryptic crosswords, but I guess they must
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by Kolya 15y ago
I'm surprised to see a crossword editor use the phrase "crosswords in England". It's not what you'd expect from someone so concerned with trivia.
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by Kolya 15y ago
'common' and 'special' aren't antonyms.
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by Kolya 15y ago
as a guess, i would think the short-term churn has increased. most heavy users of fb that i know are people that signed up a long time ago. it was an important part of their social life and most still use the site. but recently, i've had a
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by Kolya 16y ago
It's interesting he uses Andrew Wiles as an example. Perhaps FLT would have been proved faster if Wiles had not mostly shut himself away. His achievement was exceptional, yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he went about reaching
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by Kolya 16y ago
While it is always nice to see someone turn their life around, I'm not sure how important or appropriate stories like these are. He has a nice voice. That's a nice novelty. But the novelty will wear off. And I can't help finding claims like
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by Kolya 16y ago
That isn't a reason against incest per se. It is merely an objection to certain forms of incest - specifically, those that lead to children. With freely-available contraception and abortion, it's hard to think of any good reason for the abs
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by Kolya 17y ago
What are the names of the studies that demonstrate that?