LV-426

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by LV-426 9y ago
> It is the British empire+US hegemony, since WWII/Cold War that makes English lingua franca as it is today. To be fair, it's also centuries of important contributions from English-speaking countries in science, technology, ind
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by LV-426 9y ago
From the article: "Amazon likely has about 700 workers [in Ohio alone] receiving food stamps, more than 10 percent of its Ohio workforce "
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by LV-426 9y ago
I totally agree with this, including your 1 and 2, and the parent. This very thread - with repeated posts about malware - demonstrates what "SourceForge" means these days to so many people. It doesn't make sense to me that if
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by LV-426 9y ago
Thanks. And yeah, that's one reason I always thought it was surprising if they didn't teach English, since it was the (primary) language of 'the enemy'. Plus whatever faults the USSR may have had, education seemed to be
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by LV-426 9y ago
> early adopters, which take on more risk I don't want to get into the debate on the definition of a pyramid scheme, but what was anyone risking by mining bitcoins for essentially nothing in 2009-2010?
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by LV-426 9y ago
Thanks. You may not be old enough to know from experience, but how does this differ (if at all) from the Soviet period? AIUI Soviet citizens didn't generally learn English in (high/middle) school, which I always thought a bit surp
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by LV-426 9y ago
> English is tought as a second language (or third language in bilingual countries) in most of the world. In primary schools, commonly?
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by LV-426 9y ago
> Can anyone outline the norms for English teaching in the rest of the region and the rest of the world? I'd be interested in this too (or other languages, where it would be appropriate, such as the extent of French teaching in Cana
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by LV-426 9y ago
I don't support this (more schools in every country should teach foreign languages in primary school), but AIUI from the article learning English is not now forbidden for young people in Iran, it's only now blocked in primary scho
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by LV-426 9y ago
> A complaint that Hacker News is a less agreeable place than it used to be. Which makes the place no more agreeable. > Whether that's true or not... <huge snip> This is amazing. I ask a question, and the only "answer&
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by LV-426 9y ago
Replying here, since the other post I replied to disappeared: Despite the avalanche of downvotes burying my posts, not even one person can actually answer the question I asked: The poster could have simply stopped typing after "Thank
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by LV-426 9y ago
I disagree. Aside from the sarcastic "buffer overflow" comment, his comment was far more snide than any of the replies he seemed to be complaining about. Since you take a different view though, as I asked in my post, if it's
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by LV-426 9y ago
> which unfortunately seems to be getting rarer and rarer on this forum. If this isn't unnecessarily "snarky" itself, then what is it? snarky : (of a person, words, or a mood) sharply critical; cutting; snide.
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by LV-426 9y ago
Pretty funny how anti-tracking they are, in their daily submissions to HN, considering the number of resources from external sites - Google, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, Linkedin, etc - their page loads.
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by LV-426 9y ago
I wondered how many times the Russian takeover in DC was going to be reported, but this story is from last year (June, 2017). Meanwhile, in 2011: From the studio in downtown D.C., it's Russia on your radio (Voice of Russia -
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99.999 percent of all species remain undiscovered(nsf.gov)
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by LV-426 9y ago
I'm not against space exploration, but it's interesting to me that while we wonder about life on other planets, and dream of placing our own lives there, most of our own planet's life (which could help provide cures for all k
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by LV-426 9y ago
> Did you have a substantive response to make? Did you? > I understand that you're not satisfied with how the events of Apollo 8 played out. What I don't understand is whence comes the belief, which you seem to cherish quite
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by LV-426 9y ago
> You're definitely coming off as an edge-lord for calling this inane. And you're definitely coming off as an idiot using a term like "edge-lord". > Today, I'm sure Twitter would melt because of it (you can&#
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by LV-426 9y ago
> You are conflating the official position of the organization with a statement made by one of its employees on company time. 1. It was not one person, it was everyone on board. 2. Describing NASA trained professionals, paid by NASA, in
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by LV-426 9y ago
Thanks. I wasn't aware of that. I just remember the first time I ever saw that footage, couldn't believe what I was hearing, and haven't forgotten it. My own objection isn't even about government/state promotion of
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by LV-426 9y ago
I'm glad they got the Earthrise Photo, because otherwise, six months before Apollo 11 gave the world a line which even impressed the Soviets, Apollo 8 would be remembered for this cringey, inane stuff[1]: https://www.youtube
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by LV-426 9y ago
> I am talking about how big your opportunity to create something in the US is no matter who you are and where you are from compared to other places. What does this even mean? Please give a specific, concrete explanation of how and why i
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by LV-426 9y ago
But not north of the 49th parallel?
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by LV-426 9y ago
> You are missing a very important point which is that the US is a country of immigration and of different states the US is a very very very big country. And yet not even the biggest country in North America, an entire continent of immig
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by LV-426 9y ago
I know, I said that in my post: It makes sense to have Usenet in an email client, because they are closely related, but not many people use email clients any more, so not many people are going to find Usenet that way.
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by LV-426 9y ago
For some reason your post reminded me of a list I saw quite recently of (surprisingly working) open/free news servers (maybe dotsrc was on it). I can't seem to remember or find the exact list or page I saw before, but for anyone i
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by LV-426 9y ago
The company providing the world's most popular email web interface should have been the prime candidate to provide web Usenet, but instead they saw Usenet only as a means to get people on to their own terrible Google-only groups (while
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by LV-426 9y ago
Not only free, but you don't even have to register: https://news.aioe.org/manual/faqs/#f2
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by LV-426 9y ago
I agree about Reddit being Usenet-like. Unfortunately it's a really horrible version of Usenet, partly thanks to the number of unpleasant people who use it, but also due to the karma system - in theory a way to collectively highlight

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