panglott

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by panglott 7y ago
We just need a better place to show our parents pictures of their grandkids. Is that such a hard ask?
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by panglott 7y ago
Yep, Chengdu is a huge, dense city, with about 10 million people. Now I'm feeling nostalgic, I was only there for a few weeks, but with the parks, teahouses, and food, it was my favorite city in China.
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by panglott 7y ago
The lie flies and the truth walks =/
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by panglott 7y ago
This is framed as "respectful", but it's another way to mark the person as an outsider.
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by panglott 7y ago
It's not helpful advice. The post above attacks the author's writing credibility due solely to its emotional tenor. That's essentially an ad hominem.
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by panglott 7y ago
This is just ad hominem.
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by panglott 7y ago
How does tone policing the author offer any insight into the argument at issue here?
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by panglott 7y ago
have never been more on board with breaking up McDonald's. ;)
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by panglott 7y ago
A lot of the infrastructure of capitalism is oriented around generating and sustaining small- and medium-sized businesses, and while large corporations will always want to increase market power most sectors have antitrust reasons to avoid o
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by panglott 7y ago
The whole business model of Silicon Valley is finding companies that can grow to become abusive monopolies, and then growing them into that. Cut off one head and two will take its place.
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by panglott 7y ago
People aren't mad because Facebook runs a social network or presents users with a newsfeed or provides a messaging service or stores users photos. Lots of companies do those things without complaint. People are mad at Facebook because
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by panglott 7y ago
Language learning courses and tools are just ways to kickstart normal language acquisition, so you don't have to go through the years of gurgling like a baby has to. Learning to communicate in a new language isn't exactly like lea
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by panglott 7y ago
Oh, absolutely. But I think they're going to be more specialized tools to work on different skills. For example, I used to use the perapera-kun plugin and I guess yomichan does a similar thing, but that sort of tool—but say, for closed
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by panglott 7y ago
The problem is that the tools you need are "listening to and interacting with people in the target language". Human language is a problem of interpreting the creative social signals of other human beings, and there's no way t
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by panglott 8y ago
Sometimes people just have fear of an event occurring, and disaster preparedness is a way to help calm that fear and gain a sense of control. I'll confess that the threat of a nuclear exchange with North Korea has caused me a fair amou
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by panglott 8y ago
The problem with this article's defense of firearms for disaster preparedness is that firearms are among the least urgent disaster-preparedness items. If what people were really concerned about was disaster preparedness, the things the
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by panglott 8y ago
The linked article is about rationales for possessing rifles such as the AR-15.
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by panglott 8y ago
English is way too hard to learn and they have an irrational fondness for their spelling system.
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by panglott 8y ago
Why not just give users more power over their newsfeed, instead of assuming that the site engineers can get the balance right. A user could be able to specify "I want 50% of my newsfeed to be from immediate family, 35% from close frien
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by panglott 8y ago
Putting Japanese at such a low complexity shows a lot about the author's criteria and bias. Japanese numerals are quite easy, but when it comes to actually counting things, it is quite complex. There are two series of numeral words tha
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by panglott 8y ago
Apparently the person who compiled this has never tried to actually count items in Japanese, to figure out which of the two number systems to use and which counter words to use.
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by panglott 9y ago
Shorter: Just write dialogue.
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by panglott 9y ago
"The Language Instinct" is almost 25 years old, and it has not fared well IMO, although linguistics is a multidisciplinary/multiparadigmatic field with lots of disagreement. That book was the result of cognitive psychology tr
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by panglott 9y ago
There's a deeper argument here, too. Growing inequality is an indicator that the iron law of oligarchy is taking hold. The book "Why Nations Fail" divides societies into those with inclusive and extractive political and econo
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by panglott 9y ago
The book "Trekonomics" has some interesting discussion about this, comparing it to status- and prestige-driven competition in academica. However, even if prestige-driven competition is the norm at least everyone has enough food an
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by panglott 9y ago
I think it's clarifying to look at tablet manufacturers as a whole. The reflexive complaint of Apple is that their system is too locked-down and limited by their approach to software. However, at the same time, there were Android table
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by panglott 9y ago
Most of what this article is talking about is people who are using iPads that are 6-8 years old. Those first iPads were very limited in their hardware, such as the amount of memory.
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by panglott 9y ago
Why pick on Apple here? Are there any Android tablets from 2010-2012 that still see regular use, get software updates, and new/updated apps? Is anyone still using their Blackberry PlayBooks from late 2010? It looks like the Galaxy Tab
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by panglott 9y ago
It's not just hardware upgradability: some of the problem could be solved if app developers created simple, lightweight iOS 5-compatible apps. But of course there's no business case for supporting early iPads, and I don't eve
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by panglott 9y ago
It's more than that: Safari could be fine on these devices, but the original iPads had very limited memory, and websites these days are resource-intensive. It's hard to browse the web, when otherwise it would be a great web and eb

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