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by redthrow 9mo ago
As a native Japanese speaker, I find this homonyms concern kind of odd. It’s like asking how Japanese people can speak to each other and understand one another given all the homonyms -- the assumption being that speech alone clearly isn’t e
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by redthrow 9mo ago
I’m a native Japanese speaker, so you don’t need to explain that writing kana with spaces is non-standard in most media (although some people -- both native speakers and non-natives -- erroneously claim that no native media uses that form o
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by redthrow 9mo ago
Most of the confusion in written Japanese stems from the use of kanji. The Kanamoji Kai (カナモジカイ) was established more than 100 years ago by Yamashita Yoshitarō (山下芳太郎), and it has been advocating for the abolition of kanji for many years, t
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by redthrow 1y ago
The vast majority of books don't generate any profits past the first few years, so I prefer Lawrence Lessig's proposal of copyright renewal at five-year intervals with a fee. Under this scheme, most books would enter the public do
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by redthrow 2y ago
Tyler Cowen also did a podcast with Jonathan Haidt where he questioned Haidt's conclusion that the smartphone/social media are the cause of (some) younger people's poor mental health. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by redthrow 3y ago
I haven't read it but Steven Johnson wrote a book that argued the opposite: Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson. Published in 2
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by redthrow 3y ago
How about Australian rice, like the Sunbrown brand? Arsenic levels (mg/kg) in raw rice from different countries https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Arsenic-levels-mg-kg-in-...
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by redthrow 3y ago
This "algorithmically deciding what to focus on (exploration/exploitation)" idea is also discussed in the following book: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016) https://www.goodread
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by redthrow 3y ago
Brave has the built-in dark mode
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by redthrow 4y ago
> allocate tickets by lottery at lower than market price I think that's what Kid Rock does for the best seats in the first row, while selling the rest at market rate Kid Rock Vs. The Scalpers https://www.npr.org/sect
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by redthrow 4y ago
You can just use the Brave browser on mobile. It supports background playback too.
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by redthrow 4y ago
Apparently it was popular among middle & high schoolers back in 2018, but probably not among adults https://twitter.com/livedoornews/status/1068834535838633986?...
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by redthrow 4y ago
Another master programmer Linus Torvalds seems to have the opposite attitude though https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3 Wonder if there's a difference in average attitude between people who do c
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by redthrow 4y ago
> Accent’s Way on YouTube > taught herself the American accent to a complete perfection Her oldest video is 12 years ago and I couldn't personally tell if she's just talented at mimicking sound from a young age or if she tra
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by redthrow 4y ago
I was gonna say the same thing. If she didn't use her domain for her email address and used e.g. Gmail, this problem wouldn't have occurred.
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by redthrow 4y ago
The book "Thinking in Bets" by poker champion Annie Duke made the same point about life being more like poker than chess
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by redthrow 4y ago
> I think Canada (CRA) is doing this behind the scenes Yes, I noticed that the CRA website displayed my T4 this year, although the problem is I couldn't simply hit "Confirm" and be done with it.
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by redthrow 4y ago
DHH (who also happens to be from Denmark) gave the classic "Unlearn Your MBA" talk in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhAkNWC1qo
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by redthrow 4y ago
This could be Sam Altman reacting to the recent article about George Hotz [1] mentioning Sam Altman as actually being a pro status quo figure masquerading as an anti-establishment figure: [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by redthrow 4y ago
He also has a blog which is very entertaining to read https://geohot.github.io/blog/
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by redthrow 4y ago
I remember Coffeezilla did a video about that article The Untold Truth of Napoleon Hill - History's Most Beloved Con-Man https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDzb9ZplX0
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by redthrow 5y ago
Links are only one factor that gets your comment more likely to be deleted or shadowbanned by YouTube automod (in addition to channel owners' settings for filtering). It's a well known issue for 1-2 years afaik See the discussion
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by redthrow 5y ago
> Also, it's a bad practice to associate flags with languages There's even a website for this issue http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-re...
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by redthrow 5y ago
Well if the author you like chose Big Tech as their publisher, and you don't want to support Big Tech, and the author isn't asking for money in any other place, I don't know, maybe you can write a message to the author so you
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by redthrow 5y ago
I don't know about authors who themselves chose to publish with Big Tech or traditional publishers (& not asking for money elsewhere) but how about supporting authors who are asking for funding in crowdfunding sites (e.g. Indiegogo
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by redthrow 5y ago
MIT doesn't promote proprietary use cases any more than CC0. I do (somewhat but not really) get why people use GPL but that's another story. Here we are only talking about people who use MIT instead of CC0.
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by redthrow 5y ago
I wondered why more FOSS projects aren't using CC0 instead of "permissive" licenses like MIT, considering a lot of folks who work in FOSS are against copyright/software patents system in general, and most of them don&#x2
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by redthrow 5y ago
Stephan Kinsella (who's a patent lawyer) uses an example of some clueless person writing a book and in one of the pages he says, "If you possess this book for more than a minute you are obligated to pay me $1000 per month", a
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by redthrow 5y ago
> I have written licenses to make GitHub hesitate before using my code as input to Copilot I thought the solution was to treat FOSS as CC0 (public domain) [1], not create yet another license nobody's going to care or use. CC0 is pro
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by redthrow 5y ago
What's different from the third-world market is Amazon has a consumer-friendly return policy with 100% refund. But yes, I'd rather buy the same products from my local Walmart or AliExpress at a lower cost. In my view knockoffs&#x2

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