CrystalLangUser

As an ESL teacher myself I sympathize with you. For real, it's frustrating how people [more like parents] just expect to send their kid to a private academy after school [more like 3-4 academies] 2x/3x a week and just expect them to know English. Even if the kids are actually interested, that's a paltry amount of time actually spent practicing English. Very few people understand this so private academies continue to be a big industry.

> Buy jewelry and fancy things for yourself.

Ugh, "awesome life advice". Treating yourself well doesn't necessarily involve buying things. Consumer culture really is quite insidious. No, I don't need some friggin jewelry to be happy or have a happy life. I don't need to buy my partner a $<too_high> diamond ring.

Treat yourself well by investing in what you actually use- a quality bed, quality pillow, quality shoes, quality clothes, quality tools. You don't need many things to be happy, just a few quality ones. The rest is better served as life experiences like traveling, etc.

No, it isn't up for debate.

Free speech is only an unalienable right, in the US, from the government. Not facebook, not google, and certainly not individuals suing a private entity.

Everything else stems from the public and historical landmark court cases related to free speech- and the benches of the supreme court have staunchly defended freedom of speech from the government.

Yeah, but they are side by side here, and not in handwriting.. If you're not careful in handwriting it'd be real hard to tell the difference.

It's not about laughing, it's about being disorderly. Has little to do with "free speech", stop click baiting.

If it was substantiated there would be evidence. I see nothing beyond inane things that aren't worth this fuss.

It seems like another example of CoCs being used maliciously to hunt someone out of bias.

Once someone drags your name through the mud in public, it's well past the point of having a private chat. His behavior isn't a huge red flag in the slightest; he's responding to what's essentially a public attack of his character. Responding to something like that publicly when it's already a public situation isn't a form of aggression.

You are projecting WAY too much of your own bias and opinion into what was simply a response. It's telling that you're suggesting he needs to have social maturity when the allegations levied against him are pretty unsubstantiated- see the "evidence" of him retweeting an article discussing free speech concerns on college campuses.

Are you genuinely so obtuse as to scorn a man who's attempting to merely respond to being accused of something?

Good, let the reasonable folk settle in DE / the US instead. Not folk who read too much sensationalized news. There may be problems but being unstable isn’t one of em.

Downvote if you want. Being smart in programming or business stuff doesn't mean you understand linguistics. Organic language does not adhere to logical rules.

Many people (who don't actually study language or the evolution thereof) jump to a Prescriptivist viewpoint at first. Dictionaries follow actual English usage, not the other way around (Descriptivist).

I can't fault you; in order to teach English a prescriptivist mindset naturally has to be applied. So we teach Standard English's rules.

However, go compare various English style guides and tell me if they are the same.

Dwarves & Octopi are correct, because that's what people use. If octopedes was used instead, it would be correct and it wouldn't have a red squiggly line.

Hey, very cool! I like the site's presentation.

I bought 🇸🇾 and 🇨🇿. Romania was taken already, sadly.

And how do you consistently find said companies?

> To Systrom, it’s pretty simple: Freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to shitpost. His network isn’t a public square; it’s a platform people can choose to use or not. When pressed on the matter, he asks, “Is it free speech to just be mean to someone?” Jackson Colaco makes the same point more sharply. “If toxicity on a platform gets so bad that people don’t even want to post a comment, they don’t even want to share an idea, you’ve actually threatened expression.”

Yes, it is free speech to just be mean to someone. The fact that this man is a leader of anything at all troubles me.

Neural Nets and computers aren't impartial. We should never be putting any power into them to affect real human discourse that NLP cannot possibly hope to accurately parse at this time.

The “correct usage” is what’s commonly used by people, not what’s technically correct.

If people use dwarves, then it’s correct to use it regardless of origins.

It’s the same thing with the whole octopus plural thing. Both octopi and octopuses are completely correct despite octopedes technically being the right answer.

> anything to do with RTS

Managing farming times and item spikes is part of the strategy. Of course it's not a true RTS, but I think that term is a bit better than MOBA; I'm also biased against Riot.

Some people dislike that term. Many people in the dota community prefer ARTS over MOBA. Though yes, technically it’s a MOBA; many other games could be MOBAs because it’s fairly vague.

Sometimes people prefer to label dota as an ARTS: Action Real Time Strategy.

Some people dislike the MOBA nomenclature because it comes from Riot (maker of League of Legends; a clone of dota). In addition the term is pretty vague. Call of Duty, Starcraft, and DotA could all technically be “MOBAS”.

ARTS describes it a little better but I don’t think that term is great either.

$7 one way?! I guess Chicago's spoiled me at $2.25.

Bad. Lossy -> Lossy transcoding will always introduce artifacts. Unless the origin source is lossless. (Actually lossless, not a file someone transcoded to a lossless format from a lossy origin)

This year, GitHub did that for a conference, letting people submit talks and compete for selection completely stripped of identifying info.

The only people selected were men.

That conference was canceled because it didn’t stand with Github’s stance on diversity, etc.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14480868

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Companies actively do the exact opposite because they need/want more diversity. It’s absolutely not like the music world where a large amount of women play instruments... the number of women in CS professionally is low. The number of female CS graduates is and has been low.

Simply stripping info doesn’t mean anything if at the end of the day a diversity agenda has to be met.

The 503 curse.

This is new? Um...

Also for mobile styling, there should be some padding / margin on the sides. I have to zoom out to see the whole text and it’s tiny as a result.

Do you understand the situation with Gawker at all?

The “chilling” effect is really just not publishing private sex tapes (just for views, mind you) and refusing to take them down when ordered to... also not outing gay people. In other words, a bit of common decency.

There is a monumental difference between that and writing a negative article.

The “chilling” effect is not self imploding your news organization by doing stupid things over and over.

I imagine it’ll happen eventually. Maybe not to the same extent, but not everyone wants to pay exorbitant costs or live on the west coast...

I’d gladly take less money and continue to live / set up a business in Chicago.

I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine that many users really wanted it. Or cared.

I have a minor in acoustic recording/physics so I fully understand the lossless desire for some people, but we’re a minority.

My counterpoint: I use Spotify for the super convenient downloading of music. Hit 2 buttons, save + download, bam I got music on my phone.

... with mobile are you actually carrying around high fidelity headphones anyways? I sure don’t, it’s annoying versus small earbuds.

Yes. It would be unmanageable otherwise with multiple clients.

Why would I give up my time + work for free?

Hosting is an easy up sell because it becomes one less thing a client would have to worry about.

Yeah pal try that in the US.

Public transit is straight up impossible in many, many areas because few places offer transit that’s actually good enough for never using cars... Good luck reliably getting an Uber in Hicksville, SC or anywhere that’s rural.

It’s a different kind of fun. Competition and tournaments are exhilarating to participate in and watch- but they’re not for everyone.

It seems to me that this is partly about Twitter, and a lot about the author’s personal addiction to it.

I never really got into twitter because of the reasons he listed: way too short messages, echo chambers, and people spouting inane streams of consciousness into the twitter ether.

I don’t see the point of it; I see people with tens of thousands of tweets that don’t mean anything.

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That said. I think twitter is great for keeping informed on certain events- for me, esports tournaments.

I also think it’s useful for connecting with people and spreading info about what you’re doing- like OSS projects, etc.

Lastly, it's hard to not be on twitter. It's such a huge social behemoth with a vast number of users, arbitrary limitations or not. There isn't really an alternative besides maybe mastodon if it had more people (doubt it; federation isn't easily grasped or shiny).

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Like anything in life it’s about moderation. If you check HN 14 times a minute that’s bad also.

German, where noun gender doesn’t make any sense? and things like dative case have to be specifically marked? German and English have the same lineage anyhow, both have irregular verbs (in many cases English irregular verbs are also irregular in German).

Analyzing any real language (not Esperanto) is going to be extremely difficult. I would think English is marginally easier than say Korean where everything is based around context, including dropping the subject itself and particles. Otoh, some aspects of Korean are probably easier than English. And all 3 have irregularities despite Sejong the Great purposefully creating Korean Hangul.

Since when is ham and turkey associated with Christmas? I’ve never heard of this.