That has nothing to do with manifest destiny or even the average American. People are almost completely unaware of how many bases we have abroad, etc.
You are trying to paint a portrait of Americans in general that is flagrantly false.
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You are trying to paint a portrait of Americans in general that is flagrantly false.
I just got it for email hosting at $3/mo, but they provide a host of other tools aimed towards businesses.
So this current ai is uninteresting because bots can always instantaneously begin to react on any feedback, whereas humans have to pan and drag the camera around to look at different feedback in the first place, let alone react. Mechanically, humans also have to move the mouse all over the place and think of key combinations, in addition to reacting. Not just clicking a static box on cue.
It -would- be interesting if bots were limited just like humans to the camera view, -not- an API that continuously feeds them information. The bot would then have to learn how to prioritize working the camera, and it would be limited to only what the camera sees, etc.
Do I really to dig up some academic paper to acknowledge that humans find it hard to agree on standards? That doesn't even include the geopolitical implications of this- as if China would ever agree to make English the One Language that all government and business runs on, etc.
If you make a theoretical conjecture, I don't need to provide academical papers to provide a rebuttal. Please, treat academical papers with rigor, not as a fallback for when someone challenges you on, again, a theoretical conjecture. I also don't need to provide papers for basic human intercourse.
> This worked for one country, so there are chances it works at a bigger scale.
No, you cannot extrapolate based on one country. Human beings are irrational and proud. Again, look at it from a geopolitical view.
> Yes. Things are imperfect. We will loose in the process. Guess what is also imperfect ? Communicating at the scale of 7 billion people with different culture, believes and needs.
Yes, different cultures, beliefs, and needs. All of which would be lost by -unilaterally- forcing one language, since reaching agreement won't happen. Nations are still figuring out how to solve their own issues, so why should a Korean person care to be forced to learn some random language? That already happened when Japan occupied Korea and forced Koreans to learn Japanese- why don't you read some history and tell me exactly how much Koreans liked that. [This also goes back to my previous statement about military domination being the only real way of forcing a language change.]
> The fact it takes 5 years to a chinese to be able to write english and 10 for an english to learn chinese is not subjective.
[Citation needed again]. Of course English writing is easier to learn, it has a phonetic alphabet... However Chinese has much more simplified grammar than English. There is no subjectively "better" language, unless you specifically mean in 1 single aspect, maybe. But languages don't exist in vacuums, so this point is moot. (5/10 years is way off, also. This is anecdotal evidence as well, and years vary by each individual person.)
Discussing the merits of Chinese or any other language is really another discussion, but Chinese people do just fine.
> Again, that's funny comming from somebody who is all emotional about this.
No, this is coming from somebody responding to a shortsighted conjecture.
> Also, thinking I'm talking about engineering and not politics and sociology "is a very stereotypical hacker news viewpoint".
No, I don't think that you're talking about engineering. I'm specifically pointing out that you are treating a human and cultural issue from an engineering perspective, as if it's merely something that can be "fixed". It's a myopic viewpoint, because that's simply not how humans work.
> You can preserve culture and language, while simultaneously forcing everyone to learn English.
Nope, because culture and language are deeply intertwined. Over time, people would use their native languages less and less, and then entire cultural swathes of knowledge will be lost.
Next, no one will ever agree on one language. Not English, not Chinese, nor any made up language. Especially not an existing real language, for any number of reasons.
There are also concepts in different languages that are difficult to translate or grasp in other languages. Translation isn't a 1:1 rote task.
> I think it's about time humanity decides to stop the ego trip and declare english as the earth official language.
There is no "ego trip" going on here. The only "ego trip" is assuming that we can simply force everyone, unilaterally, to speak X language.
> Peace, democracy, exchange, cooperation, archiving, education: they are too hard to do in hundreds of languages. It's a waste of resources, and a hindrance to the most important challenges of humanity.
[Citation needed that this is better than forcing 1 language on humanity, which will almost certainly only happen with supreme military force, aka wars.]
> written chinese is way too complicated
Subjective.
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Translation is a problem that we have to deal with, but it's better than trying to force one language.. People and societies cannot be engineered with a hand-wavy solution of "oh, just 1 universal language".
This is a very stereotypical hacker news viewpoint of blithely trying to "engineer" life and humanity, as if it were so simple.
One example is 'computer' -> 컴퓨터 in Hangul. It's still 'computer', just pronounced with the Korean pronunciation rules.
The wording here implies that we shouldn't be demonizing things like pedophilia, or that somehow, we needed Puritanism to realize that we ought to be demonizing pedophilia, or that this is purely a western construct. Puritanism has just lead westerners to demonize sexuality in general.
For westerners, lolicon is no different than child pornography. And lolicon is still controversial even within Japan.
I'm not sure what you mean about not being listed on lists of instances. If you mean not federating your own instance, well, that goes against the entire premise of the fediverse / federation. Running your instance means it will propagate. Your posts will show up in the instances of whoever is following you.
However, you can filter instances, and/or sign up on an instance that blocks switter users.
There is activity, especially if you sign up on a huge instance like mastodon.social (although I don’t recommend this). instances.social lists all active instances that you can peruse through.
I do professional work in Ruby currently, but Crystal is just so much more pleasant to work with.
It's not hosted on Mastodon but on Pleroma [2] instead so it's more barebones at the moment. (But saves a LOT on cpu/memory resources)
Disclaimer: I'm the only user currently. :-)
[1]: https://nyquist.space [2]: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma
The instance banning thing is a huge problem and it’s not really being talked about much. The only thing you can do really is sign up on an instance like niu.moe that doesn’t filter besides illegal content.
[1]: https://instances.social/list/advanced#lang=&allowed=&prohib...
Define "pointless". Each word has its own etymology, and if we're going to be honest here, the different spellings aren't _that_ complicated. Take it up with English's ancestors for borrowing words from many different languages, and then with more recent ancestors for the great vowel shift, among other things leading to change.
Language is never going to make sense. It's not prescriptive- we just make changes, arbitrarily, sometimes due to mistakes, and it either catches on or it doesn't. Trying to "fix" language is an impossible task because no one is making the rules. English in particular doesn't have a language council making decisions, unlike say, Korean. It doesn't matter anyways because "Standard English" is quite different than day to day conversation, and even in formal settings it's based on stylistic guidelines, not hard rules.
Just let it be- devising an _arbitrary_ method of attempting to corral an entire language is an impossible task. And any work would be undone within one generation anyways since languages evolve. Esperanto, a manufactured language, has already seen linguistic changes by its native speakers (kids who were taught it growing up).
I got a client from attending my local monthly meetup group, and I got emailed today about work from someone I met at a local conference (and who goes to the local meetup also).
I don't have a degree or anything, I just have experience with Ruby on Rails.
Additionally, you don't need to do anything other than forking the repo on Github. [2]
Git is a bit clunky, but it's also really powerful. It's a tool like anything else that we have to learn- what better alternative is there for version control?. There are some attempts at abstractions, like Git Legit. [3]
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1628563/move-the-most-re...
[2]: https://help.github.com/articles/editing-files-in-your-repos...
Mastodon and Pleroma are both part of the Fediverse [2]. They work with any software that works with OStatus and the newer ActivityPub. This includes things like GNUSocial, etc.
Mastodon doesn't explain any of this well, or at all, to my dismay. (As far as I'm aware, on the joinmastodon page).
Mastodon is really nice, but it's fairly intensive. Precompiling the rails/webpack assets in particular made my tiny VPS choke, even with 4GB of memory I believe. It also requires Sidekiq and other services [1].
Pleroma is newer and written in Elixir/Phoenix purely as an API. It only has itself as a dependency, and it's lean enough to run on a Raspberry Pi. It offers two frontends, pleroma-fe and mastofe, the latter is a port of Mastodon's UX.
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Features wise, Pleroma doesn't really have a lot beyond the basic functionality of subscribing to people, posting, etc. There aren't real moderation tools (yet), since it's mostly a weekend project for the core devs. Blocking instances requires an IP block still, I think.
Mastodon wins features-wise, hands down. But some things aren't really easy to reconfigure- since the frontend is baked in, changing things like the post character limit (500 chars) is tedious. In pleroma it's a simple config file change.
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I like Pleroma personally but it's not for everyone (yet). I plan on contributing more soon to help change that.
I also was only running single user instances so I can't really discuss scaling. @technowix@niu.moe [2] would be better to ask about that, considering their instance has ~3k users [3].
[1]: https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Runni...
If you want to move with your feet, Mastodon [1] is rapidly growing in popularity, and it's completely open source [2].
Disclaimer: I used to run a mastodon instance, now I run a pleroma [3] instance to save on memory/cpu usage. Feel free to ask me any questions.
[1]: https://joinmastodon.org/
It's not "regurgitating info", if no one ever visits the link because you didn't provide any context or information (like spam).
Please at least provide a short blurb, or some info. Just dropping a link isn’t going to be very effective. See my other comment [1] for an example.
Pleroma is a lot easier, though.