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d0lph··on Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015)
Is language really something that can be appropriated though?
d0lph··on Inventing a Language, from the Guy Who Made Dothraki (2015)
Adding non-existent words to a language is not twisting it, it's developing it, like normal languages evolve over time. I'm assuming for any language that is chosen we would have enough writing to know the grammar and structures, so I feel like adding words is not a big deal. You did basically preserve a large part of the language though, even if it's had words added.
d0lph··on Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
How do you even write something like that? There are a ton of reasons to build up:

* More land is expensive, you don't need to buy more to build up * It's faster to take an elevator to floor 100, than walk through 100 floors

And more I'm sure, this is just off the top of my head.

d0lph··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
Technically, but by media I think they mean books vs art or video.
d0lph··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
Guerrilla warfare is an extremely effective form of revolt. A bunch of people taking on a tank head on, a death sentence. But that's where sabotage should come into play.
d0lph··on The San Franciso Fire Department makes its own wooden ladders by hand
I feel like you could house and feed all the homeless in America with that much money.
d0lph··on Will the Model 3 make Tesla a real car company?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the fact they sell cars makes Tesla a real car company already.
d0lph··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
Can you cite something for this? Everything I read is to the contrary, that they are well armed.
d0lph··on Elon Musk has an idea for saving boys stranded in a Thailand cave
You're right, we should not trust the advice of random strangers on the internet who spew nonsense.

Let me know when your team of engineers gets to Thailand too.

d0lph··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
The US did the same, revolted against a well armed adversary.

The people are the power, paper money is no match.

d0lph··on Google’s Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers
I feel like Google as a whole are aware this could be used for phishing, and will have methods preventing malicious use.
d0lph··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
Iranians can revolt, most huge social changes requires revolt. Government is a result of the people, if the majority were not ok with it I think it would not last long.

To me this implies on some level that the people of the country like their government.

d0lph··on Elon Musk has an idea for saving boys stranded in a Thailand cave
Kinda, an air tunnel.

But really it seems like Musk is trying to help, you're the one who's just offering an opinion.

d0lph··on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union
Has there ever been society without text based media?
d0lph··on Elon Musk has an idea for saving boys stranded in a Thailand cave
He does other stuff other than express opinions too. If I remember correctly he is leading privatized space exploration, bringing about the electric car revolution, and tunnel boring.

So idk, maybe someone who is focusing on quickly building tunnels might be helpful.

> Elon Musk is sending a team of engineers to Thailand to see if they can help authorities racing to save a dozen boys and their coach who are stranded in a cave there.

d0lph··on How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
I tried to get into voat a month ago, it just looked like they moved all the racist posts from reddit to there.

And they had this immense distrust of new people, if your account was created within the week and you posted something contrary they would downvote and comment only on that aspect.

d0lph··on Kenya announces death penalty for poachers
I think a key distinction here is that their intentions are not to wipe out all animals of a species, which would cause them to lose their income.

Genocide is a relatively new term, created to describe the Nazis. It combines the word genos, which means race or tribe, and -cide, death.

d0lph··on The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (1852)
Probably because America is not a contiguous demographic where they back every action the country makes.

And also he seems to give a free pass to Russia and China, and in terms of human rights... I would say the US is streets ahead.

d0lph··on Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA
And also, in some scenarios people mock the bible for calling a whale a fish in the story of Jonah, when a whale is a mammal. However the people of the time did not distinguish animals like we do. We only started classifying animals like that in the 1800s.
d0lph··on People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
I'm not really interested in buddhism, but have practiced meditation. I have to say meditation itself brings a great calmness, especially for my anxiety, and I was quite skeptical when it was recommended.

I think meditation should be examined outside of the scope of eastern mysticism, it need not be associated with it.

d0lph··on YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
It has for a while.
d0lph··on Judges sentence youth offenders to chess, with promising results
Technically children do have to pay taxes.
d0lph··on US Expected to Withdraw from UN Human Rights Council
I could think of a few.

* Jews are a historically hated group, so maybe there's a swing back the other direction

* There is a connection between Judaism and Christianity (they basically share the old testament), and so I could see large amounts of religious support. Of course you also have antisemitic religious, so there's that

* We are allied with them, and they are in the middle east, is it possible that is also a strategical reason

I'm sure there's more, but also consider that support is not exactly universal among Americans:

> As of July 2006, a poll claimed that 44% of Americans thought that the "United States supports Israel about the right amount", 11% thought "too little", and 38% thought "too much" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_r...

d0lph··on Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study
Apologies for pointing out that it might not be as black and white as the above poster stated.
d0lph··on Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study
> (of which the reviews and corruption people claim simply does not exist).

It is a well known fact that game companies pay people to write positive reviews.

One example (Microsoft): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHjN4oWVfk

d0lph··on Sexual harassment is rife in the sciences, finds landmark US study
That is one side of it.
d0lph··on Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
You didn't really post much about why exactly that's a bad thing.
d0lph··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
Really, no comments from the down voters?
d0lph··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
You're right, it was a failure, a terrible failure, but it will be improved.
d0lph··on NTSB: Autopilot steered Tesla car toward traffic barrier before deadly crash
I did, unimpressive, he doesn't have any relevant data.

My reply to the post though:

Obviously someone shaping stats to their own biases. They want to compare Tesla and Mercedes Benz crash rates because they are in a similar price range?

Mind you he has no data on automated driving crashes.

Ridiculous and short-sighted, the goal (IMO) is for all cars to be automated. And he assumes that just because lidar is expensive now, that it will be in the future, which is just naive.

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