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They only have a couple extra keys when they need maybe an extra row. (IMO unnecessary) Trade offs have been made, like in most non US latin languages, for compatibility with the US keyboard layout. It is similar to the European keyboard layout where it is painfully obvious that they would have a much more efficient layout if they just added more keys, but they chose not too because then it would differ too much from the US standard.

Phonetic IMEs aren't the only input methods available. There are a number of input methods based off of character components for Chinese and Japanese that are generally an order of magnitude faster (not accounting for predictive text). It requires about the same level of memorization as learning Vim. The problem with phonetic input is that it doesn't narrow down the search space enough for typing to be open loop. It's essentially the equivalent of typing in IPA and then selecting the equivalent English spelling. The problem is that without predictive text the search is too broad for any given input. Kanji actually has a set of about ~500 atomic components that all characters can decompose down to, so if you just map these in a lossy way to the US keyboard or just the numpad for some input methods, the search space is narrow enough that you can get close to open loop typing.

You can also decompose to about 10 strokes, whose order when written is set, so you can map from sequences of those strokes.

The problem with all these input methods IMO is that they're not deterministic and therefore not open loop because that just wasn't one of the design goals.

The additional benefit is that you can apply whatever rules your input method uses to symbols from math or other languages, which IMO is far simpler than using LaTeX syntax if you just want to type a ‰ or ⊥ sign. My input method can type Chinese, Japanese, Greek, and Russian as well as some mischellaneous symbols.

Entirely mechanical component based typewriters were being developed in the 50s but never came to fruition. By the time electronic typewriters came along it was decided that it was just cheaper to use the existing physical keyboards designed for Ascii or numpads on phones and work around it with software. This seems to have been a consistent pattern for most languages regardless of the number of symbols or whether they were phonetic. IMO I believe if they had just standardized on a more specialized keyboard layout in the 80s IMEs would not exist. IMO you can likely deterministically type Kanji in a open loop way if there were maybe 2 to 5 times the number of physical keys as the standard, or the same number of physical keys with 4 more shift keys. The advent of predictive text the need for it is basically nil for the majority of people in the same way the majority of people have no need for LaTeX or Vim.

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Delete my account.

I got mine for 25 cents. They're fun.

I think most people have never in their life read an article by a journalist about something they're knowledgeable of that wasn't complete dogshit. You mention Glenn Greenwald because presumably you're not an expert on state-level corruption. Pretty much any piece of journalism on any topic you can poke plenty of holes in with some research. Hell some articles you can use the article itself to disprove the main point the journalist was trying to make. At some point overwhelming empirical evidence can elevate a "cocktail story" to a rule of thumb.

Just a minute ago I had found that a piece of controversial media I used to watch was scrubbed from all Google services (youtube, search etc.). Had to use Yandex and Baidu to find it. They all have their masters, Google is the one only bold faced enough to pretend they represent all of the internet.

I'm curious as to what utility this information has in the format of an academic paper. If you wanted to learn the dialect of any subculture there are always a number of documents naintained by the subculture itself that explains them. What is the point of summarizing them in the grating faux-objective tone of the social sciences?

> it is kind of strange that Renaissance is capitalized

Autocorrect.

No. Just look at the boomer generation.

Where do you live where that"s free?

I read that as 1 meter feet instead of one million feet.

My anecdotal experience tells me that homeschooled people have worse social skills than average. No amount of exposure to peers by a homeschooler is going to match the 8 hours a day, five days to week someone who goes to public schlol experiences.

Doesn't that count as a hostile work environment?

The irony being that this thread has it's own calls for violence minutes after the article is posted.

Media is a natural monopoly. without barriers you inevitably end up with the likes of Murdoch Media owning everything. You should know better than anyone else considering your employer owns everything from search to ads to videosharing in all the countries without protectionalism. I've had to resort to Yandex or Baidu when it comes to certain information clearly censored by your employer, and I know people in China and Russia do the same when their search engines censor information. VPNs aren't some secret technology only HackerNews elite can understand, everyone I know under 20 knows how to install one regardless of which country they live in. Without protectionalism there would only be Google. Everyone would be subject to the whims of the US government and people like you. I'm not an authoritarian, I'm simply someone who actually understands how information is controlled.

> But if I don't want to read Pravda or GlobalTimes, I simply don't,

And your employer Google makes sure to always keep their articles at the bottom of the search page and label them "state affiliated media", all while reporting searches back to Fort Meade. Whether or not foreign news is accessible doesn't matter if people are trained to froth at the mouth and yell propaganda every time they're presented with it. And that's the comparatively tame stuff. Try looking up videos published by ISIS on Google. You won't be able to find it. I'm sure it's purely a coincidence that the media that isn't liked by Google employees is exactly the media that gets censored first whenever you decide to "fight disinformation".

> I guess my question is, why are you using a VPN, or participating in a website that would be banned in China?

You work for Google right? Presumably you have been to the Bay Area? Did you know that nonwhite Americans exist too? The rest of us have to deal with whatever new fearmongering against whichever ethnicity/religion/race gets associated with the enemy du jour. Doesn't matter what I read if some asshole who just saw 20 coronavirus articles with pictures of Asian people and Asian businesses on their covers tries to smash my grandma's head in.

> you don't trust your own countrymen

Yeah I don't trust my countrymen because they fall for shit like Iraqi WMDs and then forget about it by the time it's disproven. Every time India/Russia/China/Japan gets mentioned on this forum or pretty much anywhere else it's a contest to see who can generalize and villify people from those countries and their "culture" the most. Why should newspapers and social media created by people like you have global hegemony? Why should the people of this forum, who clearly have contempt for Russia, control what information Russians see?

Your whole "free speech" argument is a charade given how much people on this forum and elsewhere cheered on the forced sale of TikTok. It's not about free speech it's about making sure your employer gets to control everyone's information no matter where they live on the planet. If tomorrow Yandex took over the North American search market and the US government bans them I won't hear a squeak from you.

So what replaced this stuff in modern applications? Better couplers? Special epoxy?

I think it's the other way around. Comment reads like an idealistic middle aged person idea to me. I don't know anyone under 30 who wouldn't immediately mock it.

> not saying they were better sailors, but that 2000 years later maritime technology was a lot better.

Isn't that saying the same thing?

Not really a technical comment but this is the first time I've seen language syntax written down with graphs in documentation. I honestly would've preferred text but it is interesting. What tool did you generate them with?

I've gotten into camping and climbing recently and every time I walk into an REI I'm pretty amazed at how different the gear is from when I was younger. Might not be as flashy but there certainly has been a great deal of improvement in pretty much every consumer good there is.

> But I think you are discounting how effectively they use the mechanics of HN to shut down criticism of their deity

I don't care about Modi but I flagged your comments because I'm tired about the endless whining about "them" supposedly manipulating HN. If you don't like Modi tell me why, don't go around strawmaning and generalizing Indian tech workers.

You don't want to read Pravda or GlobalTimes, and I'd rather "Weapons of Mass Destruction" New York Times and "Secret Microchips" Bloomberg stay in America. Perhaps you should stick with what's allowed in your own country instead of shoving your propaganda down everyone else's throats.

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> The dream of a cyberspace that gave people the freedom to inhabit a space independent of geography

It was a dumb dream in the first place. I don't want to live in some souless homogenized world run by Zucc and co.

Last time I checked the US has refused to let anyone audit Ft. Detrick.

It took two comments for a thread about Twitter to turn into HNers identifying and generalizing a racial/national out group.

Cost of Living differences exist you know. I nominally make twice as much as people I know in non-"gen-Z" countries but we have the same quality of life.

He wasn't actually an arson suspect, so it's defamation either way.

Maybe some random American social media company whose politics aren't even liked by most Americans shouldn't meddle in the affairs of India. I hope this ends with Twitter being banned. I'm tired of Silicon Valley techies grandstanding about "disinformation" when their entire platforms are nothing but disinformation.