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Apple is very good at marketing, but they did not invent the concept of PDA (that's how these devices were called back then) with the iPhone - they just came up with a yet another PDA which was decent, and were very good at marketing.

This is happening already. Teslas can be controlled remotely, and it does not have to be the owner of said Tesla.

Yes, somehow people are okay with that. The world we live in gets scarier and scarier every year.

There is no central authority over the Spanish language since the days of Bolivar and San Martin (1810s or so). Modern e.g. Argentinians would laugh at the idea that Real Academia Española has any say on how they should use their language. And indeed, there are differences not just in vocabulary and pronunciation, but also in grammar: "vos hablás" instead of "tú hablas".

Nevertheless, I can pick pretty much any written Spanish word and know how it sounds both in European and Argentinian Spanish.

It is specifically English which failed at the task of not being like Chinese.

"Most" like "cost", or like "ghost?" Also, only now I checked the transcription for "exaggeration", and "gg" is not "g", like in "blogger", but ʤ like in "Jason". TIL.

If this is not "most of the time", than I don't know what is.

It is "a guess" at best, and that guess won't be correct most of the time, unless you know the word already. And when you don't, you'll be dealing with all kinds of Cansas/Arcansas and although/drought/through/bought/cough/enough most of the time.

In e.g. Russian or German, you can read the word from the way it is written and maybe miss the accent. In e.g. Spanish you can read the word correctly with the right accent most of the time. Even Korean is more phonetic than English - in English the best you've got is a guess.

Not unlike Mandarin, by the way.

Source: non-native speaker of English, also speaker of some other languages.

Could they? Soviet Union did not let its citizens leave easily.

It's different nowadays, and you'll be surprised to learn:

- that Google an likes have more than enough offices outside the U.S.

- that quite a lot of their employees are Russian citizens, Russia has been a talent pool for them for quite a while

- that the war changed very little for their employment

- and that Google did not stop hiring from Russia after the war began

But that's just it, Irish trad. Frenchies have something similar with balfolk, but not so epic, and while there are other strong European folk scenes, none of them is on the scale of Irish trad. Alas.

Source: I play jigs and reels for fun.

Not sure whether things are similar in Panama, but it could very well be. If so, it's cultural barrier, not malignacy.

I too don't like it when room service touches my stuff (it is a mess, but it is my mess!) - putting a DND sign on the doorknob and not removing it for the whole stay fixed that problem for me.

Aren't costs going up for everyone else anyway? Hot take: instead of hoping that rich alumni would donate to universities, the nation could tax these folks properly instead, and use that money make public education free/cheap.

There are quite a few countries in the world doing this, not all of them rich.

This is a good question, and more practical than it might look like: there have been instances of major media outlets being caught quietly editing their "early" covid reporting from spring 2020 later in the pandemic, to better match the changes in the narrative.

I deeply regret not bookmarking some of the examples: this is now ungooglable, and not having a prooflink makes me sound like a conspiracy theorist.

The matter here is that the commenter I was responding to says I don't exist. My experience is that folks with that attitude also treat me as if I don't exist. I object to both of these things.

Selling your first-born rights for a lentil soup, or agreeing to adversarial T&C of a foreign corporation should not be a precondition for participating in a society.

Could you please stop making my life harder? No, not "literally everyone" has Whatsapp: I don't. Agreeing to T&C of some foreign corporation should not be a precondition to participating in the society, don't you think?

Well here we are, prophecy fulfilled: tech people who see no difference between GitHub and git.

One could argue that being able to read and write in Chinese is quite an accomplishment. For alphabet-based writing systems, kids as young as 6 y.o. can read pretty much any word they know, and write many of them. Not for Chinese.

Given a choice, would you prefer the teacher of your kid paid 30k or 60k? I'd prefer the second option even if it would be the same person teaching, because do you really want your kids to be raised by people in dire financial situation?

A prospect of smarter folks becoming teachers (or staying in the field if they're there already) is a nice bonus.

The most common cited reason, you probably wanted to say.

Compare: "the most common reason for content removal in Chinese internet is dissemination of fake news" vs "the most common cited reason for content removal in Chinese internet is dissemination of fake news"

I guess that does not bother you, but what are your thoughts on this anyway?

Out of curiosity, do you ever travel out of your country?

If yes, how do you deal with the gun issue? If no, how do you feel about being locked within your national borders?

If an employee leaves Google, Google loses 1/140k = 0.0007% of its workforce, a negligible amount. If Google fires an employee, employee typically loses 100% of their income, which is non-negligible.

So, Google firing 12k employees means that twelve thousand people will lose 100% of their income, for the sake of... shareholder interests?

Many people see this situation as morally not-okay.

If anything, this demonstrates how unpopular this idea is. Of dozens games released and cracked every year, after 40 years of PC gaming, how many tried this strategy? A handful? Also, I now checked some of these games at my favorite torrent tracker, and yes, they are there, they are cracked, and there are no complaints about these defense systems in comments.

And these are games. I wonder if anyone has ever tried that with more useful software, and if they had any success with this strategy.

edit: I now realize I might have met this "in the wild". In my case the game was "The Legend of Kyrandia", and my cracked version could not be completed indeed.

All this trick achieved was making that kid who was me frustrated and unhappy. The game did not explain what was wrong, and there were exactly zero ways I could get a legal copy in Russia in 1999 anyway.

I got a better cracked copy later though. Nice game, do recommend.

"That software of yours? Yeah, I tried it once and it was garbage, couldn't even save its own output properly. Now you want me to buy it for... wait, how much?"

Could you point me to AAA-battery powered noise cancelling headphones? No bluetooth necessary.

I have a pair from 2014, and I love that as long as I have some spare batteries, I'm never stuck with headphones which I can't use because of low charge, and that I don't have to charge yet another device. That pair has no bluetooth, so power usage is low: one AAA battery for 30-40 hours of use.

When these are dead, I won't find a replacement, because manufacturer does not want me to use the same device for eight years. They want me to have the integrated battery dead in a couple of years and buy a new pair.