Yeah definitely downvote manipulations going on again...
At this point I'm not even upset or shocked. It just further supports the narrative Russia is seeking to manipulate/exploit the internet to their benefit.
Considering the average Russian is poorer than an Indian, it looks like Putin is going to fuck over his country as his countrymen cheer him on and suffer in poverty and alcoholism.
The West will crush the feeble Russian economy back to Tsar days.
Isn't it peculiar that Russia remains the least hit or not even hit at all? It seems like the West was a clear target. Connecting the dots here, it's suffice to say Shadow Brokers serves Russian interests.
We are seeing bullet holes from what seem to have been cyber warfare between the former cold war foes.
My theory is scope creep. These guys have done a good job of convincing people that they can live the ultimate space exploration fantasy that's been talked about since the 80s.
It's the ultimate simulation. We know very little about space and even fiction (ex. star wars) seems to generate even more demand.
As people got excited and started throwing money at them, so did the scope obviously. I love Star Citizen's attention to detail but it's suffice to say that they've hit people's patience.
Of course, but can you do the same with Arabic in the same time span? I think not.
With Hangul, you can start writing your own name, lot of English words in Korean which is understood in Korea. Even Konglish (Phonetically typed Korean in English) is understood to a certain degree.
Anything beyond that, you will need to learn the Korean words, but it gets you a lot farther than most languages.
No I don't have scientific evidence to support this but from anecdotal experiences. Somebody wants to write a paper on it let me know, I'll give you 0.1 bitcoin.
Why do you require scientific evidence to support opinions? What's so shocking about claiming English is "less expressive" than Latin? Care to show scientific evidence that suggests that isn't the case?
Please post your scientific references using APA format in all of your comments from now on. Anything less is a disappointment to your high standards.
> The only unique feature of Hangul is that all the letters making up a syllable are arranged in one square
That's one feature that makes it superior to say Chinese. Chinese character is a bitch to learn and it's been bastardized by the communist party to increase literacy.
I won't disagree that my piece on Soylent was inflammatory but it was because in my humble opinion, it's shitjuice. It could've been put in a better way.
I also won't apologize for criticizing the defense industry and any individual/startup involved/acquired by it.
After all, I turned down money from a VC who I found out sold his company to the defense industry and had multiple off-shore shell accounts that I tracked using https://panamapapers.icij.org/
All that aside, I don't believe it's fair to have ANY and ALL of my comments downvoted because some people disagree with my views.
I have nothing but respect for HN folks. So many smart people, so much talent and potential, I only seek to learn from everyone else who is clearly smarter and successful than me.
I will dial it back but this downvote manipulation is very real and I'm seeing high karma accounts abusing their power very openly with little to no repercussion.
I feel like HN is approaching Stackoverflow levels, where contribution is discouraged unless high karma accounts approve.
Yeah except the timing of the downvotes are always the same, which made me think somebody is doing it on purpose.
Having said that, I believe that there is a ring of high karma accounts manipulating and censoring comments. I see regular comments that shouldn't be downvoted censored because it's critical of some startup/company that has HN users involved.
it started a few months ago, at first I thought it was a coincidence but the similar number of downvotes always make it with no explanation for downvotes.
Now it's blatantly obvious somebody is drive by downvote manipulating my comments.
> It's considered that by lay people, largely due to Korean patriotism, not by real linguists (can you provide a source?)
I didn't say the MOST, it's among the more scientific languages. I'm not pushing for Korean patriotism, that's just your own assumptions.
> So, you're talking about the alphabet used to write the language, not the language itself. At best you've proven that Korean has a highly regular writing system. But I'd argue that the average HNer could learn to read, for example, Spanish in about two minutes.
Hangul is the writing system that is uniquely different from a latin based system like Spanish. Your argument is moot.
Interesting stuff. The Korean language is considered one of the most scientific language on the planet. I'm puzzled why that NASA guy would push Sanskrit to be an actual application language. In my opinion, an HN'er should be able to read and write Korean in about an hour. I don't know if that's true for Sanskrit.
Taking a look at Sanskrit, it looks very cool. I think it's aesthetically better looking than Korean alphabet.
This is like that movie where US pilots have to battle a super advanced AI stealth drone.
AI really should have no place in military but it's going to happen. Some spineless fucks are going to spread their legs for a 5 star general to sell their company.
The defence industry is in the business of killing humans and you play a direct role by selling your knowledge and skills to make it more efficient. Fuck that shit.
I love how people are attacking those who tried Soylent and didn't like it lol. How many of you guys have invested in Soylent and now worried it's not going as you've planned?
It's 2017, and people still prefer to eat food with friends and families. Soylent sure changed the world!
Except Soylent marketed itself as a replacement. All those shakes you talk about are aimed at supplementing. They weren't stupid enough to tell people to live on it because of the legal liability.
