“For those of you who just can’t be trusted to not blow your allowance. It's not condescending, we swear.”
“Do you keep track of your finances? That’s great because we’ll be withdrawing random amounts into your 'piggy bank' at random times … and maybe even our 'piggy bank' once or twice ;)”
“Do you work for Yelp! and still find yourself blowing all your money on luxury whiskeys and restaurant food? Let us help you with your backup plan before getting yourself fired for calling your boss a spoiled brat, you spoiled brat.”
“Does being an adult with a bank account make you angry? Would you prefer it if mommy took care of your money for you? We’re here to help!”
“Do you accidentally blast 300$ on open bar tabs every Friday night and need that to stop? Give us access to your bank account so we can save you from yourself.”
“Isn’t having so much money that you don’t care if 50$ just disappears for no reason every week just great? Let us help you pretend to be productive with that money by placing it in a negative interest rate savings account!”
"Are you incapable of stopping until it's all gone? We're alcoholics, ahem, compulsive spenders as well. Give the bottle back, Father Jack."
"Do things like 'stocks' and 'bonds' sound scary? Do you think 'gold' and 'silver' are pointless fads? Wish money would stop getting highbrow ideas? We do to, why make your money work for you when you can send it to work for us? Errr... I mean, why make your money work, when you can send it on a tropical vacation?!"
"The San Bernardino litigation isn’t about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message. It is about the victims and justice."
When the government revokes the Gulf of Tonkin resolution I will again put faith in its ability to act responsibly with emergency powers and provisions that might, just might set a precedence. Until then, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, fuck you.
First he complains about the fact that we use an alphabet. Does he even have experience with heiroglyphic languages like Chinese? Basically the Chinese dictionary is split into 200-something "families", so when you don't know what a word means, you get a dictionary, and you flip to a family, then you basically brute force your way through the family to find your word.
Now he complains about the pronunciation. Sorry, but that fucked up pronunciation is one of the main _strengths_ of English. English readily absorbs needed words from other languages. Some languages like French actively remove words from their language.
And the phonetics? Go try out fucking Czech. I've heard it's legitimately impossible to become fluent in Czech. Or Austrian dialect, which has something like 4 different "r"s.
"Hawaiian no consonant is ever followed by another consonant" ... yeah you also frequently run into the german nightmare of neverending words like "humahumanukanukaapuaa". You think that's a better way to deal with things? An easy to pronounce marathon?
The large vocabulary is undesirable? The large vocabulary, with extreme possible specificity, is what makes English so attractive for scientific application.
And complaining about grammar? English has one of the easiest grammars to learn and get started with, sure it will take a few decades to not make any mistakes, but for just getting going, it is remarkably easy. No genders (some languages have 5 or more genders for things, see czech), no conjugation.
Sorry for the rant, but if you're just gonna post some BS one sided oped I'm gonna do the same. I personally don't think English is the best choice either. But one sidedness is ultra-obnoxious.
Sure, this probably helps you focus better than a standard studio album.
I would argue that 90% of the benefit of this music is just from the extended intervals of contiguous playing, so there's no "break" disruption. I think any DJ (esp. deep house) worth half their salt can get someone "in the zone" for half an hour at a time. And artists devoted to minimalist ambient or trambient can get you going for hours straight.
Honestly the "Focus: Intense" or whatever I find super annoying. It's got this constant anxious buildup feel to it and never fucking breaks into what I would consider that peak when I start playin my keyboard like a goddamn piano.
Basically, no fucking way would I even consider shelling out an additional Spotify subscription for some "high tech" whale song machine.
"Putting these prices in perspective for western readers should result in laughter: the new price for 95-octane is equivalent to $0.11/gallon using weakest official Simadi FX rate of about 203 VEF/USD, and 5 times less using the black market FX rate. The price previously was 0.097 bolivar/liter or about one-fifth of a U.S. cent per gallon.
And while the price is indeed laughable to western readers, price increases such as this one are all too tragic to the local population which is paid in local currency terms, and for whom this is merely the latest checkmark on the hyperinflationary wall."
Seriously, the only thing this article is says: Physicists and astronomers are agog. On Thursday, experimenters will report the first detection of a phenomenon that has been long predicted: bursts of gravitational waves generated by cosmic collisions of black holes.
That is NOT a report, that's someone guessing what the report will be. There's not a single quote from anyone remotely involved in the project. This is a piece of shit summary of a wikipedia entry on LIGO with a clickbait headline.
I always laugh a little bit when male authors force female pronouns for hypothetical personages as an attempt to show how progressive, liberal and enlightened they are. It's doubly funny when every name they've cited is a man: Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Ezra Pound, Lenin, Gore Vidal, John Dewey, Adorno, Hazlitt, Stefan Collini (Note I stopped reading this flowery bit of drivel at this first section break, maybe some actual females make an appearance later in this gaudy thesis).
The especially funny bit is the use of _male pronouns_ for the 'lower' character as in: "She never speaks to the reader as he is; she speaks to the reader as he might be."
To clarify, I'm not saying you should force yourself to cite women when the most apt examples you can think of are men; ala this Oscars fiasco attempting to appease the mewling masses by forcing the bellcurve into a more colorful shape. I'm saying that your writing sounds fucking obnoxious and you should just use "they" and "their" like a normal person.
You seem to be describing what is commonly known as a "conversation".
I find it hilarious that western society has gradually devolved itself to such an extent with fear-fear mongering, hate-hate speech, and an absurd amount of righteous indignation that people are literally terrified to have opinions outside the groupthink; and you not only have to invent a game to feel human again, but that game is apparently novel enough to reach the front page of HN. This is literally an analysis of how to have a disagreement without reacting like a fourth grader.
Same with Yahoo in the past week. I think about new years eve the search results suddenly shifted to what they should look like using a Chinese only training set.
Results were all Xinhua and such, wikipedia, imdb, etc are no longer results numbers 1, 2, 3 anymore instead seeing a lot of qq, baidu, xiami etc results for song lyrics, movies, etc.
But it seems to be closer to normal today.
The normal internet speed has been maybe halved or thirded since about the week before Christmas, VPNs are all sketchy, there seems to be a regular interval when all connection is cut for a short time. You see pings oscillate between 40 and 400 ms quite regularly.
Chinese domains are always rock solid though. Can stream music off qq or xiami or stream youku without issue for extended periods of time when ycombinator, bbc news, etc are down. Yahoo and Bing stay up when most western sites are down.
However haven't been seeing as much total blockage as usual when they kick up the security. Lots of social sites that usually go black for a week or two are up just fine.
Also one of these conditions is basically curable. Two once men become more fashion accepting.