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> It is the British empire+US hegemony, since WWII/Cold War that makes English lingua franca as it is today. To be fair, it's also centuries of important contributions from English…

From the article: "Amazon likely has about 700 workers [in Ohio alone] receiving food stamps, more than 10 percent of its Ohio workforce "

I totally agree with this, including your 1 and 2, and the parent. This very thread - with repeated posts about malware - demonstrates what "SourceForge" means these days to so man…

Thanks. And yeah, that's one reason I always thought it was surprising if they didn't teach English, since it was the (primary) language of 'the enemy'. Plus whatever faults the US…

> early adopters, which take on more risk I don't want to get into the debate on the definition of a pyramid scheme, but what was anyone risking by mining bitcoins for essentially …

Thanks. You may not be old enough to know from experience, but how does this differ (if at all) from the Soviet period? AIUI Soviet citizens didn't generally learn English in (high…

> English is tought as a second language (or third language in bilingual countries) in most of the world. In primary schools, commonly?

> Can anyone outline the norms for English teaching in the rest of the region and the rest of the world? I'd be interested in this too (or other languages, where it would be approp…

I don't support this (more schools in every country should teach foreign languages in primary school), but AIUI from the article learning English is not now forbidden for young peo…

> A complaint that Hacker News is a less agreeable place than it used to be. Which makes the place no more agreeable. > Whether that's true or not... This is amazing. I ask a quest…

Replying here, since the other post I replied to disappeared: Despite the avalanche of downvotes burying my posts, not even one person can actually answer the question I asked: The…

I disagree. Aside from the sarcastic "buffer overflow" comment, his comment was far more snide than any of the replies he seemed to be complaining about. Since you take a different…

> which unfortunately seems to be getting rarer and rarer on this forum. If this isn't unnecessarily "snarky" itself, then what is it? snarky : (of a person, words, or a mood) shar…

Pretty funny how anti-tracking they are, in their daily submissions to HN, considering the number of resources from external sites - Google, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, Linkedin, et…

I wondered how many times the Russian takeover in DC was going to be reported, but this story is from last year (June, 2017). Meanwhile, in 2011: From the studio in downtown D.C., …

I'm not against space exploration, but it's interesting to me that while we wonder about life on other planets, and dream of placing our own lives there, most of our own planet's l…

> If getting downvoted here bothers you - and God alone knows why it would We can't all be carefree souls who have definitely not hung on to a throwaway for two years because of th…

> Did you have a substantive response to make? Did you? > I understand that you're not satisfied with how the events of Apollo 8 played out. What I don't understand is whence comes…

> You're definitely coming off as an edge-lord for calling this inane. And you're definitely coming off as an idiot using a term like "edge-lord". > Today, I'm sure Twitter would m…

> You are conflating the official position of the organization with a statement made by one of its employees on company time. 1. It was not one person, it was everyone on board. 2.…

Thanks. I wasn't aware of that. I just remember the first time I ever saw that footage, couldn't believe what I was hearing, and haven't forgotten it. My own objection isn't even a…

I'm glad they got the Earthrise Photo, because otherwise, six months before Apollo 11 gave the world a line which even impressed the Soviets, Apollo 8 would be remembered for this …

> I am talking about how big your opportunity to create something in the US is no matter who you are and where you are from compared to other places. What does this even mean? Plea…