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Seeing as though deep structure is by definition unobservable in its direct form, it would be kind of strange to tackle that before building up a lexicon. A more interesting questi…

Nice! Looking forward to seeing where this leads :)

I mean, what would the priors look like for this dude? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZBmELy1Dc

Without a more cross-cultural study this falls more into the domain of cultural bias (still interesting) than what the title suggests. I'd love to see what the results look like in…

I have mild Tourette's, which has thankfully gotten milder in adulthood. It was the most pronounced in grade school. Minor facial tics, the occasional head jerk, and some subvocali…

The sneeze analogy is a good one. Or an itch that you're trying not to scratch.

You'd be surprised how many people play live with 1/8" jacks. It's also a useful backup when someone spills beer on your RME Fireface.

Objective-C also uses ARC by default, and that's been the case for several years now. In any event, avoiding retain cycles is relatively straightforward and most iOS devs I know wo…

I do think, as one of the commenters on the original thread suggests, that some of the blame lies with the often latent relationship audio software companies have with Apple's rele…

Some of us happen to think that no GC is a good thing, in Obj-C's case. Swift eschews it as well.

I studied theoretical linguistics through the graduate level and it wasn't until rather late in my schooling that I even began to hear of competing frameworks such as HPSG or LFG, …

As the foundational figure in modern Linguistics Chomsky has had an outsized role in shaping the field, some of it good and some bad. IMHO the usefulness of mainstream generative g…

Wow

If the President is vowing to veto it, you can probably rest assured it's more than just "normal machinations of the government", as long as that implies "nothing to be concerned a…

Wherein a bunch of privileged white men all agree that they were never privileged all along.

Agreed, I'm kind of shocked people aren't seeing this for what it is. Like the much ballyhooed open office plan, or the typical "we don't track vacation time" policy in modern star…

What's the name of your company?

It's funny how tech companies are making money from the distribution of this supposedly valueless content that the market supposedly has no demand for.

Not at all. Rather, it's that your heuristic of "providing value" breaks down spectacularly in the face of even the most casual observations of consumer demand. Whether value is pr…

There's such a pervasive notion, especially among techies and other white collar types, that artists and musicians either don't deserve a good living or should be happy just to get…

And the parent thread will?

Here's another "fun" example. Some of our early uses of the term were to describe the KKK, which was and remains a terrorist organization par excellence. Except that the clandestin…

Aside from the usual difficulties in defining a word so politically loaded, this is a problematic heuristic. The Pan Am Flight 103 bombing was claimed by at least three groups, bef…

Whiteness is the common thread

For real?