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There are a lot of places like this without the leverage that Meta can give you in the future. I think it is definitely a factor for being selected for future positions.

Yes, for sure. I would be there some years, get some experience and skills and get out.

I don't agree on that. Having a common language that you can use to communicate with a large number of people is a godsend.

Argentinians do care since 1931, date where they founded their Academy of Language [1] [1] https://www.asale.org/academias/academia-argentina-de-letras

"Spain" is not forbidding anything, the RAE [1] and the ASALE [2] are working together in keeping a common tongue. Don't allow some chauvinistic view to cloud your judgement. [1] h…

You know that the RAE [1] work together with the Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE) [2], right? You are showing the RAE in bad light, while both the RAE and the …

Please note that there is no "standard" Spanish. In the Spain there are multitude of dialects and different variants. Even in the same region (e.g. Andalusia) you can find a ton of…

You don't know anybody that don't do siesta when on holidays, not during normal working periods. In the cities, people do not stop working midday to nap. Now if you are talking abo…

This is an inflammatory post without any desire for polite discussion. I doubt you are even from Europe (non-Russian).

> The point of siesta Nobody takes siestas in Spain but the elderly, children and people without A/C in hot zones in summer, and I suppose in some rural towns as well.

Why a lot of software engineers have carpentry as a hobby or pivot to that job?

> Can you imagine a hypothetical education system where students leave secondary school with an advanced-undergraduate level of mathematical maturity? That would have been my dream…

Unless you have the same qualifications than scientists, and have your work reviewed by skilled peers, "Doing Your Own Research" equals to "quackery".

What's the status of a work done without permission? I read that it is illegal and the court order it to be destroyed, but if it would not be destroyed, would the author regain the…

Apart from the author being a peculiar man... Is the book good? Has anyone read it?

Thank you! I'm a fan of the Nosferatu type of vampire and didn't know that they were sued by the Stoker Estate!

Are you sure that if the US gov would not send help to Ukraine, that money will be used to help homeless people?

More info according to [1]. At 13:10 Redsys (a payment Gateway) experienced an outage for hours[2]. At least around 18:00 it was resolved because I bought some groceries without an…

Not related to the Catalan language but to Pierre Catala: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala#pierre-catala ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Catala )

Could you put the surname with uppercase letters? That's a convention used in France that I think we should all use. In Spain, where we have two surnames (first one from father and…

Depending on if my audience are Spanish speaking people or not. If the topic is somewhat related to information technology I don't see the need (even me that I'm a Spanish speaker …

English has many issues (non-phonetic, auxiliar verbs, big lexicon, etc.) I was aiming for a kind of artificial language with a natural language foundations.

English has its own issues. It is not phonetic and there is no official pronunciation. It also has inconsistencies like using auxiliar verbs to negate ( I do not think this vs I th…

I mean European languages, in the context of internal migration inside EU. I don't know anything about Indonesian so, it's nice to know my idea is not a crazy one. If Chinese and I…

I've always thought about having simple dialects of languages: limited vocabulary, only three tenses, no declinations (in the languages they have, i.e. German) and only regular ver…