https://www.multitran.com — a great Russian-to-many dictionary with examples of use across many professional domains. Also has English UI option.
Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
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#272https://independenttrader.pl/ is a non-mainstream blog about investing, economy etc.
I don't agree with the author on many subjects and views, but it's interesting to read and think about them sometimes.
They do very deep analyses on each subject they cover, provide a lot of context, information, graphs, historical comparisons and interpretations that are not (or only briefly) discussed in mainstream.
It's however best to skip reading most of the comments :)
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#273Sometimes I feel bad for not contributing to the hispanic sphere. I mean, most of internet's content is in English. Programming is all in english. English is also the lingua franca. But everything seems dull compared to english content. You have the science, the TV and so on, maybe its just me not feeling so good about local culture. Yet tourists seem to love these places. What a paradox.
Same thing here. I've never known how to get into the hispanosphere internet.
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#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
Germany really needs to start documenting their work in English. This is good stuff.
Or more people need to learn German? The community is already there, obviously — if others want to join, that's how they do it.
OP brought up English because it’s one of the most widely used languages in the world, thus a translation would make KNX more accessible to everyone. Standards are created to make things interoperable across manufacturers so expanding the market to include other countries ( and competitors) is good for consumers everywhere. Unfortunately German isn’t as far reaching a language and asking the majority of inhabitants in other countries to learn it may be too high a barrier to entry
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#275Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with your point on principle, but to balance a bit: I'm trilingual but don't (yet) speak German. Yes there's no fair reason why English should be the standard language, but there's value in a standard language and that's the closest we have. Edit: I'm not American and English isn't my native language
I empathize with you. But I reject that it should fall upon Germany to learn English for your convenience or that the task of translating their texts should fall upon them. I guess I reacted (perhaps poorly) to GP's statement that Germany "really should start documenting their tech in English" which to me sounded rather preposterous.
How does Germany ingest technologies from outside Germany? Is all tech in DE home-grown?
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain how and why you think a documentary such as Ken Burns' Civil War series, a seminal example of American documentaries, is filled with action and conspiracies?
if you go to the "documentary" section on Netflix or another streaming service, there are dozens and dozens of really low-quality documentaries. Some are on conspiracy topics (UFOs, ancient aliens) or stupid and sensationalist. They all seem to treat the audience like they are not very smart. I think most were produced on small budgets to run during the daytime on cable channels like History or Discovery, and then so…
Right, this would be like going into Amazon Prime and saying the median content is what American TV is like.
To be fair, it may be, but the Certified Fresh tab of Rotten Tomatoes is what viewers talking about TV have in mind.
To your point, look somewhere applying a touch of curation by quality for a fairer take on what Americans want in a documentary.
https://www.metacritic.com/browse/tv/genre/metascore/documen...
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-netflix-docu...
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#277I really like the web page of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation: https://www.nrk.no/
It is so clean and nice, doing exactly what it should: present the news. No ads, no popup, no clutter. And they are incredibly fast picking up what happens abroad (for example, during several terror incidents around in Europe, NRK has been quicker with updates than bbc) as well as presenting curiosities such as: "Cute owl saved from ugly, Norwegian tree" [0]. In comparison, bbc.com (which is relatively okay for a news web page) makes me dizzy with all the different sections and styles and clutter
[0] https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/fin-ugle-redda-fra-stygt-norsk-tr...
Re: Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
#278Sometimes I feel bad for not contributing to the hispanic sphere. I mean, most of internet's content is in English. Programming is all in english. English is also the lingua franca. But everything seems dull compared to english content. You have the science, the TV and so on, maybe its just me not feeling so good about local culture. Yet tourists seem to love these places. What a paradox.
But memes in Spanish seem to be awesome hilarious in comparison
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#279In Spain, forocoches.com (started out as a forum around cars, now tons of subforums; right-wing bias; invitation only) and meneame.net (user submitted news, tech & more; left-wing bias; draconian moderation). Both very useful to understand what people really think in Spain about all kinds of topics.
Menéame has always seem to me as a bad copy of digg.
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#280Quality docomentaries and looks on society on Arte.tv, the european culture channel AFAIK, north americans don't know about its existence. It's available in english. https://www.arte.tv/en/
Arte is spectacular. I've been a fan for a while, and it keeps popping up good surprises.