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I'd actually think it was a good sign to hear such a request.
Even if it was your startup she was attempting to circumvent?
I thought market disruption was a good thing.
Georgia Minute by Minute
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#23I’m so glad to see my hometown referred on HN, which is pretty rare…
There are many things that you could be annoyed with in Georgia and for these reason many young people flee the country in search of a better life. I somehow declined dozen of relocation offers on the software engineering roles and stayed alongside my big family, which I don’t regret.
If you ignore some parts of the uncomfortable environment, adapt to some of them and construct the comfort around you and your loved ones, I believe life can be comfortable in many places of the world, unless your physical existence is under danger.
From the other side, living in Georgia has many benefits: dollar-value, cheapness, amazing food, really good and cheap wine (for 10 USD you buy a bottle which costs 25-35 abroad), beautiful and diverse nature, safe environment… and steady flights to the EU countries (which I got to used before pandemic) makes travel very easy… I was literally flying in EU every second weekend.
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#25გამაჯობა! So pleasant to see that this is for Georgia the country. I have been living here in Tbilisi for about 6 months now and haven't gotten tired of it one bit.
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#26A bit unrelated, but the page includes this bit of code: if(window.location.protocol != 'http:') { location.href = location.href.replace("https://", "http://"); } Why? Edit: worse, everything seems fine when in HTTPS. Legacy code?
Looks like some kind of protest against https. Some people don’t like it for whatever reason
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#27Who are these people and what is this blog?
A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
Its nice that you respect this person but can we retire the word polyglot? Saying it on behalf of someone else is slightly less worse than someone referring to themselves as one.
I would like to propose just saying “well rounded”, or “multifaceted”.
Its almost as bad as people that care about Mensa.
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A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
Its nice that you respect this person but can we retire the word polyglot? Saying it on behalf of someone else is slightly less worse than someone referring to themselves as one. I would like to propose just saying “well rounded”, or “multifaceted”. Its almost as bad as people that care about Mensa.
Maybe if you are suggesting to retire a whole word out of the language you could at least provide a (valid) reason to do so? It's not really obvious and a bit surprising, honestly.
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A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
Its nice that you respect this person but can we retire the word polyglot? Saying it on behalf of someone else is slightly less worse than someone referring to themselves as one. I would like to propose just saying “well rounded”, or “multifaceted”. Its almost as bad as people that care about Mensa.
The blog author speaks around 15 languages competently and he reads in about 15 more. Here's a 2 hr long interview with him where he touches on this topic: https://azeletmegminden.hu/040-sajo-tamas-podcast/ (in hungarian)
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A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
Its nice that you respect this person but can we retire the word polyglot? Saying it on behalf of someone else is slightly less worse than someone referring to themselves as one. I would like to propose just saying “well rounded”, or “multifaceted”. Its almost as bad as people that care about Mensa.
"Polyglot" refers specifically to language though. I've always taken it as someone being fluent in > 3 languages, following biligual and trilingual.
Based on your proposed alternatives, you're likely thinking "polymath".