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Noone goes without sleep for three days and doesnt pay a severe heavy price for it. Stop it with that dumb sleep machismo...
I didn't take it as machismo, more like "you can do that when you're young"
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I have never heard of "left spacebar" before. Sounds very interesting. So there can be two different spacebars on your keyboard?
Some ergonomic keyboards are split between to the two hands (usually attached, but not always) and have a spacebar key for each hand. But I always thought both keys sent the same signal to the computer.
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I didn't take it as machismo, more like "you can do that when you're young"
But you can't. It's like saying "we used to have to bike uphill through a storm to get to school! Both ways!"
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Man, have you ever been 20smth years old? Do you really remember it as the time when you were thinking about "heavy price" beforehand and were suppressing your "machismo"?
Yes, yes, and yes? People use youth to excuse all sorts of unhealthy behavior. Some of my friends smoked cigarettes but most of us didn't because why would we harm ourselves on purpose like that?
How we know of that unhealthiness? Because some people have explored those options, and we learned the result. One can say those people did public service for our species.
>People use youth to excuse
You're either doing strawman by substituting excuse for explanation, or you're arguing against evolution and natural selection which placed the peak of exploration/exploitation behaviors ratio at the youth time, be it our species or say wolves or cats, etc. I think there are a lot of good reasons why that peak is at the youth time.
>Some of my friends smoked cigarettes but most of us didn't because why would we harm ourselves on purpose like that?
Well, cigarettes is established harm. Took decades of years and millions of people, and as result we call it an obvious harm today. It looks though to me that there are greater harm out there which can be observed these days - the more and more suppressed exploration instinct which over the generations will result in tremendous negative impact on our civilization, and bringing it back wouldn't be so easy as say quiting smoking (did it myself 22 years ago after a decade of pack-a-day smoking)
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How do you pass the initial language barriers? I'm trying to learn Spanish with Netflix shows and the Language Reactor, but I find it extremely hard to understand spoke Spanish. The characters speak so fast that I couldn't discern individual words or phrases. For a lot of times, they speak as if they are murmuring. When I was learning English, my ability to understand spoken English grew with my ability to read, but…
Have a look at Dreaming Spanish, it exists precisely to bridge the "comprehensibility gap" for learners. https://www.dreamingspanish.com (or find the Youtube channel) There's tons of free content to keep you occupied for a while, and then there's a paid tier if you want more down the track. After choosing the level that's suitable, I recommend starting with Pablo's videos - he's the founder and I still like his style…
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Yes, yes, and yes? People use youth to excuse all sorts of unhealthy behavior. Some of my friends smoked cigarettes but most of us didn't because why would we harm ourselves on purpose like that?
>all sorts of unhealthy behavior How we know of that unhealthiness? Because some people have explored those options, and we learned the result. One can say those people did public service for our species. >People use youth to excuse You're either doing strawman by substituting excuse for explanation, or you're arguing against evolution and natural selection which placed the peak of exploration/exploitation behaviors…
We've known cigarettes are unhealthy for a very long time. We'd know sooner if it weren't for cigarette company lobbying. And we didn't need to wait for people to die of cancer, a look at the label is enough lol.
> or you're arguing against evolution and natural selection which placed the peak of exploration/exploitation behaviors ratio at the youth time
This is at least as fallacious if not more so. I don't have a name for this odd "because of evolution" argument but I hear it a lot when discussing sociology. "Kids smoke cigarettes because cavemen wanted to explore the horizon" isn't a coherent causal explanation at all.
> Well, cigarettes is established harm.
Exactly, and very well established by the time I was a teenager in the 2010s.
> . It looks though to me that there are greater harm out there which can be observed these days - the more and more suppressed exploration instinct which over the generations will result in tremendous negative impact on our civilization
Ok so what I'm getting is that you have a pet theory that kids not smoking these days is a symptom of an overall rejection of some form of naturalism that you believe is overall harming our society somehow. Is that the case?
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>all sorts of unhealthy behavior How we know of that unhealthiness? Because some people have explored those options, and we learned the result. One can say those people did public service for our species. >People use youth to excuse You're either doing strawman by substituting excuse for explanation, or you're arguing against evolution and natural selection which placed the peak of exploration/exploitation behaviors…
> How we know of that unhealthiness? Because some people have explored those options, and we learned the result. One can say those people did public service for our species. We've known cigarettes are unhealthy for a very long time. We'd know sooner if it weren't for cigarette company lobbying. And we didn't need to wait for people to die of cancer, a look at the label is enough lol. > or you're arguing against evolu…
sociology without evolution/natural selection is like physics without Newton's laws - a religion.
> "Kids smoke cigarettes because cavemen wanted to explore the horizon" isn't a coherent causal explanation at all.
both have the same major component - they are different manifestations of the drive to disobey authority and the established order of things. There are 2 ways of dealing with such things - 1. to convince against and to explain harm, etc vs. 2. to suppress, to force into submission.
>Ok so what I'm getting is that you have a pet theory that kids not smoking these days is a symptom of an overall rejection of some form of naturalism that you believe is overall harming our society somehow.
You picked an easy example (borderline strawman) - smoking (well, it is easy today, after 300+ years it took to establish the harm of tobacco smoking) where the 1. is easy. In many situations the 1. isn't that easy and it requires approach specific to the issue at hands, and the society more and more it seems drives toward applying the 2. as a general solution for all the issues, be it cigarettes or horizon exploration. That general drive of widespread application of the 2. is, i think, very harmful for our civilization.
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Have a look at Dreaming Spanish, it exists precisely to bridge the "comprehensibility gap" for learners. https://www.dreamingspanish.com (or find the Youtube channel) There's tons of free content to keep you occupied for a while, and then there's a paid tier if you want more down the track. After choosing the level that's suitable, I recommend starting with Pablo's videos - he's the founder and I still like his style…
Thanks! I've been on it for some time. I can understand Beginner level most of time, even with 1.25x or 1.5x for most of the videos, but I find most of Intermediate can be significantly harder to understand. One possibility is that the there are more idiomatic phrases in Intermediate, like the use of reflexive verbs, such as hacerse, levarse, ponerse, irse and etc under different context. They are so different from E…
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tarrifs and other measures within the US and EU seem to be going the opposite direction.
It’s very hard to see how those local barriers to entry would reverse the global trend (I might even use a stronger word, closer to juggernaut.) TBH, automated translation is the only potential I see to reduce the massive need for Chinese language skills in the future. Already we (in the US) get (and choose to use!!) parts whose data sheets are only available in Chinese. It seems clear to me where we are going.
What in the supply chain fuck up is that? How do you even get quotes? I've been supply chain at Tesla, Amazon Excelsior metals and i've never, ever had someone send me a data sheet only in chinese.
>It’s very hard to see how those local barriers to entry would reverse the global trend.
Close to 20% of all Chinese exports are easily priced out with a 60% tarrif. Again, you don't need to "Reverse a global trend", you only need to reverse the local barriers to distance trade between the two nations.
So yes, learn that mandarin. Might help you land a job as a project manager for the belt and road initiative in Ghana!
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The state department says 88 weeks for Japanese[1]. A month is a long time with full immersion, getting the basics right will get you far enough that people will help you with the rest. I could communicate relatively well with two weeks of immersion but I did not finnish learning it in 100 weeks. [1] https://www.state.gov/foreign-language-training/
Yeah I highly doubt you could “communicate fairly well” in Japanese after two weeks. You might have memorized some standard phrases, sure. But two weeks would not even be enough when going from Dutch to German or English to French.