Ask HN: What has been your single best investment?

Re:Ask HN: What has been your single best investment? by DiggyJohnson on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @12:52PM (#30845128)

This is not the strongest interpretation of what GP was trying to say. You are assuming you know more about what this individual wants to read that the individual yourself, just to make a very obvious statement that presumably everybody in this thread is already aware of.

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Re:Ask HN: What has been your single best investment? by Zababa on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @02:51PM (#30846796)

I think it is. As someone that learned English too (French is my first language), I know how much it expends your world. You suddenly have access to a wealth of knowledge, resources, media that you didn't have before. However, I would never say something like:

> if it is not being translated into English, there are big chances it is not worth reading

English may be the language with the most written text (altough I'm not even sure of that), but that's still a fraction of what humanity produced. Dismissing the rest as "probably not worth reading" makes no sense to me. That doesn't prevent me for recognizing that for exemple knowing English is a big advantage in software, since there are more resources and they are often higher quality than what I can find in French. The keyword here being "often". Not "always". And that's taking a very "technical" and "easy to translate" domain. When taking into account culture and all of that, I know that people that can't understand French miss a lot of French culture. Just like I know that I miss lots of culture from languages I don't understand.

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