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As a native Japanese speaker, I find this homonyms concern kind of odd. It’s like asking how Japanese people can speak to each other and understand one another given all the homonyms -- the assumption being that speech alone clearly isn’t enough without written materials with kanji to aid their comprehension.

The obvious way people handle it in speech is by picking words that are clearer in context when homonyms might cause confusion. If you consume any Japanese video content on YouTube etc, it’s very common for speakers to say a homonym, instantly notice the ambiguity, and restate it using a clearer word or brief explanation, which they could, at least in theory, do in no- or low-kanji writing too.

同音異義語の区別に不可欠な漢字の廃止は不可能か？(Is abolishing kanji -- which is essential for distinguishing homonyms -- impossible?)

https://www.kanamozi.org/hikari932-0704.html

I’m a native Japanese speaker, so you don’t need to explain that writing kana with spaces is non-standard in most media (although some people -- both native speakers and non-natives -- erroneously claim that no native media uses that form of writing).

The people at Kanamoji Kai (all native speakers) are well aware of this too, and their website even has a section on 分かち書き (word separation). They use the example スモモ モ モモ、モモ モ モモ、モモ ニ モ イロイロ アル。 to illustrate that using spaces is a must if we switch to kana-based writing.

>> these full kana games would be harder even for natives if they used a more standard space-free style

This is true, but I take issue with your use of the word “more standard,” as USING SPACES IS THE STANDARD in full kana games.

Any form of writing reform, by definition, involves moving from the current standard to something that is initially non-standard, right? Korea got rid of kanji and now uses spaces with Hangul. In my opinion, it’s way easier to adapt than most people think.

Most of the confusion in written Japanese stems from the use of kanji. The Kanamoji Kai (カナモジカイ) was established more than 100 years ago by Yamashita Yoshitarō (山下芳太郎), and it has been advocating for the abolition of kanji for many years, though without much success.

https://www.kanamozi.org/

If you watch a Let's Play of マザー２ (the original release of the cult classic SNES game EarthBound), you'll notice that writing Japanese using kana alone is not only possible, but that most native speakers have no trouble reading it -- although some claim that having a few kanji makes it easier because of homonyms.

https://www.youtube.com/live/F_UrqsO2JQ0?si=-1r-FbCZCJ3rt-Z1...

The vast majority of books don't generate any profits past the first few years, so I prefer Lawrence Lessig's proposal of copyright renewal at five-year intervals with a fee. Under this scheme, most books would enter the public domain after five years

https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2003/Lessigcopyrigh...

Lessig: Not for this length of time, no. Copyright shouldn’t be anywhere close to what it is right now. In my book I proposed a system where you’d have to renew after every five years and you get a maximum term of 75 years. I thought that was pretty radical at the time. The Economist, after the Eldred decision, came out with a proposal—let’s go back to 14 years, renewable to 28 years. Nobody needs more than 14 years to earn the return back from whatever they produced.

Tyler Cowen also did a podcast with Jonathan Haidt where he questioned Haidt's conclusion that the smartphone/social media are the cause of (some) younger people's poor mental health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQoNd9oEeoI

(The discussion on Haidt's book "The Anxious Generation" starts at 13:08)

Cowen also questioned Haidt's prescription about how social media companies and the government should regulate social media through (stricter) age verification etc.

I haven't read it but Steven Johnson wrote a book that argued the opposite:

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson. Published in 2005, it details Johnson's theory that popular culture – in particular television programs and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making society as a whole more intelligent, contrary to the perception that modern electronic media are harmful or unconstructive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Bad_Is_Good_for_Y...

How about Australian rice, like the Sunbrown brand?

Arsenic levels (mg/kg) in raw rice from different countries

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Arsenic-levels-mg-kg-in-...

This "algorithmically deciding what to focus on (exploration/exploitation)" idea is also discussed in the following book:

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-l...

Brave has the built-in dark mode

> allocate tickets by lottery at lower than market price

I think that's what Kid Rock does for the best seats in the first row, while selling the rest at market rate

Kid Rock Vs. The Scalpers

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/20/475023002/epis...

You can just use the Brave browser on mobile. It supports background playback too.

Apparently it was popular among middle & high schoolers back in 2018, but probably not among adults

https://twitter.com/livedoornews/status/1068834535838633986?...

Another master programmer Linus Torvalds seems to have the opposite attitude though

https://lwn.net/2000/0914/a/lt-debugger.php3

Wonder if there's a difference in average attitude between people who do creative stuff (e.g. games) vs people who do infrastructure type stuff (e.g. Linux kernel)

> Accent’s Way on YouTube > taught herself the American accent to a complete perfection

Her oldest video is 12 years ago and I couldn't personally tell if she's just talented at mimicking sound from a young age or if she transitioned from a thick accent to a natural American accent.

I was gonna say the same thing. If she didn't use her domain for her email address and used e.g. Gmail, this problem wouldn't have occurred.

The book "Thinking in Bets" by poker champion Annie Duke made the same point about life being more like poker than chess

> I think Canada (CRA) is doing this behind the scenes

Yes, I noticed that the CRA website displayed my T4 this year, although the problem is I couldn't simply hit "Confirm" and be done with it.

DHH (who also happens to be from Denmark) gave the classic "Unlearn Your MBA" talk in 2010:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlhAkNWC1qo

This could be Sam Altman reacting to the recent article about George Hotz [1] mentioning Sam Altman as actually being a pro status quo figure masquerading as an anti-establishment figure:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30738763

It's a poetic mission statement for an endeavor which seems to jive with Hotz’s recognition that such a school must be physical and beautiful. However, scratch away the veneer, Hotz suggests in a recent blog post, and one finds that those behind UATX “are either straight up supporters of Power or naive political children.” He points to Joe Lonsdale, Sam Altman, and Marc Andreessen, all of whom “are very successful in the current system.”

“This is not a counter-elite!” Hotz continues. “This is a spin off of the exact same BS that’s everywhere. NGO awards and fake status signaling markers.”

He also has a blog which is very entertaining to read

https://geohot.github.io/blog/

I remember Coffeezilla did a video about that article

The Untold Truth of Napoleon Hill - History's Most Beloved Con-Man

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDzb9ZplX0

Links are only one factor that gets your comment more likely to be deleted or shadowbanned by YouTube automod (in addition to channel owners' settings for filtering). It's a well known issue for 1-2 years afaik

See the discussion in the following video for example ("YouTube deletes your comments #Shorts").

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY

Contrary to what rasz said, even if you see your comment in the Comments History page, if your comments are shadowbanned, you see your own comments in History but nobody else can see them.

You can use a Piped page like above to check if your comment is displayed for others to see. Even the incognito mode doesn't work.

It's kind of futile to try to do any important discussion in YouTube comments

> Also, it's a bad practice to associate flags with languages

There's even a website for this issue

http://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-re...

Well if the author you like chose Big Tech as their publisher, and you don't want to support Big Tech, and the author isn't asking for money in any other place, I don't know, maybe you can write a message to the author so you can give them money somehow (if the author is interested in it at all)?

I don't know about authors who themselves chose to publish with Big Tech or traditional publishers (& not asking for money elsewhere) but how about supporting authors who are asking for funding in crowdfunding sites (e.g. Indiegogo), membership subscription sites (e.g. Patreon), or the author's own website?

MIT doesn't promote proprietary use cases any more than CC0.

I do (somewhat but not really) get why people use GPL but that's another story. Here we are only talking about people who use MIT instead of CC0.

I wondered why more FOSS projects aren't using CC0 instead of "permissive" licenses like MIT, considering a lot of folks who work in FOSS are against copyright/software patents system in general, and most of them don't really seem to care about attribution.

People who release code under MIT not only won't/can't take legal action but they probably won't even bother writing an email to the person who they believe violated the attribution part.

Stephan Kinsella (who's a patent lawyer) uses an example of some clueless person writing a book and in one of the pages he says, "If you possess this book for more than a minute you are obligated to pay me $1000 per month", and he puts this book on a park bench waiting for someone to pick it up. He later tries to sue the person who picked up the book for not paying their due.

Kinsella uses this example to illustrate how some people have no idea how contracts work.

> I have written licenses to make GitHub hesitate before using my code as input to Copilot

I thought the solution was to treat FOSS as CC0 (public domain) [1], not create yet another license nobody's going to care or use.

CC0 is probably a better license for most FOSS & probably close to what happens in reality (sans a few exceptions) as TikTok and Copilot examples show.

[1] https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc...

What's different from the third-world market is Amazon has a consumer-friendly return policy with 100% refund.

But yes, I'd rather buy the same products from my local Walmart or AliExpress at a lower cost.

In my view knockoffs/replicas/dupes are fine as long as merchants aren't lying about it (the same applies to "IP theft").