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New comment by gruppe_sechs in "The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy"

gruppe_sechs — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:15:48 +0000

As the modelling gets better, are we ultimately heading for a future where the only people who are able to get insurance are people who don't need it, because they aren't going to make a claim? If insurers get too good at predicting the future then it breaks their entire business model.

New comment by gruppe_sechs in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

gruppe_sechs — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:10:39 +0000

Maybe in the original Russian, but the English word "gulag" can refer to an individual camp and not just the organisation that ran them: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulag

New comment by gruppe_sechs in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

gruppe_sechs — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:10:14 +0000

*murdered

New comment by gruppe_sechs in "The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable"

gruppe_sechs — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:07:18 +0000

You forgot the part where the central planners herded millions of people into Gulags, starved tens of millions more to death, then executed a few million more for good measure.

Other than that, spot on though.

New comment by gruppe_sechs in "'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months"

gruppe_sechs — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:02:59 +0000

As opposed to other writers whose perspective is "I'm wrong"?

New comment by gruppe_sechs in "English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2018)"

gruppe_sechs — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 22:16:18 +0000

Something I've heard fairly consistently from people who've learned English as a second language is that it's relatively easy to learn English to a basic or intermediate level, since English grammar is relatively simple (no genders, no cases, simple verbs, etc), but taking your English from intermediate to advanced is much harder because of all the weird quirks, irregularities, idioms, phrasal verbs, inconsistent spelling etc..

My experience of learning several Asian languages as a native English speaker is kind of the opposite - the initial learning stage is very hard and it took me a long time to get to a point where people would understand me at all. But once I got over the initial hump, things progressed from "basic" to "intermediate" quite smoothly. (I never stuck around for long enough to get from "intermediate" to "advanced" though, so who knows.)