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Common misconception. Arabic sounds lovely https://youtu.be/WEwgafTDrOU

Arabic sounds lovely https://youtu.be/WEwgafTDrOU

Arabic sounds lovely https://youtu.be/WEwgafTDrOU

I believe they were fairly light handed in that regard, and respected the cultural independence of their people. Grain of salt though, vague memory.

You would just learn Egyptian or Lebanese arabic, everyone would understand you.

Written (formal) arabic is a different story though, I think that's what's commonly taught for non arabic people

That's a totally different letter, not a different pronunciation..

It's like confusing thumb with sum

This has been my experience exactly.

It's a little shocking how common the groupthink was, and no one dared speak against it, so it's nice to see people speaking freely here.

Agile makes me want to leave software entirely.

The people you describe are a ridiculously tiny minority.. It hardly reflects on their society as a whole.

What you bring up, I think, is just a common trope about Japan.

People have misleading ideas like this about countries they haven't experienced much of.

For example, I've met a few people who think every inch of the US is a lawless bullet storm.

Interesting take.

I agree about consistency and intuitiveness.

I'm suddenly grateful for my mum basically doing this for free my whole life.

> The play store may not actually be self-sustaining in terms of revenue

Really? 30% of every sale and in-app purchase in the entire android ecosystem of billions of users?

I think it's probably profitable. Just a bit.

I think I get what you're saying.

Wouldn't a computer enthusiast be happy and comfortable with desktop Linux though? It's still hackable as you like and you can install a more.... I mean a less simplified desktop environment.

(I assume by "targeting the mainstream" you mean simplification of the UI, mostly)

I don't like any OS that oversimplifies, such as by removing advanced options (why not put them on another screen?) But I am a strong supporter of proper usability, including in Linux - just that things should be intuitive and simple at first glance, and aesthetically pleasing. As in I don't want the Linux UIs of ~2000 to return.

That said, there's the legitimately terrifying oppression of the Uyghurs, and the filtering of any information the government doesn't find supportive enough of their regime

I don't think it's a zero sum game. Just because country A becomes more powerful doesn't mean country B must be less powerful.

Countries rise in power together all the time.

Look at Asia and Europe in the last couple decades.

Also I think you exaggerate the differences between the West and China. The US these days is by no means a beacon of liberty and fairness. And China is no Taliban-level opressor. Yes, there's quite a lot of poor behaviour on their part but I see it as roughly the same order of magnitude as most non-european countries.

The Chinese people are idealogicially pretty damn similar to the rest of us, that is, they're human.

As for their government, on the global stage they're being far more cooperative and rational than the US is these days, even if they're being pushy in their neighbourhood.

Also, come to think of it, it's the US declaring illegal wars recently with hundreds of thousands dead and you know, causing ISIS. What did China do that compared to that?

Even if superpower status was dropped in the US' lap post-ww2, I think it's hard to argue they've worked extremely hard to maintain sole superpower status from the cold war onwards.

All the assets you say China is planning to build (military bases, economic control and political clout) have been very, very forcefully acquired by the US.

Fair point.

I think the market doesn't have room for another desktop OS beyond niche uses.

As in, why would a mainstream user go with Linux over MacOS or Windows?

Same deal with Android and iOS. Insufficient room or need for #3.

Also, apps/software. Devs don't want to support 3 OSs. Users don't want to switch to an OS missing software.

If Microsoft couldn't do it with Windows phone, I don't see why anyone else could.

(Although, I just recalled, Chromebooks exist, found a niche (education, grandparents) and found a monetization method (vampiring on user's privacy.))

Makes me wonder if Ubuntu could do a ChromeOS-like strategy. But without the data-sucking.

Totally agree.

When I'm having a tough time over something non-trivial, and someone looks pained and says something like "that must be hard for you" I'm just thinking that's nice but are we friends or are you my psychologist?

If someone said damn that sucks! I went through similar situation X and approach Y worked well for me, that's incredibly useful information! Sharing experiences is a huge part of friendship.

This writer seems to be suggesting that I should see someone's honesty and helpful information as a selfish insult.

Even if it's not advice, I'd much prefer the honest reaction. It's empathy. It doesn't diminish my pain.

One of the points of the article is that Scots is definitely not a dialect, and is definitely a separate language, to the point that the author stopped answering the question of which it is because it was so common a misconception.

Wasn't Mark Shuttleworth fulfilling this role for Ubuntu as the Benevolent Dictator For Life?

Ubuntu made great strides towards mainstream usability on the Linux desktop.

I think the GNOME project has a strong focus on design, with its Human Interface Guidelines going back many years.

That's ridiculous.

You can't make baseless claims then call it abuse if someone asks for evidence.

My evidence, if you like, are all the people using live Bitcoins on LN right now, and the dozens of exceptionally bright people working full time on it.

Logically it follows it probably isn't fundamentally flawed if these things are happening.

Also, by your definition, you're "sea-lioning" too, by asking for evidencw.

What an absurd way to stop people questioning your claims.

If I was like you I'd just say you're lying and then when you dispute that, I'll claim you're abusing me.

It is a big deal, for experience, and you're right about it being the kind of thing certain engineers don't see as a big deal.

But- I'd rather they fix a bunch of other things first.

I'd put "things that don't work" in the first todo bucket, then move on to "things that are painful to endure", followed by "things that make it feel janky"

I wanted to use Fedora recently and it totally failed to handle my perfectly common laptop graphics card. Ubuntu did it fine.

I'm not going to pretend to understand the validity of your claims frankly because I don't.

I've seen some discussion of supposed possible race conditions on LN, apparently the gossip protocol is temporarily being used for routing and means there is no problem? (I'm a layman obviously.) But people seem to think that that will carry LN for long enough until an improved routing protocol is developed.

Do you have a source for your claims? I'm just seeing your hypothetical/theoretical scenario predicting doom, while there's dozens of people in multiple organisations working on lightning, and you're claiming they're all corruptly serving an "oligarchy" so it's your word against theirs.

Also afaik there's thousands of nodes on the live lightning network and it's essentially working.

If it was true that anyone with a basic understanding of race conditions can see the network won't work, then surely LN wouldn't get off the ground or would be being savaged on a hundred people's blog posts or what have you, and it's not.

So basically, I don't know if you're right but I'm finding it doubtful.

You can blame the Murdoch press (and others) in the UK for constantly pushing the narrative that the EU is a corrupt bureaucracy making absurd laws and stealing your rights and money.

I mean, can you believe this?

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1800/1*piGY6KAwYsDSweClC...

https://s-i.huffpost.com/gen/1521502/thumbs/o-SUN-FRONT-PAGE...

Mind elaborating on these risks?

You've made this claim with no evidence or detail at all.

You've made this race condition claim multiple times in this thread, and haven't backed it up with any detail whatsoever and no evidence.

Could you back it up? You've literally only linked the race condition article and not provided any detail, like which race condition under which circumstances and why it can't be dealt with.

The fact that you're claiming this multiple times with 0 detail and no evidence makes me think you're someone with an interest in something against Bitcoin.

Yeah we were talking about the pre-oh-shit-backtrack changes

Hang on.

The logical thing to do, if your real aim is to have browser sign in state reflect cookie state, is to sign out the browser when someone clears their cookies.

That would make total sense to users.

I think this is clear evidence that Google made this change to keep more users signed into Google so they can collect more of your data without telling you.

So it is

But will it be there forever?

Some other post on HN on this topic implied these options tend to vanish over time. (I'm not sure if they so or don't)

So make an advanced options screen divided into categories.

It's not hard.

And you don't have to do every possible customisation options, just the ones that people are enraged about.