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Are they sure it isn’t because they are setting money on fire and have no business model?
Meanwhile, his competition spends 95% of their time just texting people for campaign contributions
We have batteries for this. See Texas and California.
Mix into that a weekly lesson with italki from your home and you can learn any language at any age.
When I go to somewhere that speaks Spanish the whole place “jumps into 3D” for me. I can understand what people at the table next to me are complaining or laughing about, I can make small talk with people, I don’t have to follow the “avocado toast” trail that the non-native speakers sort of get jammed into because they struggle off of it. It is a much more human experience when you understand the language.
At home, I can watch Spanish movies as well, and listen to music artists I probably might never have heard about like C. Tangana and Rosalia otherwise. It has doubled my cultural landscape for me.
After reading the article, I wonder if this isn’t a key secondary benefit to learning the language itself. It gives you a larger variety of things to enjoy in your life.
Instead, with proper design, you make this "left turn" by going to the next roundabout, going around to follow the road the opposite direction, and then make a right turn.
That makes me think that what he really wants is either a bribe
<gets out popcorn>
The rumor is the opposite, that Microsoft has actually used AI to discover and fix common security issues at scale.