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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
>change your way of thinking
Can you clarify what you mean by this?
Comment · 4 years ago
If it has any mention of Japan or Germany in the title, it's bound to end up on the frontpage.
Comment · 4 years ago
>It has tourist amenities without really being touristy
All the results it gave are flooded with tourists, and some of them are among the most expensive you can get in Croatia. :shrug:
Unsure of what to think of the results, as it seems to have very little relevance to the input description other than being in Croatia and being tourist spots.
Comment · 4 years ago
>You couldn't criticize the party but everything else was free.
Politics wasn't free nor was there economic freedom. There's a reason why this Island had temporary visitors :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goli_Otok
Among them, not just political dissidents, people who touched on subjects they weren't supposed to touch on be it in social sciences, economics, art.
>You could drive a light motorbike, no helm, no license.
>The food was natural. You could sleep anywhere without anyone bothering you or having to be afraid that someone would steal from you.
Seems like you're just rendering a nostalgic view of the past common just about everywhere.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't think we are missing the point, we were looking for a Slack alternative and found one. They charged a bit to give you push notifications, now they charge more of it. If not having push notifications were an option for us, we'd have simply downgraded.
Comment · 4 years ago
They decided to up their price per user by a significant amount not too long ago... our self-hosted instance suddenly became more expensive than Slack but with an obviously not nearly as polished product as Slack. So we moved over to Zulip because at least they do their own thing, we haven't had any regrets over the switch to Zulip.
Comment · 4 years ago
Not everyone lives in the US and/or an English-speaking country.
I can't find shit with DDG and the experience is like using Google from 20 years ago when it didn't have any of its bells and whistles.
Comment · 4 years ago
Only about ~40 users, so it's definitely an issue. Haven't investigated yet but this reminded me that we should.
(edit: actually it's now down to 17 gigs)
Comment · 4 years ago
We use it at work. We first switched over to Mattermost, then to Zulip. Mattermost seemed like a clone of Slack and we were initially "satisfied", but didn't see it get improved that much nor noticed any attempts of it trying to tackle other problems. Then they raised their prices to even higher than Slack's, which we took as a bit of dick move seeing as we were self-hosting it + it has nowhere near the experience of Slack. Push notifications in general didn't seem to be that good.
Zulip has a nice spin on the way discussions work with their concept of "topics". It lends itself well to how we conceptualize the discussions across our development teams, without unnecessarily creating many ad-hoc temp channels (something we'd have done on Slack). We're liking it thus far. That being said I do need to check why it's using about 35 gigs of RAM on our server.
Comment · 4 years ago
>American security support for Ukraine is recent
Um, it's not _that_ recent, it dates to at least 1994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... which is almost the length of its independence
Comment · 4 years ago
>Bush Sr promised that NATO wouldn't expand into the former Soviet Union
Surely that was a decision to be made by the relevant countries themselves and not Bush Sr of the United States.
Comment · 4 years ago
Are those net or gross?
Comment · 5 years ago
> TBH I wouldn't expect Xinjiang mummies to be of Indo-European origin, given that Xinjiang is in east Asia.
Apart from the other comment pointing to the Tocharians of Tarim Basin who were Indo-Europeans, the only thing the classification Indo-European means that the language they spoke had Proto-Indo-European as a common ancestor. Even right now there's an Indo-European language right across Xinjiang's border - Tajik. This wouldn't have been anything out of the ordinary.
This as well as the initial statement you've made is controversial and generally frowned up by linguists.
We do not have any evidence that people perceive the world differently nor that it bears any relevance to how they view it. There were attempts at it, but the results are either not very convincing or are based upon farfetched conclusions.
>I can't explain how
Well yes, because it's a broad and unquantifiable claim as well as one that's not really supported by evidence.
As such I don't think it's fair and justifiable to say that learning Japanese changes the way you think. You're just adding additional unnecessary mystique to it.