wageslave99
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Uses English as a 2nd language (excuse me if I torture the language).
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Comment · 2 years ago
There are a lot of places like this without the leverage that Meta can give you in the future. I think it is definitely a factor for being selected for future positions.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, for sure. I would be there some years, get some experience and skills and get out.
Comment · 2 years ago
I don't agree on that. Having a common language that you can use to communicate with a large number of people is a godsend.
Comment · 2 years ago
Argentinians do care since 1931, date where they founded their Academy of Language [1]
[1] https://www.asale.org/academias/academia-argentina-de-letras
Comment · 2 years ago
"Spain" is not forbidding anything, the RAE [1] and the ASALE [2] are working together in keeping a common tongue. Don't allow some chauvinistic view to cloud your judgement.
Comment · 2 years ago
You know that the RAE [1] work together with the Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE) [2], right? You are showing the RAE in bad light, while both the RAE and the ASALE work together when creating new editions of the dictionary or new grammar rules.
About your "neologisms", no they are calcos or loan translations [3], they are not neologisms. They would be neologisms if they were new words, not copy of words from other languages.
Comment · 2 years ago
Please note that there is no "standard" Spanish. In the Spain there are multitude of dialects and different variants. Even in the same region (e.g. Andalusia) you can find a ton of different variants. All of them are valid, as the RAE and the AAL make it clear.
Comment · 2 years ago
You don't know anybody that don't do siesta when on holidays, not during normal working periods.
In the cities, people do not stop working midday to nap. Now if you are talking about rural towns, that is another thing.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is an inflammatory post without any desire for polite discussion.
I doubt you are even from Europe (non-Russian).
Comment · 2 years ago
> The point of siesta
Nobody takes siestas in Spain but the elderly, children and people without A/C in hot zones in summer, and I suppose in some rural towns as well.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why a lot of software engineers have carpentry as a hobby or pivot to that job?
Comment · 2 years ago
> Can you imagine a hypothetical education system where students leave secondary school with an advanced-undergraduate level of mathematical maturity?
That would have been my dream.
> Why or why not?
Mathematics is the foundation of science, so that would have been helpful for my (then) future studies.
> What would such a system have to look like?
Not teaching algorithms to resolve problems, teaching from the source of the mathematical principles, I mean the practical issues that caused scientist to develop Math. I suppose that the Russian School of Mathematics[1] teaches Math that way, like in some Soviet books that were mainly practical.
Also, it is needed to have 5 hours per week of Math, to not have a fast pace when teaching kids. Math needs some time to "assimilate", and IMHO, 3 hours/week was not enough.
In this system, once you get out high school you could pursue the proofs of each theorem or a more inner and rigorous approach to learning Math.
Comment · 2 years ago
Unless you have the same qualifications than scientists, and have your work reviewed by skilled peers, "Doing Your Own Research" equals to "quackery".
Comment · 2 years ago
What's the status of a work done without permission? I read that it is illegal and the court order it to be destroyed, but if it would not be destroyed, would the author regain the copyright after Tolkien works are in the public domain? Would it forever forbidden to be publicly available?
Comment · 2 years ago
Apart from the author being a peculiar man... Is the book good? Has anyone read it?