"Using your mother tongue is elitist" is bullshit on an epic scale.
It's litteraly your mother tongue man, everyone outside of the elite has a mother, and therefore a mother tongue, it's not expansive, it's your basic birth right.
Why don't people consume audio/video in a foreign language ?
I'm a polyglot myself, so I enjoy that very much, but the simple truth is that most people don't invest the time for becoming fluent in other languages in countries with a "big" language. Works for France, the US, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Japan or China.
Why ? Pretty obvious. Become fluent in a foreign language is a huge effort. Making that effort really only works if you either WANT to do it or if you NEED to do it. The WANT factor is the same everywhere but the NEED to learn a language is way lower if your mother tongue is in the top 5 - or top 10 languages of the world.
The only thing that is specific to French is that French & English have this weird shared history that makes the written langauges very similar and the oral languages very different. So a frequent compromise for french speakers is to become fluent enough at reading/writing, but quite bad at hearing/speaking.
+1 - parent commenter clearly takes too easily of an offense here. Even the French people in my inntercircle agree that there is some level of elitism.
I get the angle you're coming from, but in multi lingual countries where it's table stakes to be at least bilingual, an expressed rejection of not using language A over B is used often as a social cudgel.
They're common in places I go. And once the "that's interesting" factor wears off, they just kind of look unbalanced and awkward to my eyes. Sort of the physical embodiment of someone with no taste trying to be cool. The automotive equivalent of ab implants. People around here talk a tremendous amount of shit about them, which is pretty funny.
That was always going to happen one way or another.
The reason blockchain/cryptocurrency can be faster/cheaper is not because of a technical breakthrough, it's because it's a creative way to evade banking regulations.
That is true. Crypto is not faster/cheaper because of a technological breakthrough. The reason crypto can be faster/cheaper is because it cuts out the middleman. The traditional financial system is full of incumbents and middlemen who take a cut of every transaction. Crypto rebuilds the financial system from the ground up and removes ALL middlemen. Instead of verifying the legitimacy of a transaction using a trusted third party, crypto uses cryptography. The same kind of cryptography used in PGP or encrypted email.
Crypto is a disruptive technology class that many incumbents hate because it literally removes them from their powerful position as a middleman. There are usually at least 3 middlemen in every credit card transaction. [0] Combined, these come to a fee of (on average) 2.24%. [1] There are zero intermediates involved with a crypto transaction. The total fee on Solana (the leading payments blockchain) is less than $0.01 for any amount transfered. A 1 million dollar transfer on Solana costs the same amount of fees as a 10 cent transfer.
> a creative way to evade banking regulations.
Coinbase, the leading US crypto exchange, has been trying to get regulatory clarity for years [2]. Crypto wants regulation, but the SEC refuses to provide it. The SEC would prefer to "regulate by enforcement" [3]. It sounds to me like the SEC is the one trying to avoid having to create banking regulations...
Many people here comment on the title rather on the substance.
The title is indeed clickbait, but it is not scambait. Clickbait is when you want the reader interested in reading things, which is normal, scambait is when you do that but you have no points behind made after that.
Here are the points made by the article and what I think of them :
- Much more things can be improved than we think possible (100% true - obviously we can't to them all at once, but we don't need to.)
- We don't need a new plan, we already have plans (True, for example you can take the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations as a starting point).
- Coordination matters (And is possible, the UN had lead the historic achievment to eradicate fucking polio)
- We have enough resources to act in the real world, but the way we make decisions is broken (True, Elon Musk spent an insane amount of money to make a dumb website worse, while US Foreign Aid #1 top priority is to help the government of Israel commits more crimes with no accountability)
- Things will not change until a determined group of people take action (100% true, this is how every progress ever has worked out)
Git is designed for code and is terrible/overcomplex for words.
A proper vcs for documentation is what Wikipedia does.
You always see the latest version of a document and you can see the changes to that document, revert and follow renames.
No global history, no commits of multiple files, no manual pull/push, no branches, no CI, no pr, no rewrite of history, no multiple remotes, etc etc etc
I wonder how difftastic would handle a paragraph that got reflowed via a gqip command. Would it show almost every word as changed or only the changed words and ignore the fact that many others now reside on different lines?
If you teach a beginner to use GitHub Desktop lots of the complexities you mention above are smoothed over.
The PR/MR is the biggest win, being able to comment on, discuss, suggest, resolve and 'sign off' changes works better in a PR/MR than any other versioned tool I've seen.
It's litteraly your mother tongue man, everyone outside of the elite has a mother, and therefore a mother tongue, it's not expansive, it's your basic birth right.
Why don't people consume audio/video in a foreign language ?
I'm a polyglot myself, so I enjoy that very much, but the simple truth is that most people don't invest the time for becoming fluent in other languages in countries with a "big" language. Works for France, the US, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Japan or China.
Why ? Pretty obvious. Become fluent in a foreign language is a huge effort. Making that effort really only works if you either WANT to do it or if you NEED to do it. The WANT factor is the same everywhere but the NEED to learn a language is way lower if your mother tongue is in the top 5 - or top 10 languages of the world.
The only thing that is specific to French is that French & English have this weird shared history that makes the written langauges very similar and the oral languages very different. So a frequent compromise for french speakers is to become fluent enough at reading/writing, but quite bad at hearing/speaking.