kambusha

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 117 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Every 10 years, Argentina has a crisis that lasts 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Remember what the door knob said.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I think FreeFileSync does make some additional features available when you donate, which I don't think would otherwise be available.

https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#donation-edition

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago

Is this what chaotic good looks like?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think Krashen's "Natural Approach" is the best way to learn. It focuses on consuming comprehensible input (CI) - listening/reading in the foreign language, and making sure you understand around 80%+. The idea would be to start with very easy stories/sentences, and slowly build that up as your vocabulary grows.

Pimsleur & FSI are good resources. Also, try to watch movies/shows that you already have seen in the target language instead (e.g. Friends, The Office, Simpsons). That way, you already have the context, and it will be easier to comprehend.

You need around 100-200hrs of CI to have a basic understanding of the language (maybe you can't speak, but you can understand basic interactions in the language). At around 400-600hrs, you'll be intermediate, and after around 800-1000hrs of CI, you'll be fluent.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I'm guessing they don't want to test on any other browsers, so it's easier just to say that those aren't supported. Most likely it works on others, you just need to spoof the agent.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes, thank you! I hate this constant narrative that back-to-office is always tied to commercial real-estate investments, or that there's some magical tax incentive.

Usually what you have is: bank lends money to a commercial real estate company that owns the building. Commercial real estate company leases out office space to one or many companies. When those companies reduce or terminate their leases, the commercial real estate company struggles to pay their mortgage and defaults. Commercial real estate loses. Bank loses. And if commercial real estate had pooled investments to fund the building (along with bank loan), then those investors lose as well.

There are some large companies that own their own buildings, but that's more of an exception.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Here is an otter

view more: next ›