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Even English has words that are pronounced differently depending on context.

For example "I read to my son" could be pronounced two different ways depending on tense. "I read", vs. "I red".

There are other examples too, off the top of my head "I polish my shoes", vs. "I have a polish friend.". Or "the bow of a boat", vs. "at the end of the play the actors take a bow".


I understand what you mean, but those are not grave or accute accent differences. In swedish T<o>mten and T<o>mt<e>n (for lack of a better way to show stress off the top of my head) the o and e both sound the same, but have intonation differences.


The vowel sound is different between past tense and present tense "read", even though they're spelled the same.

But that's not what's going on in the Swedish example above. The vowels are exactly the same between "anden" (the spirit) and "anden" (the duck), but the pitch accent is different, the "song" of the words is different.

Here's a video showing the difference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXp7_Sjgm34

(And if you can't hear the difference in that video, don't worry too much, it's Swedish that's weird, not you. :) )


Polish is fine, but Polish should be capitalized. ;-)

I am wondering about your accent, though, because, to me, "bow" is pronounced the same in both of those examples. Robin hood shooting an arrow from his bow, however, has a different pronunciation which is the same as the bow tied on my present.


He/she might mean the bow of a ship? If I am not completely wrong about my English pronunciation, that is.


Yes, the bow of a ship is pronounced the same as taking a bow. At least, it is in my accent.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bow agrees indicating IPA baʊ for both.


I should read the parent comment before replying.

I just assumed they meant bow as in bow and arrow. The other example I did not know. "Read before you think before you write".


It also has words that are pronounced the same despite of context, cf. Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo ;)

Ever-relevant poem: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

English is kind of a hot mess.


There are often comments of the form " I've been thinking of doing x, is there any interest?"

The answer is always yes! Partly because no matter how niche a topic is there are people interested in it, and partly because creating such things will help your own understanding.

Go for it!


Thanks Steve!


I have a few applications which are installed from source, and as you say a couple of things installed beneath /opt. Currently that is: Firefox, golang, Arduino studio and Calibre.


Back a few years I bought a large CF-card for a Canon 5D camera, which was just not recognized.


I spent years working in nightclubs, and visiting them too, and this was never the case.

Hover-pee is a really common thing for women, and the results are what you imagine bthey would be.


To me it seems insane that a doctor should care about the price of necessary medicines they're prescribing.

If the insurance is available, and so good, then they should handle the payment stuff. A doctor should be learning about treatment, research and patients, not which company has the cheapest drugs this month.


For drugs that are new enough not to be available as generics, insurance companies typically have a "formulary" that specifies which drugs they will pay for and what the requirements are for them to pay for it. It might specify conditions like "we will only[0] cover drug Y from the class of drugs X" where drug Y is manufactured by AbbMerquibb and has negotiated a good price with the insurance company, or "we will only pay for drugs from class X after the cheaper frontline treatment Y has been tried and failed".

Doctors prescribe specific drugs. They don't prescribe "whatever SLGT-2 inhibitor your insurance plan covers". They also don't prescribe "whatever your approved first-line therapy for rheumatoid arthritis is". If doctors prescribe without caring about the cost to their patients, the best case scenario is that those patients come back for another prescription after the pharmacy tells them that their drug will cost $$$$ because insurance is not covering it. The worst case scenario is that the patients don't come back and decide they can't afford to have their condition treated.

[0] Barring patient intolerance to the preferred drug or various other exceptions.


Sure, but there are obvious cases which turn these averages into really different personal-stories.

One case is the obvious cost of having a child in America, even with insurance some people pay thousands of dollars.


"The american system is bad for the poor or unlucky" is a very different argument than "the american system is bad for the average person."

The difference in median disposable income between the U.S. and the U.K. is stunning: almost $17,000. Even after you factor in things like student loan debt (averaging $220/month for the minority of people who have student loans at all) and out-of-pocket healthcare expenses and premiums (a few thousand a year on average, versus maybe a thousand or so in other OECD countries), the median American household is coming out way ahead.


Child mortality rates in the US 5.9 per 1000, In the UK 3.8. [1]

> Two-thirds of people who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall. [2]

United Kingdom suicide rate per 100,000 7.5, United States 13.8 [3]

United States Murder Rate per 100,000 5.35, United Kingdom 1.2 [4]

More to life than money I guess, also your $17,000 is accounting for income distribution, at first glance that looks good but while our income distribution is pretty bad, the US is positively Dickensian.

No jingoism intended here, we get a lot wrong and other countries straight up kick our arse (Spain's infant mortality rate is half ours at 2.0 for example amongst major European countries) but that just means we should be looking to improve.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/infant-mortality-rates.htm

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most...

[3] https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/suicide-rates.htm#indicator...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...


On infant mortality statistics, at least part of the difference is that the US reports that figure rigorously, while other countries do not necessarily do so: https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/09/infant-mortality-dece....

As to income distribution: that’s the OECD’s estimate of the median household. So it’s not being skewed up by super-rich households.

As to bankruptcies, less than 0.5% of households file for bankruptcy in a given year.

As to homicide or suicide rate: again, that affects a tiny minority. Meanwhile, the much higher income affects 60-70% of the whole population.

The U.K. is a society where you’ve lowered the median to lift up the floor. That’s one way to do it. And I don’t even disagree with you that the US should do more in that regard. But if you support an expanded welfare state (and I do), it’s dishonest to sell that policy to people by pretending that the average person is going to be better off. Unless they place a very high value on security (avoiding low probability outcomes like medical bankruptcy) over material comfort, they’re going to be worse off.


Guess I hit a nerve.


The point is that "some people" is not "average". If we are going to talk about the problems with health care in the US exaggerating the problems is counterproductive.


Does that mean poverty is not a problem worth addressing, because on average we’re a reasonably wealthy country?

Is inequality not a problem, because on average we all have the same opportunities?


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I think that's an America-centric view. In a lot of places in Europe it wouldn't matter what neighborhood you lived in - the schools available would be equally good.


That covers one segment of the conversation, but "move to Europe" isn't a solution for most people not in Europe.


It's not event an America-centric view, it's an urban America view. Live in a district that has only one school for each grade level, and suddenly the rich kids and the poor kids get the same education opportunities. I personally believe that's one of the reasons the upper midwest consistently has the best overall ranked schools in America.


If he is Satoshi he could sign a message with the private half of a key known to have been used in the past by him.

Details of public/private keys, hashes, etc are important, but at the core the idea is simple.


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