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Comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31421428 ? I'm jowdones in the HN thread.

======= Romanian ======= „Ai o bunică foarte intelligentă, a răspuns lupul. "Mi-a plăcut să vorbesc cu tine. Poate ne vom întâlni din nou!" Lupul a fugit și a cugetat „Hmmmm, o voi mânca mai întâi pe bunică și apoi o voi aștepta pe fetiță”. ======= Latin ======= AVIAM CALLIDISSIMAM habes"...

Then there's several other translations, again I put in all caps the words I don't understand. <CAPS> is something that looks vaguely familiar and I probably deduce from context. ======= French ======= "Tu as une grand-mère très intelligente", répondit le loup. "C'était sympa de te parler...

But ... there's also the issue on where you pick up from. Here's a random text from the Red Riding Hood story, in original German. I've put in CAPITAL LETTERS all the words I didn't already understand: ======= German ======= "Du hast eine sehr SCHLAUE Großmutter", antwortete der Wolf. "Es war...

So far I read this story: https://www.thegermanproject.com/stories/redridinghood Took me a week of 30 minutes per day, more or less, but I now understand it 100%. All the words that is. It might be an interesting discussion on what's the best approach to learn a foreign language. Spoiler...

As technical people / engineers, we're used to build things first and deliver (sell) them afterwards. Problem is we put an incommensurate amount of effort into building the product and grossly underestimate the effort required to distribute (sell) it. We should learn to at least start marketing...

My experience in München was along the lines that I made several attempts of torturing some German words only to be replied by people in English. After a few times I completely gave up trying and just stuck to English. Same experience in Amsterdam and surprisingly, Rome. Really speaking, or...

Got it, thanks!

So I'm assigned and I long (buy) the ETF. But by rules, I can't buy the ETF! And yet, I find myself owning the ETF although I'm not supposed to?

I just found out that I can't buy US ETF's using Interactive Brokers: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-004745_EN.html#:~:text=Since%202018%2C%20ordinary%20investors%20in,US%20ETFs)(1). So far I only traded individual stocks and options but it never occurred to me that I...

I speak English at a native level, by my own estimate and by the estimate of people I spoke with while drunk. Recently (a week ago that is) I started picking upon the scraps of my gymnasium German knowledge. I learned German in school between the 5th and the 8th grade, included. Never got good...

I used to read on occasion the blog of Daryush Valizadeh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosh_V) owing to the fact that I'm a bit of a misogynistic white male, being raised in a culture along Sean Connery's "it's Okay to slap women on occasion when all other means of deterrence have been...

Not yet. Marketing is hard. On the other hand marketing is like any other skill. You get better through practice. I don't wanna share my methods here because well, I see it hardly different from posting here the details of my hard-worked trading strategy. But I am getting better at it. Tried...

One Indian friend of mine noticed: - I might be a little crazy - I might not be rich But... I do stuff in my garage. And I own a garage. Which isn't small thing to do or own. And since I own it, I'll use it to do whatever the fuck I feel like it's gonna make some surplus money. So if...

I explain it like this: - There were mobile phones before the iPhone. - There was the car phone, the analog phone costing in the "$10,000" in todays money and then the "actual mobile phone" invented by Nokia. - In the world of investment, what I do is no different from what Apple did. They...

Well it does, see below. Easter is basically grazing. They sort of got some of it by associating Easter with Bunnies and grass but they confused one thing. The essential thing in Easter is not the Bunny. It's the Grass :D

Romanian language specific, "Easter" is synonym with "Grazing". Herbivores eating grass, that is. Let's see the etymology. Romanian is a Latin-derived language so: - Easter: Latin: Pascha Italian: Pasqua. See https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasqua Romanian: Paște - Grazing...

What's the difference between a woman and a battery? A battery has also a positive side.

Ja, ich weiss. Aber es ist nicht der Fall.