I've found the lang attribute and :lang pseudo-class to be pretty useful in publishing for private tribal use documents in my (critically endangered) language. Unfortunately there isn't any standard way of distinguishing between the various scripts/orthographies, so we've extended the language names for that purpose.
Our work isn't listed on any of these pages about which indigenous languages are on the internet because we don't want it to be, these pages are for tribal citizen use only. So, there may be a lot more written languages in use somehow than the author believes. But who knows.
Continuing on your line of thought, and being a bit pedantic, the title says missing from the internet, but it looks more like missing from websites.
There is a lot of internet interaction that happens privately/semi-privately in chat applications like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, LINE, etc.
From my limited personal experience, communities who speak and are able to write in minority languages continue to do so in their communication via these apps even though they may have a small appearance on public websites. Of course, for communities that do no have a written form for their language or very few know it, then this is less likely the case.
The azithromycin was given to some of the patients with viral pneumonia as there is a chance of reinfection with bacterial pneumonia. Astonishing and unexpectedly, the covid19 virus was completely wiped out in all the HCQ+azithromycin patients but only in a bit over half the HCQ alone patients. So just as an antiparasite drug surprisingly once was found to also work as an antiviral, azithromycin has unexpectedly been found to have some sort of a complementary amplifying or catalyzing effect with the hydrochloroquine. Of unknown mechanism and no doubt this will be explored in great detail in future research. For now it's known that putting the two together looks to be a good thing to do.
It may be early to conclude that azithromycin has a complementary mechanism with HCQ, the study was too small and there are too many confounding factors. It is possible there is some synergy but also possible that there is not
I'm taking it, I've also got my family and neighbors on it. I was unable to convince doctors since February to take me seriously that hydroxychloroquine is likely to have prophylactic effects so I took matters into my own hands. I know what I'm doing. Those who don't know what they are doing should not just jump in since they need to manage and understand the dose, the drug interactions, and the side effects. None of which are a problem for most people. Most. The ones that aren't though the interactions are well enough known and documented. I am not recommending it to anyone, that would probably be a crime. I'm saying if you're smart and understand science and thoughtful and not reckless you might be able to use it with the same safety that indians did for thousands of years. I still don't think you should though. Push for HCQ instead.
Commercial tonic is limited by federal law to 20mg per 8 oz, so I make my own tonic.
It would be much much better and would likely stop this whole problem if we'd just mail prophylactic doses of HCQ to the whole population instead of mailing a $1500 check to everyone like they've decided instead.
It's very humorous how people look at tropical countries that still have widespread HCQ use for anti-malaria and announce that they must be undercounting cases since their reported numbers are far too low. No, their numbers are not too low. It's just a lot of people in these regions are essentially vaccinated.
I think you’re missing one of the key parts of the article: be careful. Mass administration of a drug is dangerous. As you mention early in your post, you know what you’re doing, I take you at your word. But a drug with known serious side effects shouldn’t be mass distributed without clear benefit. Studies so far are encouraging but tiny and noisy sample size. We’ll get better data soon.
Even then, if it proves effective in symptomatic cases, it’s unclear prophylactic use is called for. More sensible to administer to those with current symptoms. If truly effective this would lower fatalities and keep ICUs from being overwhelmed.
Finally, the most recent French study suggests a combination with azithromycin is the actual effective treatment. We just don’t know enough yet, we will soon, let’s be responsible.
Quinine hasn’t been used for malaria prophylaxis since the times of the British Empire. Even for its successor, Wikipedia has this:
> Areas of the world with chloroquine sensitive malaria are uncommon.[84]
The overlap between countries with few cases of Coronavirus and those with Malaria is tenuous at best. Turkey doesn’t have Malaria, and for that matter neither does Russia.
People in Malaria areas also tend not to use pharmacological prophylaxis, because the side-effects are impossible to tolerate in the long term. Prophylaxis is for tourists. That’s why mosquito nets are such effective intervention.
"Only possible in the last 10 years" is not correct.
Computer musicians have used the IRCAM ISPW board as far back as 1989 to implement live real time convolution. Single purpose realtime convolution reverb hardware has been commercially available since Sony's 1999 DRE S777. Non-real time convolution has been done for decades as well, including by myself in 1991 and likely hundreds of others during that time period. Real time convolution on an off the shelf affordable consumer platform has been available for a long time as well, including eMagic's Space Designer plugin which was released in 2003. It's still part of Apple Logic.
To be perfectly clear, some have been sampling reverb spaces for use in convolution reverbs using a starter pistol since the 1980s, and the procedure became widespread in the 1990s.
It is not 10 years old at all in any imaginable interpretation.
This person's "innovation" of popping balloons instead of using a starter pistol is completely and totally irrelevant and inconsequential.
Right. I'm curious what the recent advance is. "Pop a balloon to get the impulse response and use that to build a linear filter" was well known when I was doing signal processing work in the very early 2000's.
My reaction to '10 years' also. I recall using some (forgotten, Mac) inpulse conv in the early 2000s. (Not real-time!) This SOS article links many reviews dating back to 2002-04 (the earliest for the Audio Ease 'Altiverb'). https://web.archive.org/web/20161209164745/http://www.soundo...
> "Please note that a fee of (specify dollar amount) for the use of our basic services and overhead is included in the price of our caskets. This same fee shall be added to the total cost of your funeral arrangements if you provide the casket."
Correct, and if your casket fee is $7000, then $6500 is "basic services". Casket is only $500.
So you say, hey I just want that mahogany and silk casket, no services. Then they say "Oh sorry, that's not a bundle we offer."
If any one is interested, we bury our own in my family on our ancestral land. We use a plain wooden casket and dig the grave ourselves. If a backhoe from a friend is available it's a bonus.
I support the right to self bury, as most states have done for centuries.
There's a weird idea that government needs to get involved in this and protect funeral home gouging.
In any case total burial, funeral and wake cost can be around $800, if you want.
There was a huge argument about this on reddit not long ago. People were legitimately horrified at the idea of burying a pet in their yard, were convinced there were all sorts of diseases and miasmas that would occur if you did so and that the land would be permanently damaged/devalued, and that finding the bones would cause psychological trauma. Just mad. If dead animals were so dangerous we’d all be extinct long ago!
For years my public library charged a $3 fee to get a book sent from another library in the system.
At some point I was chatting with a librarian about this and she revealed they had eliminated the fee so as not to discourage the use of interlibrary loans.
I few weeks later I tried checking out something from another library and was then treated to a 10 minute lecture on how it costs them $20 to process these loans and am I really sure I want it.
No thanks. I'll just get it for a penny plus $3.99 shipping from amazon, less than the cost of gasoline to drive into town to order it, pick it up, and return it (3 round trips).
> No thanks. I'll just get it for a penny plus $3.99 shipping from amazon, less than the cost of gasoline to drive into town to order it, pick it up, and return it (3 round trips).
Says Mr. Fancy-pants here with a mailbox/street-accessible doorstep that packages can fit in/on.
Us apartment-dwellers often end up with a notice that says that FedEx or whichever last-mile carrier couldn't in good conscience leave your box in the apartment lobby (and, implicitly, couldn't be arsed to come up the elevator and put the box in front of your apartment door) so instead they have driven your package back to the nearest FedEx warehouse half-way across town, where you're welcome to [pay for the gas required to] come get it. After, of course, waiting 30 minutes behind several people each taking 10 minutes to send packages, before you can spend 30 seconds receiving yours.
Oh, and although you could have intercepted the delivery-man like a linebacker to receive your package today, because you didn't, it won't be available at the warehouse until tomorrow afternoon. Or maybe four days from now. And that's if they don't put it back on a truck to attempt to deliver it again, and again, and again (and give you no way to specify in the delivery instructions that they should just stop trying.)
And after they do finally give up putting it on the truck, they'll make sure to only wait a few days before they send it back to whoever sent it to you, making the sender eat a huge shipping cost that'll make them unlikely to ever send you anything again.
For me, receiving an Amazon delivery both costs more, and takes more time, than buying the same thing in a brick-and-mortar retail store, let alone going to the library!
This may be an obnoxious comment, but if you haven't considered Amazon Locker, you should see if there's one near you. I can say from experience that there are a lot of them around even modestly sized cities and they can make this a lot easier.
There are indeed a few Amazon Lockers around my city, but none less than a 15 minute drive away. The closest thing Amazon would consider treating as a locker (i.e. have Amazon Logistics fulfill to) is my own local post office, which 1. is so understaffed that it takes just as long to pick up a package from it as from the FedEx across town, and 2. for some reason triggers "this item has special handling restrictions and cannot be delivered to your location" messages on 90% of Amazon's catalog.
Also, with a Locker, you still have to get the thing home. Often I'm ordering things delivered because they're too big+heavy+awkward to lug home from a store myself (I don't own a car!), so the Locker doesn't really help in those cases. In many of those cases, the thing won't even fit in a Locker.
That's really a shame. My library will transfer any book, DVD, computer game, power tool, or even a wifi hotspot from another library for free and usually within two days.
As recently as this past fall I requested books from libraries in New Mexico and New York and both came with zero fees.
I sure hope your local library system has dropped their fees by now.
I suspect that the $20 price tag is “per carload” (or vanload, etc.). In other words, it’s only expensive per-book because it isn’t used much. I currently live in South Carolina, and I can use the local library’s website to request an inter-library transfer from several other library systems in the state. I know they wouldn’t make it that easy if they were paying $20 per transfer. On the other hand, your library is probably paying $20/transfer because they do everything they can to make transfers rare.
More like things have become so efficient, so that people donating their used books can have them go to a warehouse and get binned as having value and end up on the marketplace because there's $1+ worth of value after shipping.
My own tractor is 67 years old. The parts catalog brags that not only do they carry every part new, but they have a photo of a copy they built entirely from contemporary made parts. It's a fine tractor and not hard to work on.
I've always found it interesting that there was mail service between Greenland and Iceland at least up until 1424.
Not too long after that, in 1477, Columbus went to Galway Ireland to ask fishermen about routes across the northern sea. These fishermen routinely visited Iceland, and knew about Greenland. Columbus also inspected a boat on which a couple had arrived in Galway from beyond Iceland, likely Greenland, and either viewed the bodies of the couple or met with them depending on how you read his Latin.
It's amazing that people in Iceland knew people in Greenland and people in Greenland almost definitely knew about North America, but somehow most people in Europe had no idea that North America existed.
People must have been so much more comfortable feeling vaguely curious, but not ever satisfying that curiousity.
Even if they were curious his would that be realized?
You couldn’t just book a ticket and hotel room.
It cost a lot of money so the only way to do it was via setting up a company to try and make profit on the endeavor. Only few people could manage that.
It’d be like asking years hence, the Americans had been to the moon, why wasn’t anyone else curious about the moon, why hadn’t others put people on the moon?
> It’d be like asking years hence, the Americans had been to the moon, why wasn’t anyone else curious about the moon, why hadn’t others put people on the moon?
I'm asking that question now. Even for Americans, the majority never had a moon landing in their lifetime. And with each passing day, it gets a little bit easier to believe the whole thing was a hoax. Hollywood can deepfake better moon footage than the historical record these days.
I suspect the knowledge was restricted to the working classes. I suspect that the noble classes didn’t really care about how Norese Greenlanders got their lumber, or how North Europeans got the fish they traded with. They’d much rather know where the Chinese get their silk, where the South Asians get their spices, or where the West Africans get their gold from.
Since the resources coming from the North Atlantic were not that valuable, the knowledge of the lands and culture there stayed with the people who worked it.
But there's evidence that there was a substantial Greenland walrus-ivory trade in the 1300s.
"The high value that medieval Europe placed on walrus ivory would have provided plenty of incentive to pursue it in Greenland. Craftsmen used ivory in luxury ornaments and apparel, and in objects like the famous Lewis chess set, discovered in Scotland in 1831. In 1327, an 802-kilogram parcel of Greenland tusks was worth a small fortune—the equivalent of roughly 780 cows or 60 tons of dried fish...."
True, but by the 1400s there was more plentiful ivory to be had from India and East Africa. On top of having to compete for market share with the east trade, the Norse also had to compete with the more technologically advanced Inuit for hunting grounds in west Greenland.
I’m guessing the European noble class didn’t really have to care about ivory from the North Atlantic when they knew they could have cheaper and more plentiful Ivory from the East.
As I recall from 1491, the fisherman had enough trade as far as New England (by the 1600's) that the Pilgrims found a translator who already spoke English.
They didn't dwell on that in American History class.
Our work isn't listed on any of these pages about which indigenous languages are on the internet because we don't want it to be, these pages are for tribal citizen use only. So, there may be a lot more written languages in use somehow than the author believes. But who knows.