Speaking of “data is beautiful”, IMO a 2D scatter plot would be very useful for visualizing this relationship. This chart does provide the distribution for each language, as opposed to just the average, but at the expense of making correlation (or lack thereof) difficult to see.

Also, the ratio of the largest to the smallest value for syllables per second and for bits per second appears to be fairly similar. I have to eyeball values but it looks like Japanese : Thai is 8.0 : 4.7 for syllables per second (so 1.7) whereas French : Thai is 48 : 34 (so 1.4) for bits per second.

For each language, the distribution of syllable rate looks very much like the distribution of bit rate. I would like to see a chart of bits per syllable. Oh, and I wonder how this affects reading speed and the rate of information transfer via reading, especially for different spoken languages that use similar written characters.

Would input from the people who otherwise wouldn’t have bothered to show up be useful?

Clearly the office of President should be left vacant.

Eh, my friend actually did that. I assumed that she had some sort of awful family she was running from, but actually they’re nice and she visits them on holidays. She just wanted to be in the big city so much that she was willing to rent a single room in a bad neighborhood and constantly look for odd jobs rather than live out in the countryside with her parents.

He’s the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war…

Most people will do terrible things if pushed hard enough. I’m lucky that I haven’t been pushed - I’m not confident that I would have enough strength to resist. Nonetheless moral agency cannot be abnegated.

George Washington would shed a tear if he could see that Americans have been reduced to defending themselves with weapons that don’t involve fire, loud bangs, and clouds of black smoke.

Can’t work more at one job. Anon could get a second.

work only 25 hours a week

afford all necessities

money left over for vidya

complain

Sign: Extremely hot. Do not touch!

Me: I’ll be the judge of that.

This was on the MIT campus so they must have had people constantly touching it and burning themselves. (No I wasn’t a student.)

You don’t expect psychopathy from 4chan?

Freedom of speech is about not being censored by the government, not private citizens hosting a platform for a spectrum of opinions.

The government can deny someone freedom of speech, but the government isn’t the only thing that can deny someone freedom of speech.

They couldn’t exactly keep being patronized by a dead guy.

Optimizing for truth sometimes creates something entertaining, but only by coincidence. I suppose you can say that the truth is entertaining specifically because it is the truth, but crazy stuff claims to be the truth too. Only someone who already knows the difference is going to appreciate the former more than the latter.

I thought it was blood and it took me a little while to figure out what was actually going on.