A Russian agency is pushing new rules of conduct on Central Asian migrants that severely restrict usage of their native languages and warn them about praying in public and sacrificing animals for religious purposes. Central Asian migrants are told about the strict rules and code of behavior in a 70-minute course created by Russia's Federal Agency of Ethnic Affairs (FADN) in seminars in certain parts of the country. It includes for them to have mandatory knowledge of the Russian language and the country's migration laws, not to use their native language when they talk about Russians, and not to whistle at members of the opposite sex. The course also tells them "not to even whisper" in public using their mother tongue, Kommersant reported. Moreover, the common Central Asian practice of addressing people as "brother" or "sister" is said to be unacceptable when referring to Russians. Along with the language and behavioral restrictions, there are also religious limitations. The slaughtering of animals for religious worship in public will also be prohibited.

New words, and new senses and uses of words, are not sanctioned or rejected by the authority of any single body: they arise through regular use and, once established, are recorded in dictionaries and grammars.

Recent work has revealed several new and significant aspects of the dynamics of theory change. First, statistical information, information about the probabilistic contingencies between events, plays a particularly important role in theory-formation both in science and in childhood. In the last fifteen years we’ve discovered the power of early statistical learning.

people inside the company dubbing it “Next Valley” in conversations

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But the deal we already had in place was better for what our people prioritize: freedom over growth, sustainability over speed, life over work.

I compare these digital scientific notations to the the traditional scientific notations that have been used for centuries, showing how the digital notations optimized for computerized processing are often an obstacle to scientific communication and to creative work by human scientists

I analyze the causes and propose guidelines for the design of more human-friendly digital scientific notations.

the Activity component is the heart of TRB

The fact that one of our two national parties would stick with a leader who dispatched a mob to ransack the Capitol in hopes of overturning our last election is an acute national problem — a cancer, in fact

That is a lot like Trump and his followers, whose attachment to him has become so cultlike that every other Republican leader knows that challenging Trump is potential political suicide. The result: He, too, has no serious predators

That is a lot like Trump and his followers, whose attachment to him has become so cultlike that every other Republican leader knows that challenging Trump is potential political suicide. The result: He, too, has no serious predators

That's the whole point of an abstraction layer—to isolate your business logic from a subsystem's mechanics

So the hard and unsolvable problem becomes: how up-to-date do you really need to be?

After considering the value we place, and the tradeoffs we make, when it comes to knowing anything of significance, I think it becomes much easier to understand why cache invalidation is one of the hard problems in computer science

Making literal grids. Like X columns with Y gap between them homegrown framework stuff. grid-gap is wonderful, as gutters are the main pain point of grid systems.

const useEffect = (subscribe) => ({ subscribe })

The crux of this pattern is to introduce an index.js and internal.js file.

The northern end of the park has typically seen less affluent neighbors and significantly less attention, but Central Park Conservancy is about to change that. Earlier this fall, the non-profit group announced a $150 million renovation that would improve the parkland, add a new boardwalk along the man-made lake known as Harlem Meer, and build a new recreation facility to replace the Lasker pool and skating rink, both of which date back to the 1960’s. (Side note: The Trump Organization has the concession to run the skating rink through 2021, by which time there may be someone else in the White House.) Construction is set to begin in 2021, and completion is estimated for 2024.

International tourist arrivals in Asia and the Pacific 2010-2018, by region Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 15, 2020 Journeys to Asia are on the rise in recent years. For 2018, a total of 347.7 million international tourists were estimated to arrive in an Asian country. Most of them in the North-East region with about 169 million arrivals.     International tourism  According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), about 16 percent of the world's population, or 1.2 billion tourists took a trip. The most popular destination for tourists is Europe with 670 million visitors or nearly 50 percent, followed by Asia-Pacific, North America and the Middle East. Tourism of city trips are booming. In the past few years, the number of visitors to the most visited cities in the world has increased steadily.   Tourism in Asia  The growth of tourist flows has been dramatic, especially in Asia. The most popular cities in 2017 with overnight visitors include many Asian cities in the top 20 : Bangkok (Thailand) ranked first, followed by Singapore, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (Korea). This is primarily from neighbors visiting the other.  Read more International tourist arrivals in Asia and the Pacific from 2010 to 2018

Or, as a soldier of a desert war wrote in last autumn’s New York Times, is our central task the task of learning how to die—not (as he put it) to die ‘as individuals, but as a civilization’ (Scranton, 2013), in the Anthropocene?

Databases tend toward inclusivity, narratives toward selectivity

The second largest source of gold, at approximately 1000 tonnes, came from central bank sales and other disposals.