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How to Learn a Foreign Language for Free

Thu, 08 May 2025 11:26:33 -0400

Obviously, the best is to live in the target country. But assuming you don’t live there but still want to learn the language, or perhaps you do live there but want to learn faster, then I believe the techniques described herein are more effective than any paid product (Pimsleur, Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, etc). And what’s more, these techniques are free. I think they deliver superior results because they’re more natural, more closely matching the way we all acquire our first language. Here is the road map:

How To Cure Hiccups

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 14:08:41 -0500

Whether you spell them hiccups or hiccoughs, this method is the only one I’ve ever seen that works 100%, every time. It works for me, for my family, and for everyone I’ve ever shared it with, and it has never failed even once.

Since I’ve never seen this technique described anywhere, I’m sharing it here as a public service.

Follow these steps exactly and your hiccups will be cured (not permanently of course, but they’ll be gone until your next bout).

Human ACK

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:15:51 -0500

An important life lesson for human interactions, brought to you by the world of computer communication:

in TCP communication there’s the ACK flag
in microservice architectures there is backpressure
in network calls there is the exponential backoff algorithm

Participants who ignore these feedback cycles may broadcast tons of info, but not much if any of it is ever received. Even in one-way communications like television and radio, there is feedback through ratings.