Bayart

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by Bayart 7mo ago
It's a decent list of what readers in France think of as the books to read from the 20th c., in that it holds value. Including to myself, a French citizen with odd tastes. The general debate on what's the objective list doesn&#x
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by Bayart 7mo ago
Cormac McCarthy is decently translated (for having read him in both English and French) and is well known. But for the average French litterati, American literature harks back to Hemingway, Steinbeck, Salinger, Burroughs, Capote, Nabokov an
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by Bayart 7mo ago
What's your prior exposure to Classical and Standard Arabic ? The people I'm thinking about only have darija exposure without any formal education in Arabic and little exposure to pan-Arabic media.
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by Bayart 7mo ago
Take a look at Frisian for the beginning of an answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_languages
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by Bayart 7mo ago
The article doesn't expound on it, but it very much depends on what Arabic means to you. Depending on the answer, it's really a dozen different languages. I know people who only speak their own darija and classical literature
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by Bayart 8mo ago
Certainly dung. A common substrate for growing mushroom is a straw or shredded wood depending on the species plus manure.
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by Bayart 8mo ago
The best way is the most natural : speaking it, regardless of ability. Get a native speaker, ask them to teach you the very basics, get them to keep speaking the language to you and correct you as you go. It doesn't matter how labori
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by Bayart 8mo ago
By the time of William the Conqueror, which I think is the sixth generation of Rollo's line in Normandy, they were just French (with a cultural memory of North Sea origins). The tapestry of Bayeux, which was made in England, calls them
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by Bayart 8mo ago
> I think the Westphalia thing is somewhat overblown there were lots of sovereignty analogs throughout human history all over the world before that. I'm sure you understand there's a deep qualitative difference between a thing
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by Bayart 8mo ago
> Do you think Monaco should be part of France? Monaco is already 90% part of France. There was an agreement until recently that Monaco would become French if the Princeship went extinct. By law the Prime Minister and the Police has to b
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by Bayart 8mo ago
I've been telling myself that for as long as 3D-printing has been consumer tech (about 20 years ?) and now it's shifted to "I'll borrow one my friends' printers if needs be". In truth every time an issue fit fo
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by Bayart 9mo ago
They're going to the US for the VC funds and the capital markets, which is America's great competitive advantage globally. In the few industries I went through (PaaS, Health, Finance) what I got was that the regulatory environment
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by Bayart 9mo ago
> The western alliance as of today is about as strong as its ever been. It's at its lowest point since the Suez crisis, to the point even historical US hawks (notably Poland) are starting to give it a side-eyed look. I don't th
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by Bayart 9mo ago
Having worked extensively with OVH and Scaleway, I find it to be a far cry from what American hyperscalers offers. The cloud offering is just too thin and brittle as of now, though I think they will eventually get there because of the CLOUD
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by Bayart 9mo ago
Europe makes lots of quality software, it just doesn't scale economically. And that's an issue with access to capital and to a lesser extent legal fragmentation, not talent or willingness. That's why there's a constant p
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by Bayart 9mo ago
CDs suffer from different forms of degradation. I wouldn't trust a 50 year old CD if there was one as I do a vinyl record I picked. Using the same master a CD would always sound better than a vinyl record, but I and many people would a
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by Bayart 10mo ago
I won't bother getting into trying to demonstrate Medieval art doesn't "suck", it's not worth dignifying. But you should be aware you might be placing too much emphasis on painting and drawing specifically as oppose
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by Bayart 10mo ago
That reason is self-hype. The Renaissance was dreadful in comparison to the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period in much of Europe.
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by Bayart 10mo ago
I don't think you'll ever find a battery pack using cells with integrated low-voltage protection, if that's what you're referring to. All that stuff is managed by the BMS. What you should be on the look-out for is the ce
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by Bayart 10mo ago
The margins on memory for Apple were so absurd that they should have more ability to eat up the costs, if they wanted to. I'm assuming they would, to the extent that they're a device company more so than a service company yet.
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by Bayart 1y ago
France has a long standing program for artists and entertainment technicians and while the niceties can get complex the big idea is that the State guarantees a minimum level of income if you work a minimum amount of hours per year for artis
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by Bayart 1y ago
> We humans are predisposed to see anthropomorphic shapes in things. This was sculpted by other modern humans.
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by Bayart 1y ago
The Wikipedia article links to the IAEA recovery video where you can more or less see everything : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE5T0GkoKG8
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by Bayart 1y ago
It's a reflection of the lack of money. Those substances are comparatively cheap, not habit forming and don't build up long term tolerance. A lot of them are pretty easy to DIY (though not LSD-25). The typical LSD user will buy a
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by Bayart 1y ago
Psychedelics aren't physiologically addictive and don't induce the same economics as what you'd generally think as "recreational drugs". There are no LSD or DMT cartels.
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by Bayart 1y ago
I'm extremely tired of this attitude among French people that amounts to systematically shoot down any attempt at improvement with cynicism.
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by Bayart 1y ago
Parisian French isn't the same as Standard (Court) French, and it sound different in the South because It's only been the majority language for a century. It's super-imposed on top of another language's phonology. It&#x2
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by Bayart 1y ago
My fairly rich French city operates minibuses, mostly aimed at old people, which run through the otherwise non-drivable city center. Of course these are short, low-throughput routes.
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by Bayart 1y ago
That's just your personal preference. There's no "right" way of tripping balls, just ways that fit more people. I love very digital environments, with neon lights and 70s prog synth music or 90s techno. At a certain poin
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by Bayart 1y ago
My personal experience is that anything that forces you to focus on details and anchors you runs counter to what you're getting out of psychedelics. Not just precise logical thinking but even things like focusing on letters. Writing be

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