Bayart

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721.
by Bayart 5y ago
>Maybe? Getting a bunch of cards works out in your favor. Costco card nets me 4% back on gas everywhere and 2% in store and extends the warranty on things. That's one way of looking at it. The other is that debt is priced in everyth
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by Bayart 5y ago
The entire system of credit card tie-ins is based on predatory debt practices. It's ingrained in US culture, but a lot of people on HN probably see it as a problem that shouldn't even have to be addressed in the first place. Facil
723.
by Bayart 5y ago
>As a French, the construction comes naturally because we've been taught that at school since kindergarten. This always sounded a bit weird, though. If you follow the grammatical history of French, the neutral gender just got folded
724.
by Bayart 5y ago
The way through which the pointed arch travelled to Western Europe is still up to debate. My understanding is that it was used decoratively in Islamic architecture, and that a load-bearing form existed in the Near-East but not fully realise
725.
by Bayart 5y ago
You should also credit Persian architecture, from which Islamic tradition drew equally (although, for obvious reasons, less around the Med than in Asia).
726.
by Bayart 5y ago
>ie height of ceiling in the main worship area That's not what a nave is. "Nave" quite literally means "boat". It refers to the elongated, cage-like, spined structure of basilical and later on Latin cross plans.
727.
by Bayart 5y ago
>churches now looks more like Muslim Spanish Moors' Mezquita I've never seen any church that looks like that. The only Eastern architectural plan I can think of as having been exported West is the round style of the Dome of the
728.
by Bayart 5y ago
I'd definitely think about doing exactly that if I were after a new paper but most of the stuff I'm interested in is in history, law history, linguistics and diplomatic. Those papers often precede the Internet, not even mentioning
729.
by Bayart 5y ago
It's my fault for being unclear. And really, companies and institutions are people, legally speaking. They have moral personality, at least in Civil Law. In any case, they operate with a different incentive structure than single priv
730.
by Bayart 5y ago
Amazon making out like bandits in France because they don't have to pay any taxes thanks to our European « friends » isn't market distortion ? Dumping isn't market distortion ? Most French people, including myself, would agr
731.
by Bayart 5y ago
Before Sci-Hub, I had to find those among my friends with the right access credentials to the right publishers and ask them to get the articles on my behalf, often in batches to not make too much an annoyance of myself. Needless to say Sci-
732.
by Bayart 5y ago
Terrier is quite literally French for "burrow". They still work great with rats, farmers love these dogs.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Despite the name and what the CCP wants, the South China Sea is not Chinese. The US maneuvers to keep it international waters, so do we Europeans. The US has every tight to sail however it wants in international waters, so do the Chinese.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Controls should be exerted on companies and institutions, not people. Case in point : the government has no place telling you how long your kids can play, but you might need the government to get rid of highly damaging practices like loot b
735.
by Bayart 5y ago
It's usually explained away by technological superiority, namely the mastery of horse husbandry and cart-making. But social structures geared towards war and conquest might have played a role too.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Put it in a place where there's no life, seismic stability and no ground water. Which is what we're doing. Nuclear waste is remarkably dense and containable, far more than any other kind of power-generation byproduct.
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by Bayart 5y ago
They'll never be in the EU with the state Serbia is currently in. Kosovo is a hard stop anyway, the EU doesn't allow (anymore) countries with land disputes to enter. It might end up like Turkey, a country that's a perpetual p
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by Bayart 5y ago
As a Frenchman, I wonder where you got that perception. Perhaps you were there at the time it was novelty. If you asked now Frenchmen who had experience with Subway, the majority of opinions would refer to it as « meh » or « pretty shit ».
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by Bayart 5y ago
Pagan literature has plenty of creepy magical and divine beings. Just look at the Odyssey.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Scotland has some of the best beef in Europe.
741.
by Bayart 5y ago
Hasn't the sea level "lowered" in the Persian Gulf ? Silting made the sea significantly further away from the Sumerian heartland nowadays than it was back then. I've always thought the flood narrative archetype had to do
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by Bayart 5y ago
The Bible is a major force behind archaeology in the Levant. Not only for religious reasons, but also because the prospect of correlating material culture and written documents is always exciting.
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by Bayart 5y ago
The implications as far as non-proliferation go are potentially quite grave [1]. It might be seen as the US opening the floodgate on the export of weapon-grade uranium outside of international oversight. [1]: https://thebulletin.
744.
by Bayart 5y ago
We have territories in the Pacific, most notably New Caledonia (Australia's closest neighbour, I believe), and a huge EEZ [1]. [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Map_of_t...
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by Bayart 5y ago
As far as I can remember, the stress was mostly put on exchanges more so than overall capacity. I'm not aware of any real degradation beyond the panic in the news about « running out of Internet ».
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by Bayart 5y ago
While it's a point that intuitively makes sense, I'm not too sure of its true relevance. The US is just too rich for size to be an excuse. At least it can't be the only reason. It may be anecdotal, but all the complaints
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by Bayart 5y ago
>The reason the French are pissed are strictly commercial. No, they're not. The sub deal with Australia was just part of a broader Pacific strategy to which Australia was central. Now that Australia sent the signal that it was to be
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by Bayart 5y ago
Yeah. I've had to use a touch screen keyboard for ten years and I still mistype constantly, on top of it taking ages. I dearly, dearly miss my Blackberry Bold.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Citizenship isn't a basic civil right. People who follow the law can get long term visas. And those who want to stay can go through the process of becoming citizens. Plenty do, without any heroism involved. You don't get to show
750.
by Bayart 5y ago
High unemployment and difficulty to find low-skill workers aren't mutually exclusive. In fact it's exactly what is going on in France.

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