Bayart

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by Bayart 5y ago
You can just use Greek words in Latin ! They certainly did often enough that it doesn't carry any prejudice. The declension system is very similar and Latin is by itself highly flexible, I wouldn't go as far as calling Greek parti
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by Bayart 5y ago
Greek was the literate language of the Eastern Mediterranean during Roman times. Roman domination couldn't undo the existing network effects that preexisted there, all the more so that you couldn't be considered to have an educati
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by Bayart 5y ago
So, as I understand it the problem with the Mona Lisa in the Louvre is that layers of paints have already been stripped and damaged (the layering of very thin coats of paint is the signature of Leonardo's technique) and the varnish its
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by Bayart 5y ago
>It elected a first female president in Taiwan, allowed gay marriage...etc It's a trap to equate "progressive" social change with democracy. It's perfectly possible to have a socially liberal society that's also
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's certainly changes the discussion to the CCP ! They intend to cement the notion that China is the oldest, greatest, most venerable nation their is. Truth be damned.
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by Bayart 5y ago
How so ? There's a case to be made for Linear B because of the Greek Dark Ages, but Old Avestan ? By that same token, Oracle Bone Script also doesn't represent a traceable and continuous culture.
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by Bayart 5y ago
The Revolution had tons of Freemasons. That's completely besides the point.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Lindybeige is extremely dishonest, if not deluded. He's probably the worst history-adjacent content-creator I'm aware of that isn't outright known as an alt-right pundit.
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's ambivalent and fairly neutral. Analysis of his career is colder and mostly focussed on technical aspects rather than heroism. People are more excitable about Napoléon abroad.
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by Bayart 5y ago
>it's 5000 year history Please don't give credence to nonsensical nationalist tropes. The Oracle Bone Script goes back to about 1200 BC during the Shang Dynasty, that makes about 3200 years of history. Before that it's _pr
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's typically the type of stuff that ends up becoming an EU norm.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Their dominance in the ad space means content creators aren't able to make a living without sponsorships and other sources of revenue (merch, patreon). Sponsorships on Youtube exploded when ad revenue cratered. Cut sponsorships away an
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by Bayart 5y ago
>ByteDance had been exploring a public listing in the beginning of 2021, sources have told Reuters, but in April the company said it had no imminent plans for an initial public offering. Has ByteDance been put on the waiting list by the
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by Bayart 5y ago
Go out, socialize with other kids, experience a broader variety of things, grow up. I'm now absolutely certain my using video games as an excuse to stay inside as a teenager and young adult severely delayed my emotional and social gro
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's not because those are things we have positive emotional associations with from of our childhood that they're actually positive things. I for one would have rather never played video games or watched MTV. You remember those ol
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by Bayart 5y ago
Maybe Pewdiepie, but quite a few channels in the millions have hinted that getting through to a human was impossible without a Twitter campaign.
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by Bayart 5y ago
It's a legacy of socialist regimes enforcing gender ratios. Gender disparity is usually proportional to freedom of choice. ie. countries where there's less pressure to choose a particular field are more disparate in their gender r
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by Bayart 5y ago
I feel every attempt at community-by-design bears within it the seed of inhumane horror. Forget about the energy equation of building a city in a desert, what's the on-boarding process for prospective inhabitants ? Putting the price of
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by Bayart 5y ago
Mirror : https://archive.ph/nYUht
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by Bayart 5y ago
>In Europe the last time I saw a cheque was in the early 90's, and they are still used in Canada for things like rent. It's still a thing in France, mostly because you can control the moment it's cashed in, it can be used
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by Bayart 5y ago
Carding is a non-issue in the EU, at least most places I'm aware of. Between PIN codes that are required everywhere and 2FA that's universal for direct payments on the Internet, there's just not much value there. Accounts wit
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by Bayart 5y ago
Wenger at Arsenal, Dinho at Barça... Man I feel old.
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by Bayart 5y ago
>You usually buy to rent. Yes, I know. Renting is part of "investing". >Right until the moment it hits you. Have you had been squatted? No? So how can you have an opinion on the impact to someone? I'm not talking about
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by Bayart 5y ago
>From reading other points in the thread it seems like owning a home for investment in France is an extremely risky proposition. The amount of people owning property and the size of the real estate market says otherwise. Squatting is jus
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by Bayart 5y ago
Checks and balances is how a guy like Trump can't stay in the White House regardless of how much he whines about fraudulent elections. I'd say the US system works for the most part and isn't nearly as corrupt as Americans lik
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That form of sanitization came from traditional media and civil society.
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That's a drop in the bucket for a country that's already full of people from all over the world and constantly bragging about its diversity (despite looking very monocultural from the outside looking in).
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by Bayart 5y ago
I had an argument the other day with a guy refering to Morocco as part of the Middle East. It seemed mind-boggling to me you'd put a country West of Portugal in that category. I then discovered it had become common parlance in the US f
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by Bayart 5y ago
In France the problem with fraud and excess registrations has got to do with data segregation. Files can't legally be cross-referenced between the ID system, the fiscal system, the healthcare system and so on. That leads to a lot of cr
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by Bayart 5y ago
Javascript has an excess of versatility, if anything. Python is the perfect prototyping language, I've found over time. And I took a really long while to board that train, coming from Perl.

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