Grustaf

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by Grustaf 4y ago
I know a man who did that, he's now using one of the oldest German noble titles. It's also how the current house (Bernadotte) took over in Sweden, through (forced) adult adoption.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
There's no abuse about it. The UK invented the English language, you can't really claim they are using it wrong. Country, state and nation are different things.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Are the long variable names intentional or some kind of Latex artifact? I find it hard to read.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Sounds like it's already quantified? 160 ms vs 430 ms.
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Show HN: Test your memory against Ayumu, chimpanzee(apps.apple.com)
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by Grustaf 4y ago
This is not simply an evil plot to squeeze money from consumers, there’s of course a tradeoff between price, product size and longevity. A Macbook will easily last you 8 years, unless it has a butterfly keyboard, how many would be willing t
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Yes, I'm very partial to Greek, I studied it before Latin, and for much longer. My hellenophilia is especially strong now when I happen to be in Greece. Leopolim? As in the accusative form of Lvov? Feel free to send me more tips to the
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Yeah being pedantic is hard work, but it’s worth it. Btw “demetrius”, my other pet peeve is Latin endings on Greek words and names. I’m actually going to Porto next month, good to know I will be safe from bastardized Latin!
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by Grustaf 4y ago
No, why? I only read monumental inscriptions, that's where Latin shines. For everything else give me Greek or nothing.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
> original Roman cursive spelling This I think indicates that you misunderstand what "spelling" means. Casing is unrelated to spelling. "Lvtetia" and "LVTETIA", and indeed "lUtETia" are using the s
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by Grustaf 4y ago
We are not using cursive here, so Roman cursive is not all that relevant. I sort of see what you mean here though: "And since our lowercase letters are based on cursive forms, it makes much more sense to use u in the lowercase" Bu
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Sure, I'm not defending "Lvteci", no idea what that is supposed to be, but I'm vehemently against using "u" and "j" for Classical Latin, it hurts my eyes. I wish those letters were never invented at a
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by Grustaf 4y ago
If it was up to me the from field should only work with ablative forms, and the to field should require the accusative form, but the author is probably more broad minded. Definitely agree about the roads!
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Why would you say that? U and J are not used in classical Latin, they’re mediaeval innovations, presumably this website deals with the Rome of classical times? Back when Lutetia was called Lutetia, it was written with V.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
The to field should be replaced with a single option, Roma.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I’m not American so I will never understand the dusposable-everything mindset. I will happily spend hours repairing something that costs 15 minutes of my time to buy. Throwing away salvageable things is just wrong, it’s not an economic ques
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Seems better to teach the children to value their possessions.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
We used them in the army in the 90s, I guess one big advantage is that you can use them with a gas mask on.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
I'm evil because I don't want children to be killed? That's a new one. What do you mean "we failed"? Clearly it's not impossible to have a working welfare system. Almost all developed nations manage it, many of
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by Grustaf 4y ago
And I'm not doing that. I don't doubt that you had a rough childhood, your mother is clearly an unfit parent. I still maintain that preemptively killing children because they might end up in bad families is not the way to go. A wo
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by Grustaf 4y ago
At 8 or 9 months it clearly is. It looks like a child, it dreams, it kicks, listens to voices. Its nature doesn't change when it leaves the womb.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
> So would it be ethical to rape someone and force them to give birth? Because the babies would be happy to be born and experiencing life? That's the same logic you're using. How could it possibly be ethical to rape someone? Yo
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by Grustaf 4y ago
More importantly, we wouldn't have Keynote and we'd be stuck using Powerpoint
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by Grustaf 4y ago
It obviously contains a lot of CGI, but the question is if the lego pieces are CGI.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
The issue is that these children live “in hell”, not that they are alive at all. The solution to potential future suffering is not to kill people. And needless to say, you can’t project your experience on every one.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
Yes, but through the sanctions, not through the engineered, technical default. It's not like potential creditors will look up Russia's credit score and see that it's low, they will know exactly what happened.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
> forcing unwanted children into this world This turn of phrase, which I've seen used often, is bizarre and demonic. It implies that the default for children is to be killed.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
That's per year, not per instance. So it's really quite high.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
You are not actually saying that she regretted having you, only that at the time she would have killed you if she could. It's obviously a horrible thing to say, to even feel, but it's different from what we are discussing.
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by Grustaf 4y ago
> So you're saying that if more pregnancies ended in miscarriage abortion would be moral? Not saying that at all. Just like last time, we are still just discussing how bad your analogies were. > If your curious ~60% of embryos do

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