Mediterraneo10

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by Mediterraneo10 10y ago
The New York Times has presented a couple of articles over the last two years on dying towns in Japan, and it was noted that once the population drops to a certain point, the utilities get cut off, making it hard for anyone who actually wan
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by Mediterraneo10 10y ago
As birth rates plummet across much of the developed world, can people really still be convinced to take on hardship just because things might supposedly be easier for their children (that they don't even have, or have but don't ma
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by Mediterraneo10 10y ago
> Somalia and Iraq are not examples of capitalism. The Mises Institute, a major thinktank for free-market capitalism, has presented several articles in praise of how things are done in Somalia.
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by Mediterraneo10 10y ago
> Have you never tried asking a hotel reception for local recommendations? Hotel receptions are generally trained to only present you the major tourist attractions. An AirBnB host, or a host from a hospitality-exchange community, that yo
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by Mediterraneo10 10y ago
> Because it's redundant. While short vowel markings are left out, as long as different words can have wildly different voicings, it is hard to claim they are redundant. Rather, the reader is simply pressed to tell the vowel pointin
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I daresay “good philosophy” is based on the rigor of the ideas themselves, not the lives of philosophers themselves. The canon of philosophy is replete with men who did distasteful or abhorrent things, but their ideas are studied nonetheles
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> thus it underwent a complete overhaul where it got all the bells and whistles of other alphabets It didn’t get all the bells and whistles of other alphabets in actual practice. Yes, in theory short vowels could be denoted with diacriti
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> The spam filter ... is just to good to switch to any offline client. Your Gmail account is available over POP3 and IMAP. That means you enjoy the same spam filtering regardless of whether your use Gmail in your web browser or a dedicat
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That vowels are an afterthought in Semitic scripts is not an “Orientalist claim” at all, it’s completely mainstream archaeology. The use of some consonant letters to denote long vowels (as so-called matres lectionis ) was a development sub