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by acadapter 2y ago
Heart-dotted i and j should be added to Unicode. Medieval monks used to do this with the first letter of the word for "eye" (oko), and those got added, despite the fact that one of them had only one historical occurence. https:&#
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Ask HN: How long before an eclipse is it wise/advisable to do your bookings?
2 points by acadapter 2y ago|1 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
Make sure to include warnings in dead languages that people from many cultures have taken an interest in, such as Latin and Ancient Greek.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Articles like these makes me want to read English translations of writings where Chinese authors and journalists have described the USA in the same style. I wonder what details and observations they would compose their story of.
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's in the constitution. If you register as a publisher (ansvarig utgivare), a different set of free speech laws are used (freedom of press). This is probably the "license" they're mentioning.
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by acadapter 3y ago
The "n" in "na" is not the same as the "n" in "ni". However, only some consonants get this treatment, such as "sa" and "shi", because it only takes into account what a typical Engl
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by acadapter 3y ago
Summary: The historical start of the year is March 1st. That's also why some months have misleading Latin names that are off-by-2.
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by acadapter 3y ago
The first part of Book 3 in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations has this description of "dementia". ... If dementia sets in, there will be no failure of such faculties as breathing, feeding, imagination, desire: before these go, the
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by acadapter 3y ago
I wonder how easy it would be to construct something like this today. Someone I worked with wanted to build a lookout tower on his house, imitating something he saw on another (very old) house elsewhere, and got into all sorts of disputes w
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Ask HN: Is it sustainable to ban musicians/athletes for their countries' deeds?
2 points by acadapter 3y ago|1 comments
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Pliny the Elder's work habits, as described by Pliny the Younger(attalus.org)
3 points by acadapter 3y ago|1 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
Which is paid for by an outflow of money in the form of taxes (of various types)
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Ask HN: Is your country's subreddit nowadays dominated by pro-military people?
3 points by acadapter 3y ago|1 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
The genetics of color blindness is by nature unfairly biased against men. Hope we can dedicate ourselves to fix these things instead of financing more weapons and armies. I mean, a CRISPR based cure has been successfully tested in monkeys a
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Xkcd: Free Speech (2014)(xkcd.com)
20 points by acadapter 3y ago|11 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's been nearly 10 years since this famous perspective on free speech was published and circulated. How do you think it has aged?
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US to sell missiles to Kosovo for its 'territorial integrity'(brusselstimes.com)
2 points by acadapter 3y ago|0 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
You mean Lujan?
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by acadapter 3y ago
It reminds me of something I used to do against mosquito bites when I was younger and more sensitive to them. I dipped a spoon in boiling water, and gave the mosquito bite a few quick touches with the hot spoon. Nowadays I just use anti-acn
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by acadapter 3y ago
10000 years ago, litter often contained seeds that could sprout into new plants. Perhaps this habit could be a vestige of those times?
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by acadapter 3y ago
It will fade away, preserve the information instead. Make good copies in enameled brass or bronze, inscribe some words about their context, and sell them as souvernirs or collector's items to people that are interested in these things.
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Croatian towns with a traffic light that only turns red for driving students(total-croatia-news.com)
15 points by acadapter 3y ago|3 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
Not understood human languages are in general languages with a low amount of source material.
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Serbia grants citizenship to Steve Wozniak(b92.net)
44 points by acadapter 3y ago|109 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
I don't understand what's controversial about this. "Rus" is the medieval East Slavic society. Three of the four modern East Slavic cultures retain the word root in the name (Russians, Belarusians, Rusyns). One of them u
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's all just a matter of expectations. Today's Wikipedia has a quite difficult learning curve for making proper and lasting contributions. The "Visual Editor" should be confined to the Talk: pages, so that the difficult
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by acadapter 3y ago
Belarusians also call themselves a variation of "rus", obviously. And "Little Russia" is an old name of a geographical region (which somewhat corresponds to the traditionally Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine).
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by acadapter 3y ago
Stealing? It's their shared East Slavic heritage.
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by acadapter 3y ago
So it's basically a new version of the "Freedom Fries" mania, but with higher popularity?
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by acadapter 3y ago
Try telling that to Sweden. Some societies are really stubborn about punishing it as a crime against society and a lack of character, despite the harm it causes.

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