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by acadapter 3y ago
>“You know old cat ladies?” she says to me. “It is my dream to be an old robot lady. And 50 years from now, I think it’ll be possible.” Things like this give me an impression of "Hey, look at how cool we are fellow kids!"
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by acadapter 3y ago
And blankspaces, this invention is not to be underestimated
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by acadapter 3y ago
How about this? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... Of course, this assumption is based on that the "k" sound was preserved here, instead of going through the shift to "h&quot
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by acadapter 3y ago
Some people seem to deliberately change the topic to war, whenever there is a thread about anything in the Balkans. This phenomenon also happens on Reddit and other places.
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by acadapter 3y ago
I know of an online music collection that would need to be archived. Maybe by these people? There is an amateur enthusiast named Steven Kozobarich who restored some very early recordings of traditional Balkan music. His Youtube channel is t
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Catalogue of Medieval Russian letters written in engraved birch-bark(gramoty.ru)
2 points by acadapter 3y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: What videos sites have potential to be the "YouTube of the early 2010s"?
1 points by acadapter 3y ago|0 comments
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A Roman ruler known from two coins and no other source(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by acadapter 3y ago|0 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
You can do it by being an experienced non-admin user, too. Most edit-locked articles are actually semi-protected, a lower protection level.
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by acadapter 3y ago
It should also be noted that 99.9% of all wasabi in restaurants is the wrong species (horseradish), even in Japan.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Firefighters defend against fire, doing a regular job for a wage, employed under circumstances based on consent. We need to stop this ritualization of the work that the military does. It is, after all, just a type of work.
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by acadapter 3y ago
From the perspective of Serbia's population, WWI was more of a catastrophe, even though it had a positive political outcome (the disappearance of the Habsburg Empire).
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's still a penalty based on what half of the population you were randomly born into. Male lifespan is on average shorter, and this burden is yet another thing on the minus side.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Some of my colleagues discuss politics sometimes, and I have tried to discuss things like these. I am stunned by the lack of interest to discuss male issues with the same kind of enthusiasm that women have when discussing women's issue
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by acadapter 3y ago
There are countless examples of wars were many have sacrificed themselves for nothing. WW1 is probably the prime example. Of course, while it all was happening, it was commonly described as the most important thing to do.
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Latvia to start conscripting men for mandatory military service, starting 2024(loc.gov)
44 points by acadapter 3y ago|102 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
Color blindness compatible design is, IMO, a very neglected part of the equality debate, in many other fields. This disability has a very skewed gender ratio due to how it works genetically.
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by acadapter 3y ago
I think you would like "The Book of Sand" by Borges. It's basically a description of a smartphone/internet addiction, from a time before it was technically possible.
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by acadapter 3y ago
The accent pattern is not always obvious, such as "grad" (city or hailstone), or some of the feminine nom.sg/gen.pl nouns And if we take another language's historic spelling as an example: Polish "rz" makes stu
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by acadapter 3y ago
Meanwhile in Sweden, cash is commonly seen as a suspicious method of paying, something you do "if you have something to hide". A year ago or so, I had a small amount of cash that I would spend at some work lunches, and got the usu
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by acadapter 3y ago
>I'm a native Slavic speaker, and I know a bit of Serbian, and "besplatno" _does_ sound more closer to "s" to me. Yes, it should be an /s/ for sure, but the spelling doesn't need to represent the &
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by acadapter 3y ago
Serbo-Croatian goes too far with phonetics. For example, "free of charge" is "besplatno". However, the first syllable is actually "bez-", with /z/ devoiced to /s/ by the last consonant of th
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Ask HN: Did all the Reddit-scrolling make you a better or worse person, and how?
1 points by acadapter 3y ago|1 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
It was cured in monkeys around 2009, but then the scientific community kind of lost interest, or perhaps prioritized more serious eye diseases. The main researcher is called Jay Neitz, google him if you're curious. https://p
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by acadapter 3y ago
It is unclaimed if you choose to accept both the Croatian and Serbian border definitions at the same time (which they apparently have done)
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by acadapter 3y ago
Denmark's Christiania had quite a long time of "hippie semi-anarchy", but it was formally reintegrated into society about 10 years ago. However, this was a product of the Boomer generation, when they were young. It might not
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's not a situation where someone is "giving up land". Croatia doesn't claim the land from its own legal perspective. The Croatian ambition is to use a historical path of the Danube river (from something like ~150 years
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by acadapter 3y ago
Yes, they messed up in this. Croatia did a mega police operation, in order to get rid of people that brought them tourist revenue and didn't bother anyone. Now all the money will go to Serbia, as the participants hold their events and
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by acadapter 3y ago
Exactly the same situation exists in four places along the Danube river's coastline (although only one of the land pockets is somewhat suitable for creating a country)
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by acadapter 3y ago
Yes, it's a messy place they they selected for their "free state"...

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