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Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property(liberlandpress.com)
185 points by acadapter 3y ago|319 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
Internet of Trash would be a better name (same IoT abbrev.)
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by acadapter 3y ago
Too late, it's too close to the Sun from our viewing angle. Friendly reminder - don't point your telescope into the direction of the Sun!
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by acadapter 3y ago
Reading that article, I think "someone apparently ingested something inappropriate at Burning Man". What a chaotic mess.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Enough of this over-processed junk, bring back Kodachrome
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by acadapter 3y ago
There's something called the "M-T pronoun paradigm", a trace of earlier proto-languages that aren't reconstructible today, possibly from as far back in time as the Stone Age.
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by acadapter 3y ago
It would be fun to see a video going into depth about the various speculations on how the laryngeals sounded like. I personally think of them as /h/, /x/, /x^w/, but there are so many arguments for the differen
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Ask HN: Why is CRISPR against colorblindness taking so long to reach the market?
3 points by acadapter 3y ago|4 comments
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Conscription is resurging across Europe. Is that a good thing?(euronews.com)
2 points by acadapter 3y ago|1 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
Hungarian has "dzs", a three-symbol letter, and lots of two-symbol letters, if you want a more extreme example.
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by acadapter 3y ago
An increasing amount of people have relatives on the other side of the Western high-status bubble, and this might affect political attitudes against hard borders
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by acadapter 3y ago
The situation today with different travel capabilities for holders of different passports is somewhat like apartheid. Our generation deserves to be described badly by future generations, for the issues we systematically ignore.
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by acadapter 3y ago
I wish that the "nixtamal" precooked form of corn would be more widely available in Europe. It really is a superior product compared to plain corn flour - I didn't really like most corn-based dishes before I tried it.
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by acadapter 3y ago
This exists in some parts of European culture, but it's not named with anything as generic as this. One example is the "antiquing" of newly produced violins.
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Ask HN: Why does the default MS spellchecker treat some language nuances as bad?
5 points by acadapter 3y ago|2 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
This was also done 1000 years ago, in Novgorod
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's an excellent name, since it mirrors the "Tragedy of the commons" phenomenon.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Meh, language changes. 21st-century books will be edited by 22nd century people, that's for sure. And verbatim copies will be free to reprint as they fall out of copyright. Politically motivated changes might sometimes be ridiculous, b
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by acadapter 3y ago
Does anyone know of a good English translation of Naturalis Historia, by the way?
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Vada, Jalpa, and Vitanda (ancient Indian categorization of debate styles)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by acadapter 3y ago|0 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
What I meant, is that the discussion doesn't have to be limited to something recent. Sometimes, anecdotes from over 10-20 years ago can be interesting.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Related topic: Novgorod birch bark letters. Although the language is different, it's another example of informal writing from a time and place where such findings are rare.
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by acadapter 3y ago
Why can't the Wikimedia projects just be forked by some more normal people?
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Qurnah Disaster (1855)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by acadapter 3y ago|0 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
It's a rigged market with a free market narrative
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Ask HN: What political phenomena from 2010-2019 irritated you the most?
1 points by acadapter 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How do you differ from others in the conversation topics you choose?
1 points by acadapter 3y ago|3 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
V and W were considered two graphic variants of the same letter until about two decades ago. The W sound was lost centuries ago but reintroduced with English words.
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Vergonha (France)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by acadapter 3y ago|0 comments
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by acadapter 3y ago
The "sbeech" video that Geoff Lindsey did is really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37hX8NPgjQ

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