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by alkyon 4y ago
It's not the question of grammar but semantics. Wrong grammar is when you put the verb before the subject in English. The grammar does not decide whether you say "on a call" or "in a call". Wrong grammar would be i
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by alkyon 4y ago
This is plainly not true. As a Polish native speaker I could observe the same old custom of relating to Ukraine/Belarus/Lithuania as a territory by using similar preposition "na" in Polish. And yes, we also use "na&
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Ergotism and Saint Anthony's Fire(sciencedirect.com)
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by alkyon 4y ago
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Woody Allen
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by alkyon 4y ago
At school I synthesized a tiny amount of NI3 (nitrogen triiodide). As it was late and the substance was still dripping wet I went home leaving it under fume hood to dry. Next day I learned (to much amusement of my chemistry teacher) that it
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by alkyon 5y ago
I don't understand the downvotes. The idea of turning excess oxigen into CO2 which I replied to is plainly stupid just because of this proportion. How much coal (and oxygen) would we use up to bring down CO2 levels to 0.03?
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by alkyon 5y ago
We don't want to deplete oxygen in the atmosphere. Plants are much better suited to capturing CO2, IMHO, as they also produce oxygen.
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by alkyon 5y ago
All of this is still less crazy than quantum mechanics itself. Some people may cringe, but the proof is valid anyway (not sure what in principle might be wrong with ZFC?). I wouldn't be surprised if it revealed some hidden aspects of r
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by alkyon 5y ago
Interesting, but doesn't seem to work for me.
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by alkyon 6y ago
I use zsh because of global aliases feature - allowing me to assign '| grep' to G, for example. AFAIK bash doesn't offer this functionality as yet.
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by alkyon 6y ago
I used to use Vim, but switched to Spacemacs and never looked back. I highly recommend it as it gives you Vim bindings with all Emacs possibilities.
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by alkyon 6y ago
Tsars may be long dead, but the methods haven't changed much.
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by alkyon 6y ago
The point of it is rather different. Classic example: Osram which roughly translates into "I will cover in shit" in Polish
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by alkyon 7y ago
As gay person living in Warsaw I wouldn't move to South Korea. They have some serious legal problems like very limited or not existing anti-discrimination laws in employment, no right to serve openly in the military etc. Poland has ope
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by alkyon 8y ago
"Poland and Hungary have 1/3 the per capita GDP as Britain." More accurate comaparision would involve PPP numbers. $43k UK vs $29k Poland and $28k Hungary. So after all they ARE catching... https://en.wikipedia.org
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by alkyon 8y ago
Is a slight slowdown in the economy fault of new president's policies or rather just economic cycle? My assumption is that in the short run labour cost to the economy will increase, but in the medium to long run the positive effects co
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by alkyon 8y ago
I don't think this numbering system is specific to Germany, it is also used in Poland so it must be European thing. What's more even in smaller stores you can get at least two varieties. Edit: the systems seem to differ modulo spe
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by alkyon 8y ago
This is due to poor translation - Lem is generally regarded as a master of style. Polish sentences tend to be longer, not unlike German, because highly inflective grammar allows for it. It is not the case for languages with simpler grammar
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by alkyon 9y ago
Exactly, is it problem with smaller countries feeling continually threatened by Russia or with Russia itself who just recently annexed big chunks of Ukraine?
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by alkyon 9y ago
German philosopher Schopenhauer remarked that it is much better to read less then more exactly for the same reason - quality over quantity. Apart from this setting such goals as 100 books a year is a real killjoy (as if todo lists had not e
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by alkyon 9y ago
Being gay would be especially challenging for that species.