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by dghf 7y ago
> To prove my point, can you walk to a natural area (beach, forest, mountain, etc) within 15 minutes? Edinburgh has, less than a mile from its centre, Holyrood Park [0], 650 acres of wild highland landscape, including gorse, glens, ridge
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> (This used to happen in Europe, but during the middle ages the church banned cousin marriages for political reasons: it stopped the nobility consolidating too much power.) Not so much banned it, as restricted it: dispensations were fai
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Also "quite good", which can mean either "good" or "not good", depending on whether the stress falls on "quite" or "good". And "with the greatest respect", which means "you, s
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> ii) To make point i) worse, they have nicknames printed on some of the coins!! They do not write "ten cents", it is "one dime". They do not write "twenty-five cents", they write "quarter dollar"
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True. But I doubt anyone would be able to go through the rigmarole of getting the tickets and go on the trip within that 16-day window.
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Most British stores won't give refunds just because the customer's changed their mind: there has to be something wrong with the product sold. This was even more so in the 90s.
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> Specifically, Einstein was puzzled by a difference that didn’t make a difference, a symmetry that didn’t make sense. It’s still astonishing to drop a wad of crumped paper and a set of heavy keys side by side to see that somehow, almost
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by dghf 7y ago
> It seems to me like if you're being a stickler about these terms but then handwaving the dissent we saw in China, the Pacific Islands, various European rebellions, Celtic tribes, and Norse communities? I specifically mentioned pea
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> Because such classes did not develop in every area where humans passed through this keyhole? But they did in many areas, and the article specifically states "that's how the world was" (not "that's how some pa
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> It seems to me that you're presenting a compatible assertion as a contradiction. How is the domination of a large agricultural class by a much smaller military class (who were prepared to perpetuate that domination by violence, an
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> It is apparent that we don't agree on what defines a group of humans to be a sort of 'nation-state' It's a pretty well-defined term. Obviously you're free to use your own definitions, but I assumed the article
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First, you didn't have the strong identification between the nation (in the older sense of "people") and the state. So rather than a single French people, say, there were several: Bretons, Normans, Gascons, etc. Second, you g
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In what way?
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> I was indicating that the legitimacy of monarchs in the general populace came from their protection against aggressors. To a point. But as jacobush points out in a sibling comment to yours, those aggressors could be local as well as fo
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> 8/ A revolutionary idea is that governments should leave people alone so they could pursue their well-being in a bottom-up fashion via social interactions in their local area. In fact, that’s how the world was before the advent of
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> (Also, a lesser consideration: there are some native speakers of English who can distinguish certain sounds in their pronunciation but cannot, or cannot easily, hear the difference between those sounds. I would guess that either they l
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by dghf 7y ago
Google Translate's rendering of "Dream of the Rood" ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ascp/a02_05.htm ), lines 10-12: feathers need to be looked after. Neither is it true that the offcodes are a
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Picky point: > Let’s just say that for our purposes we can think of complex numbers existing on a line perpindicular to our regular number line. If you take a piece of graph paper and mark a line from left to right, and then another line
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I think it's not so much that he argues they are religions, but that he uses a definition of religion that encompasses them: viz., the belief in an order that is not of human invention but that imposes human moral norms. But that defin
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> It reminds me of an incident in the UK a few years ago It was in January this year: https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/01/man-fined-refusing-show-face-... But yes, it was very worrying, especially the plains-cl
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> An inadequate attempt to provide relief is not the same thing as actively killing people. You can kill by neglect. I don't think you can simply dismiss the accusation as "complete hyperbole".
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There was also the Rosenstrasse protest, where a group of non-Jewish women managed to get their Jewish husbands released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest
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> Saying Britain killed millions in India in WW2 is complete hyperbole. Between two and three million people died in the Bengal Famine of 1943. The extent to which the British regime was responsible is still debated, but it would seem th
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> You know that the Queen is still the head of state for most of the commonwealth countries? The Commonwealth has 53 member states, only 16 of which have the Queen as the head of state. And those 16 contain only 6% of the Commonwealth&#x
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> An alternate interpretation is half of the property taxes are paid for by less than 1% of the population, who also are acting as environmental conservators by not subdividing and developing large tracts of unspoiled wilderness. As I un
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by dghf 8y ago
> In MWI the event corresponding to collapse is the supposed appearance of an entire universe, which is - conveniently - impossible to detect. My layman's understanding was that MWI doesn't postulate multiple universes. Rather,
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I heard/read something similar (possibly in an Enid Blyton novel), but it was contrasting rooks and crows, rather than ravens and crows. Unlike ravens, rooks are much the same size as carrion crows (the typical crow in England), and th
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by dghf 8y ago
> I like Stross' nonfiction work and wasn't aware that he wrote sci-fi I'm the reverse: I only know his sci-fi, and wasn't aware he wrote nonfiction. What would you recommend?
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It's the Columbia disaster for which Tufte blames PowerPoint: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

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