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by dghf 1y ago
With an executive president, sure: but when the president is largely ceremonial and/or a constitutional backstop (much like a constitutional monarch, in fact, except elected), I think the risk is much less. And it's not like const
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by dghf 1y ago
The same is stated for the Chair of State, so the sole unused chair can't be either of those.
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by dghf 1y ago
There was a thread on Reddit about the current British king on which someone commented > Well I didn't vote for him to which I naturally replied > You don't vote for kings! and the next comment was an antimonarchist slamming
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by dghf 1y ago
In what places do courts ignore or modify law to deliver the result they prefer? (To be precise: where is that accepted practice, rather than aberrant behaviour by some judges?)
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by dghf 1y ago
> the 19th century actually refers to the 1800s Also, this isn't strictly accurate: the 19th century excludes 1800 but includes 1900.
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by dghf 2y ago
Wolfe Tone was a member of the Protestant Ascendancy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfe_Tone
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by dghf 2y ago
I guess I was focussing more on the "Europe" part of EMEA: apologies, that was Eurocentric of me. But the UK is the most populous English-speaking country in Europe, and the second most populous in EMEA as a whole (after Nigeria),
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by dghf 2y ago
I find it curious that a writer for a site called EMEA Entrepreneurs is either ignorant of, or choosing to ignore, the colloquial British meaning of the word "cowboy": an incompetent or dishonest (or both) tradesman. It's see
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by dghf 2y ago
Xroaches. Move a window, and cockroaches would scuttle out from underneath it and round the screen until they found another window to hide under.
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by dghf 2y ago
And similarly 'O' for 'descendant of' in Irish surnames (e.g O'Neill).
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by dghf 2y ago
I couldn't work out from the story whether it was really set in the 1920s, or whether that was a delusion on the part of the main character.
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by dghf 2y ago
> Basically any color that humans can perceive can be created from a mixture of these three colors. Many, but not any. No finite set of real primary colours can produce every perceivable colour. Some will always be out of gamut.
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by dghf 2y ago
> some are suspected to be larger than declared I can't find a link now, but allegedly the Crossrail project accidentally tunnelled into one of these.
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by dghf 2y ago
> I would think the center of the city would be some point equidistant centrally between the boundaries of the original roman city wall That would be the centre of the City, but not necessarily of the city.
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by dghf 2y ago
Once a month (or possibly more often, I didn't keep track), the local Sikhs where I used to live would set up a stall on the high street and give away hot food to all-comers, no questions asked, donations gratefully received but absolu
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by dghf 2y ago
Character-separated-value file?
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by dghf 2y ago
> Last year I was chatting with the 20 year old son of a friend, and he didn't know what Highlander was. Well there was only the one movie.
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by dghf 2y ago
Picky and probably pointless question: are they actually hashmaps? If I understand correctly, a hashmap isn’t the only way to implement an associative array.
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by dghf 2y ago
I thought the accent was to indicate to English speakers that the word has three syllables rather than two? The acute accent isn't standard for marking a long vowel in romanised Japanese (it's usually a macron or a circumflex, or
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by dghf 2y ago
> Get these scholars to train the AI, then have it automatically translate all the other tablets Which is great until it blithely translates an ancient curse and initiates the apocalypse.
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by dghf 2y ago
> seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon I say (and usually hear, from English speakers) "poker mon" (non-rhotically). Isn't that roughly correct, allowing for differences between English and Japanese vowels?
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by dghf 2y ago
Schola Latina Europæa et Universalis, surely? (Actual page title includes an ampersand, which I'm guessing HN doesn't like.)
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by dghf 2y ago
> Medieval scholars inherited the idea from ancient times that there were seven primary colours: white, yellow, red, green, blue, purple, and black. These correspond to the classic tinctures of heraldry: the "metals" or and
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by dghf 2y ago
> The meaning of perfect pitch is unambiguous. When a note is played someone with perfect pitch can identify that pitch (Ab, F, C#, etc) without a reference. Also known as absolute pitch. How does that work with variations in concert pit
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by dghf 2y ago
Tok Pisin, a.k.a. New Guinea Pidgin, has exactly two prepositions: bilong, which means "of" or "from" in a possessive or attributive sense; and long, which means everything else.
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by dghf 2y ago
MLModern is a heavier version: https://ctan.org/pkg/mlmodern?lang=en
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by dghf 2y ago
Fun fact, the City of London is the last local authority in the UK where businesses as well residents get to vote. Businesses can appoint one voter for every five employees up to 50, and then one per 50 employees after that.
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by dghf 2y ago
Is it? As an Englishman, my instinctive tendency is to blame any corporate buzzword innovations on the US: but perhaps I'm wrong in this instance.
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by dghf 2y ago
Linguistic tangent: when did "learnings" oust "lessons" as the standard word for "things I have learned"?
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by dghf 2y ago
Reg Mombassa's stuff is somewhat reminiscent of Crumb's, especially his designs for the surfwear label Mambo: https://www.regmombassa.com/pages/mambo

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