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by dghf 5y ago
ETA: my comment was more than a little confused. Original stands below. What I should have said is that different observers can already, in the absence of FTL, disagree about the order of events with space-like separation, but it doesn&#x
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by dghf 5y ago
To be picky, these weren't armed rebel groups (at least not until the May Days). They were armed groups defending the legitimate government of Spain from a full-on mutiny and attempted coup by the armed forces and associated right-wi
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by dghf 5y ago
From chapter 25 of Down and Out in Paris London: As soon as we were inside the spike [homeless shelter] and had been lined up for the search, the Tramp Major called my name. He was a stiff, soldierly man of forty, not looking the bully he
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by dghf 5y ago
After some digging around on Wikipedia's page and in my copy of Homage to Catalonia, it appears that: * Once he'd decided to go to Spain to fight, he approached the British Communist Party, who suggested he join the Internationa
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by dghf 5y ago
He sympathised with the anarchists, and in retrospect wished he'd joined them, but the group he joined -- POUM -- were Marxist rather than anarchist, though not Marxist-Leninist/Stalinist (what most people would probably mean by C
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by dghf 5y ago
The advantage of HSL is that it's simple to grasp and a straightforward mathematical transformation from sRGB. The disadvantage is that its measures aren't very consistent across hues. Pure sRGB blue, #0000ff, has an HSL lightness
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by dghf 5y ago
> 50 years ago, Germany also still had a popular saying "Eigentum verpflichtet" which I would translate as "ownership creates a duty". In short, people who owned companies, large plots of land, or other infrastructure
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by dghf 5y ago
Or jobsworth.
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But when people say something “doesn’t translate”, they usually mean (and are understood as meaning) one or both of two things — that it doesn’t translate succinctly, or it doesn’t translate exactly. Japanese honorifics, for example, pr
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by dghf 5y ago
IIRC, the Protectorate Parliament offered him the Crown, but factions of the Army made it clear he would not survive should he accept.
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by dghf 5y ago
Outside of Britain proper, but in what was then a British dependency, you had the United Irishmen revolt at the end of the eighteenth century, in which (as the name might suggest) Protestants and Catholics made common cause. That must have
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by dghf 5y ago
Thank you, and likewise.
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Well, that's fair. > people with different accents Done to (arguably) comic effect in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!, about the French Resistance in WW2, where English, French and German are all indicated by outrageous cari
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by dghf 5y ago
But implied translation into the language of the audience is a long-standing convention. We don't watch Ben Hur or Spartacus or I, Claudius and wonder why the Romans are all speaking English instead of Classical Latin. But it mig
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by dghf 5y ago
Incoming pedantry: IIRC, Tolkien "only" invented two full languages, Sindarin ("Grey Elvish") and Quenya ("High Elvish"), if "full" means you could write a letter or have a conversation in it. He did
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by dghf 5y ago
Wouldn't it break the illusion if Klingons and Dothraki just happened to speak a real Earth language? And Belter is meant to be an English-based creole, reflecting the in-book/in-show history of the Belters as the descendants of s
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by dghf 5y ago
>I'm pretty sure that the degree of normalization given in the end goes also well beyond 3rd-Normal-Form. > I think that is 5th Normal Form/6th Normal Form or so, almost as extreme as you can get The original schema is also
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by dghf 5y ago
So have they been kicked out of the Navy, or just removed from these postings?
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They've got to call the place something. What name do you suggest? Germania is attested no later than 98 AD (in Tacitus's book of the same name). They could have gone with central Europe, I guess, but that's vaguer and stil
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by dghf 5y ago
To me, at least, "non-prestigious" sounds neutral, while "unprestigious" sound a bit derogatory.
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> My dinner-party party piece for many years was to say, “Well, actually, I invented Baileys. You know, Baileys Irish Cream. I did that back in 1973.” > Hugh looked at me with an almost earnest stare. “What would happen if we mixed Ir
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by dghf 5y ago
> If it's any consolation, the only food I associate with Scotland is haggis, and I don't expect that people there are actually eating it. I have no opinion whatever on what people in Scotland eat. (Except, of course, that it p
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by dghf 5y ago
I believe Commonwealth citizens (at least, those from countries that share a monarch with the UK) are entitled to use 'Sir' or 'Dame' as well: though Canada, for one, seems to take a dim view of its citizens accepting Br
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by dghf 5y ago
I only watched the first couple of minutes of the video, but it seems they pronounce Latin "v" more or less the same as English "v". I was taught to pronounce it like English "w". Am I wrong, are they wrong, ar
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by dghf 5y ago
2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2 and sufficiently small values of 5.
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Cones and cylinders don't have any flat sides?
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by dghf 5y ago
Two I enjoyed recently-ish * Adrian Tchaikovsky's Dogs of War : can a bio-engineered, cybernetically enhanced animal soldier still be a Good Dog when he's working for/owned by a PMC with questionable ethics? * Kate Mascarenh
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by dghf 5y ago
I think they would never reach the end of the 354th day, because they'd be caught in something akin to Zeno's Paradox: the closer they got to c , the more time would slow down for them. You could draw up a table mapping shipboa
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by dghf 5y ago
One thing I've never been quite clear on: > If it weren’t for Einstein’s relativity, you might think that, with each second that passes by, you’d simply increase your speed by another 9.8 m/s. If you started off at rest, it wou
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by dghf 5y ago
> We need to take away qualified immunity (which incorrectly protects the police officer involved from any kind of prosecution). Not a lawyer, but I thought qualified immunity gave protection from civil liability, not criminal.

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