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by doukdouk 6y ago
I wager that the French were less concerned with whatever happened in Russia, and much more with what happened in France: >Most of the war's major battles occurred in France and the French countryside was heavily scarred in the figh
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by doukdouk 6y ago
It is not: > ISO gives this explanation of the name: "Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French), our founders decided to g
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by doukdouk 6y ago
So carbon tax + redistribution towards the poorest (e.g. with the income of said carbon tax). This is not a problem that is technically complicated to solve.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Most of them are not in use, or quite a few are joke translations rather than something that makes sense.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
I think this aspect is quite underestimated: > They start to have "managers", not "chefs", etc.... they "recommand", they no longer order. Swapping English words for French words allow the word-swapper to so
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by doukdouk 6y ago
It is though [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Strasbourg%E2%80%93Kehl_s...
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by doukdouk 6y ago
For NATO/OTAN, its official languages are French and English. OTAN is not a translation - it is one of the two official names of the organization. Would be weird to specifically choose the English one.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
More than French influence abroad, I think a lot of people do not like "poor English", for lack of a better term, replacing French in vernacular French. It seems to me that for most people, it's more about vernacular French b
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Ordinateur is a very common word though.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
How often do English speakers use non-English-based acronyms? I see USSR much more often CCCP, HIV more often than VIH...
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Note that this is unusual in that it lasts four years, not three. Standard curriculum is three years of bachelor's, then two years of master's. In the prépa - engineering school track, it is two years of prépa, then three years of
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Is it specific to schools or is it common to have many rooms in buildings without windows?
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by doukdouk 6y ago
It 's "not having windows in the US" part that is surprising, not the "having windows in Germany".
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Surely energy input is the right metric. If I use a gallon of gas to power a life-saving ambulance or if I burn it just for fun, those two actions should have the same importance.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Do you have any of those photos? I find it hard to believe.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
The "undergrad Year 1 at École Polytechnique" is really the junior year, since the freshman/sophomore years of university education would have be done in prépas. It is undergrad, and it would be their first year at the school
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by doukdouk 6y ago
No, but being "anti cars" is still extremely controversial, see for instance the "Yellow Vests" in France.
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Given that animal grieve and mourn their dead [0], cows have best friends [1], or many species of animals play [2], among many other things, assuming that cavemen lives is only "culinary" and "carnal" pleasure means huma
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by doukdouk 6y ago
Can mathematics be a subject of scientific study? Should axioms and proofs be replaced by empirical evidence?