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by heraclius 7y ago
I think “scan” here was in the sense of “scan the ISBN to catalogue the book”, not scan the insides. Since many of these are old books, many of them will not be perfect bindings. Scanning their contents therefore either requires opening the
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Politico says that this website is part of a Russian government institution.⁰ Perhaps that’s bunkum, but both sides fund propaganda about the other; most of the time, they will fund propaganda about things that are true—I remember Xinhua wr
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by heraclius 7y ago
I agree that hatred would be increased. Peace would only follow from disease where: 1. one can avoid infection by avoiding proximity (so no waterborne disease for example), 2. knowledge of this is widespread, 3. avoidance of proximity is fe
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by heraclius 7y ago
One plausible explanation of high rates of conflict in the DRC is the Belgian approach to colonisation. > At the outset, only groups officially acknowledged as indigenous were entitled to a native authority, and with it the right to a tr
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by heraclius 7y ago
I quite understand that there is a tendency to marketise decision-making in an unhelpful fashion, but I’m not entirely sure how this scheme is too much of a problem, beyond using the word “tokens”. Could you elaborate as to the specific pro
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by heraclius 7y ago
It’s tempting to think that we can operate politics without emotion. However, it is unclear what the foundations of our political beliefs are if not intuitive reactions of the sort that emotions are as well. For example, most people who opp
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by heraclius 7y ago
Is there any reason that 2 is the best of all possible indices? It sounds, prima facie, reasonable, but it is unclear whether it is the best, what the best is, or even whether it can reasonably be calculated given that people behave irratio
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by heraclius 7y ago
Indeed, relatedly, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 853 Alfred was consecrated king by the Pope; I believe that it is theorised, quite plausibly, that this was an important influence in later life.
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by heraclius 7y ago
Green notes that England is rather remote. This may be one reason for the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons. > “The utter remoteness of the islands at the north-westerly limits of the Ocean and the barbarian nature of their inhabitants was
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by heraclius 7y ago
The socialist roots of the PAP live on in institutional form if not policy. Yesterday a May Day Rally was held, for example. As K. Jeyaratnam says, Singaporeans get the government they deserve. A lack of pressure on the government produces
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by heraclius 7y ago
Yes, this is an important instance of the problem with excessive generalisation. Unfortunately Bruckner ends up excessively generalising about the use of the term “Islamophobia”, hence the not unjustified comments here attacking him for big
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“Le terme d’islamophobie remplit plusieurs fonctions : nier pour mieux la légitimer la réalité d’une offensive intégriste en Europe, attaquer la laïcité en l’assimilant à un nouveau fondamentalisme.” I think that Google Translate is probabl
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by heraclius 7y ago
I think that this is a valid initial reaction, but there is a useful point here, which unfortunately has been expressed in the middle of a combination of potential bigotry as you note, bad translation (possibly) and poor phrasing. A reasona
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by heraclius 7y ago
Wikipedia has a surprisingly (or should I be surprised?) extensive collection of articles on road signs.⁰ It’s interesting to observe, e.g., that road signs in Albania seem to be very similar to those in Italy, even though it is unlikely th
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by heraclius 7y ago
Bruckner seems to be focusing on the word instead of the ideas behind different uses of the word. There are of course some who wish to see Islam “inviolate”, and it is natural for them to use the term “Islamophobia”. But there are also thos
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by heraclius 7y ago
The Pirenne thesis is superficially plausible. However, McCormick’s Origins of the European Economy, which represents perhaps the most innovative approach in dealing with a paucity of evidence to date, suggests otherwise. “About one in seve
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by heraclius 7y ago
The Byzantines not call themselves Byzantines; they considered themselves Roman. See a helpful answer on Reddit¹ which notes an episode in which the Byzantines imprisoned an envoy for calling their emperor that of the Greeks. It would of co