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by my_first_acct 9y ago
And his godfather was Sun Yat-sen.
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
By the way, "Amazigh" is not a typo!
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
This forum post gives a flavor of what may be involved: http://forum.oldweather.org/index.php?topic=4421.0
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
I'm guessing that the author, Didier Bizet, is French. These look like typical (though not very consistent) transliterations of Russian into French (the path by which the composer Чайковский became known as Tchaikovsky, rather than Ch
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
The St. Petersburg Metro was also named after Lenin. Its full Soviet-era name: the V.I. Lenin Order of Lenin Leningrad Metropoliten [1]. That's a lot of Lenin. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Me
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
The photographs in the Business Insider article really are worth a look.
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Desktop keyboards contain apostrophes, but smartphone keyboards generally don't. And one proposal (the best, IMHO) used digraphs rather than accented letters. This would work very nicely with computers, smart phones, Twitter, Google,
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
> Railway mania was enormously profitable for Britain, although many railroad stockholders did not do as well. You could say the same about the investors who funded the city-to-city fiber network in the US in the 1990s. In both cases, th
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
I understand the sentiment; there is a lot wrong with the current system. But any new world that you create should have at least the same level of protection against fraud, theft, and speculative bubbles as the current (imperfect) world; o
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
>Centralized institutions do provide a safety net, but is there anything necessarily wrong with a group of people saying they don't want or need that? Unfortunately, there is. Until pyramid schemes and Ponzi schemes came under stri
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Disclaimer. I neither speak nor write any form of Chinese, but I've read a bit on the subject. So: Cantonese (to choose one example) is a separate language from Mandarin (or a separate "variety", if you prefer [1]), but it u
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
In the secure-browser article cited in the parent comment, number eight is the Yandex Browser. Quoting from the article: "Yandex, which is based on Chromium, uses the 'Blink' engine which runs checks through downloads and ev
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
The sibling comment gives what is probably the correct answer (visitors), but in fact self-timers for cameras have been around for 100 years or so: https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/dating-the-original-ko...
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Probably not worth the trouble, as I predict this whole thread will soon be flagged to oblivion, but here goes. 1) I can't be bothered to look for references, but the NY Times has not failed to notice (and criticize) the fact that the
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How Europe’s Last Dictatorship Became a Tech Hub(nytimes.com)
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
The article describes how the CIA made the map; here is the map itself: https://www.loc.gov/resource/g7064m.ct002865/
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The Best Map of Moscow [1997?](cia.gov)
2 points by my_first_acct 9y ago|1 comments
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
A simple solution (with its own problems of course) is to charge $100 per year, rather than $10 per year, for each dot-com domain. This would destroy the economics of the parking business, except for the highest-value names, and thus would
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
I think the mid 1960s to early 1970s were a scarier period in terms of civil unrest, in the US anyway.
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Random OT fact of the day: The man on the cover is wearing one of those mirrors on his forehead that you often see in older photos of doctors. Thanks to Google and Wikipedia, I can now report what it is called ("head mirror") and
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
I agree in general, but made an exception in this case: 1) The original comment appeared on a thread that fell off the front page soon afterwards, so not many people saw it; 2) I thought it offered an original point of view; 3) It received
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
You're correct that I went a bit further than Chesterton himself did. But not a lot further. By the way, I linked to the wrong Wikipedia entry. The one I linked to (and that you found the strange quote in) appears to be an internal do
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Recycling (and slightly modifying) a previous comment [0]: Certain topics, that otherwise might be interesting to discuss, are surrounded by minefields. One such topic is the distribution of intellectual ability within subgroups of the popu
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Driverless-Car Outlook Shifts as Intel Takes Over Mobileye(nytimes.com)
1 points by my_first_acct 9y ago|0 comments
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
A timely eclipse prediction also figures in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_A...
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Certain topics, that otherwise might be interesting to discuss, are surrounded by minefields. One such topic is the distribution of intellectual ability within subgroups of the population. In contrast to the minefields that Kolmogorov del
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
> In the year 1850... The first women were admitted to Harvard Business School in 1963 [1], which is a couple of years after Yuri Gagarin first orbited the earth. The first women were admitted as undergraduates to Caltech in 1970 [2], w
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
In 2016, Madras went so far as to hire an event planner to organize the logistics [1]. The town has a web site with pointers to camp sites, RV parking, and day parking. (Sure, you can probably just pull off onto the side of the road, stop
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
Actually, it was predicted a lot further in advance than that. The Canon der Finsternisse [1] published in 1887 shows the predicted track of the upcoming 2017 eclipse [2]. I think I read once that the author, Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer,
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by my_first_acct 9y ago
According to the local paper [1], from the top of Mount Diablo (east of SF Bay) it is possible to see Mount Lassen (approx 260 km away). "Although you can’t see Mount Shasta directly, you might be able to see part of the peak, refract

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