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901.
by narag 5y ago
Maybe something was lost in translation, I watched the movie dubbed to Spanish, but what I remember is that the Winklevoss tried to exploit Zuckerberg and Saverin was slacking after the first few months, so Zuckerberg only responded in a cr
902.
by narag 5y ago
Lately everything has to be dark and quirkiness is used to explain how someone is directly rude. Talking about darkness, I remember Burn Notice , a funny show where an ex-spy used his training to fix his neighbours' problems, much l
903.
by narag 5y ago
It's absolutely not restricted by the brain size. The brain size needs a huge head, so in a sense it is. All the factors are interwined. The growth of the brain seems to have been a very fast evolution, The pelvis had no time to adap
904.
by narag 5y ago
the original sound quality of ⟨v⟩ in Latin was also /w/ IIRC, there wasn't a U letter in Latin, so the vowel was written as V. I guess it tended to souns like W when starting a syllabe, as in versus.
905.
by narag 5y ago
'w' - it's a hard 'v' as in 'very', 'vary'. Always, no exceptions and never anything else I've been interacting with a Polish web and got very confused because what happens with stand-alon
906.
by narag 5y ago
Not sure the source but there is a rule in fiction that everything has a purpose, as opposed to reality. If the camera stops in an axe, you can be sure someone is going to wield it later. There is no purpose in those alternate realities, ot
907.
by narag 5y ago
Any reason you're singling out Inglourious Basterds in particular? Embellishing stories has kind of a social function: to sugar-coat our vision of life. Reality is scary. When the author presents a blatant lie just because, it's
908.
by narag 5y ago
Individuals have the right, legally, to grow up to two cannabis plants... I believe that's a misconception. There were a few loopholes, fixed by a recent law (three or four year ago IIRC) that nuked cannabis clubs. I'd say it&#x
909.
by narag 5y ago
My two cents: is that really the problem? I don't think so. I mean that the non-creative part is the problem. Why would anybody want to eliminate the creative part and leave the mindless factory-like part? And there is a huge non-creat
910.
by narag 5y ago
I found it in a dictionary as a "sera" translation. In Spain I doubt many people even knows the word. In my hometown it was "serón" (a big sera). Those words are quickly becoming relics. It was funny to see the thing, th
911.
by narag 5y ago
My father had a Vespa with one of those where my mother used to sit, before I was born. I haven't seen many of those on the wild. The image that's still fresh is the pair of serones (esparto panniers) in the back of peasants&#x2
912.
by narag 5y ago
A lot of comments are dismissing this because it doesn't provide a credential upon completion. Obvious solution would be decoupling teaching and certification. Actually, having both performed by the same institutions seems like a con
913.
by narag 5y ago
I think the message of They Live; is that our rulers complete lack of empathy for ordinary people means they might as well be aliens. I'm more interested in what the movie tells me than in the message the author was trying to convey.
914.
by narag 5y ago
So, contrary to Zizek's contention, it's not his "enlightenment" that causes problems, but his trying to fight against those with power. A lesser man might have thrown away the glasses after seeing the truth, or perhaps
915.
by narag 5y ago
Except that in They Live ideology is imposed by the aliens. He thinks that ideology is good so for him the glasses are ideology, not the cut-through-ideology tool. But Piper's character didn't have to force himself to put on th
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by narag 5y ago
I've told this a few times and people seems to think I'm joking. The best chair I've had at home --better than one Aeron I had once at work-- was a cheap plastic garden chair. They key was that it fit perfectly my anatomy. I
917.
by narag 5y ago
There's a factor that would make a difference, a question of identity. A civilization grown out of a migration and only possible thanks to advanced science would look at some things unlike any other that we know.
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by narag 5y ago
In ancient Greek too. They invented the thing. The Romans had a similar legal contract, but adopted the term to avoid confusion with other lending practices. As dt_r pointed, apotheke always meant "away room" so it makes sense to
919.
by narag 5y ago
Or imagine asking the pharmacist for wine :) In Spanish "bodega" is specifically where wine is made or kept. I'm aware that in English it's used for convenience stores. Just a different joke.
920.
by narag 5y ago
Oops! that's right... "under-box" would be "hipoteca" = mortgage. Anything with the "teca" (or "theque" in other languages) has some relation, like modern discoteca or biblioteca = library.
921.
by narag 5y ago
My favourite in Spanish (but I think English speakers can relate) is "botica" (pharmacy) and "bodega" (cellar), both from Greek apotheke (basement, literally "under-box")
922.
by narag 5y ago
At least, they didn't mention ML.
923.
by narag 5y ago
I don't know, the first took me two seconds, the second five and the third five too. I stopped reading there because the article says next ones are harder and I would like to take a quiet time to read the whole thing. I use to solve ch
924.
by narag 5y ago
It wasn't good for the users whose questions I wasn't allowed to answer, but you have a point.
925.
by narag 5y ago
Thank you, but this was never something that I wanted to do for my own interest. I just saw someone with an unsolved problem and found out that I'd had to go through loops to help, so I gave up. Actually it seems that owners became ric
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by narag 5y ago
Having a barrier helps manageability of the site, so from a business' perspective it's been good, indeed.
927.
by narag 5y ago
That wasn't a problem in any of the other forums I've contributed to. Go figure!
928.
by narag 5y ago
No idea, but I was just trying to answer some questions. I remember vaguely that I needed some points to help and I needed to help to get the points, so... I shrugged and let it be.
929.
by narag 5y ago
The threshold is very low. Well, not low enough for me. After a few attempts to answer some questions early on, I gave up. Read only for me. I don't even remember what the problem was. Why making contributing difficult and consumin
930.
by narag 5y ago
'm skeptical. No matter how good the Phoenician sailors were, it seems unlikely to me that they could have blithely sailed past Cape Bojador You assume the coast was the same two milennia before. My hometown, a thousand km north, was

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