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by stevula 6y ago
They would still be cleaning up the debris to unblock the canal, shipping would still be blocked.
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by stevula 6y ago
The author explains their argument for why Romanian neuter is not a true neuter but rather ambigenous (masculine in singular, feminine in plural).
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by stevula 6y ago
The etymology you linked actually says something different: > From a Vulgar Latin *lo, *illu. Masculine pronoun from Latin illum, singular masculine accusative of ille. Neuter article and pronoun form from Latin illud, neuter of ille.
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by stevula 6y ago
This is part of a larger phenomenon sometimes referred to as The Coconut Effect. The name comes from the practice of using coconut shells to produce the sound of horses galloping, even when the sound would not make sense in real life (e.g.
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by stevula 6y ago
Latin has mentula and verpa, both feminine words referring to a male appendage.
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by stevula 6y ago
You may be interested to know that other languages do distinguish animacy/inanimacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animacy It isn’t always equivalent to gender though.
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by stevula 6y ago
I think the author would make the same argument that they did in reference to Romanian neuter: > The issue is that these nouns do not behave like a fully-fledged gender. Importantly, there are no dedicated neuter endings for adjectives;
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by stevula 6y ago
As with nauta, pirata, and poeta, the suffix -ista is also borrowed from Greek which is a source of many masculine 1st declension loanwords in Latin.
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by stevula 6y ago
There is no rule in Latin that 1st declension nouns (i.e most nouns ending in -a) like nauta, pirata, pirata, etc must be feminine —- morphology and gender are independent. There was merely a strong tendency for them to be feminine, but as
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by stevula 6y ago
Five figures is $10,000. It only takes 2-3 months of rent to reach that in an expensive Oakland apartment.
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by stevula 6y ago
It’s become very common to use “Maya” where you might expect “Mayan”. I believe Mayan is still the correct term for the language though.
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by stevula 6y ago
Unpopular though it may be, I’m pretty sure it’s an intended feature not a bug.
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by stevula 6y ago
SF had skyscrapers prior to 1920 when this was built. Some of them were damaged in the 1906 earthquake. Perhaps you mean they were mostly associated with NYC, Chicago, etc?
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by stevula 6y ago
The Luhn algorithm is fairly common in software interviews, though I agree I would never think to check it if my card failed.
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by stevula 6y ago
A friend of mine arrived in the Bay Area from India years ago. As a gay man he wanted to visit the Castro in San Francisco so he hopped on the BART train and went to a stop called Castro (Valley). I think he walked around for a bit wonderin
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by stevula 6y ago
> Who thought the Anglo-Saxons they were? This doesn’t sound correct to me as a native speaker.
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by stevula 6y ago
The 1991 computer game Crystal Caves had a sign saying “Kilroy was here”. As a kid I never got the reference but learned about it much later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Caves
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by stevula 6y ago
I don’t think the author is trying to make the point that the UK and France were right or wrong to pursue appeasement. Rather he is trying to debunk a very specific argument that they went with that strategy in order to buy themselves time
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by stevula 6y ago
If all the drug does is change your political beliefs, then yes I would agree. But what if it just gives you more empathy, which then causes you to support social programs, become less nationalistic, and adopt a more open mind towards drug
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by stevula 6y ago
For future historians, the post is about the sex act known as the “dirty sanchez”.
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by stevula 6y ago
Just because a dependency isn’t deployed to production doesn’t mean it’s safe. Remember when eslint tried to steal people’s npm credentials? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513709
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by stevula 6y ago
Usually if you say you don’t like the app it won’t direct you to the App Store but will just ask for feedback within the app. It’s much less disruptive than saying “yes” and getting switched to the App Store.
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by stevula 6y ago
Python is pretty popular
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by stevula 6y ago
That does not match my experience at all with the many peaceful protests in SF lately. Your sources may be cherry-picking to push a certain political narrative.
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by stevula 6y ago
Last time I went to TV Tropes I ended up with 60 tabs open to read later and it took me over a month to get though them all (every article led to me opening 3-10 new tabs).
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by stevula 6y ago
This is certainly true. After reading about this controversy, I wanted to get a feel for the level of mutual intelligibility between Scots and English. To do this, I tried to search for a translation of The Lord’s Prayer in Scots to compare
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by stevula 6y ago
Controllers were quite different 30 years ago. Dual stick didn’t become the norm until 20 years ago, though arguably Xbox and PlayStation controllers haven’t changed their layouts much since 2000.
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by stevula 6y ago
People use the eggplant emoji on Slack at your work? It’s usually a phallic symbol.
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by stevula 6y ago
In Chrome, I like to remove the names of all the bookmarks in the bookmark bar to save space. It is just a row of icons for me.
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by stevula 6y ago
I don’t know about “resistance to anxiety”, but it can certainly be anxiety-inducing to be the only member of a given minority in the interviewing room (or entire floor, as is sometimes the case in tech).

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