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by wl 7mo ago
The land of Israel has been a vassal state or part of another state or empire for most of recorded history. Israel becoming an independent state in 1948 ties in with messianic prophesy.
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by wl 7mo ago
I never expected to need to recover the account because I used a strong password stored in a password manager that I had adequately secured and backed up.
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by wl 7mo ago
I have the same issue. At the time I created the account that I'm locked out of, Google said nothing about these "recovery" email addresses as 2FA. Years passed without any notice that maybe they were going to lock me out of
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by wl 8mo ago
Hittite was putting spaces between words in the 17th century BCE. And if we're just interested in Latin, it used the interpunct as a word divider hundreds of years before the use of the space as word divider happened. The use of script
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by wl 8mo ago
I repeat myself: I don't think the hardware is great.
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by wl 8mo ago
I've got a reMarkable 2 whose USB-C port just decided to break one day. Tearing the unit down, I see the USB connector puts all of its strain on some very tiny pads. The pads were torn off. Apparently this is a common problem. Based on
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by wl 8mo ago
Compensatory damages aren't taxable income.
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by wl 9mo ago
You can request it, but many post offices refuse to hand-cancel anymore.
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by wl 10mo ago
That's a rather confused account of the matter. The rebus principle where someone might use a depiction of an eye for the sound "I" and so forth is the very basis of the script and was there from the beginning. The complicate
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by wl 10mo ago
The valuable thing about the standard Egyptological pronunciation is that people can sit around a table, read a text, and understand what is being read without having to learn a strange new phonetic inventory. How close it sounds to the rea
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by wl 10mo ago
Gardiner's sign list. It's a modern categorization and ordering scheme. "Man and his occupations", "Woman and her occupations", "Anthropomorphic deities", "Parts of the human body", "Ma
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by wl 10mo ago
That's something that practically trips up a lot of students. They'll be missing some sign in the text because the "missing" sign is part of the illustration that readers tend to be blind to.
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by wl 10mo ago
That doesn't explain omitting vowels here. Whatever brevity you gain from omitting vowels is more than made up by the phonetic complements and determinatives you need to make up for their loss. Besides, individual Egyptian hieroglyphs
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by wl 10mo ago
The open button looks like closed doors and the close button looks like open doors. I have to look at the symbols carefully and interpret the arrows every time. Or tell myself that the buttons do the opposite of what they look like at a gla
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by wl 11mo ago
The Wayback Machine has ignored robots.txt for a few years at this point. The only way to get them to stop scraping or remove content is by asking them directly.
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by wl 11mo ago
Mike McQuaid has been doing this a long time and there are more egregious examples in the past. I got off the Homebrew train when Little Snitch caught Homebrew phoning home without my consent and the response from him was, the developers ha
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by wl 11mo ago
And when a customer fat fingered their email address and that fintech company didn't bother verifying email addresses, policy probably prohibited granting a request from the email address owner to remove their address from the account
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by wl 11mo ago
Qualified immunity in no way limits a court’s contempt powers.
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by wl 1y ago
> The Egyptian and the Sumerian culture were very strongly linked with near identical cultic symbols and building plans for temples up until 3100BC. There was prehistoric (i.e. pre-writing) trade between Sumer and Egypt. Scholars have ar
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by wl 1y ago
Those who do have an opinion of the merits of different types of cuneiform are ordering custom items from Jeremiah Peterson. The choice of Old Persian cuneiform is lazy, much like those Egyptian cartouche name necklaces that use a hieroglyp
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by wl 1y ago
The Babylonians also used Sumerian as a prestige language long after it was dead, much like we might use Latin today. Also, reading Akkadian cuneiform involves learning a bit of Sumerian vocabulary, because texts spell out words in Sumerian
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by wl 1y ago
The problem with that possibility is that nearly all the cuneiform we have makes sense as texts or accountancy. There's a vanishingly small amount of cuneiform that's completely indecipherable.
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by wl 1y ago
Writing has been independently invented two to four times that we know of in the last five millennia. (Some scholars debate whether cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Chinese writing were all independently invented, with Mesoamerican writ
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by wl 1y ago
U Chicago is far more than Booth and the economics department.
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by wl 1y ago
> So if people don't get to see it what is the point of preserving it. That's assuming that the only point of museums is to exhibit the collection to the public. Certain museums—especially in archeology and the natural sciences
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by wl 1y ago
If we're talking about Swiss SIGs, that'd be the P210 handgun and to a lesser extent, the SG 510 assault rifle. The P226s were always German SIGs (at least until SIG US got started), the "Montage Suisse" models being ass
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by wl 1y ago
It's hard to tell what people are talking about when they talk about problems with the P320. The documents in question here deal with, among other things, the drop safety problem rather than uncommanded discharges you're talking a
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by wl 1y ago
Sig's track record was just as sound as Glock's before the P320. The P226 was the Navy SEAL's sidearm of choice for a bit and it nearly became the standard sidearm for the US armed forces in the 1980s, narrowly losing out to
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by wl 1y ago
Charting is for billing. If the point were to have accurate medical records useful for facilitating diagnosis and treatment, we'd structure medical records way differently. Fishing clinically-useful bits of information out of encounter
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by wl 1y ago
If you were at the Penn Museum, you were looking at tablets mostly written in Akkadian and Sumerian cuneiform. Those languages are written in a mostly syllabic cuneiform system. These tablets are English written in the Old Persian cuneiform

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