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by acadapter 7d ago
Greeks and Romans did experience a >99% loss of their literature during the medieval period...
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A Norwegian government agency made a parody of the enshittification phenomenon [video](youtube.com)
9 points by acadapter 1mo ago|0 comments
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by acadapter 4mo ago
False etymology? You can roll back sound changes further to *ḱlew- in Proto-Indo-European https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
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by acadapter 7mo ago
Yes, but similarity alone is not a guarantee that words are related. The words val and [h]val are not related in Swedish, even though they ended up with the same pronunciation and spelling in the modern language. Sometimes, words can end up
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by acadapter 7mo ago
It is linguistically possible that "viking" was simply a self-referential ethnonym, with the first part meaning "home" or "village". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo
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by acadapter 10mo ago
What if, for example, a dentist refuses to remove malformed wisdom teeth because his morals don't allow him to fix problems that a person is born with, and only fixes tooth damage caused by accidents? The taboo against genetic repairs
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by acadapter 10mo ago
This kind of blanket ban reasoning is kind of cruel to people with genetic diseases in their family line. "Hey, you've got a broken gene? Sucks to be you, my rigid ethics requires you to play the lottery with worse odds than the o
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by acadapter 10mo ago
This is sad though. I'd rather see that ethics gets upgraded so some problems can be fixed. For example, about 8% of men get excluded from certain professions such as being a train driver, due to color blindness. And society doesn&#x27
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by acadapter 11mo ago
I was hoping that this article would be about a hypothetical future where people have evolved to have a lower amount of bravery and a lower "fighting spirit", so that they're simply to afraid to fly fighter jets or be nuclear
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Silver trades to $50 an ounce(investinglive.com)
47 points by acadapter 11mo ago|84 comments
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by acadapter 1y ago
Would it be sane to have a special letter to distinguish the "p" in "park" from the "p" in "spark"? In some languages, it's important, but these two sounds can be represented by the same letter i
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by acadapter 1y ago
Phonemics is more important than phonetics for these things. Sometimes two sounds need to be represented with the same letter if they are similar and their difference is context-dependent. Then there's also the etymology and handling o
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Tell HN: Sweden has its first arrest against a man for "insult against official"
19 points by acadapter 1y ago|12 comments
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by acadapter 2y ago
I also noticed that part in the article. >Why do we have all these studies showing that male and female behaviors are so similar, yet people in everyday life continue to think as if males and females were very separable? It could be that
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by acadapter 2y ago
Most of the research on this, has been done in the US though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
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by acadapter 2y ago
Maybe this is how the branches of Indo-European evolved. Laryngeals replaced by vowel lengthenings, merging of consonsants, vowel shifting based on other sounds, etc. It's like there were many different events where "Indo-European
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by acadapter 2y ago
Social media no longer represents "many people are saying it". The early internet could give an overview of what's being said in general on a particular topic - but today's content is often manipulated to support or atta
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by acadapter 2y ago
I assume the unspecific "they" is a linguistic shortcut for "people in power"
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by acadapter 2y ago
The things people say in the era where comment fields have been removed from news websites (in the name of "avoiding misinformation")...
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by acadapter 2y ago
Both Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian have these multi-character letters, but these Unicode points were created for the typographical needs (or rather, bad habits) of Serbo-Croatian. The "Dz" was probably included for the use-case whe
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Germany to send out survey, mandatory for males, about willingness to fight(dw.com)
14 points by acadapter 2y ago|8 comments
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by acadapter 2y ago
We are also not descendants of the 18 year old who eagerly followed a leader and died in a trench. What is it with people nowadays, can't there be at least some room for touching this type of sensitive topic? My post seems to become a
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by acadapter 2y ago
But there are nuances to that. I know several people who have escaped a war-torn country and had a successful life elsewhere, instead of getting affected by military propaganda, and possibly losing everything just because of other people&#x
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by acadapter 2y ago
Another interesting aspect of modern human evolution is the fact that brave men have a higher risk of dying in war, extreme sports, etc. Will male risk behavior be more similar to female risk behavior, 10000 years from now? Nowadays, the us
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Ask HN: How will you try to observe/photograph the comet in October?
7 points by acadapter 2y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: A Swedish grocery chain, with "old internet" styled recipe presentation(ica.se)
1 points by acadapter 2y ago|1 comments
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A municipality installed a camera just outside a Swedish Redditor's balcony(old.reddit.com)
3 points by acadapter 2y ago|6 comments
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by acadapter 2y ago
The bad feeling I get from cashless is "what if some future political conflict will lower the status of my ethnicity to such a low position, so I'll be denied buying food and nobody will care?" or some similar scenario.
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by acadapter 2y ago
The months after July are named after numbers, but the names are from the old calendar when the year started in March.
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by acadapter 2y ago
There is a whole Reddit thread about this, many people noticed some flickering at 9PM. https://old.reddit.com/r/sweden/comments/1cozkpa/blinkade_di...

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