alricb

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by alricb 6mo ago
If Bourdieu had been American, he would have put much more emphasis on race and dialect, I think. It's also the case that the US is much larger than France, so the kind of world where 400 people in New York really mattered stopped ex
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by alricb 10mo ago
Erm, British management is also famously terrible. Coal has horrible externalities and its demise is a good thing. British iron ore is not very rich, and it never was; Britain has imported iron ore since the 19th century. Given how cheap it
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by alricb 10mo ago
It wasn't terribly clear how rights became extinguished by time for Thomas Littleton, who published his "Tenures" in 1481 or 1482. In chapter 38 of the first Statute of Westminster (3 Edw. I, c. 38) of 1275, they put time lim
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by alricb 1y ago
What was then called the "lower crankcase member", which was also the lower part of the transmission housing, we would refer to as an oilpan. The cranksshaft ran in bearings located between the cylinder blocks and the bearing caps
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by alricb 1y ago
If by "the high middle ages" you mean "2025", then you are right. Priests in de-facto marriages are still super common.
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by alricb 2y ago
> From what I understand, if the genetic lineage is particularly elite, you might keep more. You mean like Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso
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by alricb 2y ago
My reading is that the examiner thought "advanced custom fields" was too generic. WPE had until Oct. 19 to file a response or ask for an extension, and they asked for an extension on Oct. 4. For "ACF" however, the examin
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by alricb 2y ago
Martine [1] is a series of French-language children's book. They have simple titles like "Martine à la ferme" (Martine at the farm) or "Martine fait du camping" (Martine goes camping). "Martine Ã©crit en UTF-8&
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by alricb 2y ago
That's an EMD (division of General Motors) F40PH diesel-electric locomotive, not a gasoline locomotive. Gasoline locomotive did exist, but they were much smaller and usually served in mines or industrial railways. Even with the engine
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by alricb 2y ago
It refers to a button featured on some laptops in the late 2000s, that started up an alternative, lighter OS installed by the manufacturer, to avoid the loading time of Windows Vista on magnetic hard drives. Cathode Ray Dude has a series ab
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by alricb 2y ago
The NTSB found that it was actually that the 11/12 node region was too weak as designed, an error that wasn't caught by the reviewer.
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by alricb 3y ago
The same problem exists on the granite walls of Laurier Station in the Montreal Metro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurier_station_%28Montreal_Me... (picture)
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by alricb 3y ago
Texas has expansive clay in much of the state. This type of clay makes basements impractical.
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by alricb 4y ago
Nah, I think it refers to the fact that popular printing items, like the Bible or popular books that stayed in print more or less indefinitely would be stereotyped, that is an imprint of the pages would be taken, then a used as a mold to ca
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by alricb 4y ago
In the early days of aviation there were actually rotary engines that were like radials, but where the entire engine rotated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine
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by alricb 4y ago
The biggest use case of a throat microphone is to do an accurate version of "Ich liebst dich nicht du liebst mich nicht" part of "Da da da" by Trio (you also need a mini casio for the "tut-tut-tut tut-tut-tut-tut&qu
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by alricb 5y ago
The 5-foot gauge used in Russia is much narrower than Brunel's 7-foot gauge, and only 85 mm wider than standard gauge. 5-foot gauge was actually used a fair bit in the South until May 30 and June 1, 1886, when they converted to 4&#x27
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by alricb 5y ago
The Federal government can't agree to compromises on healthcare matters; that's provincial jurisdiction. It can't agree on compromises on border vaccination; that's US jurisdiction.
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by alricb 5y ago
Normal shotgun rounds are filled with a number of pellets; the smaller the pellet, the more you can fit. Birdshot: small pellets in large number, Buckshot: large-ish pellets in small number. A slug is a massive (18.5 mm diameter for 12 gaug
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by alricb 5y ago
Sovkhoz? That's what they called them in the soviet union.
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by alricb 5y ago
Eiffel might be another.
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by alricb 5y ago
Local agricultural optimums in Northern Europe played a role too. How good was agriculture in the Parisian basin during the late Roman empire? Was it possible for farmers to get the iron implements and draft animals needed to make heavy soi
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by alricb 5y ago
Dvorak
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by alricb 5y ago
That the authors are more concerned with this or that isn't the point. Mr Stallman is being rejected _pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre_ and his behaviour at MIT is entirely sufficient to shun him.
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by alricb 5y ago
None of that really matters; RMS is a serial harasser, he has no place in any self-respecting organization.
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by alricb 5y ago
First sentence of the annex: RMS has a history of mistreating women and making them feel uncomfortable, unsafe, and unwelcome. For incidents relating to RMS and MIT, please see 0.
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by alricb 5y ago
Does that not miss the point of decades of unacceptable behavior by RMS, harassing women in person, etc., and the email thing just being the straw that broke the camel's back?
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by alricb 5y ago
But then we already knew that. https://www.buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-007-p...
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by alricb 6y ago
a grad student with an e added to the grad, I think.
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by alricb 6y ago
In 1912, the recording equipment would have been quite conspicuous.

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