buntsai

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by buntsai 3mo ago
Not sure that is the historical timeline for Collectivisation in USSR and definitely no China. Collectivisation and Land Reform was a primary goal in itself in China from the 1950s. Communist Liberation was 1949 so right from the onset. &qu
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by buntsai 4mo ago
Don't forget the encyclical with the German ("Mit brennender Sorge") rather than Latin (Ardens curarum?) title written by Pius XII and promulgated by Pius XI.
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by buntsai 4mo ago
Is that really the position of the Catholic Church or what is a caricature of what people think it believes? The nice thing about the Catholic Church is that required beliefs have a formal spec. For something has important as this, there wo
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by buntsai 7mo ago
In which case the "crimson carpet" appears to be the loose invention of the translator. The original just says "brocade" or I guess, "quilt", implying some sort of silk bed cover?
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by buntsai 7mo ago
Agree 10,000 fold. English and Japanese are so different and have such different standards of aesthetics and literary form that good translations are like independent creations inspired by the original. I would like to know that the origina
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by buntsai 9mo ago
The use of the "font" spelling variant rather than "fount" is any case a clearer indication of etymology. After all, a "fount" of types refers not to its role as a fountain of printing (fons fontis L -> fon
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by buntsai 1y ago
I agree with the author on the centrality of ritual in 荀子. But I find the author's suggestion that we should invent new rituals hubristic and naive. We Chinese have lost the ritualistic practices that undergirded society 2500 years ago
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by buntsai 3y ago
I am not sure that Tolkien was a supporter of "Deontology" (ethical systems like Kant's). He was more probably a fan of virtue ethics of Aristotle and Aquinas. There is a large gulf between them. Wikipedia does a decent job o
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by buntsai 3y ago
Some of your points are very curious. Biologists did not reject horizontal gene transfer. Or at any rate it has been part of the canon for pretty much the last 60 years which is essentially forever in biology. (The mechanisms for heredity,
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by buntsai 3y ago
I find the efforts of the archeologists not to apply cultural norms particularly interesting: In other circumstances, a caste system might be seen in a less favourable light: > I like the egg myth because it suggests that the Chimú under
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by buntsai 4y ago
Often the ribbons (alpha-helices and beta=sheets) form "protein domains". Canonically, these are stable, folded structures with conserved shapes and functions that serve as the building blocks of proteins, like lego pieces. These
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by buntsai 5y ago
Numbers in the UK suggest higher death rates. There seem to have been something in the order of 150,000 excess deaths with fewer than 20 million positives (with a free and extensive testing programme). Both estimates come with caveats but t
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by buntsai 5y ago
Have you actually looked up whether Gauss called this distribution "normal" because the other (parts?) of the distribution were "abnormal"? Surely it is worth at least have a quick read of wikipedia or doing a Google sea
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by buntsai 7y ago
You don't really need to only break on punctuation. There is no convention to do so and so long as you so not break any logograms in half, the resulting text reads perfectly fine. In fact, the convention is to have left and right justi
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by buntsai 7y ago
Nah. Primate studies are too expensive, impractical and ethically difficult to justify. Think about the number of subjects you would need for statistical significance ...