> It showed an area totaling just 20 square kilometers, a tiny place. The map was divided into 400 individual grid squares, outlined in light blue — a single square kilometer each. He means 20 kms squared, as opposed to…
Flavius Josephus writes in the History of the Jewish War against the Romans - an important source for the Roman army - that the first cohort of every legion was twice the size of other cohorts, because it included the…
Let us assume there were no reasonable explanation for the origin of life. Yet, "there is no reasonable explanation of life, hence god exists" would still be a non sequitur. You have to brush up your Logic, and it is…
> Personally I find it very sad that the agnostic approach of Pascal did not prevail. Let the programmer decide what they think fits the situation best and let the compiler deal with the technicalities. This, and I also…
Silibinin [1] is an antidote to death cap. As far as I know, silibinin has reduced the mortality from 2/3 to 1/3. If the damage done to the liver is already too big, then silibinin does not work and there are two…
Lactic acid fermentation [1] is the secret to many sausages. In the case of Mettwurst [2], made of raw meat, it is essential. Aged steak, hanged pheasants [3 - with a discussion of bacteria] - even today, the list…
When I read this: > But everything ALGOL-68 did, PL/I did earlier and better. I just wanted to write "Not so". As much as I appreciate the OP in general, his knowledge of Algol 68 is limited. Algol 68 was more than the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference That is exactly what you write. It was agreed on that Poland was moved to the west, and that any claims to reimbursements would have to be addressed to the Soviet Union.…
> Something that doesn't return a value shouldn't be called a "function", that's just a C-ism. Something that does not seem to return a value returns in fact a value of the type void which is empty. The idea comes from…
> https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating... phat = 1.0*pos/n There is something disturbing about that line. While my wish to believe the article was strong, it makes me want to check the claims.
UN resolution 678 granted the liberation of Kuwait. That has been achieved in February 1991. It did not grant the invasion of Iraq as it has happened in 2003.
The Polish "wihajster" is a similar case. It comes from German "Wie heißt er? [What's his/its name?]" and refers to a nameless thing. https://de.pons.com/%C3%BCbersetzung/polnisch-deutsch/wihajs...
The article refers only to the Politeia (republic). And most commentators do the same. It is pretty likely that they do so because they know little Plato. Popper, however, knew more than that. While the totalitarian…
During Nazi rule, there were many books written which the authors later found to be embarassing. The common explanation was said to be: "I did not write that. They have forced me. And I did not mean it that way."
The Ukraine offers the Orlyk constitution from 1710. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
The author tries to derive a dilemma for utilitarism: > If you don’t accept ethical intuition as a source of justified belief, then you have no reason for thinking that enjoyment is better than suffering, that…
As so many others have said, this article is dangerous for your health. Firstly, how can mushroms harm you? 1. The most common case - rotten mushrooms. Mushrooms live in interesting places. If your mushroom has begun to…
If you can read German, then search for the term Putativnotwehr - or Erlaubnistatbestandsirrtum which looks so much more German. It refers to an understandable, but wrong belief to be in a situation that justifies self…
The rule of thumb I know is that you need about twice the amount of long pepper compared to black pepper. Check, if this works for you. There is another thing which I like to do: bite off a little bit of long pepper,…
The text says: "They also added some imaginative embellishments". For me, these embellishments spell 'we hope for more tourists than the other sites'. For the other sites, see here:…
The first line misses a delta as well: δἐδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα The poem is beautiful and the translations do its sophisticated simplicity no justice. Thanks to the OP, by the way, for the astronomical article. I have tried…
Fascinating read, including the part that Jeffrey Epstein was linked to intelligence from the very beginning. However, the article (and others, too) does not mention drugs, not even alcohol or cigarettes. They are…
Scheme is properly tail recursive. That means that CPS conversion is going to work. Seen that way, call/cc is just a convenience feature that spares you the work of the conversion. Introducing weaker language constructs…
The generation of my grandfather taught me to cut off the "Klöten" (testicles) right after his death in order to prevent boar taint.
> It showed an area totaling just 20 square kilometers, a tiny place. The map was divided into 400 individual grid squares, outlined in light blue — a single square kilometer each. He means 20 kms squared, as opposed to…
Flavius Josephus writes in the History of the Jewish War against the Romans - an important source for the Roman army - that the first cohort of every legion was twice the size of other cohorts, because it included the…
Let us assume there were no reasonable explanation for the origin of life. Yet, "there is no reasonable explanation of life, hence god exists" would still be a non sequitur. You have to brush up your Logic, and it is…
> Personally I find it very sad that the agnostic approach of Pascal did not prevail. Let the programmer decide what they think fits the situation best and let the compiler deal with the technicalities. This, and I also…
Silibinin [1] is an antidote to death cap. As far as I know, silibinin has reduced the mortality from 2/3 to 1/3. If the damage done to the liver is already too big, then silibinin does not work and there are two…
Lactic acid fermentation [1] is the secret to many sausages. In the case of Mettwurst [2], made of raw meat, it is essential. Aged steak, hanged pheasants [3 - with a discussion of bacteria] - even today, the list…
When I read this: > But everything ALGOL-68 did, PL/I did earlier and better. I just wanted to write "Not so". As much as I appreciate the OP in general, his knowledge of Algol 68 is limited. Algol 68 was more than the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Conference That is exactly what you write. It was agreed on that Poland was moved to the west, and that any claims to reimbursements would have to be addressed to the Soviet Union.…
> Something that doesn't return a value shouldn't be called a "function", that's just a C-ism. Something that does not seem to return a value returns in fact a value of the type void which is empty. The idea comes from…
> https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating... phat = 1.0*pos/n There is something disturbing about that line. While my wish to believe the article was strong, it makes me want to check the claims.
UN resolution 678 granted the liberation of Kuwait. That has been achieved in February 1991. It did not grant the invasion of Iraq as it has happened in 2003.
The Polish "wihajster" is a similar case. It comes from German "Wie heißt er? [What's his/its name?]" and refers to a nameless thing. https://de.pons.com/%C3%BCbersetzung/polnisch-deutsch/wihajs...
The article refers only to the Politeia (republic). And most commentators do the same. It is pretty likely that they do so because they know little Plato. Popper, however, knew more than that. While the totalitarian…
During Nazi rule, there were many books written which the authors later found to be embarassing. The common explanation was said to be: "I did not write that. They have forced me. And I did not mean it that way."
The Ukraine offers the Orlyk constitution from 1710. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Pylyp_Orlyk
The author tries to derive a dilemma for utilitarism: > If you don’t accept ethical intuition as a source of justified belief, then you have no reason for thinking that enjoyment is better than suffering, that…
As so many others have said, this article is dangerous for your health. Firstly, how can mushroms harm you? 1. The most common case - rotten mushrooms. Mushrooms live in interesting places. If your mushroom has begun to…
If you can read German, then search for the term Putativnotwehr - or Erlaubnistatbestandsirrtum which looks so much more German. It refers to an understandable, but wrong belief to be in a situation that justifies self…
The rule of thumb I know is that you need about twice the amount of long pepper compared to black pepper. Check, if this works for you. There is another thing which I like to do: bite off a little bit of long pepper,…
The text says: "They also added some imaginative embellishments". For me, these embellishments spell 'we hope for more tourists than the other sites'. For the other sites, see here:…
The first line misses a delta as well: δἐδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα The poem is beautiful and the translations do its sophisticated simplicity no justice. Thanks to the OP, by the way, for the astronomical article. I have tried…
Fascinating read, including the part that Jeffrey Epstein was linked to intelligence from the very beginning. However, the article (and others, too) does not mention drugs, not even alcohol or cigarettes. They are…
Scheme is properly tail recursive. That means that CPS conversion is going to work. Seen that way, call/cc is just a convenience feature that spares you the work of the conversion. Introducing weaker language constructs…
The generation of my grandfather taught me to cut off the "Klöten" (testicles) right after his death in order to prevent boar taint.