I am copying a previous comment of mine[-2] below. But first let me estimate the cost of food for one day in Diocletian's empire. I do not feel like solving a linear programming problem with ancient food so I…
And here is an emoji from 1913 [0], accompanied with a footnote: "The author felt the need to enrich the Polish spelling with a new symbol, which he dares name wink. This symbol, whose absence was till now sorely felt,…
Oh, and another example from Ukraine, this time in 2020: threatened by the International Monetary Fund with being denied loans in the midst of the pandemic, the Ukrainian parliament allowed the sale of the largest asset…
Let me copy a previous comment of mine [0]. One quasi-actionable lesson of history the governments can try to remember is: do not sacrifice your strategic goals for a short-term gain, or "avoid hotfixes in production".…
Here is to the company Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1 that ran in Poland from 2014 to 2019 [0]. [0] https://prod.ceidg.gov.pl/CEIDG/ceidg.public.ui/SearchDetail... (check the reCAPTCHA and click…
Everyone and their dog have a pet theory on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Let me copy a previous comment of mine.[0] My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone…
The article you linked to is incomplete. There are five such ramps in operation on the Elbląg Canal in Northern Poland [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal#The_inclined...
> the book again disappeared until nearly a decade ago, when it was auctioned off at Christie’s. "Disappeared" is a Newspeak euphemism for "was stolen"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest#Modern
In 2000, Claude Monet's Beach in Pourville was stolen from the National Museum in Poznań, Poland. The police suspected a steal-to-order gang. Six years later, an unemployed bricklayer was fingerprinted for not paying…
Yeah, I got to know Benedyktowicz at the end of a long and winding experience that led me to read on the beginnings of the Krakow Chess Club (he was a founder). Depending on your outlook, it happened either by chance or…
He also coded quite a few interactive Google doodles[0]. [0] https://medium.com/@mwichary/stanislaw-lem-on-google-s-homep...
Fun fact: The US declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, for a change, was justified by the sinking of the US ship Marguerite by a submarine whose officer "spoke Austrian"[0]. As the saying goes in my part of…
Saint Paul: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10). Note the subtle difference in Lenin's version: "He who does not work shall not eat" [0]. [0]…
Well, I suppose Napier presaged the concept of a single source of truth. Aren't other log-trig tables a waste of paper if you can look up log(cos x) under log(sin(90°−x)) and quickly calculate log(tan x) as log(sin…
> In 1614, John Napier introduced logarithms. > Napier’s main motivation was to find an easier way to do multiplication and division. > Next, mathematicians decided to combine these tables. If you wanted to multiply…
While I upvoted your native insight regarding present-day language and I agree that the name is stupid, I can nitpickingly Ctrl+F "дроворуб", explained already in the 19th century as an obsolete or Siberian word, in the…
There is also the Bonerowski Palace hotel in Krakow, formerly known as the Boner Palace.
In 1995, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, a long-time publisher of dictionaries, sued Kurpisz, a new publishing house, for plagiarizing their large dictionary of Polish. The case was closed in favor of PWN in 2005,…
My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams[0]. For history, the main branches of the fishbone could be: Military, Economy, Society, Politics, and Nature. So a…
One of most peculiar tourist attractions in the Wieliczka salt mine near Krakow are signs with a shaft symbol that is not in Unicode. It looks like a # with a · in the middle and appears in texts instead of the word…
A Polish numismatist, Zbigniew Żabiński, came up with trofa (from Greek trophe 'alimentation'), a universal measure of the value of money. One trofa is defined as an average person's daily ration of food typical for the…
See also Google's 2011 interactive doodle inspired by The Cyberiad,[1] in particular by the machine that could create anything starting with n.[2] [1] https://www.google.com/doodles/60th-anniversary-of-stanislaw... [2]…
Let me rephrase: assigning any military importance to the de jure status of a land is pretty weird.
> The country was ultimately liberated by the Americans in Greenland [...] Hmm. "On 8 April 1941, the United States occupied Greenland to defend it against a possible invasion by Germany."[1] So, first, there never were…
The Gates of Paradise by Jerzy Andrzejewski was published in 1960. It consists of 40,000 words in two sentences. The second sentence is "And they marched all night" [1]. [1]…
I am copying a previous comment of mine[-2] below. But first let me estimate the cost of food for one day in Diocletian's empire. I do not feel like solving a linear programming problem with ancient food so I…
And here is an emoji from 1913 [0], accompanied with a footnote: "The author felt the need to enrich the Polish spelling with a new symbol, which he dares name wink. This symbol, whose absence was till now sorely felt,…
Oh, and another example from Ukraine, this time in 2020: threatened by the International Monetary Fund with being denied loans in the midst of the pandemic, the Ukrainian parliament allowed the sale of the largest asset…
Let me copy a previous comment of mine [0]. One quasi-actionable lesson of history the governments can try to remember is: do not sacrifice your strategic goals for a short-term gain, or "avoid hotfixes in production".…
Here is to the company Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1 that ran in Poland from 2014 to 2019 [0]. [0] https://prod.ceidg.gov.pl/CEIDG/ceidg.public.ui/SearchDetail... (check the reCAPTCHA and click…
Everyone and their dog have a pet theory on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Let me copy a previous comment of mine.[0] My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone…
The article you linked to is incomplete. There are five such ramps in operation on the Elbląg Canal in Northern Poland [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbl%C4%85g_Canal#The_inclined...
> the book again disappeared until nearly a decade ago, when it was auctioned off at Christie’s. "Disappeared" is a Newspeak euphemism for "was stolen"[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest#Modern
In 2000, Claude Monet's Beach in Pourville was stolen from the National Museum in Poznań, Poland. The police suspected a steal-to-order gang. Six years later, an unemployed bricklayer was fingerprinted for not paying…
Yeah, I got to know Benedyktowicz at the end of a long and winding experience that led me to read on the beginnings of the Krakow Chess Club (he was a founder). Depending on your outlook, it happened either by chance or…
He also coded quite a few interactive Google doodles[0]. [0] https://medium.com/@mwichary/stanislaw-lem-on-google-s-homep...
Fun fact: The US declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, for a change, was justified by the sinking of the US ship Marguerite by a submarine whose officer "spoke Austrian"[0]. As the saying goes in my part of…
Saint Paul: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10). Note the subtle difference in Lenin's version: "He who does not work shall not eat" [0]. [0]…
Well, I suppose Napier presaged the concept of a single source of truth. Aren't other log-trig tables a waste of paper if you can look up log(cos x) under log(sin(90°−x)) and quickly calculate log(tan x) as log(sin…
> In 1614, John Napier introduced logarithms. > Napier’s main motivation was to find an easier way to do multiplication and division. > Next, mathematicians decided to combine these tables. If you wanted to multiply…
While I upvoted your native insight regarding present-day language and I agree that the name is stupid, I can nitpickingly Ctrl+F "дроворуб", explained already in the 19th century as an obsolete or Siberian word, in the…
There is also the Bonerowski Palace hotel in Krakow, formerly known as the Boner Palace.
In 1995, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, a long-time publisher of dictionaries, sued Kurpisz, a new publishing house, for plagiarizing their large dictionary of Polish. The case was closed in favor of PWN in 2005,…
My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams[0]. For history, the main branches of the fishbone could be: Military, Economy, Society, Politics, and Nature. So a…
One of most peculiar tourist attractions in the Wieliczka salt mine near Krakow are signs with a shaft symbol that is not in Unicode. It looks like a # with a · in the middle and appears in texts instead of the word…
A Polish numismatist, Zbigniew Żabiński, came up with trofa (from Greek trophe 'alimentation'), a universal measure of the value of money. One trofa is defined as an average person's daily ration of food typical for the…
See also Google's 2011 interactive doodle inspired by The Cyberiad,[1] in particular by the machine that could create anything starting with n.[2] [1] https://www.google.com/doodles/60th-anniversary-of-stanislaw... [2]…
Let me rephrase: assigning any military importance to the de jure status of a land is pretty weird.
> The country was ultimately liberated by the Americans in Greenland [...] Hmm. "On 8 April 1941, the United States occupied Greenland to defend it against a possible invasion by Germany."[1] So, first, there never were…
The Gates of Paradise by Jerzy Andrzejewski was published in 1960. It consists of 40,000 words in two sentences. The second sentence is "And they marched all night" [1]. [1]…