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You don't have to eat during the flight, or you can delay eating to be out of phase. I've done that and so far it's been effective over a number of transatlantic flights.

According to the article, the process is basically about removing the lignin from the wood, not adding chemicals. The knife was coated in "food grade oil" to seal it, so I suspect there are no chemicals to worry about here.

The Greek for sky (ουρανός/Uranus) is etymologically related to words for rain (see: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BF%E1%BD%90%CF%81%CE%B1...). Greece isn't known for its abundant rainfall.

It is actually fairly normal to name the sky for the things it has in it (clouds, rain, etc), and it is not a strong indicator of how good the weather is.

Three West Coast Main Line operates speeds up to 125mph/200kmph, so very much high speed rail in US terms - faster than the Acela if I recall correctly.

Eta had the value of a long mid front vowel (long "e"). German "See" is very close, but for English, the closest approximation is probably "say", which is a diphthong. This refers to Ancient classical pronunciation, before the Hellenistic period.

It is definitely not a hight front vowel ("see"), which is the value it had in Koine and has in modern Greek.

This is pattern matching. Support for this exists in Haskell, Scala, and now even Ruby and soon Python.

The article argues that being fired (or ideally resigning) is preferable to appearing to be happy with unacceptable circumstances. If his influence was minimal, the article argues there was little point being at the table

The main criticism is that he was not being honest with the public.

Flatpak refuses to respect the hosts value for XDG_CONFIG and HOME, making it impossible for some applications to share your configuration.

So specter is lens and meander is syb/generics. Nice

Well, μέθοδος is derived from μετ᾽ (met᾽: towards,after) +‎ ὁδός (hodós: road,way). So 'way' is a synonym in both senses.

Agreed, but the best combination is type-safe and non-turing complete, ideally with restricted effects. [Dhall](https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang) gets this so right that I'm increasingly shocked that people never seem to have heard of it.

You do realise that the two platforms are being merged, with .org projects being migrated to .com?

It is useful to be able to speak of Lens and Traversal to distinguish intent. All lenses are Traversals, but not vice versa. What you have here is of course the Traversal system without the other optics.

I've never understood why that structure isn't more famous. It is a mind-bendingly enormous structure.

How do you preserve the secrecy of the ballot with a blockchain? Wanting to verify that an elector has voted but obscuring who for seems like a challenge.

The only way reading the Iliad made any sense to me was as history told by and for mob bosses. The primary concerns are honour and 'face', stealing stuff and killing people with maximum brutality. I think it is hard for a modern reader to admire any of the figures in the Iliad, but seen as a story of rival gangsters, it makes much more sense.

If anything ideology was more pervasive than now. People back then did not see themselves as playthings of chance, or subject to random chance - they, like now, actively debated courses of action and took charge of their life. Read the Philippics or Thucydides or Cicero for evidence of people who thought they could make their own decisions.

If anything Roman society was more committed to ideological explanations of the world; since Livy they attempted to understand their dominance as evidence of their particular manifest destiny and innate qualities. Internal politics were equally marked by ideological distinctions between the optimates and the populares. The Gracchi brothers are good examples of politicians who tied their careers closely to ideology.

The alternative to ideology is naturalistic and mechanistic explanation - and that was something ancient society almost completely lacked. There were no economic theories of development, no theories of international relations, no sociology. I would suggest that Romans understood their ascendency in almost completely ideological terms.

This is literally an essay topic for every high-school Latin program.

It is hard not to see the contrast between Vergil's pathos for the costs of war and the Iliad's celebration of aggressive machismo. And yet the Aeneid is ideologically committed to the Roman project of empire as a civilising force.

The best modern parallel is something like Saving Private Ryan, which combines sympathy for the costs and losses of war in general with full support of the motivations of the particular war. Neither work is remotely subversive (they skate close to being outright propaganda for their militaries and societies), but both are profoundly humanistic.

Trying to explain glottal stops with English examples is pointless - "Apple" doesn't begin with a glottal stop in English; "fear" and "ear" differ only in the absence of /f/.

German does introduce a epenthetic glottal stop before word-initial vowels, but not English.

Also, attempting to explain /ɪ/ as "Fin" -> "fen" is also unhelpful.

The less inflammatory way of putting that is that the costs of employing someone in most European countries are rather high; up to 100% of salary in many cases.

Ironically, [join](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.9.0.0/docs/Control...) is a function on `Monad`, not `Monoid` - so `Joinable` wouldn't have been a great choice.

For local variables within the body of a method it doesn't really matter. As long as the method signature is expressed in interfaces, you should be able to use whatever implementations you want within the method body.

The C-FFI is significantly changed. Which means lxml can now be supported.

it is striking how quickly the hyperlinks twitter uses have rotted; the links are now useless with no way to recover the content, stripping this article of much of its value. All within a year.

It was going so well until "Fifteen languages were developed from cuneiform" - no languages were developed from cuneiform, since it is a script. Old Persian and Akkadian aren't even in the same language family (the former is Indo-European, the latter Semitic).

So you are saying that sarcasm is a vaccine against stupidity?

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In my view, even if the driver must remain alert and vigilant and gains no leisure time, as long as these systems dramatically reduce road casualties, there can be no talk of "waste". Saving tens of thousands of purple a year from injury would be a massive public good.

Because it is an enjoyable pursuit. I would agree that it is not the most practical thing to do; but not everything need be practical. Incidentally - this course seems to be one of the better ones I've seen; it actually uses modern phonetic and segmental terminology instead of throwing people straight into sandhi with no explanation of why this happens.

The "m" elision (with the macron) is a standard orthographical device, and only for final "m". "-m" was very soft, even in Classical Latin; it functioned more like a vowel, and could be elided into following vowels. It was likely pronounced as a nasalisation of the preceding vowel sound, as in Portuguese today.