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It is actually quicker to ask using LaTeX markup!

At its core is better "selling skills" In my last job I noticed how much better people that did jobs like waitressing before were more likeable by Clients. Small things like saying at the end "John thanks for your time..." Put the name first, people like that. But in the end you might have done well and failed you on salary requirements...

Well written and well documented. I will be trying it out. One drawback that I see is the use of packages from LuaRocks might be an issue and one does not really want to cope with compilation issues. But Lua is a beautiful language in any form.

Depends on the user. Basic LaTeX2e/LuaTeX can be learned over 5 days. Guru level like any programming language needs its 10K hours. There are people who have an aversion for backlashes. The main reason for the "\" is perhaps the only char that is not commonly found in texts. Others like ":" re very common in texts. When parsing LaTeX and behind it is Knuth's original TeX engine, the commands are swimming in a sea of text (as the Dragon book says).

Linguistics and many of its subbranches. Historians, archaeologists and to be honest LaTeX is great for poetry.

Absolutely; One should also keep in mind why do you need the HTML, drop the pdf file on Google drive, and it will serve it fine, no webservers can limit who can see it, no friction for authorizations etc. Granted difficult to view on a mobile, but who can really do serious reading of a paper on mobile?

Sorry you need to catch up! The latest LaTeX engines (LuaLaTeX) can even do unicode math! But yes the Unicode spec s not something one can understand in a few hours.

Your statement is not correct, LuaLaTeX can output any unicode character you need and also you can use Lua as well for scripting.

Wikipedia is the best source of humanities "common knowledge". Yes there are users that abuse the system to push their own point of view. Many articles in Wikipedia have improved tremendously over the years; many times it is not unusual for an article to have over a hundred references. It gives you all the info you want to understand the subject before you delve further through books. Now for politics I can see the problem. Even on a well behaved site like HN you can get polarized views. Just say Israel is committing genocide or ethnic cleansing and you see the reaction. Ditto for Ukraine and now Trumpism. So yes there are pages that reflect views. Take them as such. Another advantage of Wikipedia is that many references are pushed to archive.org and saved.

"DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS IN THE ADMINISTRATION KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE WIKIPEDIA"

Thanks, I read the book and yes it is interesting an with a well written narrative.

Agreed and besides Europe the Catholic Church destroyed much of the history of Mesoamerica. But, part of "culture" is our history as well, it just saddens me though thinking what we are going to leave behind for future generations.

How do immigrants impose their cultures on a host country? Can you give some examples? Historically populations mix by migration, wars, slavery, and trading networks. It is a process that cannot be stopped, maybe slowed down or accelerated. The disappointing aspect of it, is now this process has been hijacked by corporations. How did the West acquire a culture of coffee or coffee-shops? Now is McDonalds and Costa Cafes.

I agree diversity makes us richer, and historically there was always cultural diffusion, what I lament though is that this is now partially done by multinational corporations, wiping out local traditions.

Strangely, I was thinking about this yesterday, that smuggling now became profitable :) It used to be and still is very profitable in some countries with goods that attract big tariffs like cigarettes. Gray markets will boom.

Yes it is not the answer. About this issue see https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2022/12/04/why-its-...

It makes me sick also. The Greens are nutcases. As for the mummy mask, what they did is criminal.

No they did not. They are just encouraging and creating an illegal market. The US also lacked proper laws against the importation of antiquities. For all we know it could have come into the states on a military plane and ISIS would have nothing to do with it. No museum worth its salt, with professional curators and staff would have accepted such a "loot" and as a matter of fact also reputable auctioneers. In any case it is important to study artifacts in the context where they were found, stratigraphy, nearby archaeological sites etc.

To be honest and I am from Cyprus, the BM paid for a lot of archaeological expeditions at a time when Antiquity Laws were laxed and the expeditions could take 2/3 of the finds. The 19th century was another story, Cesnola for example (the, then American Ambassador to Cyprus) literally smuggled almost 30,000 objects, which formed the basis of the Metropolitan Museum.

But ... He adopted a Christian capitalist worldview centered around personal wealth as a precision tool to carry out God’s. F..ng nonsene!

I find this fascinating; I do a lot of reading and writing (leisure work) outside my own specialization; Some I believe are possibly publishable, but I am reluctant so far to attempt to publish them. Is zenodo a good place for this in your opinion?

Very interesting article, especially if you interested in how societies become organized and urbanized. Two fundamental requirements for a city, is a source of water, a centralized economy, such as a palace, that stores food and artifacts, and lastly be enclosed in walls. I am surprised that no such perimeter walls existed, although the palaces were surrounded by walls.

Great you visited it. One reads all these cautionary notices about traveling to Peru. What was your experience? Did you visit on a group tour? Would love to know more.

I am also retired and have more or less the same routine as you. I aim my own cooking time to a maximum of 7.5 minutes e.g. fried eggs and smoked salmon. I do open the door myself though. I hope you have an assistant because you can afford one and not because of some disability.

How I hate articles like this, painting everything as "existential" threat. Feeding the paranoia that has grubbed the US. Everything is viewed as a threat.

To be honest for me it was like my terminal talking back to me. Gender neutral.

With DeepSeek sometimes it makes me feel as I am talking to a person.

in LaTeX I could only accomplish after several days by cargo-culting indecipherable gibberish from years-old forum posts To learn basic use of LaTeX, takes an afternoon. To understand the language fully takes "effortful learning" like any other programming language.

Long term user of LaTeX. I did try Typst and it has is advantages main one it compiles faster. I am sticking with LaTeX and I don't find it difficult to use, write packages and classes, as I did invest the time to understand it and learn the language. Academic institutions, understand its superiority and also want to protect their archives. Maths has a long shelf-life. LaTeX also has a very good civilized community. LaTeX as it stands now has no comparative competitor.

no country will want to buy F16s

US needs to diversify and have an industrial policy. It also needs to rethink capitalism. Maybe new capitalism with US characteristics and more humanism thrown in. As to the defense industry it needs to shrink and be part of the industrial policy, not depend on warmongering to exist. You can have peace and a defiance industry without wars.

Very interesting approach and perhaps a good step towards transliteration and translation of cuneiform tablets. Code and links for paper at https://github.com/TAU-VAILab/ProtoSnap/tree/main

Pretty impressive and did a good job for an academic pdf I uploaded. Nice UI also.