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If Bourdieu had been American, he would have put much more emphasis on race and dialect, I think. It's also the case that the US is much larger than France, so the kind of world wh…

Erm, British management is also famously terrible. Coal has horrible externalities and its demise is a good thing. British iron ore is not very rich, and it never was; Britain has …

It wasn't terribly clear how rights became extinguished by time for Thomas Littleton, who published his "Tenures" in 1481 or 1482. In chapter 38 of the first Statute of Westminster…

What was then called the "lower crankcase member", which was also the lower part of the transmission housing, we would refer to as an oilpan. The cranksshaft ran in bearings locate…

If by "the high middle ages" you mean "2025", then you are right. Priests in de-facto marriages are still super common.

> From what I understand, if the genetic lineage is particularly elite, you might keep more. You mean like Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios…

My reading is that the examiner thought "advanced custom fields" was too generic. WPE had until Oct. 19 to file a response or ask for an extension, and they asked for an extension …

Martine [1] is a series of French-language children's book. They have simple titles like "Martine à la ferme" (Martine at the farm) or "Martine fait du camping" (Martine goes campi…

That's an EMD (division of General Motors) F40PH diesel-electric locomotive, not a gasoline locomotive. Gasoline locomotive did exist, but they were much smaller and usually served…

It refers to a button featured on some laptops in the late 2000s, that started up an alternative, lighter OS installed by the manufacturer, to avoid the loading time of Windows Vis…

The NTSB found that it was actually that the 11/12 node region was too weak as designed, an error that wasn't caught by the reviewer.

The same problem exists on the granite walls of Laurier Station in the Montreal Metro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurier_station_%28Montreal_Me... (picture)

Texas has expansive clay in much of the state. This type of clay makes basements impractical.

Nah, I think it refers to the fact that popular printing items, like the Bible or popular books that stayed in print more or less indefinitely would be stereotyped, that is an impr…

In the early days of aviation there were actually rotary engines that were like radials, but where the entire engine rotated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_engine

The biggest use case of a throat microphone is to do an accurate version of "Ich liebst dich nicht du liebst mich nicht" part of "Da da da" by Trio (you also need a mini casio for …

The 5-foot gauge used in Russia is much narrower than Brunel's 7-foot gauge, and only 85 mm wider than standard gauge. 5-foot gauge was actually used a fair bit in the South until …

The Federal government can't agree to compromises on healthcare matters; that's provincial jurisdiction. It can't agree on compromises on border vaccination; that's US jurisdiction…

Normal shotgun rounds are filled with a number of pellets; the smaller the pellet, the more you can fit. Birdshot: small pellets in large number, Buckshot: large-ish pellets in sma…

Sovkhoz? That's what they called them in the soviet union.

Eiffel might be another.

Local agricultural optimums in Northern Europe played a role too. How good was agriculture in the Parisian basin during the late Roman empire? Was it possible for farmers to get th…

Dvorak

That the authors are more concerned with this or that isn't the point. Mr Stallman is being rejected _pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre_ and his behaviour at MIT is entirely sufficient…

None of that really matters; RMS is a serial harasser, he has no place in any self-respecting organization.