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I'd posit that the passing of substantial wealth and capital between generations is one of the chief drivers of social decay. In the long term, it causes an immense amount of power…

OP seemed to be referring to Normans. The whole cow (English) -> beef (French) is a classic linguistic example to cite with regard to them.

Agreed. Roman Republican ethics (2000+ years ago) held as a core value the idea that your legacy is more important than personal gain, and that just because you _can_ do a thing, t…

Back when propaganda was first being developed as a field, particularly between the two World Wars, it was greeted with a great deal of excitement by the powers that be precisely f…

I feel compelled to speak up on behalf of Un Chien Andalou. You know that scene, right at the very beginning, where an unseen person strops a razor before the famous slicing with i…

I'd consider NNs total overkill for this problem (though not if it were a more general problem of which this was just a test instance). Then I'd make my own hand-wavy assumptions a…