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I don't think you've established any factual challenge to either of my statements: > But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that …

I read the whole thing. It's literally a showcase of all the mental tics and obfuscations involved in the construction of artificial national histories as I described in my earlier…

Germanic tribes in the ancient world did not speak Old High German. The status of Old High German as the origin language of modern German is part of the construction of German hist…

Modern German is no closer to the language of a randomly chosen 'Germanic Tribe' than English, Prussian, Danish, Yiddish, Swedish, Czech, etc. Most people living in what is now Fra…

Thanks for proving my point!

But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers. They are not genet…

> states ruled from Prague, inhabited largely by Czech speakers, extending to virtually the same territory. More like two polities which share a capital city, but barely have eithe…

This isn't true. The majority of countries are much younger than this. The thousand year old ones are the exceptions. Many countries have an 'origin story' which implies that they …

Insert Boeing/MongoDB joke here.

> Frustrating enough since it feels like in JavaScript, you never have control over what’s going on. > In C, you can go ahead and misconfigure a makefile to output debug files, a s…

SQLite is not 'a little iffy'. It's a) one of the most resilient pieces of software ever made and b) one of the most widely adopted pieces of software ever made.

You're right, my mistake.

The minimum for federal sentences is that you have to serve 2/3.

You seal the envelope with tape and put the stamp over the tape.

> this release will break any code that uses threads. > small threaded programs had been run successfully The second obviously contradicts the first, doesn't it? > mixing asyncio w…

This isn't correct. TFA said that small threaded programs had been run successfully, but that the test suite broke in asyncio. Async I/O and threads are two different things, and e…

You might think that making sure your children will be cared for after you are dead is an impossible desire. You might think that leaving a will specifying your intentions for unpu…

So the requirement is simply to come up with 'a plausible reason why it might be what [they] would want'?

We only have Otto Frank's word for it that this is what she would have wanted. And he is known not to have had respect for her legacy in every way, for example editing the diary to…

Should we act this way with regards to all future events? Should I for example vote for leaders whom I believe will make decisions which make things better during my lifetime only …

Good luck with that.

Is the remote US-only, near timezones, or worldwide?

It is a good book, but it isn't completely candid about one part of the FT's investigation. When Dan McCrum was under threat of arrest in Germany, that was because Paul Murphy, Dan…

This makes sense, since if all the orbit numbers were even the ratio could be expressed in simpler terms.