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For more substance and less self-promotion, see her master's thesis here: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.929... There's also a better graphical overview of the signs here: https://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com.br/2014/08/ge...
(Also the former link seems to be broken?)
Thunderbolts project offers an interesting theory on these symbols https://www.thunderbolts.info
For anyone else wondering what that site is about, it’s pseudoscience: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Electric_Universe
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I wonder if our brains have changed so much since then, that we may not be able to comprehend what the symbols originally meant.
Why would "our brains" change? Because we have tv and phones?
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I don't believe that Swastika symbol is as ancient as these. Wikipedia tells me that it appears for the first time in 3000 BCE in India. Also, regarding "German Laws and general sentiment", I invite you to read this detailed blog post[1] on the history of Svasti symbols in Unicode[2] and the controversies around getting them in Unicode. Edit: Typo. Links corrected. [1]: https://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/02/when-is…
Why is it so controversial to have a swastika symbol in unicode? The hammer and sickle had no problems and it is also banned in some countries.
Also, controversy is not a comparative matter (and this one indeed is an opinion).
Edit: Grammar.
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> And it always means "Sun" or "Good Luck" or something positive. Except after 1945 it does not. The swastika was already quite firmly linked with fascism in Europe by the late 1920s.
> The swastika was already quite firmly linked with fascism in Europe by the late 1920s. It wasn't. If anything, it was linked to preservation of tradition and conservatism. I know from my grandparents, who are Polish Highlanders, that it also doubles for holy cross, and thus was used in sacral contexts or on tombstones: https://slowianowierstwo.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/1095605... https://slowianowierstwo.files.wo…
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Except that Slashdot doesn't have a userbase capable of bringing a server to it's knees anymore.
Hardly a unique phenomenon. In society we have so many terms as a nod to their (deceased) inventor(s), or as a nod to a (deceased) person of interest.
"The application is tied up in red tape." - "Red tape" as a binding for important documents is now little used outside of handful of places.
"The company bigwigs fired half the staff." - Once upon a time, people in authority wore wigs as a symbol of authority. Now it's limited to a few legal and parliamentary systems; CEOs and the like don't wear them.
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"(W)e don't know exactly how it was done" is exactly what "unexplained mystery" means.
As opposed to explained mysteries? /s
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So, you've a 45 ton stone to lever up, how do you move the log that would be though enough to use as a lever ... How about the fulcrum stone, how do you move that ... levers will the way down?
Dig a hole beneath the other end of the stone, it turns the ground into a fulcrum.
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Please don't post snarky dismissals to HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is. It only makes the thread even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Dang, could you please unban my account? Thanks.
All: it's much better to email issues like this to hn@ycombinator.com, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's pretty random what we do and don't see on the site, but we see all the emails.
Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script. With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing.
> Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script. With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing. Attempts to crack the Indus script with the aid of computers have been made since at least the 1970s (a large Soviet team went to work on it then), but the problem is that the Indus script may not actually encode the sounds of a language. If it is essentially a set…
But I do wonder if there isn't a side channel, or just some way of doing it without requiring the usual necessary elements.