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@lefineder Yep. A lot of what was known from linguistics has been confirmed with genetics.

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@ithacarising I can't wait. I hope it comes to the US, in "version originale", bien sûr.

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@AnecdotesMaths Si la cible est constituée d'une infinité (indénombrable) de points, il faut utiliser une densité de probabilité. La probabilité elle-même est densité fois surface, par exemple la surface du bout de la fléchette.

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@ithacarising I love these amusing vignettes. I'd "follow" again if I didn't already.

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@RnaudBertrand @seanpaulkelley She's *ethnically* Chinese (Hokkien), of course.

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@nntaleb @pmarca Obviously, any proof depends on what is already known, but it is more likely that what you've already constructed includes i=e^(i*pi/2) rather than the log(-1).

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@ChicagoBoyFR « Quant aux communistes, ils ont leur doctrine, mais ils se gardent bien de l'exposer » LOL!

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@ithacarising Counting the fraction is not trivial. If you count the entries in a dictionary, you miss the frequency of common words (the, a, and, over, up, this, what, etc.) all from Germanic. If you count spoken words by individuals, you need to account for register.

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@ithacarising Yes, I clearly notice an accent. But I would have had a hard time determining the origin.

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@ithacarising Who is Buckley today? Who is Kissinger? What would I give to see this level of discourse again. I can't escape the apprehension that we are indeed witnessing a profound and inexorable decline of the West.

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@Vidor1 @DastDn Not surrendering meant dying. The British only gave the option to hand over the ships, which the French wouldn't do. Those at Mers-el-Kébir were sunk by the British, those (later) in Toulon were scuttled by the French themselves. There was no other option.

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@Vidor1 @DastDn Darlan was always very clear that he'd scuttle the ships if the Germans tried to get them, and in fact he did! Yes, the gov surrendered but the French didn't stop fighting. And 100,000 died in the Battle of France. What else could they do? Not so simple.

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@Vidor1 @DastDn You're obviously not well informed. The French did indeed fight from Africa, and the fleet was sunk by the British. De Gaulle fled to London, then Brazzaville, then reconstituted an army in Algeria and landed in Italy, etc.

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@ithacarising Do you know if _A Spy Among Friends_, on Netflix, is any good?

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@sc_cath @AlecStapp @lyondataman Yes, the firms lie (misreport) to avoid the obligations triggered over 50 employees. The regulation is still distortionary, and I'm guessing that it becomes harder and harder to lie with increasing employee count.

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@HusseinAboubak I know nothing about the guy, so maybe he deserves to be sent back. But this reads as punishment for what his mother did. In the West, we normally punish individuals, not families.

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@Peter_Nimitz I feel people are missing an important element of Scheidel's thesis. He doesn't simply argue that Europe's fragmentation was good (duh), but that China was centralized because of the threat from steppe nomads, while E was more protected by distance & geography (except Hungary).

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@dyingempires Thanks. There is a "background" permanent flow of about 2-3 knots eastward, and that flow is reduced or increased by tides. At times the eastward current can reach 6-7 knots, but that's certainly not the norm. (If it were, nearly no small sailing crafts could leave.)

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@anup_malani Henrich should be mentioned here. He provides a reason why China had clans but Europe had impersonal institutions.