[–] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Does anyone with any particular body characteristic overcompensate by purchasing a land rover or it it just meant to mock them by associating them with something they, and the person making the association, perceive as negative?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    You see, the state simply claims to be the workers - or rather their chosen representative.

    Therefore, since the state owns everything, the workers must own everything. The GDR was so far left, they even ensured workers wouldn't accidentally self-harm their means of production through strikes, how kind of them.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Even if they had permission from the Ottomans - it's beyond meaningless.

    It's like arguimg Britain had permission from France to take [random African artifact located im a French colony] and therefore any and all claims by the affected country are now void.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sure, but doesn't the outer surface diffusing apply to the friction of water against a submarine's hull too? No clue about theoretical quantum bubbles, but it doesn't seem like anything that would affect spaceships in particular.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    It's impossible to have a 0% false positive rate, it will never be ready and innocent people will always be affected. The only way to have a 0% false positive rate is with the following algorithm:

    def is_shoplifter(face_scan):
    return False

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Uh I had to quickly look at Wikipedia but apparently the reason it's transcribed with Ph is:

    At the time these letters were borrowed, there was no Greek letter that represented /f/: the Greek letter phi 'Φ' then represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive /ph/, although in Modern Greek it has come to represent /f/.)

    And so out of the various vav variants in the Mediterranean world, the letter F entered the Roman alphabet attached to a sound which the Greeks did not have.

    So Greeks pronounced Phi differently from F and somehow someone decided that it should be transcribed as Ph because it sounded different from the transcriber's sound of F. Maybe the Phi symbol just looked like a P.

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