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dfhdshfff commented on Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages can lead to problems   historytoday.com/history-... · Posted by u/Thevet
Svip · 6 years ago
> In the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 242, the French text instructed Israel to withdraw from ‘des territoires’ (the territories) it occupied during the 1967 Six-Day War. The English text, however, merely read ‘territories’, removing the definite article and thus leaving ambiguous how much territory Israel should cede.

This is inaccurate. « Des territoires » would be more accurately translated as 'some territories' or just 'territories', the author is thinking of « les territoires ».

dfhdshfff · 6 years ago
This is obvious weasel wording. during the writing of the resolution it was made clear that it meant all the territories.

This is how it was phrased:

>(i) Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;

any native enlgish speaker can read the declaration and see from the contest that it clear that all territories taken during the war are meant.

The Israelis came up with this facetious excuse to try to encroach on more land.

indeed, when one says "Dogs must be kept on the lead near ponds in the park."

it does not mean, for any sane person that some dogs shouldn't be kept on the lead near ponds in the park.

Also:

"it is an accepted rule that the various language versions must be considered together, with the ambiguities of one version elucidated by the other"

Plus, the reason that Israel must give back the territory is the prohibition of acquiring land by force.

If you can't acquire land by force. you can't acquire any land by force. it's illogical for the rule to only apply on some but not all land taken by force.

dfhdshfff commented on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second   sciencemag.org/news/2019/... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
knzhou · 7 years ago
I've known a lot of people that push podcasts, videos, and audiobooks to extreme speed. I knew a guy who'd turn video speed up to 8x so he could binge watch a season of generic anime in an hour flat. I knew a girl who'd get through paperback romance novels by scanning each page diagonally, in 10 seconds each. And here in this thread we have a lot of people bragging along the same lines.

I just don't get the point. If you can process content much faster than it was meant to be played, it doesn't mean you're learning much faster than you could, it means the novel information density is low. Any content that can be sped up that much without loss is not worth listening to in the first place. You're just skipping the trite cliches, filler, and obvious facts.

I can read fast, and I typically go through fluffy NYT bestseller nonfiction at 600 WPM. But when I do this I constantly have a sneaking suspicion that I'm just wasting my time. When I read a good book full of new ideas, I barely go at 150 WPM, but the time always feels well-spent.

dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
I used to watch a lot of lectures at a high speed. But I've came to realize that the faster I watch something, the faster I forget it.

It is like the infromation doesn't have the time to settle in my memory, despite me understanding it.

It's maybe because when things are slow, I can use the dead time to think about the implication/corner cases of what's being said.

dfhdshfff commented on How a secret Dutch mole aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran   news.yahoo.com/revealed-h... · Posted by u/jbegley
fortran77 · 7 years ago
It's never been confirmed this was a "U.S. - Israeli" attack, if there was any attack in the first place.
dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
In the same way it was never confirmed that Israel has nuclear weapons?
dfhdshfff commented on A new AMP update shows how it can infiltrate every corner of the internet   onezero.medium.com/google... · Posted by u/cpeterso
cocochanel · 7 years ago
Yet another HN user talking about their use case. 99% of people are not your typical HN user.
dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
for example the mobile version of facebook, doesn't let you see messages. The desktop one does and works fine.
dfhdshfff commented on Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)   www-history.mcs.st-andrew... · Posted by u/lioeters
Aenyn · 7 years ago
>the individuals that I named were Persian speakers, who lived in a region that is called the Greater Iran today, and wrote most of their work in Persian

And yet they are called Arab mathematicians.

dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
you named al khawarizmi, which is the only one that I'm really familiar with.

he spoke arabic. Most of his major works were in arabic, in Baghdad. and he has an arabic name.

dfhdshfff commented on Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)   www-history.mcs.st-andrew... · Posted by u/lioeters
namirez · 7 years ago
If Brin lived in Russia, spoke Russian, and wrote books in Russian we wouldn't call him American just because he wrote a few books in English too.

Perhaps you're not familiar with the history of that part of the world, but the individuals that I named were Persian speakers, who lived in a region that is called the Greater Iran today, and wrote most of their work in Persian. But in all fairness, Arabic was the lingua-franca at the time so they wrote books in Arabic too.

A better example would be to call Grigori Perelman an American mathematician because he published his work on arXiv [1].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303109

dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
> If Brin lived in Russia, spoke Russian, and wrote books in Russian we wouldn't call him American just because he wrote a few books in English too.

But if he spoke Enlgish, had an English name, lived his professional life in America. and most of his major works were in Enlgish.

I'd supposed you'd call him an "Anglophone" academic, which is the sense that Arab is used in.

dfhdshfff commented on Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)   www-history.mcs.st-andrew... · Posted by u/lioeters
jlg23 · 7 years ago
> In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab.

Not sure where you got this from, here in Morocco, calling a Berber an Arab is a pretty sure way to piss him/her off.

dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
Tunisia, Lybia. 99% of Tunisians self identify as Arabs
dfhdshfff commented on Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)   www-history.mcs.st-andrew... · Posted by u/lioeters
mehrdadn · 7 years ago
A whopping ~2% of Iranians have Arabic as their native language. That means, if you're going based on language, you're mislabeling 98% of the population.
dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
I hold it to be obvious that I'm talking about the scientists (That lived in the Islamic Golden age) not about modern day Iran.

Plus Most of them were not born in Iran proper.

dfhdshfff commented on Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999)   www-history.mcs.st-andrew... · Posted by u/lioeters
namirez · 7 years ago
Title is slightly misleading! Most of them are Islamic but not Arabic. Khawrazmi [1], Karaji [2], Khayyam [3], and Tusi [4] were all Persian. Ibn Haytham wrote only in Arabic though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Musa_al-Khwarizmi

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Karaji

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharaf_al-D%C4%ABn_al-%E1%B9%A...

dfhdshfff · 7 years ago
arab is not used as an ethnicity but refers to someone who speaks arabic as a mother tongue. In the same way, that North africans refer to themselves as Arabs although genetically they are less than 50% Arab.

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