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New comment by jagaerglad in "If IPv4 were land"

jagaerglad — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:23:54 +0000

and one of the countries has an over-reported while the other is underreporting

New comment by jagaerglad in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

jagaerglad — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:11:25 +0000

Yes, it's the verb though, "to fake". It's a quite recent loan from English,

New comment by jagaerglad in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

jagaerglad — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:18:22 +0000

Although "Malm" is a common surname, it's a word first and a name second if that makes sense

The same way "Brown" is common surname in English but mostly makes you think of the color first

New comment by jagaerglad in "Everything you do is being recorded"

jagaerglad — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:19:02 +0000

I wonder how precise this will be? A flying object sounds reasonable but could it actually track say individual people walking on a street further down the line?

New comment by jagaerglad in "Nokia’s years of mobile-phone supremacy ended in an afternoon"

jagaerglad — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:32:45 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310_(2017)

New comment by jagaerglad in "Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice"

jagaerglad — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:46:26 +0000

The pride and sense of achievement they ought to feel that members of their kind did something should be enough to feel superior though

New comment by jagaerglad in "Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist"

jagaerglad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:46:25 +0000

may I ask the reason your clients don't just generate these things themselves?

New comment by jagaerglad in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

jagaerglad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:23:40 +0000

Language in the scope of a cultural phenomenon is something way beyond just cost or efficiency in communication

thats way wi dont rayt English veri efishent ither

New comment by jagaerglad in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

jagaerglad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:12:58 +0000

mostly latin with a sprinkle of proposals to revive the avestan alphabet or middle persian script. I wouldn't say it's a huge debate at all in general though

New comment by jagaerglad in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

jagaerglad — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:11:20 +0000

You are entirely free to put vowel diacritics when writing with the perso-arabic script and it's done in children's books. By that logic Vietnamese shouldn't be written with the latin script since it's sino-tibetian

Also, middle persian had a native abjad [1]. (As well as a derived alphabet [2])

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_scripts

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avestan_alphabet

New comment by jagaerglad in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

jagaerglad — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:27:41 +0000

how are modern riots being organized on a massive scale? I'm curious

New comment by jagaerglad in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

jagaerglad — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:22:54 +0000

I sometimes hear the same in my circles about Persian ditching the perso-arabic script. I don't get it, why can't you align a country however you like without creating a huge rift between a big population and years of literature, material etc etc? One can learn multiple scripts and almost all literate people know the latin script globally nowadays. Besides, sad to see the whole world just use the latin script in the end but that's not the point

New comment by jagaerglad in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

jagaerglad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:58:31 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takotsubo_cardiomyopathy

"It usually appears after a significant stressor, either physical or emotional; when caused by the latter, the condition is sometimes called broken heart syndrome"

New comment by jagaerglad in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

jagaerglad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:57 +0000

Yes, it's kind of the standard word for it in Iranian Persian

New comment by jagaerglad in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

jagaerglad — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:21:04 +0000

Adding to what you said, it's worth to mention that her novel contains grave historical inaccuracies such that suggesting that the Cinema Rex fire was done by the Shah blocking the exits with police letting everyone burn, and later blamed on Islamists (what the revolutionary zeitgeist at the time wanted to believe), while in fact it was exactly the other way around

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire

New comment by jagaerglad in "City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why"

jagaerglad — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:05:32 +0000

"men could get about a meter closer to birds than women could before the animals flew away, according to the results. This pattern remained regardless of what the men and women were wearing, what their height was or how they tried to approach the creatures"

The journal article: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3...

City birds more afraid of women than men, scientists have no idea why

jagaerglad — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:05:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/city-birds-appear-more-afraid-of-women-than-men-and-scientists-have-no-idea-why/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947828

Points: 7

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New comment by jagaerglad in "Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s"

jagaerglad — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:41:53 +0000

It's often not allowed to sell nicotine or alcohol to those who aren't penalized either

New comment by jagaerglad in "Starlink satellites being lowered from 550 km to 480 km"

jagaerglad — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:57:35 +0000

So instead of having to launch new satellites to replace the deorbited ones ever couple of years, do they have to send new ones every couple of months? Or can the functioning ones maintain their orbits somehow and this is only for the malfunctioning ones?

New comment by jagaerglad in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jagaerglad — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:20:39 +0000

terrible take, it's ruined otherwise amazing potential countless times. Just see how over-represented ADHD is in the prison population