And I think I had read that Whatsapp used Erlang because Facebook Chat was using Erlang and they thought Facebook knew what they were doing and decided to use the same tech. What a twist
Where did you read that? I believe Whatsapp used erlang because they leveraged ejabberd [0] for XMPP. Wouldn't surprise me if this is why FB originally used Erlang for the chat servers too.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejabberd
>> We can't even be sure that the Greeks, at the time of Philip & Alexander considered Macedonia to be "Greece."
This is plain wrong. There is absolutely no dispute what so ever among historians about the Greek origin of Macedonia. The new country of Northern Macedonia in no way disputes this either. Comments like yours are the prime proof that what happened is very very wrong.
This is a quote from Wikipedia about Alexander the great.
>> Alexander was awarded the generalship of Greece and used this
>> authority to launch his father's pan-Hellenic project to lead
>> the Greeks in the conquest of Persia.
If the wars had gone differently, Greek historians would have recorded a glorious defeat of the northern barbarians by the Greeks. Alexander won, and so the story features "awarding a generalship."
I'm not making the case for either narratives. I'm making the case that both narratives are fictions, a symbolic language narrating a one-damned-thing-after-another truth. I don't think Alexander/Macedonia was "really" Greek or not Greek. I also think this meant different things at different times. Modern nationalism is a very dominant paradigm in our times. It is new though. Even though it's hard to imagine it, "nationality" was not a dominant paradigm either for personal identity or politics throughout most of history. Alexander didn't seem to give much of a damn about nationality.
Yes, the city-states have been fighting all the time, just like Athens and Sparta. But they have been part of Ancient Greece.
In the case of FYROM (still the official name until the agreement gets implemented soonish), they have been appropriating the Greek identity. That was not just some individuals at FYROM, it was the whole political apparatus of FYROM since the 90s.
Was ancient Libya/Carthage or even Spain a part of ancient Lebanon/Israel? They were certainly a part of the same culture, in the same way "Hellenic Culture" was a thing. They spoke the same Language, shared customs and myths and such.
I understand that if Jordan remained themselves "Canaan" or "Phoenicia" then Israel, Palestine, & Lebanon might object. Territorial implications, etc. It's not made up though. Jordan has a "right" to that legacy too. That language and culture were spoken and practiced in Amman as well as Tyre even if Tyre is what we think of as the original "hub."
If you can generate income from all over the world Greece is a great place to work at. Great weather, great food, private health coverage with about 1K per year, private international schools for about 1K per month. Life and especially rent is pretty cheap compared to other European cities.
The problem though is that there is always a danger of a Venezuela style collapse but you can always move out.
I have been frantically researching for a temporal tagging library that can be used on an Android application with no good results.
I have looked at SUTime, HeidelTime, natty and some others. I am trying to parse (among others) expressions of the type "the first week of the previous month", "The last week of September". The only library that can parse this type of query is SUTime.
Can you comment on why you implemented a home grown solution instead of using SUTime or some other library readily available. Have you measured the performance of Duckling vs the state of the art in temporal tagging ?
Duckling seems very well made with good docs but unfortunately for me will be hard to make work on Android.
This is the link to the wikipedia article about the "hack" http://tinyurl.com/l2pfdew (Using tiny url because greek chars on the url get really messy on copy paste).
Translated excerpt from the wikipedia link above.
"Two years later, in 2010 the case reopened with the advent of new evidence suggesting espionage with involvement of the American embassy."
I put hack on double quotes because it was anything but a hack. This was coordinated from within the phone carrier and the company that wrote the software, with the management most probably being aware of it.
