Lennart Regebro

2,117 reputation

113

bio	website	regebro.wordpress.com
	location	Kraków, Poland
	age	46
visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
	seen	Mar 31 at 14:04
stats	profile views	52

Python 3 developer and entrepreneur, author of Porting to Python 3.

All your Python 3 needs fulfilled! Python, Plone, small and large.

regebro@gmail.com

	2,117 reputation	bio	website	regebro.wordpress.com	visits	member for	1 year, 7 months
113 badges		location	Kraków, Poland		seen	Mar 31 at 14:04

summary answers questions tags badges favorites bounties reputation activity

189 Actions

suggestions reviews revisions comments badges posts accepts all

Jul 22	answered	At what point did mapmaking begin to accurately reflect what we now know about the earth?
Jul 22	comment	At what point did mapmaking begin to accurately reflect what we now know about the earth? Essentially correct? :-) Have you looked at Scotland? Or for that matter Sweden? :-)
Jul 22	comment	Are there any existing foreign language teaching texts from the Ancient Near East? This answer seems to misunderstand the question. It's not about learning to write, it's about learning a second language.
Jul 22	comment	What is the secret behind the economic success of ROC(Taiwan)? @T.E.D.: You are partly right that it's describing symptoms, not causes, but the causes are always the same: Reasonable, pragmatic free market economics. The question really is what is preventing other countries from being as successful (and the answer is always war, socialism, corruption, in that order).
Jul 22	comment	Why did the United States enter World War I? @T.E.D.: In fact, the US involvement had very little effect on the war. Germany would have lost anyway. This is partly because the US military leadership refused to listen to the European leaders, trying to tell them that 19th century tactics didn't work anymore (but to their credit they learnt their lesson and started being more useful at the end, the French and British generals took years to learn that lesson). But most importantly, by summer 1918, when US troops arrived, Germany was in disarray. That said, the entry of the Americans may have had a great psychological effect.
Jul 22	comment	What made Alexander great? What all answers here, although not incorrect, are forgetting to mention, is that the central power of Persia had been slowly weakening for 150 years. That's why Alexander to a large extent was able to take Persia bit by bit.
Jul 22	answered	First recorded use of a traditional tombstone?
Jul 22	comment	First recorded use of a traditional tombstone? @LanceLafontaine: It was the tradition for Pharaohs. :-)
Jul 22	comment	First recorded use of a traditional tombstone? It's the date of birth and death that's the clincher here. Ancient monuments/tombstones usually don't have that. Roman tombstones often recorded the age, but not the dates. The practice of recording birth and death on tombstones is certainly not common until the renaissance and possibly even later, but unfortunately I can't find any sources for this.
Jul 22	awarded	Excavator
Jul 22	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? There we go! On re-reading I withdraw my objections about including the two-dimensional charts. :-)
Jul 22	revised	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? added 2 characters in body
Jul 21	comment	Why did civilisation/city states never take root in Australia and North America? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia is probably the largest of them.
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? No, I think most if it is good enough. Quoting almost all seems pointless.
Jul 21	comment	Where and how did the concept of “incorporation” originate? Well, the Dutch East India Company is rather the first instance of a public corporation.
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? I can, if desired, edit the answer to how it should look like. You can then reject/revert if you disagree.
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? @DVK: Firstly I think it's incorrect even from a US standpoint to say that Nazism and Fascism shares a lot with liberal/progressive politics. Socialist/communist, yes. Liberal/progressive, no. Secondly my point is that as long as you write it solely from a US perspective, it's not worth to vote up. Secondly, I think you give too much weight to charts that try to extend right/left with another dimension. As right/left fundamentally means nothing, they are misguided.
Jul 21	comment	What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? Nothing to elaborate. In Europe for example, liberals are considered right-wing. Therefore, when you put "right-wing" as opposing "liberal/progressive" policies, that would confuse the heck out of anyone not into US politics. And of course, when you say that Nazism shares a lot with liberal politics, that's just wrong. Socialists have unfirtunately more or less gotten a monopoly on the word "progressive" but don't mix "liberal" into that. Liberal policies by any meaning except "socialist but afraid to call it that" are diametrically opposed to nazism in all ways.
Jul 21	comment	Mountain flags from Batman Begins I don't see how flags in a movie that is set in a modern fictional near-future have anything to do with history.
Jul 21	comment	Why did civilisation/city states never take root in Australia and North America? There was some significant cities in North America as well, before Columbus. But they have been ignored both because the US colonizers didn't want Indians to be civilized, and because they usually didn't build out of stone (because they had cheaper materials at hand). There are at least superficial cultural similarities between the american cultures, so some contact happened, although probably indirectly.