All from the first result in Duckduckgo. Mostly wikipedia, but I got "aqua fortis" on some dictionary.
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I keep having to point it, because it's not obvious nor easy to notice: the prequels story is really, really good.
It will most probably die as an XVIII century country with a pile of juridical clutches and props.
Nope. They seem to have successfully moved into early 20th century politics already.
That one needs an explain-smbc...
Anyway, looks like "green vitriol" = iron sulfate (so it's enriched with iron), "spirit of hartshorn" = amonia (spoiled beans certainly release lots of this), "brimstone" = sulfur, "quicksilver" = mercury, and "aquafortis" = nitrates (on this context, but also nitric acid - afaik, our bodies can't use nitrates for anything).
(EDIT: yes, quicksilver is mercury, not lead.)
Hum... You take a lot out when you omit the reason most generals didn't like it was because they were already using catapults to throw the grenades...
It's a very C++ thing that the language developers saw the clusterfuck that is stream flushing on the kernel and decided that the right course of action was to create another fucking layer of hidden inconsistent flushing.
There’s classics like measuring how long it takes to send a network packet from one device to another
That one is on your clocks quality, not on physics. People do it all the time.
Probably on equipment that is orders of magnitude more expensive than yours, but the post isn't about costs.
Well, the Luddites were unironically entirely correct... the OP just doesn't know who they were or what they wanted.
Well, if C is a goal then he is even more stupid than he looks like.
She didn't say there are any.
I see. So you are ready to try the "increase all costs" route now...
Just because the core of his work is bad science, it doesn't mean he didn't get a lot of facts right.
And also, countries have a unsettling tendency of moving a full step in development when its people get mad enough and kill all of the oligarchy. It's not very clear to me if it's the only way to do some steps forward, but it also has a good chance of making a worse oligarchy and moving a step backward.