Aloisius

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541.
by Aloisius 2y ago
The earliest references to Epiphany come from the Roman Empire.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Ask yourself, why is it so hard to get a cryptographically secure random number? I mean, humans aren't exactly good at generating random numbers either. And of course, every Intel and AMD CPU these days has a hardware random num
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I think that has more to do with Americans not drinking a lot of hot tea. I had an instant 195 F (90.5 C) faucet in my previous kitchen which worked well for the rare times I made tea. Worked fine with a 120V circuit.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> "bury" is pronounced to rhyme with "merry" in probably every accent of English that's ever been Bury rhymes with hurry around Philadelphia (NJ, Maryland, some parts of NY).
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Most of English's inconsistent spelling came about from (sometimes incomplete) pronunciation shifts. Now knight and night are homophones where they once weren't, and while sky still rhymes with by , it no longer rhymes with ar
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by Aloisius 2y ago
A simple test is if you got rid of a product, what would customers use as a direct replacement? Those competitor products, the product you got rid of plus the customers of those products, are a market. Here, the products are Google Ad Excha
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Persian limes are just a cross between key limes and lemons. Before Persian limes were popularized in the 20th century, key limes were just called "limes" in the US (and still are in cocktail recipes and latin markets).
548.
by Aloisius 2y ago
For most of the period from 2020 to 2023, /pol/ has had more posts/day than any other board, often substantially more and it was 2nd most of the time. The /vt/ is a pretty distant 4th behind /v/. I'm
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Those look like calamondins (Calamansi limes). Just like with oranges, their skin will remain green or mostly green unless grown where it gets cold enough, then their skin will turn yellow then orange then reddish orange. Where I live, cala
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here). Calamansi limes are grown in California and usually called Calamond
551.
by Aloisius 2y ago
I'm not familiar with that one and can't seem to find it online. Do you have a link? Limes will actually turn yellow when ripe. We just pick them early.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
How green an orange is when ripe has to do with the climate they are grown in. In warm climates with little variation in temperature between day or night, oranges will remain green on the tree even when ripe. If nights get cold enough (~55
553.
by Aloisius 2y ago
> It currently dwarfs the number incarcerated by the Soviet Union during the 1930s. Not really. Estimates for the number of people in labor camps, labor colonies and prisons are all over the place, but based on their own fragmented rec
554.
by Aloisius 2y ago
> immigrant (noun) - a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. The US has two classes of visas: immigrant and nonimmigrant visas. Student visas are the latter along with things like tourist visas. People here simply
555.
by Aloisius 2y ago
People on temporary student visas aren't immigrants and have nothing to do with immigration. What's next? Mass deportation of tourists?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The goal isn't to teach how compound interest works in practice at banks. Students are well aware that the real world analogies presented in math books are overly simplified and imperfect long before they are introduced to Euler's
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by Aloisius 2y ago
It's a staged photograph by Kimbei Kusakabe (or Baron Raimund von Stillfried, they sold each other's works a lot and Kusakabe worked for Stillfried at one point) of hikyaku (express couriers) created to sate Western desire for sou
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by Aloisius 2y ago
I wish someone would just escalate to a 1000% tariff already or just an outright embargo. We know how this will go, why prolong it with these tit-for-tat increases?
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by Aloisius 2y ago
We manufacture more today than at any time in history. We just do it with a whole lot fewer people. Have jobs been lost to outsourcing? Sure. But far more jobs have been lost to automation and the elimination of obsolete industries. While c
560.
by Aloisius 2y ago
This has the makings of the largest tax hike on Americans in history.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Just because only 48% of people have a current passport, doesn't mean only 48% have ever had a passport. A majority of Americans have traveled to two or more countries: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Are you certain the island in the Caribbean you were thinking of wasn't Puerto Rico? I can't imagine what other island you'd make them on. All six versions of Office I have seemed to be made in the US. They're all retail
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Hell, when Microsoft was still shipping software on CDs you may have noticed a little fine print mentioning the Caribbean island on which the disc was technically manufactured. I don't recall this at all. What software was it? G
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by Aloisius 2y ago
You're assuming a lot given HN's American demographic isn't exactly reflective of the general population. Even among the American general populace, most have traveled to a country besides Canada.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> Yes, party platforms evolve, but this kind of sudden reversal is still remarkable. I don't think there's been a Democratic platform that's advocated increasing tariffs or trade barriers in living memory. Most have outr
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by Aloisius 2y ago
American conservatives, until recently, espoused economic liberalism. It is considered "conservative" because it has been the status quo for a rather long period, and they advocated conserving it.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> which the US can't grow anyways Em. The US can and does grow vanilla commercially. It'll happily grow in USVI, Puerto Rico, Florida and Hawaii, though only Hawaii afaik has commercial growers, though Puerto Rico used to be
568.
by Aloisius 2y ago
This. Demanding new developments all be affordable housing is a strategy NIMBYs use to prevent new construction, since most builders will just go elsewhere. If a builder does try to comply with the demand, they come up with other reasons to
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by Aloisius 2y ago
In Unicode, U+0027 is marked "ASCII punctuation and symbols" and described as "neutral (vertical) glyph with mixed usage." While in English, the apostrophe is usually a punctuation mark, it is used as a letter, typically
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Let's not be hyperbolic. The US is still the second largest manufacturer in the world.

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