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> Salt isn’t important in baking. Anyone who believes that has never had Tuscan bread, which has zero salt. https://www.theflorentine.net/2018/09/14/tuscan-bread-backst... Locals in Tuscany insist you don
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My favorite is definitely Smithsonian. They're very, very proud that they are si.edu .
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Note that .gov predates .uk. .gov was made in 1984, and .uk was issued in 1985.
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> Toyota's Lackluster EV History Makes This A Surprise Indeed. In fact from the article it would appear to be vaporware with no hard evidence at all.
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> Just like lending creates money, destruction of assets destroys money. Lending creates money? Banks can just, poof, will it into existence? Correpondingly, asset destruction destroys money? Like someone literally is setting fire to i
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Michelin is almost unique. If a restaurant is not reviewed, a certain class of people do not go there. This is a rather different situation. As to ``only positive reviews'': restaurants have been known to shutter when they lose
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This is also a major problem in the music synthesizer industry, and Benn Jordan (aka The FlashBulb, but also a major synthesizer reviewer) put out an extraordinary video detailing all the financial issues and incentives involved in being an
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Marxists, maybe. Leninsts no.
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It's also an organization widely derided as disseminating misinformation about climate change and COVID-19, its two major hobbyhorses. This is a strongly biased source of research dissemination.
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In Italy they still fondly remember a TV host whose (real, not stage) name was Mike Bongiorno. Buon giorno ("good day") is a standard salutation like good morning. He was Mike. an utterly US name, because he was born in New York.
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This is cute but I think it violates the artistic integrity of his piece. The whole point of the 95 startup chime as a piece of art was that Eno took the job because he was fascinated with the idea of creating musical art entirely within
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> Plaintiff Project Veritas, a non-profit media organization that engages in undercover investigative journalism, states that it documents matters of public concern by making unannounced audiovisual recordings of conversations, often in
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I agree that we now have a problem, particularly with the republican party going haywire, but let's not pretend that our two party system hasn't been extremely beneficial to us up until now. Historically for game theoretic reas
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We just had pictures taken of our house to prepare for renting it. I live in fear of being put on this website.
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> Joints on the wheel assemblies allow M4 to execute a walking motion. In M4's current iteration, the walking motion is mostly proof of concept. However, with anticipated advances, future M4 generations could possess the ability to
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I don't see any walking.
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Well, the serial comma is demonstrably preferable, full stop, regardless of your appeal to Australian Authority. But putting that aside, the issue is not whether the Oxford Comma is preferred: it's what this website is actually instr
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It's an insane section. My reading is: - Do not ever use the Oxford comma. - BTW, in case you don't know what an Oxford comma is, here are all the reasons why the Oxford comma is great. They do this in other places too.
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It says "restrict the use". And does not provide a qualification.
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Australia is foolishly anti-Oxford comma. https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/grammar-punctuation-and-conve...
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IIRC the Mellotron also featured prominently in the beginning of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds too.
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It's important to note that Simson Garfinkel had to go through extraordinary measures to get the NeXT cube to catch fire. Magnesium is pretty safe.
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This seems to be a lot of text to avoid saying "we made a huge statistical error".
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That's not true. For better or for worse, trademark protection specifically extends to beyond mere customer confusion to the murky areas of "tarnishment" and "blurring" in the case of "famous" trademarks.
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The majority of the company was not employee owned.
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> CIA gave us Tor I thought NRL gave us Tor.
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What happened to Datalog?
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I have a NeXTstation on my desk, thanks. The MacOS X dock, since day one, has been able to be pinned vertically on either side or centered horizontally on the bottom, as a user option. It functions identically regardless. The dock was der
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Nope. The MacOS Dock is a direct-line descendent of the NeXTstep Dock, which dates from 1988 and predates CDE by five years.
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This is no doubt true, but there are a number of studies which suggest that, at least in the case of music, things really have gotten rather worse over the last two decades, thanks to corporatization and consolidation of the production mo

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