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Is this to stop you from cheating?
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In the specific context of 'Basel', it's like "art", but I see your point.
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>the way the Swiss pronounce Basel You may have been making a veiled reference to the fact that the Swiss pronounce it three different ways themselves, but just in case you weren't: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Show
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Cunningham's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#%22Cunningham'...
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>a truck sized craft at a few million light years? JWST is three light seconds from earth
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I don't have a horse in this race, I'm just interested in the facts. Your phrasing in the comment I initially replied to suggested that you believe the pump mandate reduces the number of fires. If that's the case, it should b
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How many fewer incidents does NJ have per non-incident pump, can the other states? How much safer is it in NJ?
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One of my hobbies is figuring out which captcha prompts are the unclassified data so that I can answer wrong and stick it to the man.
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A second redditor has reported the same behaviour, although it's in the same (seemingly inappropriate) subreddit and was posted 4 hours later so it may just be a copycat: https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions&
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This advice may be unique to the United States. UK: It’s usually safest to get out of your car (using the doors facing away from passing traffic) and wait behind a barrier. https://www.theaa.com/breakdown-cover/advice
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This happens to me, but mainly because of aggressive privacy settings on my Browser and my addons (uMatrix etc).
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I was reading the comments wondering if dang would turn up at some point and shut this whole thing down. I think allowing us to have a bit of fun on a single post is fair enough, but it can't keep happening or the balance will shift to
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You've drifted off topic, and started giving advice about "vehicle broken down on active highway" which isn't the scenario being discussed. Yes, getting off the highway makes sense if you are in a disabled vehicle on an
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This is in the same territory as the advice I see sometimes to make sure you don't turn the steering wheel while the car is stationary ("dry steering") because "it will put stress on steering components and shorten their
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> Honest question: why do you care how? Aren't you interested to find out? It sounds like it would be interesting to know how they did it.
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>we have already had two major mutations in less than two years. How frequently do equivalent Flu mutations occur?
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Could you elaborate on some of the safety reasons for exceeding the speed limit, to help me understand? We use average speed cameras in the UK to enforce temporarily reduced speed limits during road repairs on the motorways. It seems to wor
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You got a full refund (minus small-print about sales tax) after ~1.5 years of ownership?
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> Tautologically Did you mean this word? I can't make sense of it in this sentence.
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Thanks for the reply. Was your initial approach "I think I have ADHD", or was the diagnosis a suprise to you?
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Asking as an adult that increasingly suspects he may be undiagnosed ADHD: Did the diagnosis result in being prescribed a treatment? If so, what, and has it helped? I'm conscious that each case must be handled individually, and whatever
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How the World's First USB-C iPhone was born
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There are screenshots floating around on Reddit showing limited functionality, presumably from sessions that were still logged in when it started: https://www.reddit.com/r/roblox/comments/qi3du1/roblox_wi
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UK (230V) here, I've observed electricians working on live circuits frequently. That's why tools like this exist, 'safe' for working up to 1000V: https://www.machinemart.co.uk/c/vde--insulated-tools&
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Do you have some examples?
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>it's much better for people to believe in Jesus than the Kardashians I think if we weigh up the overall good vs bad of these two propositions, you might find that it's not as clear cut as you think.
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> Wasted half the lab I don't think it was entirely wasted time, though. You can't plan to teach that kind of lesson ("Look outside of your usual blinkered problem-solving-space"), it happens when it happens. As this
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> Most of my SMS spam comes from .info domains Do you mean that the SMS messages contain links to .info domains?
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> What would you think if they said the opposite? Not the same guy, but I might start to trust them more
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I see you've had some other answers about the meaning of 'attitude' in this context, so I thought I would address the other part of your comment: > a google search reveils no alternative meaning A Google query that worked
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