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by areyousure 3y ago
Perhaps this is cross-cultural. Cf https://twitter.com/AI_Solzhenitsyn/status/16425715137558405... > Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him t
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by areyousure 3y ago
No comment on the broader claims of this comment, but "terrorists" are also a targeted group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelimkhan_Khangoshvili
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by areyousure 3y ago
> While spending on education was 42.5 billion in 2022. In case anyone was curious, https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/ reports total spending of $1.76 trillion on education in fiscal year 2022. (It also reports defen
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by areyousure 3y ago
> Hillary Clinton (in Arkansas, now a solidly Republican state) was giving speeches on how crack turns Black children into "superpredators" In case anyone was curious, here are her comments: > But we also have to have an org
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious, private automobile use went up by 13% from 2019 to 2021 (and by even more since 2017). Driving alone is the most popular form of travel, followed by Uber/Lyft. https://www.sfmta.com/blog/
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by areyousure 3y ago
> Firstly, there are no Chechen restaurants. Especially in the center of St. Petersburg. I don't know why, but anybody living here in Russia wouldn't be able to find any Chechen restaurant in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Russian,
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by areyousure 3y ago
Have you (or anyone else) seen any issues with Russian citizens (including those not even located in Russia) having issues obtaining visas to the United States (or other countries)?
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by areyousure 3y ago
Indeed, the claim needs to be adjusted to be correct. One of the worst recent years was 2005: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_at_the_Tour_de_France#2... There, the claim is that of the top 10 finishers , all but
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by areyousure 3y ago
Note that your code computes the number of non empty strings.
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by areyousure 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_18 is my best guess.
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by areyousure 3y ago
That source does not support the claim, in particular not containing the word "national".
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by areyousure 3y ago
> The GOP hasn't allowed democrats to appoint any judges (even when they had majorities in the senate) for over a decade now. In case anyone was curious, literally the most recent appointment to the Supreme Court was by (Democrati
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by areyousure 3y ago
(Hurricane Katrina was never a national emergency.)
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by areyousure 3y ago
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/04/CBS-asks-Washington-... https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/07/05/China-arrests-Taiwan...
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious but doesn't want to click, the link suggests the poster is concerned about a total ban on abortion . I do not see a reason to believe this commenter believes that vasectomies will be banned.
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by areyousure 3y ago
> There have been 23 decennial censuses since 1790. All but one between 1820 and 2000 asked at least some of the population about their citizenship or place of birth. The question was asked of all households until 1950, and was asked of
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by areyousure 3y ago
Which software and company is awful? It is not clear from your comment.
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by areyousure 3y ago
> Presumably this person has no experience with 6 year olds? In case anyone is curious, this person has experience teaching children mathematics. For example, on his blog, we have http://jdh.hamkins.org/math-for-six-year
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by areyousure 3y ago
> It works in Austria quite well. The healthcare and social service systems would not be able to function without the mandatory and voluntary unpaid 9 months work of the 17 - 19 year olds before they hit off for university. In case anyon
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious, this appears to refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever who was a PhD student of Geoffrey Hinton's and is now Chief Scientist at OpenAI. The CTO at OpenAI is https:/&
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious, the United States as a whole has more dogs than children.
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious, as of 2021, 40 of the 50 US states have a higher Human development index than France. (France was chosen because as the OP and GP note, all 50 states have a higher average income than France.)
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case anyone is curious, the source linked above states that 11% = 66 of 582 unicorns have an Indian immigrant founder.
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by areyousure 3y ago
In case you're actually curious to learn about thoughts in this direction, see the paper "Did the crisis permanently scar the Portuguese labour market? Evidence from a Markov-switching Beveridge curve analysis" at https:&#x
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by areyousure 4y ago
(I did not downvote the parent comment.) > The EU has a higher GDP than the US (albeit they're very close). In case anyone was curious, the IMF currently believes that the US's GDP is 50% higher than the EU's = 40% higher
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, it appears the location in question had three months of "stay at home", over a year of other restrictions (including school closures), 625 days of broad mask requirements, and so forth. In fact, some mas
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by areyousure 4y ago
> most of the cabinet from the Obama era is now Bidens cabinet In case anyone is curious, there is exactly one person in Biden's cabinet (16 people total) that previously served in Obama's cabinet: the Secretary of Agriculture.
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by areyousure 4y ago
Lol. > Bernhardt alleges that HSBC evaded the OFAC filter beginning in the early 1990s and continuing through 2009. HSBC Bank UK implemented procedures to help sanctioned entities access and benefit from U.S. financial services. For i
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by areyousure 4y ago
> Infinity is a social construct in mathematics. Out of curiosity, is the number "4" also a social construct?
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by areyousure 4y ago
> The recipient of the email was asian himself. The recipient was https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/22/fitzsimmons-pro...

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