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areyousure
4y ago
Sorry! Totally missed that! Indeed it seems more difficult.
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areyousure
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I don't doubt your experience, having been frustrated many times myself, but in case anyone is curious, my first and most obvious guess worked: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=convert+5+mpg+to+L%2Fkm
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4y ago
Probably https://www.google.com/search?q=Michael+O'Church https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gank#Verb_2
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Indeed. An integer age of "0" at death means they died after birth but before age "1".
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areyousure
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I don't think including "coins" that have lost value tilts the balance against crypto. The vast majority of traditional currencies have lost nearly all of their value over time, including the US dollar.
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> The mode (most common) age of death was over 75 in France for men in 1930. The most common age of death in France, for both men and women, in 1930 was 0.
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On 8 January 2020, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (of Iran) shot down an American-manufactured plane flown by the flag carrier of Ukraine, carrying a bunch of Iranian Canadians (dual citizens). https://en.wikipedia.org
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Mostly yes, and I think the OP is well-written. But note that in some cases, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajik_alphabet#Samples point number 2 won't be accurate. I'm not the best reader of Tajik written
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4y ago
Your example chain of events would be called "lab leak".
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In case anyone is curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_inheritance_theory mentions the canonical example of cultural and genetic coëvolution: lactose (in)tolerance. In particular, in the given hypothetical, one
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In case anyone is curious, I downloaded US Census Bureau data on the population of all incorporated towns and cities in the United States, eg from https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popes
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In case anyone is curious, here is a table of "area median income" in New York City: https://www.nyc.gov/site/hpd/services-and-information/area-m... It does appear to be the case that you can qualif
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In case anyone is curious, it seems "RRSP" stands for "registered retirement savings plan", a type of financial account specific to Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_retirement_savings
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In case anyone else was unfamiliar, the usage of "gang" here appears to be the following: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gang#Verb_2
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Wow, that is a remarkable case study. The Wikipedia info box summary is "Runway overrun caused by pilot error". And indeed, the pilots were going too fast with the flaps set wrong. At some point, they indeed faced a difficult deci
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In case anyone is curious, India has a single train route over 2500 miles long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibrugarh%E2%80%93Kanyakumari_... It runs twice a week and takes over 3 full days. Meanwhile, the fastest tr
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> (prices slightly down compared to last year) In case anyone is curious, at worst prices have been falling on a month-to-month basis but essentially nowhere are they falling year-over-year: https://www.seattletimes.com/b
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> Lap infants are far more likely to be injured in-flight than other children: https://journals.lww.com/pec-online/fulltext/2019/10000/in_f... In case anyone is curious, this source does claim that &q
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In case anyone is curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_759 is in fact interesting reading. Although there were certainly many "systems factors" that contributed to the incident, the follow
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In case anyone is curious, this oblique description is of the editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg The "foreign army that's been accused of war crimes" is
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Why can't you buy the same canned San Marzano tomatoes anywhere?
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In case anyone is curious, southern Ontario is quite south of the 49th parallel and includes Canada's biggest city. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ontario The population of southern Ontario is ~13.5 mill
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And how does the probability of getting diagnosed with Covid change if you get the AstraZeneca COVID‑19 vaccine?
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I conjecture the connection to the liquor license is not accidental. The various articles and discussions about this issue have carefully avoided mentioning what precisely the "personal injury" lawsuits have been about that starte
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Five years ago, in Las Vegas, it was cause for suspicion if you refused housekeeping for more than one or two days, see eg: https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/hotels-revise-room-s... But people forgot th
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There might be another angle to this. The law firm's previous personal injury lawsuits against MSG were because they served alcohol to someone who later drove drunk. Multiple lawsuits were successful, in one case getting $20 million. I
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Your comment starting this theead was about the following quote from 'rayiner: > Democrats could advocate multi-trillion social programs https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/advocate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal > social aims like job creation and reducing economic inequality > the plan could cost between $51–$93 trillion over the next decade https://en.wikipedia.or
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The reference is possibly to the Green New Deal or to Build Back Better. Both probably qualify as "multi-trillion social programs", but perhaps the former fits the description better.
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Cool, so I understood correctly: In response to "NZ has no constitution", you respond first that it does and then follow with why it's good that it doesn't. I thought this was such a bold argument that I must have misund
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