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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, the following are the seasonally-adjusted monthly changes for the past twelve months, from the oldest to the newest: 0.5%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.9%, 0.7%, 0.6%, 0.6%, 0.8%, 1.2%, 0.3%, 1.0%, 1.3%. https://www.b
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> isn't the disaster many forsee With all due respect, I think other people have a different definition of "disaster" if this suggestion > cut down heating to only about half of buildings - 'stay with a friend&#x27
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2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo (same incident as pre
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes suggests that ~5% of diabetics in the United States have type 1 diabetes, but estimates vary within roughly a factor of two.
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by areyousure 4y ago
> more than twice that amount [10,000] died in one day on September 17, 1862. In case anyone is curious, this refers to "the bloodiest day in all of American history" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, pharmacies routinely refuse to fill opiate prescriptions: https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/resources/ethics/whe... Walmart is proud that their pharmacists refuse to fill prescri
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, the South Park Archives fandom page on Randy Marsh has a section entitled "Alcoholism": https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Randy_Marsh#Alcoholism
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by areyousure 4y ago
> Deny or criticize all you want cherries blossoming on Christmas in Berlin is NOT normal. In case anyone was curious, the cherry blossoms were first planted in Berlin in November 1990.
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by areyousure 4y ago
> In Denmark at least, most people bike to work, so the latter part is at least objectively false. In case anyone is curious, the following PDF provides some statistics on this issue: https://trimis.ec.europa.eu/sites&#x2
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, I found this interesting background reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_power_cable That said, there is only one submarine power cable connecting Norway and Germany, and it'
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, the Washington gubernatorial election appears to be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_... The Wikipedia page, as well as the cited sources, are a fun read.
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, California is one of the (majority of) states with three strike laws: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114301... (But within the state, San Francisco County is indee
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by areyousure 4y ago
Can you provide an example? I tried three: https://www.google.com/search?q=d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031b... https://www.google.com/search?q=10b222970537b97919db36ec7573... https://www.google.com&#
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious what "largely flat since 2000" looks like: https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/670/90/sites/default/fi... https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infog
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by areyousure 4y ago
> (1) you're suggesting that before the 14th amendment, a state could pass a "law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the ri
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by areyousure 4y ago
> In normal times, the person saying things like this would have been chided by a few of their friends. The first 50+ comments on the blog are supportive, as they would be "in normal times" as well. https://fringeass
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In case anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Mohan
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by areyousure 4y ago
> It’s interesting to note that Social Security was designed to cover 100% of the population even though only a smaller segment needed it, specifically to make it harder to kill. In case anyone is curious, please note the following excer
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I have no .. horse in this race, but I think I understand a point of disagreement in this discussion. You say: > I have actually quoted from Pliny, precisely because he says that they were not used interchangeably. I cannot see how one c
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What was the problem?
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, the Tuolumne "river was dammed at Don Pedro and Hetch Hetchy to provide water for Central Valley farmers and the city of San Francisco, respectively". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by areyousure 4y ago
Please forgive me, for I am actually curious about this: Were you previously aware of the term "Kjølen" to refer to the (Northern) Scandinavian mountain range? And if so, when you wrote > I have not heard of any Kjolen Mountain
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, it appears a pint of blood in the US sells for $150--$300.
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by areyousure 5y ago
> He hasn't done work with the ACLU. https://twitter.com/aclu/status/1009186716593393664 Contrast: https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-is-our-new-aclu-11589...
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by areyousure 5y ago
In case anyone is curious, it appears that ROI = "return on investment", Vlad = Vladimir Putin, and TFG = "the former guy" = Donald Trump. It appears to be the ~4th time the latter abbreviation has been used on this sit
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by areyousure 5y ago
https://youtu.be/5oyZJDBUzWc?t=252
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by areyousure 5y ago
> It's painful to read. Problem 2: "Find the matrix A describing the following linear transformation from R2 to R'2 : First rotate clockwise by π/6, then scale by a factor of 2, then reflect about the x2 axis." A
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by areyousure 5y ago
In case anyone is curious: The 2024 Olympics will be held in Paris. The 2028 Olympics will be held in Los Angeles. The USOC originally selected Boston for its bid (for the 2028 Olympics) in 2015. The selection was changed half a year lat
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https://archive.is/AYu04
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by areyousure 5y ago
In case anyone is curious, one can read the following front page article from March 8, 2003 to see how the NYT discussed reports from Blix and ElBaradei: https://archive.is/EdUCX

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