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by bloak 4y ago
But how do you think "men" and "open" categories would work together in a sport in which men have a significant advantage? If you let people enter both then they could end up being boringly similar to each other, while n
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by bloak 4y ago
According to Wikipedia: "Dashes have been cited as being treated differently in the US and the UK, with the former preferring the use of an em dash with no additional spacing and the latter preferring a spaced en dash." Though I p
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by bloak 4y ago
In Japan, is the "departure time" understood to be the time at which the doors close, or the time at which the train starts moving? This is a common debate in Britain: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trai
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by bloak 4y ago
Can we have a logarithmic scale on the y-axis as an option, please? One could argue that a log scale should be the default for any graph showing a price over time, though it would confuse people who don't know what a log is. In this ca
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by bloak 4y ago
One of the main purposes of recording cause of death is so that we know what to concentrate on for improving public health. For example, perhaps we could make old people's bones less brittle by adding vitamins to bread, or do something
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by bloak 4y ago
I don't think "age" is a valid cause of death. Old people are more likely to die than young people, but they still die from particular causes that should be distinguished and recorded. For people of any age it's not obvi
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by bloak 4y ago
Maybe some states have to initiate criminal proceedings before killing people, but other states are happy to kill people, including their own citizens, including children, without any criminal proceedings: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by bloak 4y ago
"User denied the request for Geolocation." Would it be easy to make this tool work for people who don't want to mess around with browser settings? Or would it be easier for me to learn how to tell the browser where I am?
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by bloak 4y ago
Wikipedia gives the altitude of Amsterdam as "−2 m". I'm not sure what that means, exactly. Is it a typical road surface that's at two metres below mean sea level? Can anyone explain where mean sea level is in a typical
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by bloak 4y ago
In the UK it's quite normal, I think, for them to tell people who want to get off at stop X that they have to be in carriages Y-Z because the platform isn't long enough for them to open the doors of other carriages. There seems to
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by bloak 4y ago
A very common form of plagiarism on the Internet is people copying transcriptions of public-domain works without mentioning where they copied them from. You know it's happening because you see the same transcription errors repeated on
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, the Voynich manuscript is worth mentioning here, but it doesn't qualify as a really big, wide-ranging and high-quality corpus: it's about 35 thousand words (if the things that look like words are words), whereas a million wor
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by bloak 4y ago
My guess is that if you had a really big, wide-ranging and high-quality corpus of a completely unknown human language then you probably would be able to decipher and translate it. If you could deduce or guess the grammatical structure the n
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by bloak 4y ago
That sounds absolutely right to me. I would guess that there's more likely to be creativity, and therefore a copyright, in the brief medical notes written by an expert who has examined the image. So, if you want to worry about the inte
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, and the criteria for inclusion are interesting. According to https://www.oed.com/public/oldenglishintheoed/old , any word that survived in English after 1150 qualifies for inclusion, but once it is included ex
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by bloak 4y ago
You can find the actual ruling (the "full decision") by going to https://www.gov.uk/employment-tribunal-decisions and typing "bald cunt" into the search field. Seeing as that expression appears 17 times
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by bloak 4y ago
Somebody told me that the official international standard prefers comma; a period is just a permitted alternative. Of course, comma as decimal separator isn't very compatible with programming languages. However, the decimal separator t
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by bloak 4y ago
> you can see curvature effects on a calm sea at a distance of only a few miles Open sea is rarely calm. But lakes are sometimes calm. I've sometimes thought it would be fun to set up some kind of permanent markers, something like g
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by bloak 4y ago
It's unclear whether you're talking about the English word "fuck" or some Danish "equivalent". Either way, the word doesn't necessarily mean the same thing to people who speak different languages, or even
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, that's right, I think. In the UK we have parliamentary sovereignty. As I understand it, no law and no court can stop Parliament from doing what it wants to do because every UK law can be amended by Parliament and every court merel
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by bloak 4y ago
You say that, but other people say the opposite. I have no idea who's right. If you happen to have a link to a detailed legal analysis, with references, feel free to post it. I don't promise to read it myself but probably someone
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by bloak 4y ago
Nice! There's a radiator key in the bureau. → The underground has a key to the office.
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, I think it's BWV 1011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz8QjkaSSH4#t=131 However I won't claim it's exactly that recording because I've just found this, which suggests there are three Yo-Yo Ma recor
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by bloak 4y ago
There is no "slave" in Git, but the term "master", like many things in Git, is taken from BitKeeper, which did have a "slave". Or so I've read, for example here: https://english.stackexchange.co
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by bloak 4y ago
I'm aware that many languages don't distinguish blue and green, but English does distinguish them and we're talking about English terminology here. (Apparently in Japan the green traffic lights are officially allowed to be sl
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by bloak 4y ago
What about "redlist" and "greenlist"? The association between "red" and "stop", and between "green" and "go", seem more arbitrary than the associations with "black" and &
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by bloak 4y ago
Yes, I think that's right: black is logically linked with darkness, and human beings, like other diurnal lifeforms, don't like the dark. The association is found throughout literature, from the biblical outer darkness, where there
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by bloak 4y ago
I'm not sure why this is getting voted down. It seems relevant to me that archive.org used to believe, and perhaps still does believe, that the archived history of a domain should be under the control of the current owner of the domain
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by bloak 4y ago
I'm not suggesting you'd want to do this, but (theoretical question) is it still possible for the new owner of a domain to get web.archive.org to delete the archived data from that domain, the data created by a previous owner? I r
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by bloak 5y ago
Kane Tanaka recently became "the second oldest verified person ever", and the oldest if Jeanne Calment is a fake.

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