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by bloak 7y ago
This may be what you get: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | _o/ Hello!
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by bloak 7y ago
The question is insufficiently precise. Some European agencies want the US government to spy on European citizens because it is illegal for them to do it themselves but it's not illegal for them to obtain information about European cit
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by bloak 7y ago
People also cast their vote by posting an invalid ballot paper, such as one with "Reform the voting system!" or "This is a stupid question!" written on it. Unfortunately it's quite hard to find out how many people d
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by bloak 7y ago
At https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/index.html you can query the "popularity" (meaning frequency) of a name by year. Alexa seems to have jumped in popularity from 2014 to 2015 and fallen since then, to
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by bloak 7y ago
Hungarian addresses are (or were) worse. According to http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/postal/ , it's: 1. name of recipient, 2. town name, 3. street address or post box number, 4. four digit postal code. (I have a
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by bloak 7y ago
Does "vehicular deaths" include deaths caused by air pollution? I think I've read that cars cause more deaths through air pollution than through collisions.
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by bloak 7y ago
Probably most ordinary people would consider a taxi to be a car, so you raise a valid point with that, but I don't know why you mentioned all those other things that obviously aren't cars.
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by bloak 7y ago
Thanks for that. Now can anyone tell us where the Fortran behaviour came from? (Haskell has both kinds of integer division, called div and quot, which is nice.)
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by bloak 7y ago
> Class is about things like background, education, tastes, social status and connections. Not cash. I agree. But not everyone would. I think England's class system has broken down in the sense that it is no longer the case that eve
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by bloak 7y ago
> The retailer's purpose for a price tag is to grab your eye and get you to buy more. I'm not sure that's really true. What a supermarket like Tesco wants to do is sell stuff at a high price to people who don't care a
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by bloak 7y ago
Why was this voted down? I'm fairly certain that radio is just as low-effort and low-cost as TV, and it's been around for longer. If you have poor eyesight, as a lot of old people do, radio could be a lot less effort than TV, part
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by bloak 7y ago
There's radio. Here in the UK, some older people have Radio 4 on all the time at home. It's solid talking, some spontaneous (experts discussing some topic, ...), some scripted (plays, documentaries, ...).
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by bloak 7y ago
I'm more familiar with the opposite experience, when the entire universe seems perfectly meaningless and utterly uninteresting. Perhaps it's the same thing, experienced by a different personality type :-)
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by bloak 7y ago
The article doesn't mention a date. Presumably the "Wednesday" referred to is 18 Dec 2019. On a previous occasion when rail equipment failed because of a fluctuation in supply voltage the electricity company was not at fault:
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by bloak 7y ago
The article fails to answer some obvious, albeit perhaps tediously technical questions: How much do they charge people to get their property back? Do they bother in cases in which it's unlikely the owner will be willing to pay that amo
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by bloak 7y ago
You could perhaps have a program that for every input you've tried gives the correct answer in polynomial time, but you haven't yet proved that it always will. Nevertheless, I don't see how the answer to P!=NP could depend on
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by bloak 7y ago
China emits less than half as much CO2 as the USA per capita, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... It's interesting to see that there are several countries that emit more pe
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by bloak 7y ago
In Britain it's normal to separate pounds from pence with a comma, at least in handwriting. In handwriting people also use a dash. A dot just isn't visible enough. If you do use a dot then it should be a proper decimal point (£1·5
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by bloak 7y ago
Anyone have a picture of one of those confounded dials? I was told that the Romans, traditionally, and still at the time of Julius Caesar, divided the day, from sunrise to sunset, into twelve hours, so the "first hour" would be ju
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by bloak 7y ago
What amazes me about crows is the intelligence they achieve with such a small brain. That elephants and whales are highly intelligent is perhaps less impressive. I can't think of any reasonable way to compare the intelligence of a whal
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by bloak 7y ago
Add "(2012)"? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Profet#Disappearance_an...
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by bloak 7y ago
Believe it or not, as a native speaker of English who has studied linguistics, I do know that "not" negates, but thanks anyway.
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by bloak 7y ago
The meaning is as if "not" modified "run", but syntactically "not" is attached to "must", I think. You can probably convince yourself of that by considering a sentence such as: they can yet must not r
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by bloak 7y ago
This looks rather like an advertisement with dodgy links to buy the product so I'm not sure I'd trust the "review".
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by bloak 7y ago
Not sure about that. People whose heart and lungs have stopped may survive longer if they're cold. At least that's what I heard relating to a case of a boy who was revived after spending a long time under the ice of a frozen lake&
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by bloak 7y ago
I expect people will give up eventually, just as they gave up trying to explain how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
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by bloak 7y ago
Assume "plain text" means something like traditional printed text. This has three features which don't seem to be implemented on computers in a sensible standardised way: * Spaces. In traditional printed text there is space b
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by bloak 7y ago
Imagine his surprise when he wakes up in a simulated eternity that contains him, some hellishly hot fires, and a posse of demons sticking forks into him. Of course it won't really hurt him; he'll be dead. It'll only be some c
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Was the oldest woman in the world a fraud?(theguardian.com)
5 points by bloak 7y ago|0 comments
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by bloak 7y ago
What if he has a really common name? What if he has a rare name that happens to be shared with one other person? I don't think naming people online is a good idea any more.

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