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by bloak 1y ago
Most women are not interested in penis size. (Though some are, obviously.) At a normal nude beach, with all age groups represented, people don't show off an erect penis. (Though there are beaches where that happens.) Median erect penis
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by bloak 1y ago
It's only the advertising-funded sites that go out of business and a lot of those sites were in any case just scraping other sites. What proportion of reliable online information is only available from a web site that is funded by adve
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by bloak 1y ago
That comparison makes no sense because the ICE car is releasing carbon taken (mostly) from petroleum while the human is releasing carbon taken (mostly) from the atmosphere via plants and animals.
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by bloak 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity#Calculation (assuming it hasn't interacted significantly with any other object in the solar system besides the sun)
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by bloak 1y ago
Most projects I've worked on treat warnings as bugs. It's annoying, sometimes, when you have to fiddle with the code and add lines to prevent bogus warnings from breaking the build, particularly when you're making a temporary
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by bloak 1y ago
And so would GCC: warning: variable psize set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
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by bloak 1y ago
Eileen's work at the "Ministry of Information" could also be an influence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(Unite...
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by bloak 1y ago
I've thought about it a bit in the meantime .... In the UK only about 30 children per 100,000 die before age 18 so that would be much less significant than the fact that only about 49% of children are female. Taken together, those fact
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by bloak 1y ago
> In France, it's about 63%. How do you even measure that? What counts as French? (I'm reminded of this from the first page of a famous novel: La race, ce que t’appelles comme ça, c’est seulement ce grand ramassis de miteux dan
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by bloak 1y ago
I've seen that "2.1" figure so many times. How is it calculated? (Or is it just a concise and informal way of saying "a bit more than two"?)
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by bloak 1y ago
The Economist uses diacritics in French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish words, but deletes the diacritics from other languages (or maybe they keep them when they happen to resemble diacritics from those languages). I think I once s
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by bloak 1y ago
It seems a bit of an arbitrary choice. For example, Polish has digraphs, but Czech has diacritics, and Icelandic has a couple of additional letters that aren't modified Latin letters. Old English had four letters that are not in today&
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by bloak 1y ago
"Nineteen eighty-four" is probably his most famous book, but many would say that "Animal farm" is a better book and that Orwell was best at writing essays, so make sure you've read a collection of his essays before
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by bloak 1y ago
I'm fairly sure that the law treats humans and machines differently, so arguing that it would be OK if a person did it therefore it's OK to build a machine that does it is not very helpful. (I'm not sure you're doing tha
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by bloak 1y ago
Does that complex algorithm for the check digit have any advantage over the much simpler algorithm used for EANs or 13-digit ISBNs?
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by bloak 1y ago
That's an interesting theory, but isn't it a different set of people consuming the audiovisual material? So, roughly speaking, in the past, an educated minority read The Times, while most of the population took no interest in poli
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by bloak 1y ago
"Why use Wiktionary?" I can answer that one. I have free access to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which is brilliant and generally more detailed and reliable than Wiktionary when it has the word I'm looking for, but the
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by bloak 1y ago
For a number of reasons, I don't like the duration of copyright depending on how long the author lives. * It's age discrimination against older people. * If the copyright ends up being owned by some corporation (or effectively own
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by bloak 1y ago
Thanks for that link, but Denmark's "189" seems to be out of 227 ("all 227 possible travel destinations for which travel restriction information exists in the IATA database"), while 195 is the number of "states
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by bloak 1y ago
Ah, the string spacing cancels out, doesn't it? I'd expect the frequency to be proportional to sqrt(t/d)/a, where t is the string tension in Newtons, d is the linear density of the strings in kg/m, and a is the diam
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by bloak 1y ago
It sounds like you've done plenty of experiments and don't need any theory to make this work, but have you looked at the physics/mathematics of the vibrations? Does the frequency you detect correspond to https://en
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by bloak 1y ago
It turns out that there are lots of different water tortures ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_torture ) but the "Chinese" one was first documented in Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by bloak 1y ago
This sounds like an economic problem with no obvious solution: network effects => monopoly => "optimising" for typical user. Where there isn't a monopoly (or anything close to a monopoly) you find different firms specia
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by bloak 2y ago
I can't decide what my preference order would be, but I can admit that whatever literary criticism has to say on the matter, and I suspect it disagrees with me, I found "A clergyman's daughter" more fun to read than &quo
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by bloak 2y ago
I wouldn't want evidence to automatically become "inadmissible" because of something the police have done: they could accidentally-on-purpose do something that makes the evidence that would have proved me innocent "inadm
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by bloak 2y ago
"C"? It's more likely to be "G" round here. By the way, has anyone else had this problem: you're on floor 10, say, and you want to get to floor 15, say, so you run up 5 flights of stairs and try to find the roo
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by bloak 2y ago
People say that, but do we have any proper data, preferably on assessed language knowledge rather than claimed language knowledge? There's some crap going on in France that English is specified as a requirement for many jobs even when
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by bloak 2y ago
To be fair, the border between France and Germany is only about 400 km and about half of it is protected by a fairly wide river. Europe is generally quite small. There might be some much longer unprotected borders in Africa or South America
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by bloak 2y ago
Though the name Aidana is Kazakh, the pictures would be more plausible for a member of the Russian minority in Kazakhstan (15% of the population according to Wikipedia). The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from,
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by bloak 2y ago
Every time I see a link to a video about some dialect or accent that I might be interested in I am disappointed -- angry, in fact -- to find that it's just someone talking about that dialect or accent in some other dialect or accent th

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