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by ewgoforth 3y ago
Tom Cruise is also overweight by BMI standards.
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by ewgoforth 3y ago
I remember that 15 years ago, many ATMs were running OS/2. Is this still the case?
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by ewgoforth 3y ago
So many sites don't work correctly in Firefox. Chrome is the new IE6.
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by ewgoforth 3y ago
Part of this is because cars are losing out to trucks. https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/light-trucks-now-outselli... . https://www.statista.com/statistics/204212/north-america-car...
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by ewgoforth 3y ago
As far as in the USA, I like https://roadsideamerica.com
36.
by ewgoforth 3y ago
You do see signs saying tune in to XXXX Hz to hear information about road construction, air port traffic, etc.
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by ewgoforth 3y ago
Fortran (1957) is older than RPG (1959)
38.
by ewgoforth 4y ago
Not necessarily easy, but you can dispute it with your credit card company.
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
I'm from North Carolina, but never picked tobacco. Another problem I heard was that you absorb nicotine through your skin when picking tobacco, so it can make you sick if you aren't a tobacco user. It was used as an excuse to al
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
As the population ages you have fewer and fewer workers supporting more and more retirees.
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
When I hear that I wonder why we just don't eliminate all taxes? The economic benefits would be huge!
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
I generally agree with you, but it looks like there cases where governments like the City of Chicago and Australia do a terrible job of balancing short term versus long term economics.
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
Could this be a self-selecting group? Guys with higher testosterone can't stand the idea of sitting at a desk all day?
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
It will suck for private parties to sell a used car in Europe. There are so many scams with non-cash payment methods.
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
Brake wear yes, but the resistance to forward motion still has to be transferred via that tires.
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by ewgoforth 4y ago
All in all I prefer the SI system, but the Imperial system has it's advantages. 5280 feet seems really arbitrary, but can halve it five times and still get an integer. It also divides evenly by 3. For comparison: 1/3 of a mile is
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by ewgoforth 7y ago
I'd also be curious to know what features that Edge doesn't support. I know it doesn't do everything Chrome does, but I haven't run into any scenarios that Edge didn't support in a long time. It's a pet peeve
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by ewgoforth 7y ago
The idea that you can write software without having to learn to code goes all the way back to COBOL in the fifties. It was a big step forward in abstracting some of the details. As languages have progressed they abstract away details, but
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by ewgoforth 7y ago
India did.
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by ewgoforth 8y ago
The perception of tattoos in the US was pretty much the same until the late eighties. Only criminals, bikers, and some military people had them. The Research book Modern Primitives seemed to really popularize them among college kids in th
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by ewgoforth 8y ago
I've known about glass inherently blocking UV for a long time, but have wondered why do posters, etc. fade in store windows.
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by ewgoforth 8y ago
Actually the peasants were taxed to pay the nobility, not the other way around.
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by ewgoforth 8y ago
I learned Fortran IV and later Fortan 77 in the mid eighties and programmed professionally in Fortran 77 up until 2000. I was taught and programmed with fixed format. I believe that there may have been compiler switches to allow non-fixed
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by ewgoforth 8y ago
This is pretty much a return to the mid nineties AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, etc. era.