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121.
by gaur 10y ago
> quality of living per dollar has risen tremendously over the past generation Given how many more dollars it costs to rent or buy property compared to 20 years ago, it is quite evident to many of us that quality of living per dollar has
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by gaur 10y ago
> Tesla allows minutes of hands-off time; one customer reports driving 50 miles without touching the wheel. How are these numbers compatible with each other? Was the car going at >1000 miles per hour?
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by gaur 10y ago
Or even worse, government officials like the false positives because more people can then be funneled into the prison system. The fact that the test is cheap is just a bonus.
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by gaur 10y ago
It's amazing how often a simple Venn diagram or probability tree can cut through the fog and deliver a clear answer to a statistical question. This is slightly off topic, but I can never remember what "specificity" and "
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by gaur 10y ago
Anyone who sues an indigent cancer patient in order to recover some vanishingly small fraction of the state's budget is a predator, and should be treated as such.
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by gaur 10y ago
> I'm sceptical about this, for a couple of first-year-physics reasons. Hmm... I guess I'll trust the experts quoted in the article rather than some rando's vague impressions of first-year physics.
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by gaur 10y ago
Yep. Also seems to apply to every US office building and shopping mall.
128.
by gaur 10y ago
I agree that Bcf is idiocy, but kWh is straightforward. And the hour is accepted for use in the SI.
129.
by gaur 10y ago
Is this a misophonia thing? I really couldn't care less about vocal fry.
130.
by gaur 10y ago
Rolling off before the microphone amplifier means that bass frequencies can't saturate the amplifier as easily.
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by gaur 10y ago
> "America" = US. Correct. The way to refer to North and South American countries as a group is "the Americas". Incidentally, the USA is the only country that has the word "America" as part of its official n
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by gaur 10y ago
> Who will win the US presidential election? > No. I have no idea why people insist on quoting an obviously nonsensical formulation of this aphorism. It clearly can only be applied to headlines phrased with yes-no questions, so saying
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by gaur 10y ago
> Are there any studies on modern days supersititions Yeah, lots of different organizations (e.g., Pew Research) periodically conduct surveys about religious beliefs.
134.
by gaur 10y ago
Sad that even in 1993 the government was still producing documents on a typewriter with shitty, photocopied black-and-white line art. Photoshop had already been available for three years at this point.
135.
by gaur 10y ago
Replace Times New Roman with Courier and you would have a liberal mirror of the Drudge Report.
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by gaur 10y ago
Trying to power a metal-shelled computer with a 2-prong plug always seemed to me like an example of Apple painting themselves into a corner. The only two options as far as I know are to leave the case floating (which seems bad) or to tie it
137.
by gaur 10y ago
Agreed—doxxing or otherwise harassing someone just for posting a certain opinion is extremely illiberal.
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by gaur 10y ago
> What if someone disagreed with you on one of the issues you bring up? What if someone disagreed with the assertion that Jews or Black people should be societally accepted? Would you really just say "Kudos to you for daring to voic
139.
by gaur 10y ago
Thank goodness you're here to police other people's identities.
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by gaur 10y ago
Obviously does not work: "Who will win the US presidential election?" "No."
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by gaur 10y ago
I contend that most Leute would find it untragbar for you to pepper your Schrift with Wörtern from any random Fremdsprache. But somehow it's considered acceptable if the Fremdsprache in question is French or Latin.
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by gaur 10y ago
William F Buckley advocated for forcibly tattooing people? I guess he really was a crypto-Nazi after all.
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by gaur 10y ago
If a phrase is so foreign that you feel the need to italicize it, don't use it.
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by gaur 10y ago
> I would really, really doubt this. I kind of doubt it too, but I wonder if accusing them personally of theft would light a fire under their butts to actually do something about it.
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by gaur 10y ago
> which transliterates to “unsharpness relationship,” but as there is really no such term in English Seems like there is: "unsharpness relationship".
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by gaur 10y ago
> yes our education system is backwards, but millennials need to learn some form of hardship or hard work. Hmm, I wonder if we can come up with similarly nasty and unhelpful instructions for other generations, based on stereotypes and an
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by gaur 10y ago
What about all the alphabets, abjads, etc. that don't have separate majuscule and minuscule letters? Are people in China or India or Israel dropping dead because they can't pick out important information fast enough from blocks of
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by gaur 10y ago
Who is this book supposed to be for? Given the heavy emphasis on formalism (theorem, proof, theorem, proof, theorem, proof), and the lack of a single example that actually computes a number, I hazard a guess that this book is not for people
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by gaur 10y ago
I think it's just part of the neue Rechtschreibung.
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by gaur 10y ago
A broken clock is right twice a day.

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