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by greenwich26 5y ago
Do they not understand that designers, and especially publishers, have projects that go on and need to still be editable for years and years? I have dozens of books on backlist from past decades with type 1 fonts. Some day I might want to
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by greenwich26 5y ago
You literally can't close the American brder. As a strict lower bound (based on CBP encounters) 3000 people walk through the desert or jump the fence every day, and statistically many of them have Covid. This is a constant source term
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by greenwich26 5y ago
The average age in many African countries is in the mid teens, and we know that age is one of the strongest risk gradients. So Africa is not at all comparable with the aging West. Australia and NZ have the huge advantage of no land borders.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
>Housing can’t be both affordable and a good investment. The price of a home should therefore equal its replacement cost. I read this as "not (A and B), therefore C", where A, B, and C are logically independent propositions, an
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by greenwich26 5y ago
The most famous Edward Gibbon published his main work on the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, and the writing style is famously conversational and informal, especially in the extensive footnotes. It's not
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by greenwich26 5y ago
More likely, the Americans lengthen the e in the first syllable into almost a diphthong, like /eɪ/, and shorten the "o" in the second syllable into a schwa kind of sound that can comfortably be followed by /z/.
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by greenwich26 5y ago
I'm skeptical of the author's premise because there were plenty of barbarian tribes outside Rome's borders, who made almost no progress in their civilization for the thousand years that Rome stood. If Europe had fallen entire
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by greenwich26 5y ago
Spent a year at an Ivy League. I met dozens of affluent, politically connected racial minorities, mostly from Northeast prep schools. I met exactly 0 poor kids from the South, or inner city Chicago or Detroit, or some other such background.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
The audio quality of the inbuilt microphone on my laptop is much worse in Linux, than on Windows. I've tried some fixes on StackExchange but it doesn't really help. Has anyone encountered this? And if I buy an external microphone:
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by greenwich26 6y ago
5 developed the disease 7 or 8 days after the vaccination. Not sure what you're getting at...sampling error? It's a binomial distribution, right? Back of the fag packet maths, we can easily reject 1 in a million, and put a reasona
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Over the past 2 weeks, the reported rate of these events associated with the AZ vaccine has gone from 1 in a million, to 1 in 30,000 [0]. [0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2104882
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by greenwich26 6y ago
HN is dead quiet around now. 2:30am on the West Coast. A few dozen upvotes will put a submission at the top. I don't think it's necessarily a conspiracy.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
This is like using general relativity to prove that your team did deserve that penalty kick in the cup final. Cringe.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
I know, I was answering the question literally from a legal standpoint, nothing more. Chill.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
When you need to partition a field using crude tools, there is nothing "easily" done with decimals. Integers are far easier to work with and measure out. This is simply proven by the most basic outdoor experience, which I suppose
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by greenwich26 6y ago
>Metric is taught in schools and is the exclusive unit system for scientific work. Not in astrophysics and cosmology. You almost never hear of meters or grams. We use a hodgepodge of different units depending on what is most convenient a
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by greenwich26 6y ago
1/8 mile = 220 yards = 660 feet. Now you do t--actually wait. 1/110 mile = 16 yards = 48 feet. Now you do this for an one-hundred-and-tenth of a kilometer. Or... 1/3 pound = 1/2 mark = 6 shillings & eightpence = 80 p
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Because people agree to it when they sign the "terms of service" of these software and OSs.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
I feel that peer-reviewed journals aren't even going to be relevant much longer. Putting aside the commercial side of it, the actual scientific quality of peer review seems to have drastically declined. Most of the referee reports I re
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Well, the site wrote it with an ampersand (&), which is originally a creative combination of "e" and "t". My nitpick is: shouldn't it be "Et vos , Procter & Gamble?"
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by greenwich26 6y ago
If uBlock makes itself redundant by killing all ad-supported websites for good, that sounds like a fantastic outcome. In this case, I will personally fund the creator's retirement.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Actually, and fortunately, it is impossible. This sort of brain model was preemptively debunked by Kant in Critique of Pure Reason and other works.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Stop using MWh as some metric of environmental consequence. A MWh from a French nuclear plant or a Danish wind farm is not equivalent to a MWh from a Chinese coal power plant. Also, it's not fair that countries who primarily use wood f
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by greenwich26 6y ago
I think it's good someone stood up to them. I'm French, we have endemic transportation strikes here, and it will turn your nice city/country into a shithole. The government should do what it takes to maintain infrastructure,
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by greenwich26 6y ago
HTTPS is such a scam. It's an obvious ploy to conquer the last corners of the web not yet under corporate control. But apparently calling it "Let's Encrypt" instead of "Let's make your website technically depen
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Not an epidemiologist so don't weigh my opinion too highly, but as a data analyst, my first impression of this "model" is overfitted nonsense.
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by greenwich26 6y ago
You can't neglect the prior. In most European countries, somewhere around 5% of the population might have been infected with covid. Up to around 10% in the US. Therefore, to have comparable posterior probabilities for long-term side ef
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Probably a very ignorant question, but don't protease enzymes break proteins down to the amino acids? Suppose my lab bench is infected with prions or flat protein sheets or something. If I spray it over with a bunch of protease, would
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by greenwich26 6y ago
Historically, monogamous societies are far more prosperous than harem-based societies. The reason is obvious: monogamy entices the entire male population to invest in their family and nation, have a good career, and build property and wealt
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by greenwich26 6y ago
He is in the UK. He says "Take the company I work for as an example, there are about 7 black people in the whole company, a company of 250+ people." The UK is 3% black. 7/250 is equal to 0.03. So you are totally correct. This

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