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1021.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Duracell (the Mallory company) was bought by Dart in 1978, then by KKR in 1988, Gillette in 1996, Procter & Gamble bought Gillette in 2005, and Duracell was spun off and bought by Berkshire Hathaway in 2016. (source: Wikipedia) The comp
1022.
by jacobolus 5y ago
In Japanese anime, ethnically Japanese characters are regularly represented with unusual hair and eye colors, to help distinguish them from each-other. Including e.g. purple eyes or blue hair not naturally seen on humans.
1023.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Beyond that, (a) implementing enough of the IRC protocol to support simple bots isn’t that hard, and (b) there are already IRC protocol implementations everywhere.
1024.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Lonely, socially awkward programmer guy who works in a darkened broom closet and writes unmaintainable, cringeworthy, slightly creepy code is not remotely comparable to pimps selling child prostitutes to the world’s social/financial el
1025.
by jacobolus 5y ago
In the case of Azerbaijan, my understanding is that western European companies have just blanket bribed more or less every official they interact with up and down the Azeri government for the past few decades, to help them set up contracts
1026.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Obviously you can alternately write: let input = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], output = []; for (let i = 0; i < input.length; ++i) { let n = input[i]; if (n % 2) output.push(2*n); } return output; But in some circumstances the ot
1027.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Use the comma operator: (acc.push(2*n), acc) will return acc. Or e.g. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].reduce((acc, n) => (n % 2 ? acc.push(2*n) : null, acc), [])
1028.
by jacobolus 5y ago
I saw an observational study tracking hospitalized (but nominally surviving) Covid patients for a year where a far higher number died (of various causes) than the base rate in the population [sorry I can’t find a link now in a few minutes o
1029.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Yes, this is a good thing. Better headline: “Record number of workers switch to jobs with better working conditions, pay, and benefits.” We might also add “Employers forced to raise wages for others who remain.”
1030.
by jacobolus 5y ago
The most recent video in that playlist was uploaded in December 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKgdq57uOo&list=PLZioPDnFPN... (before that the previous video was from October 2018; maybe you meant ~3 years ago) T
1031.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Chris Budiselic and colleagues also wrote a paper https://bhi.co.uk/antikytheramechanism/ proposing that the front dial might be a 354-day lunar calendar rather than a 365-day solar calendar.
1032.
by jacobolus 5y ago
That dictionary documents es-, is-, and ēs- as common pronunciations (perhaps IPA vowels ɛ, ɪ, and iː), with the 'es-' form (short e sound) most common in the USA (this is the one I generally hear people use, with a vowel sound so
1033.
by jacobolus 5y ago
> hitherto I’m sorry we don’t still have more use of hither, thither, whither, hence, thence, whence, hereby, thereby, whereby, herefore, therefore, wherefore, hereto, thereto, whereto, herefrom, therefrom, wherefrom, hereafter, thereaft
1034.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Under discussion here is the long-term (not short-term) effects. The short-term effects are not, as far as I can tell, especially acutely dangerous, though they could be bad per se if experienced all the time (e.g. sleep disruption). But to
1035.
by jacobolus 5y ago
From what was described in the NYT article, the tests are not “unsound”. Nor are those making the tests inherently corrupt or malicious (some medical testing companies are, e.g. Theranos, but the same could be said of any other occupation o
1036.
by jacobolus 5y ago
You are repeatedly making very strong, incorrect (quite aggressively insulting) claims about my intentions based on your own invented assumptions, despite having been told directly that you were incorrect. You now claim that actually I am l
1037.
by jacobolus 5y ago
I didn’t understand what they were trying to say (e.g. who is supposed to be "burning in hell") and asked for clarification. Asking people to clarify when their statements are confusing/ambiguous is a pretty normal part of hu
1038.
by jacobolus 5y ago
I am not asking sarcastic questions, and my comment is not intended as any kind of attack. Please read my tone as 100% earnest, just confused. And I hope the top poster will accept my apology that I didn’t phrase my comment to make that c
1039.
by jacobolus 5y ago
I am sorry for your horrible situation. I don’t really understand what your implication is. Are you wishing you had not done the genetic tests? Suggesting you should have aborted the 20-week fetus based on unusual skull appearance? Suggesti
1040.
by jacobolus 5y ago
> Both signed and unsigned arithmetic are using finite fields, This is not correct. They are rings with some additional (not mathematically standard) operations thrown in. 'Finite field' means something very specific, and qui
1041.
by jacobolus 5y ago
There are no “critical points”. These vaccines have caused a vanishingly small number of "serious" (i.e. serious enough that doctors need to observe carefully) adverse effects, mostly vomiting/fever, and from what I can tell
1042.
by jacobolus 5y ago
> more unknowns regarding the vaccine than covid itself This is categorically false. Whatever sources you are getting your information about vaccines from is lying to you, and probably also lying to you about a wide variety of other to
1043.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Hundreds of children have died of Covid in the USA out of tens of millions infected. This is obviously much lower than the risk to the unvaccinated elderly (like 3+ orders of magnitude lower), but every dead child is still a tragedy. A larg
1044.
by jacobolus 5y ago
I don’t know much about Latin grammar, but from what I can tell both facultas (whence faculty) and facilitas (whence facility) were standard noun forms of the Latin word facilis. Both of these nouns come to English from Latin via French, an
1045.
by jacobolus 5y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002... > Expression of concern: Why are we vaccinating children against COVID-19? > The journal would like to alert readers to the fact that t
1046.
by jacobolus 5y ago
The risk to 5–11 year olds of the mRNA Covid vaccines is ~0, orders of magnitude lower than the (still very low compared to older adults) risk of Covid. These are incredibly safe vaccines. Out of ~9 million vaccinations, there have been ~10
1047.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Besides 'facile' and 'facility', there are a few other words from the same root: 'faculty', 'facultative', 'facilitate'. It is pretty common for words to diverge in meaning and drop old conn
1048.
by jacobolus 5y ago
> By correlating rules with success or failure of the societies, we can begin to tease out what the best set of rules are This is not how we decide what should be considered fundamental human rights. Plenty of rules work out fine (i.
1049.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Facile in modern English means "too easy", like a shortcut that leads to the wrong destination. This meaning has diverged from French/Spanish, where the word still just means "easy".
1050.
by jacobolus 5y ago
Before folks vote up this facile, misguided criticism, at least read the referenced essay https://jsomers.net/mcphee-draft-no-4.pdf The whole point of published writing is to put enough effort into one-to-many communication

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