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A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease(nytimes.com)
40 points by jgwil2 1y ago|26 comments
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by jgwil2 1y ago
> The probability that the bat had rabies is vanishingly small. Not really, it's something like 5%. Usually if the bat can be captured and tested for rabies you can wait to get the vaccine, but if the bat couldn't be caught, it
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by jgwil2 1y ago
The degree to which childhood independence has been curbed appears to be more extreme in the United States than in other countries.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
Well yeah, GP's comment obviously only applies in the case that your native language is not standard Italian.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
Teaching my toddler to read now and I definitely feel like if we spoke Spanish my work would be done already.
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The Death and Life of the Straight White Man's Novel(nytimes.com)
4 points by jgwil2 1y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 1y ago
No, that doesn't at all follow from what I said.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
Call me a "party pooper" if you will but maybe you shouldn't be having "fun" with an accident that will have killed hundreds of people.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
The word "keep" here is synonymous with "continue," implying that this is already happening. It's fair game to ask if that's actually the case. And this is by the way, but English sentences almost always have s
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An Illinois Building Was a Bird Killer. A Simple Change Made All the Difference(nytimes.com)
1 points by jgwil2 1y ago|0 comments
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Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original(nytimes.com)
197 points by jgwil2 1y ago|144 comments
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by jgwil2 1y ago
Another niche could be replacing sight-seeing helicopter trips, especially with all the safety issues the latter seem to be having.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
> If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do. Not sure why you keep talking about cheating. What OP described doing emphatically and unequivocally is not cheating.
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by jgwil2 1y ago
I don't think it's really to do with accent, but rather that non-native speakers tend to talk slower and use simpler grammar and a more limited vocabulary (including fewer idioms).
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Pretty big goalpost shift from "who believes these cooked up numbers" to "perception matters."
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by jgwil2 2y ago
The burden of proof is always on the person making an affirmative claim. It's absolutely not on anyone to disprove every false-seeming statement; there's far too much bullshit in the world for that.
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The Peculiar Pleasure of Cryptic Crosswords(slate.com)
2 points by jgwil2 2y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 2y ago
That's really clever, bravo.
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Trump issues EO targeting Democratic aligned law firm(whitehouse.gov)
21 points by jgwil2 2y ago|1 comments
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Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab(nytimes.com)
15 points by jgwil2 2y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 2y ago
The parent commenter misspoke; they meant there was not a fatal accident involving a commercial airliner from 2009 to 2025. Commercial aviation is much more highly regulated, and much safer, than general aviation.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
> Granted, I read the Portuguese translations so there might be differences in the “writing style”. I'm certain that translation could only improve the books; the English writing is quite poor.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
Most of Balzac is highly realistic, but La peau de chagrin [0] comes to mind as an example of his work that includes magical elements, in this case a talisman that grants wishes at the cost of its owner's life. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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by jgwil2 2y ago
It's a pretty well known essay--you should be able to find out in PDF format pretty easily by googling. It's very much on the non-lobster-eating side and touches on both physiological and philosophical arguments.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I think in casual speech "equally possible" usually is taken to mean "also possible." I think most people would say "equally likely" to express what you're saying.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
The way I heard this phrased back in the day was, "Biology is really chemistry, chemistry is really physics, physics is really math." Never heard psychology or philosophy added to the chain.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
If he was diagnosed in 1983 and lived until 2001, then he is in the 99th percentile in terms of years of life after diagnosis. To say that his illness progressed "very quickly" is probably just incorrect, relatively speaking.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
The president doesn't control the money supply. Though it's possible that they're banking on Trump being able to change that, as he has threatened to do.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
I think the markets are just happy that it was a decisive outcome, so there's no risk of extended confusion and uncertainty, a J6-style uprising, or worse. If Harris had won decisively there would also have been a bounce.
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by jgwil2 2y ago
If you have an axe on board, all wooden masts are retractable in an emergency.

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