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jobigoud
5y ago
The quote is missing a bit of context, it's specifically referring to "Globish", or International English, not English per-se, but rather the variant of "simplified" English that only use intermediate-level vocabula
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jobigoud
5y ago
I assumed it was normalised by a unit of surface but you're right it seems to be comparing the median rent vs mortgage of median house...
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This doesn't really matter from the point view of the victims of the bite. It should be normalised by number of man-hours worked.
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Isn't there also a lot of people that self report as having had covid that actually didn't have it? Why do you assume the rate of false positive to be in one direction or the other?
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5y ago
Multiple adjective Having, relating to, or consisting of more than one individual, element, part, or other component; manifold.
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This seems to aim by calculating the trajectory of the target. How will it fare if the target is flown in first person perspective by a human in an unpredictable way?
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5y ago
Yeah you wrote that it made no sense semantically but it does, it rewrote your exact argument. This is great for a non native speaker for example, to rewrite a paragraph in a more standard language. Plagiarism will definitely be harder/
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Aren't all words "made up" at some point? It's how language works.
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Why is the trick revealed now? What incentive did they have instead of continuing the covert op?
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So... Tony Stark?
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> Now, when it goes to render page 2 for you other comments have moved to the top, pushing the stuff you already read on page 1 down to page 2. Reddit pagination works the same way. When you click the next page link the order may have mo
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5y ago
> I'm a Jew (by heritage, though not by belief) I never understood that concept. The idea that Judaism is transmitted from lineage is itself only a belief of Judaism. If you don't believe in Judaism there is no reason to believ
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> In 2010, Google required your ID card if you enter a false birth date How do they know it's false? And if they know it's false why do they ask for it, they already have the right one.
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I once suggested my driver to drop me off before the destination as it was more convenient and he said no, that he really had to go to the exact agreed upon destination. I presumed it was for insurance purposes, like if something happens in
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My main concern has always been time scales. If the aliens biology function a million time faster or slower than us it would be very hard to communicate.
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Being freelance or just remote employee in a different timezone works as well.
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But on Instagram each post has tags and you can follow tags instead of people in your main timeline. This solves the problem mentionned.
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5y ago
Or "Luke, I Am Your Father”.
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Are there examples of infalsifiable evidence?
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jobigoud
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Is this a reference to Seveneves by Neil Stephenson?
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So… are they actually rare or were they just hard to spot?
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That would apply equally to all categories of vehicles. The grandparent comment is wondering why deputy vehicles seems more involved (don't know if that premise is true).
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It's not on the map but it's included in the figure they used to add all these countries together to compare with the size of Africa.
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That's exactly why it's one of my favorite destinations. Take off in European winter in the evening, land in summer in the morning, no jet lag, beautiful landscapes, it's awesome.
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It is not clear whether all animals are sentient though. Sponges and arthropods for examples, or other animals that have only a very very small number of neurons. They could have included all vertebrates for a good start though.
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It is theorized that this is true in general. See "sentience quotient". All living things can be placed somewhere on this line and we can imagine entities that are more self-aware than humans.
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Are you confusing sentient with sapient? Cats are certainly sentient.
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MarsCoin
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> Some senior level engineers can end up making 4000 - 5000€ per month, which would translate to ~$65.000 per year. Here in France and I think in most western Europe 65K received by the employee will correspond to ~130K shelled out by th
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> that is now rebranded as digital gold It was called that before bitcoin even existed. See BitGold, a late 90's precursor to bitcoin.
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