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by jobigoud 6y ago
> Localized scripts are exclusionary to everyone else It's the other way around, not supporting other letters is excluding everyone else because essentially only English doesn't have diacritics. "Año" and "ano&qu
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That's exactly what they are saying.
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Matt Parker from Standup Maths made a great video on exactly this subject a few weeks ago. "Does land area assume a country is perfectly flat?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtKhbbcc1Rc
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Google Earth VR has existed since 2016 I think, it's normally the first thing I show people that want to try VR. You can be like Godzilla sized in famous cities, go see your childhood village, visit the world, it's a really great
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A possible issue with this is that due to the spacing between the two concentric globes the countries on the external one will appear bigger than the ones on the internal one.
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USA population apparently increased by 8 millions between 2016 and 2020, so that's a lot more voters contributing to these numbers… The percentage of people that can vote is more interesting I think. To me it's like the record of
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I don't understand why people are talking about these record number of voters in absolute numbers... We need to know the percentage of all possible voters otherwise it's meaningless. What's telling me that the population of t
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I think it's: People eating chili have 25% less chance of dying at any moment than other people, independently of the cause of death.
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But for countries you can get the total number of people currently with the virus. What the article says is that universities only report their positivity rate.
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Do you mean USB drives? Who has CD drives anymore?
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Why does it say "accidental" genius? Did the creator not create the app on purpose to be a "ping" for humans?
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Anyone knows how they identify a swab is not from the participant? Do they DNA test every swab?
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I really hope they don't end up banning and deleting all the stupid tweets he made, this needs to be saved for posterity. Also he used his personal account instead of the dedicated POTUS one. If Biden uses the POTUS one will this becom
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Or the other side of the coin. This is a good news for the mink fur industry, now they can continue to farm millions of minks for their skin.
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> 3000 additional people being hospitalized. Not merely hospitalized, but in intensive care units. Do you know how many intensive care units we have? 9000 people in ICU is the saturation point, that's why it's quoted.
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Should we? What is normally eating the ticks or living off of them?
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> For instance you'll likely find that religion is much more important in Poland than it is in France. In much the same way, I suspect, as in Alabama vs California. And I'm willing to bet that Poland, the most religious state i
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Aren't there animals that never get cancer? Or that can deal with it?
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I was going to suggest "oops.science" as a domain name but it's already parked...
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It's more like someone is asking you to create a regex that matches phone numbers and they give you an example number for you to work with. You have the bright idea of writing the example number verbatim as your regex and voilà. It mat
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French and Catalan aren't pronounced as they are written at all. Both languages have spelling competitions/TV shows. There is an excellent TEDx video where two linguists that are advocating for a reform of the French orthography i
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So the same could be said of regular providers? "Some users report speeds higher than 95% of the other users"... This really needs more precise wording. What percentage of Starlink users (more than 5%?) and what's the speed
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You can use a virtual audio cable to simply record anything that would go to your speakers, it's free.
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Is there any place where streets start counting at 0 or go negative?
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But do programmers believe that? Even in big US cities streets are cut and restart a few blocks later... And the numbers don't go from one end to another they often start at the city center and increase in both directions. In Los Angel
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Such a weird justification. If they don't know what's causing it how do they know it won't help explain the structure beneath the continent or the deep structure of the Earth.
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Do you get to know, at the end of trial, in which group you were?
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Yes 1/1000 is very commom in the Arab world.
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Yup. Redistribution, people dying in March didn't die in September. In France as well we had severely negative excess mortality in June. The combo of preloading deaths that would have happened later and lockdown measure preventing othe
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Yeah we just had to accept the new ToS a few weeks ago selecting between 1. switching to Facebook right now or 2. staying with an Oculus account for now and switching later or lose access when they remove dual login. So they made us "a

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