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His advice probably works well for himself. It is easy to tell for anyone who pulls him over from the way he talks that he is a lawyer. And a decent lawyer can make a lot of inconvenient paperwork for the police department when he's wo
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There aren't a lot of places that use anaerobic digesters (fermenting waste to methane) to treat wastewater. Anheuser-Busch does it at their breweries because their wastewater is particularly rich. If more municipalities built those at
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Maybe microbes will evolve to get better at reductive defluorination. Microbes that can use chlorinated solvents as terminal electron acceptors are pretty widespread. https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/acs.est.0c04483
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None of the ones you named are particularly homogeneous. In Ethiopia and Malawi there is no majority ethnic group. Mauritania's largest ethnic group has a narrow (54%) majority. Yemen is in a civil war between its two largest endogamou
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Horses spooked by unexpected street markings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyf6ewi7E8
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And cement
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klib? https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib
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Piper gets at least 10s or even 100s of CLs a second
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Chlorine is produced with alkaline electrolysis
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You can't really generalize Ancient Greek, since in Attic, beta kept the /b/ sound the longest, whereas in many non-Attic languages it had already been /v/ for a long time.
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There are some people who "defected" accidentally. By happenstance they visited family in China expecting to return but got tricked by human traffickers and ended up in South Korea as defectors. There are a few of these people who
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> The reason—as it was explained to me—is because the United States controls most internet infrastructure (including websites like Twitter), and through programs like the NSA’s PRISM and the Army’s Cyber Command is spying on and manipula
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mayors%27_mansions_in...
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Is Australia a mandatory voting jurisdiction?
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The Zoroastrians who became Gujarati Parsis made an agreement with a Hindu ruler to be allowed in as refugees, as long as they do not proselytize or allow conversions to Zoroastrianism. Previously, it was not a strict ethno-religion.
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Also in the movie Stalker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk1PxpZ-hfE
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That would have been Aleksandr I's first language even.
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Facebook lets more employees choose full-time remote work(wsj.com)
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Certain taste receptors are enriched in different areas of the tongue, but there are no exclusive zones. > all taste sensations come from all regions of the tongue, although different parts are more sensitive to certain tastes
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Your tax dollars at work? https://theintercept.com/2021/05/25/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-s...
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>[Concorde] used reheat (afterburners) only at take-off and to pass through the upper transonic regime to supersonic speeds The Concorde was capable of supercruise.
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Anchoring. A lot of people would otherwise only have the idea to have two, but you tell them they can only have 3, they might max out their limit.
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I had guessed from the headline that it would be the tontine.
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Dachshunds over terriers?
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This is known as Universal 20 of Greenberg 1963. Not so universal, but you have to get down to languages way out of the top 30 like Chechen to find one that don't obey the typical rule. Of 576 languages catalogued in Dryer 2018, 113 ar
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Stacked adjectival modification and the structure of nominal phrases Gary-John Scott (2002)
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All languages have either exactly the same adjective order as English, or exactly reversed.
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Is covid still a vascular disease, or does this new study negatively replicate this study? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/
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Why wouldn't you do tuna in a vat instead? Higher value fish, and the culture requirements would be nearly identical.
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Artemis the goddess was associated with the moon.

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