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by kmm 9y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant. The US is remarkably homogeneous for its size
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by kmm 9y ago
Maybe it's just one stage of a rocket that is slowing down?
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by kmm 9y ago
I've been using fish for a few years now, and it has made bash feel not just outdated, but completely obsolete. I am at loss for why it hasn't taken the entire world by storm.
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by kmm 9y ago
> Yeah, but it's not 50/50. I think you're focusing on the wrong part there. The issue isn't the host's knowledge, it's the question of whether he always opens a door. If he always opens a door at random, an
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by kmm 9y ago
Very unlikely, because the calibration used for carbon dating is acquired by comparing with artifacts of a known age, i.e. experimentally, and not from first principles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibration_of_radi
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by kmm 9y ago
Russian stress is unpredictable, not even per word, but among different inflections of the word. That holds for both nouns and verbs. For the nouns there's an attempt at classification that uses both numbers and letters[0] and even the
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by kmm 9y ago
There is a governmental agency, part of the national bank, that keeps track of credit. Information is kept for three months after a successful repayment of credit, one year after a delayed yet complete repayment, and 10 years after a defaul
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by kmm 9y ago
I agree that the police officers' actions were moral, but I don't understand the thief's thought process. To me, the threat of going to jail for many years for manslaughter would be a vastly more effective deterrent than some
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by kmm 9y ago
A few days ago I ate a chili pepper out of boredom, and after finding out what a bad idea that was, I opened Reddit. The frontpage of /r/todayilearned had a post about someone learning that birds can't detect capsaicin and th
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by kmm 9y ago
I don't know what kind of flexibility HN'ers have, but the overwhelming majority of people can't just decide to leave whenever they please. And it's utterly missing the point, keeping track of time is an inherently socia
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by kmm 9y ago
I have absolutely nothing to gain from the sun being close to its highest point at 12 o' clock. I have a lot to gain from an extra hour of light in my evenings
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by kmm 9y ago
Because of the massive imbalance of power between employer and employee. Which is why employment protection is a lot stronger in every other developed country than the US.
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by kmm 9y ago
I wonder why base 24 is such an extreme outlier. I had noticed it already when I was playing with this concept in Mathematica, it's the only one I couldn't exhaustively search.
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by kmm 9y ago
Three years ago, someone with this condition did an AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1u75hh/i_am_the_guy_w...
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by kmm 9y ago
The site seems down to me, but this archive link works: http://archive.is/fRhT5
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by kmm 9y ago
> Obesity = more cells That's not true. Not only do fat cells just grow bigger (a skinny person has just as many as a fat person), you'd expect the increase in cancers to be mostly liposarcomas ("fat cell cancer"), wh
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by kmm 9y ago
Given how many megafauna we've already wiped from the face of the earth (most of them), and the utterly ridiculous idea that cows would ever become extinct if we didn't eat them, that argument seems completely disingenuous. I won&
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by kmm 9y ago
Nobody does that. I've never seen someone correct "fewer" to "less" or seen someone get scorned for using "literally" to mean "as actually happened". Only the other way around happens. When peopl
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by kmm 9y ago
[They linked the wrong site]( https://web.archive.org/web/20170920143324/https:/twitter.co... )
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by kmm 9y ago
25 can't be enough, Kazakh has 9 phonemic vowels. I presume the six Latin vowel signs will still get diacritics?
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by kmm 9y ago
In spoken French it's definitely on its way out, effectively leaving only "pas" as a single negative particle. It's a good example of what is called the Jespersen's Cycle 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by kmm 9y ago
I wonder if there's a difference between acute and chronic alcohol consumption of the same amount. Drinking 14 units in one event every 2 weeks amortizes to one unit per day, but would it have the same effect?
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by kmm 9y ago
I wonder what it looks like up close. Betelgeuse's mean density is a few milligrams per cubic meter, probably way less so in the photosphere, comparable to the density of the atmosphere at the edge of space. And yet it still gives ligh
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by kmm 9y ago
They're older than that, this kind of puzzle is called a Takuzu or Binairo and was invented in 2009 by a pair of Belgians: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuzu
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by kmm 9y ago
> The advantage to prescriptive rules for language is that you don't lose the context of a language over time or distance That's assuming that even works. I'm not sure it's clear prescribing language rules has ever wo
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by kmm 9y ago
That's the trouble with radioactive isotopes. A hundred thousand years is long enough that it will be radioactive for longer than we can foresee, many times longer than written history, but it's short enough that it's still v
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by kmm 9y ago
It's hard to find data on the individual cost of Soviet space programs. Wikipedia gives the total cost for the Luna program at 4.5 billion dollars, but that figure is unsourced, and it's unclear whether they're 1969 or 2008 d
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by kmm 9y ago
The only achievement I can come up with that hasn't been done with unmanned probes is a serious sample return mission. The Apollo mission brought back 382 kg of lunar material. Unmanned Soviet missions have brought back a total of 0.32
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by kmm 9y ago
So less than one incident per year, most with a low amount of casualties, on what I assume was quite a big population of airships. And that is without modern technology, because we've made some progress in flame retardant materials I f
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by kmm 9y ago
Sure (if true), but that's not the point, because driving more doesn't increase mileage. Why does driving more make you prefer less efficient cars? What do you get back from it?

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