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by litoE 8mo ago
You don't have to multiply the powers of ten in your head. In your examples, the slider of the slide rule must be moved to the left of the body of the rule. This means the number of digits left of the decimal point in the answer is the
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by litoE 8mo ago
I have been getting repeated emails saying something along the lines of " We have a family office who has a strong interest in making an investment into <MY_COMPANY_NAME> industry. Can we set up a time to discuss this opportunity
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by litoE 8mo ago
If your definition of Democracy is based on how we elect our leaders, then Hitler's Germany was a Democracy because Hitler was elected Chancellor by a majority. You need to define Democracy based on how we replace our leaders. In that
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by litoE 10mo ago
When using a slide rule, keeping track of the number of digits to the left of the decimal point (DLDP) in the result is fairly simple if you know the basic rule: For multiplication, the DLDP in the result is: - the sum of the DLDPs of the m
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by litoE 11mo ago
Every child should have a dog. It gives them valuable life lessons about responsibility, fidelity, unconditional love and to always turn around three times before you lie down.
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by litoE 11mo ago
The whole thing does not make sense to me because the grammars are so different. In English you say "Mary's house". In French it's "La maison de Marie."
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by litoE 11mo ago
Did the wine have anything to do with him falling into the ravine in the first place?
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by litoE 11mo ago
Washington D.C.
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by litoE 11mo ago
I run a cronjob at 2:30AM every day that uses dirvish (a perl wrapper around rsync) to perform backups of several computers. In the fall, at 2AM the clock is rolled back to 1AM. The cronjob runs at 2:30AM, which is 25 hours after the previo
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by litoE 1y ago
> In 1700, 800 shillings was approximately £40. Since there were 20 shillings to a pound, 800 shillings were exactly £40. </nitpicking>
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by litoE 1y ago
Someone once said that the best contraceptive seems to be a dollar bill: the more of those people have, the fewer babies they have.
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by litoE 1y ago
I had cataract surgery about one year ago. Prior to surgery I needed glasses for longer distances (e.g. driving) but not for near objects like the computer screen or newspapers. I was not a candidate for the panoptix lenses for reasons not
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by litoE 1y ago
There are videos made by the Hamas attackers on October 7, using their own cellphones. There are recordings of cell phone calls by the same terrorists: "Dad? I killed a f**g jew just now!".
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by litoE 1y ago
Interesting: the article says the B29 does not have a steerable nose wheel, but the video clearly shows the nose wheel being steered but then talks about changing engine speeds to steer.
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by litoE 1y ago
George Soros comes to mind.
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by litoE 1y ago
whois shows that the domain trumpcard.gov was created about 6 months ago. This is not something they just invented yesterday.
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by litoE 1y ago
In our condominium building (42 floors) the rule is that every apartment owner is responsible for any damages to their apartment, even if they are caused by an apartment in an upper floor. This is because otherwise the owners of the upper f
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by litoE 1y ago
This was also our experience while owning three homes in single-family neighborhoods over a 35-year period. We knew our neighbors enough to say "hello", but that was it, and we never associated with them. However, 13 years ago we
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by litoE 1y ago
Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to citizen428.net. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT (Firefox on Linux)
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by litoE 1y ago
New York is turning just 400 years old. Havana, Cuba is 506 years old and San Juan, Puerto Rico 514.
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by litoE 1y ago
On the other hand, Pinochet in Chile held an election in 1988. The choices were to keep him as president or replace him with a constitutional government. He lost (55% to 45%) and he stepped down, allowing a democratic government to replace
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by litoE 1y ago
Sammy the poodle ( http://matrixmark.kesug.com/Sammy.jpg ) is prone to severe ear infections. Every time he gets one of those and I take him to the veterinarian, they give him an antibiotic injection, an anti-inflammatory in
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by litoE 1y ago
I buy a veterinary grade vaccine for my dog from Great Britain. I'm sure it contains a few micrograms of aluminum salts (those RFK Jr. doesn't like) as a stabilizer. And now I need to pay a 100% tariff on the aluminum?
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by litoE 1y ago
According to George Burns "Once you get to be 100 you have it made because very few people die past age 100."
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by litoE 1y ago
I remember reading about someone that had created a workaround for this. She had exterior cameras and their images were projected onto the car's pillars, so that when you looked at a pillar you actually saw "through it", i.e.
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by litoE 1y ago
I don't understand why they need to use fiber to guide the drones instead of using frequency-hopping spread spectrum (which, incidentally, was invented in the 1940's by film star Hedi Lamarr).
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Trump wants NASA to burn a crucial satellite, killing climate change research(latimes.com)
15 points by litoE 1y ago|7 comments
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by litoE 1y ago
https://archive.ph/CVhv3
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by litoE 1y ago
I could be wrong, but I'm inclined to believe that many more people work on Tuesdays than Sundays.
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by litoE 1y ago
I've never understood why elections are held on a Tuesday. Why aren't they held on a Sunday, which would eliminate the excuse of "I have to go to work"?

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