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by lkbm 2y ago
> > Rising steadily is what you said. It's really not doing that. > It really is. It was dropping for most of the 1990s, and most of the 2010s. So it's been rising steadily over the past 45 years...except for about two de
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by lkbm 2y ago
The 0's don't give you anything. You could just say 1. As for why they're equal, there are various proofs and explanations, but the simplest proof is probably: 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1 0.333... + 0.333... + 0.333...
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Funny thing is, people think their bank account number is private, but it's printed on every check they write.
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by lkbm 2y ago
Chase online deposit was fine with it for us. I'm pretty sure quite a few of them were "and" and some were probably "[me] and [my wife's completely made up name]". (She doesn't go by her legal name, first
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by lkbm 2y ago
Not being able to attract capital would clearly be a Mistral problem.
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Perhaps more impressively: India, after India had been early to recognize PRC and worked to get them recognized internationally.
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If you're able to scrape together the funds for another semester, you can probably scrape together a couple hundred bucks to avoid paying for that extra semester. People going to university like to talk about how poor they are, but the
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by lkbm 2y ago
Some required courses are only taught in Spring or only in Fall. Some of those "Fall only" courses are prerequisites for other required Spring-only courses. If you can't get into a required course, it can delay your graduatio
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by lkbm 2y ago
I don't have the source, but don't think 1Password/LastPass/KeePass. Think the "would you like to save this login" built in to Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Windows, and iOS. These days, you have to opt-out of passwor
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by lkbm 2y ago
If you remember the neighborhood(?) https://geocities.restorativland.org/ may help, since you can browse through screenshots+titles by neighborhood. But I remember my exact address, and it's not there. Archive.org has
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by lkbm 2y ago
Using Google Translate on the Wikipedia citation[0]: > On the Ukrainian website “Maidan-inform” expressed doubts about whose arsenal – Russian or Ukrainian – the S-200 missile was fired. Russian equipment, radar stations and warships als
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by lkbm 2y ago
>First of all, what's with the focus on tea bags? According to the paper[0]: > Among the different food containers releasing MNPLs, teabags stand out. Recent investigations have elucidated that teabags significantly contribute to
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> "Microwood" is basically just cellulose, aka insoluble fiber, which naturally exists in our food. This is one thing that confused me about the first article I saw on this. The paper lists three things it detected, one being c
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by lkbm 2y ago
Is there some Simpsons paradox/composition effect thing going on here, or something with PPP vs. real wages? For full-time employees, real wages are up[0][1], especially for the bottom quartile[2]. Overall median income appears to be d
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by lkbm 2y ago
Yes, of course it was easy to read. It was spelled phonetically. That's the point. Calling English "fairly phonetic" is laughable. In most languages, they don't have spelling bees because they don't understand the c
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by lkbm 2y ago
My understanding (mostly from my speech pathologist brother ranting about this) is that we end up with reading/writing tending to lag about two years behind due to it.
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Given that that's something like half of our lexicon, you're going to have a heck of a time reading if you can't process any of them, but okay, let's look just at words that come from Old English: food, good rough, dough
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by lkbm 2y ago
> This has been at the cost of concentration and increases in pollution and poverty in the poorest nations. Poverty is way down globally. Poor nations are far from where they need to be, but we've lifted a billion or so people out
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by lkbm 2y ago
I'd be willing to bet most of these still hold once you control for wealth.
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by lkbm 2y ago
Probably because English is so very non-phonetic. To repeat an ancient joke, "Hookt awn fonix werkt fer mee". I could also see it resulting in more subvocalization, but my assumption is that subvocalization is actually a very impo
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by lkbm 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you draw the same line: * Pealing a carrot: not cruel * Skinning a rabbit alive: unnecessarily cruel For all the nonsense about plants experiencing "pain", they, uh, don't. Animals do. Outside of bad phil
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by lkbm 2y ago
"it's a net negative for society to have poor people need to sell their kidneys to make ends meet." This is, again, not something that is being remedied by the ban. The need hasn't gone away simply because you've ta
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It's only 57%, so a good chunk who don't, but according to [0], the median US household does own two cars. I assume that a fairly large majority of married people have multiple cars (between the two of them), and only a very sma
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by lkbm 2y ago
Of course it's bad that they have to. But not letting them do it doesn't magically make the ends meet. Right now, today, people have to sell their organs to make ends, but they can't, so they fail to make ends meet. Your argu
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by lkbm 2y ago
> What if your kidney isn't compatible with that of your family member, and they'd have to rely on a stranger's donation? How would you then feel about never having donated in the past? Donation chains partially address th
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by lkbm 2y ago
TSMC, the largest Taiwanese corporation, says "screw the US, we'd rather trade with the PRC ". What exactly do you think happens to TSMC in that situation? Are you familiar with what the Taiwanese government is, how it came
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by lkbm 2y ago
USA Today, then. They do not, and most local papers are run by them. They have a "Cancel" button, and when you click it, it says you have to call them, during business hours. This won't be the case in California, but I'v
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by lkbm 2y ago
In Asheville / if you're close to the river, it's still recommended to boil your water. (I'm in Marshall ~700ft higher than downtown, so I'm assuming it's fine where I am, but guidance has been non-specific.)
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Dude, chill. They're not merely some abstract rhetoric device for arguing about American policy. They're real people, and you can ask them how they feel about infant mortality dropping, starvation rates dropping, clean water acc
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The thing is, the US has clearly gotten way better in the past 50+ years, while the past 30 years is maybe debatable. But if we're looking at past 30 years globally , there's no sane way to argue it hasn't gotten way. It

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