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by lqet 6y ago
> One of the most important symptoms of low blood oxygen concentrations in the newborn (hypoxia) is a change in skin colour, known as cyanosis. This is where the skin has a bluish hue. In dark skinned babies, this can be more difficult t
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by lqet 6y ago
After my daughter was born, my parents showed me the booklet containing the results of the routine examinations I had as a child (where I come from, this booklet has been standardized for decades, so it can be compared pretty easily). Inter
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In Germany, this is just a regional thing. Where I come from (southern Germany), the word "Apfelsine" is not used at all. If you used it here, people would most likely immediately ask if you mean an orange. As I understand it, it&
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by lqet 6y ago
Here is a list of the availability of telegram services around the world, with no usage numbers though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_use_of_telegrams_by_...
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Phones don't broadcast. A small group of agitators could have used a pirate radio station to call for an attack on the capitol 50 years ago and reach millions of people, which is exactly why pirate radio stations are illegal.
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by lqet 6y ago
> The United Kingdom is somewhat unique in the world for requiring those households which view broadcast television to purchase a licence for the privilege. I know at least three countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) which do the
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by lqet 6y ago
Upon the isle of Newfoundland there lived a sailor boy He was a handsome sailor lad, his father's pride and joy He was born on board his father's ship on a dark and stormy morn And he helped the crew harpoon a whale on
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by lqet 6y ago
> The way he proposed to Anna, Christofi writes, “is so quietly bashful that you can’t help wanting to hug him”. He is quite right, but I won’t give away the plot. Spoiler alert, this is how he proposed, it's quite sweet: Anna descr
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by lqet 6y ago
The origin of "welcome" seems to be "will come", not "well come". This is clear from the German version "Willkommen", which is closer to the original proto-germanic "wiljakumo" and is direct
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by lqet 6y ago
Wait, so it's more "I go now" than "I go first"?
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Is "I go first" a correct translation? If so, why is it used? As an excuse that you have to leave earlier than the person you have been with? Or to avoid that uncomfortable situation where both parties aren't sure if it is ti
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by lqet 6y ago
So is this basically saying that a grammatically incorrect, but factually correct translation is better than a grammatically perfect, but factually incorrect (as the source text was not understood) translation?
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> disappeared into sewers under the city This might interest you: I watched the quite disturbing documentary "Dark Days" a few years ago about homeless people living in subway and sewage tunnels under New York. They had built s
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by lqet 6y ago
I read the book by Krakauer a few years ago. Tragically, he could've crossed the river he thought was blocking his way back to civilization by a hand-operated cable car only 800 meters away from his shelter. He wandered into the wild
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by lqet 6y ago
> Ok, once again. I can write code inside my spreadsheet but not inside my browser? WTF. > Here’s my pitch: build a browser that comes pre-installed with node.js, an IDE and a simple runtime environment. I don't understand the pr
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by lqet 6y ago
Indeed, I have an installation of LanguageTool on my private server to avoid the privacy issues mentioned above. I have plugins for Thunderbird, Chromium and vim running. The browser plugin is by far the best.
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> Imagine us watching Stringer Bell from "The Wire" for the first time. I tried to watch "The Wire" without English subtitles 10 years ago. No chance. I could barely make out individual words. After a season with subt
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by lqet 6y ago
This is as good a place as any to ask the following naive question: what is the name for the cooking liquid of pasta? Just recently, I cooked some spaghetti in a very small pot and fished it out using a fork. I forgot the pot in the sink.
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by lqet 6y ago
> "Man what's up with frank today?" > "Oh he was pulling an all-nighter doing a non-urgent task." > "Did anybody ask him to?" > "No. In fact we asked him to stop." When I am doing thi
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by lqet 6y ago
Both Macron and Merkel seem to be concerned that private companies are deciding who gets an online presence, not an elected government and/or courts: > German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decisions, saying on Monday that
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TLDR: > According to a study published in 2015, the length of the elephant’s trunk is proportional to the amount of food it can cram in its mouth, and most likely evolved in response to the declining nutritional content of the leaves on
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Do you have any information on how this ended?
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This duplication process reminds me of René Girard's mimetic desire [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Girard#Mimetic_desir...
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> I can’t imagine a future without it. I would be surprised if there was a (reasonably near) past without it.
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Interesting site. Here in Germany, most of the electric cars I see are delivery vehicles by Deutsche Post or Renault Zoes (I don't own one, but regularly drive a Zoe (carsharing), I have no complaints). The market share for Germany see
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> an extremely loud, and arguably dangerous, minority I fear this minority will grow significantly as soon as only an extremely small minority of vaccinated people is allowed to eat at restaurants, enter an airplane or visit a concert. P
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There are reports in the German press today that the ruling parties are searching for ways to make discrimination based on your vaccination status illegal [0]. It seems to be already illegal for the government, but not so for private compan
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> "They seemed confused when I went to buy a Sim [card], their software kept freezing every time I put my finger on the sensor"
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> dressed like a plumber The Swiss Guards at the Vatican called him "the tankward".
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> in general, what separates the best tv shows from great tv shows - is that they are able to have a good ending. "Dexter" has made this painfully clear.

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