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by madcaptenor 4mo ago
Tax brackets are also inflation-adjusted, so shouldn't that cancel out?
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by madcaptenor 4mo ago
It's hard to be totally sure, but I also don't think that's a picture of Dudley.
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by madcaptenor 4mo ago
From a glance at the paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.27371 ) it looks like they're using self-reported ethnicity. "We only attempt to identify adverse impact based on self-reported racial information and do
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by madcaptenor 4mo ago
I should clarify. I remember the fact that I read them but I don't remember anything about them.
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by madcaptenor 4mo ago
I share this feeling. When I want to free up some space, the books I get rid of are the ones I don't remember reading.
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by madcaptenor 4mo ago
I had the same confusion - I'd move the [...] to the following sentence.
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
Another case: when Brexit happened, IIRC some people in Scotland were suggesting secession from the UK post-Brexit so they could rejoin the EU.
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew. But he didn't want to be Michael A. Fox because that sounded too much like "Michael, a fox."
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
right, but giving English-speaking kids the following would help them: - a bear that looks like B - an orange that looks like O - a snake that looks like S - a tree that looks like T (and so on; that's just what I can think of off the
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/ (in short, people have found the "Eureka" part in Asimov but not the "that's funny" part)
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
It also helps that newborn poop doesn't smell particularly bad. It only starts smelling like poop when they start eating real food.
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
I had SimTower but could never quite figure it out - might be time to give it another shot.
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by madcaptenor 5mo ago
Isn't it a bit better on average, although not as much as you'd hoped? For example 19 steps of binary search get you down to 1/524288 of the original search space with 19 comparisons. 12 steps of ternary search get you down
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
For a moment there I thought "sanguinary struggle" meant a cheerful one - but that's "sanguine". "Sanguinary" has the more literal meaning of "bloody".
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
Seconded. They also have an excellent pipe organ; I'd recommend checking their web site to see when someone will be playing it.
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
I've been getting ads for this. I have a seven-year-old who's particular about her peanut butter sandwiches, but I don't need Science Peanut Butter.
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
Similarly, Spanish "vuestra merced" evolved to "usted".
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
meanwhile, my New Jersey-born boss uses "you guys" despite herself being female and having lived in the South longer than I have
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
No, because "you in the back" could refer to just one person in the back, instead of several. So "y'all in the back" is more specific. (Of course names are an option in this context.)
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
No. As far as I can tell, singular "y'all", when it exists, is an implied plural. What you might hear as singular "y'all" is, say, when you go into a restaurant and say "do y'all have Coke?" t
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
What if you're addressing part of the class, though? Like "y'all in the back, you need to get back to your work".
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
Before I moved to the South I (a non-Southerner) did not feel comfortable saying "y'all". But "you guys" seemed sexist. I have since spent a decade in the South and I have not picked up much of the dialect, but I
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
Anecdotally, I bought a pound of ground beef a few days ago for $8 in the suburbs of Atlanta. Minimum wage here is $7.25 (federal). Actually Georgia's state minimum wage is $5.15 but that's only allowed in certain rare cases.
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by madcaptenor 6mo ago
I wasn't totally sure either. But other stuff in the same "Series" on the web page ( https://lzon.ca/posts/series/duck/ ) includes: - Statistics Canada to replace Food & Gas with "Huge
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
I think the site is compiled by one person. If you look at the map ( https://www.niche-museums.com/map ) it's heavily biased towards the southern UK and the SF Bay Area.
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
I didn't realize "boomhauer" could be verbed.
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
Barack Obama: "Now, let me be clear—when it comes to a good meal, I’ve always said that I like burgers."
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
To be presented as a talk track to the Gettysburg Powerpoint: https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
There's also only one T in "Atlanta". (For some people there are none.)
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by madcaptenor 7mo ago
I predict this will end at 9 AM Pacific Daylight Time one morning next December, when the sun still hasn't risen in Vancouver.

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