madcaptenor

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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   It's actually the other way around - they already had the symbol X and that's why they became USX. New York Times, July 9, 1986, on the founding of USX: https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/09/business&#x
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   As of 12:54 PM US Eastern time, US Steel stock is up 2.79% for the day. The S&P 500 is up 0.44% for the day. Might be something to that.
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   As am I! I'm hoping for an audiobook (that's how I took in her translation of the Odyssey) but I'm not seeing any indication of that yet, so I may just have to read the thing with my eyes.
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   I'm just curious about the physical book there - how do you fit 26 Bible translations in one book?
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   There are definitely pictures with signs, I've been going back through the archives.
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=AIGAAAAEIEAA... I like how it’s possible to make something that feels polyphonic even though there’s only one note playing at a time. (there are a couple time steps w
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   Historically it was a quarterly. But they rebranded to GQ and around the same time increased print frequency.
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   What you want is called "astronomical year numbering" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering ), so you have 1 BC = 0, 2 BC = -1, and so on. Astronomers are about the only people who would
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   by madcaptenor 3y ago

   "0 years old" does seem weird... some part of that is probably because we seem to refer to children in their first year of life as "X months old".
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    it's from fandom.com, so might be out of date. I think the general strategy would work if you had the right list of countries - although if you're determined to just cheat your way past this step, probably better to just look at
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    List of countries in geoguessr: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBangladeshBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCambodiaCanadaChileColombiaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkDominicanRepublicEcuadorEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatema
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    Gave up at the YouTube video. My final password: cmabout[gibbous emoji]swedenQf8+[chicken emoji]Tir8gecmVshellapril9Fe[weightlifter][weightlifter][weightlifter]VIIamloved[caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar]
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    Arguably Germany and Italy are exceptions. At the very least only including Berlin and Rome in this system would be an oversight.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    I feel like this would be a lot better with a map of the proposed network, and some statistics on how much faster it would make common journeys.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    I agree it's a bad implementation. I can't navigate anywhere north of Center City because I don't know the street names there.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    Native Philadelphian here. (1) You need to memorize the order of the streets (... Vine, Race, Arch, Market, Chestnut, Walnut, Locust, Spruce, Pine, ...), which is mildly annoying but you just have to do it once. A complication - there are
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    I had that one too!
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    They should charge $0.01 for the first volume and twice as much for each successive volume.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    My employer is doing something similar right now and that's basically what all of us think. I have some colleagues who aren't near one of our offices and I hope we don't lose them.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    I missed that!
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    There's an American sprinter named Tyson Gay. Or, as some conservative media referred to him, Tyson Homosexual. ( https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=294 )
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    The most surprising bit for me (because it really depends on the world being round) is Alaska - parts of which are closest to Tokyo, Reykjavik, or Ottawa. (No part of Alaska is closest to Washington.) In the US, the southwesternmost bit of
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    And the error in your approximation goes up as the orbit gets bigger, which recovers the original result.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    My kid goes to a camp that abbreviates its name as CIA (the C stands for Camp and the IA are the initials of some old rich guy) and it always throws me.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    Not really - car lifetimes don't have the right sort of distribution for that. But fun to think about!
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    So are we thinking that the average car lasts about twice the average age of cars - that is, 25 years?
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    New car prices have gone up over time. I wonder if something like (new car price)/(average car lifespan) or (new car price)/(average miles driven) is stable in the long term. (Of course in the short terms car prices are rather i
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    disappointed by "glossoceratology". I got the definition "the study of particular groups of animals which are individually unique and have exceptional diversity" but clearly it should be the study of tongue horns.
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    I would have thought the verb would be "resculpt"
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    by madcaptenor 3y ago

    and you actually got a basically correct definition, as well.