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by polymatter 9y ago
Londoner here. Nope, we use a comma as a thousands separator. I believe some European countries use a period though.
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by polymatter 10y ago
The media was waiting for anything to crucify Trump. He has done nothing but stoke them. He already has been demonized as a white supremisist. The narrative "Trump will ban all Muslims and turn the US into a fascist state" was alr
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by polymatter 10y ago
An excellent point that context matters a lot. Have you seen the Guardians 'The Counted' database of people killed by police? You can click and read a synopsis of each death ( https://www.theguardian.com/us-news&#x2
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by polymatter 10y ago
I saved you the trouble. The author writes about how the Golden Fleece award affected her research ( http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-golden-flee... ). She receives at a lot of hate mail - some quite dist
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by polymatter 10y ago
The Register reported a man getting 13 months ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/ripa_jfl?page=1 ) - though I couldn't find a better reference. BBC also reported on a teenager getting 16 weeks ( htt
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by polymatter 10y ago
Many many words are better than "evil". How about "autocratic" or "dictatorial" or "power-hungry" or "delusional". Or perhaps a phrase like "ruthlessly uncompromising". All of them
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by polymatter 10y ago
For anyone not getting the joke, see http://bash.org/?244321
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by polymatter 11y ago
> uninformed people form such a large percentage of the voting pool agreed. but surely the natural solution is to increase the number of informed people (education, PSAs, 'nudging' people towards being more informed). not to di
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by polymatter 11y ago
Thanks for the reply. I will do that.
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by polymatter 11y ago
as someone currently learning Vietnamese do you have any tips for learning the language? I've learnt some Mandarin so I am no stranger to tones - but the tones in Vietnamese seem quite different. I've been using Pimsleur which I h
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by polymatter 11y ago
There is a distinct difference between an identity that I have chosen based on my personal preferences and one that is forced upon me by circumstance. One I can change and has deep significance to me. One is assigned and immutable and has v
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by polymatter 11y ago
many vulnerable people don't know what they can qualify for and what they can't. especially if they are not particularly literate as many adults are not - especially if they have a non-native background. many vulnerable people don
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by polymatter 11y ago
I am very curious about your comment. how is pure h20 dangerous?
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by polymatter 11y ago
perhaps its flash? I keep having the same problem and I suspect flash
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by polymatter 11y ago
Programmers, accountants, owner, medieval and apprentices are all capitalized where I would leave them uncapitalized. It feels random to me. I put it down to a different writing style.
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by polymatter 11y ago
> These are people who are very likely at the top of their fields, have gone through rigorous (and costly) training, and are going up to do very specific jobs That is irrelevant to the level safety precautions. Unless you were trying to
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by polymatter 11y ago
If you drove with zero distance between your bumper and the car in front of you, they will be unable to brake hard, because its trying to stop an extra ton of mass. you're fine sure, but they just ran over that kid crossing the road wi
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by polymatter 11y ago
thanks for the detailed reply I imagine any sensible, practical proposal for basic income would start it relatively low, keeping many current benefits and gradually expand it if it is successful. That seems to be the option Finland proposal
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by polymatter 11y ago
in what way does having a diverse population pose problems to basic income specifically? you are just stating a general problem. basic income has no effect on diversity or homogeneity. perhaps it might encourage people to immigrate, but tha
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by polymatter 11y ago
what are the "whole host of negative aspects"? I will accept that there are almost certainly edge cases which I can't predict that will need ironing out. probably due to the administration of updating the list appropriately.
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by polymatter 11y ago
Sexual selection is still a thing, and unlikely to go away for the foreseeable future. Diet affects appearance, appearance affects chances to pass on your genes.
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by polymatter 11y ago
Is there any way to get just the static html pages post 2008 when they just stopped doing them? That's 6 years out of date. The Wikipedia on DVD link doesn't seem to work http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/ . And I am n
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by polymatter 11y ago
FYI he had retired. Taking away his license is purely symbolic and entirely consistent with this light tap on the wrist.
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by polymatter 11y ago
IANAL, but the judge may order you to keep the warrant canary or find you in contempt. Law is based on intent and if your intent in removing that clause is in broadcasting you are under gag order, when the gag order restricts you from doing
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by polymatter 11y ago
> needing multiple keys in order to decrypt - not sure if that's mathematically possible As a matter of interest Shamirs Secret Sharing algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_Secret_Sharing ) is
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by polymatter 11y ago
I read him as saying that while men and women are different they are not _that_ different and that social causes is probably a bigger factor than any biological one.
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by polymatter 11y ago
I'm not sure why you feel you can't push both of you for a raise. Surely having the public record is in your favour because you can point to similar jobs that pay more.
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by polymatter 11y ago
For what its worth, in my experience its similar in China. I even saw an ad showing a guy taking his girlfriend to McDonalds on a date.
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by polymatter 11y ago
> if you don't like a country you can just move... you know many many people risk their lives under extreme conditions to do exactly that. See Latin Americans trying to get to US or Africans into Europe. Hell I am in the process of
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by polymatter 11y ago
If your roads are an obstacle course then it sounds like they shouldn't have cars on because they're clearly not wide enough. That's endangering the lives of all traffic, not just cyclists.

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