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by rags2riches 1y ago
Just one example I'm familiar with. Drywall typically comes in widths of 1200 mm and are mounted on studs 600 mm c/c.
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by rags2riches 1y ago
I was asking you to string three nouns together and verbify the resulting noun, like you effortlessly do in a language like German. Also, note how your verbified noun is identical to the original noun. That's the lacking grammar of th
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by rags2riches 1y ago
Sure, you can say three nouns in a row in English. But can you then make them into a verb? Or and adjective? What happens when some of the three words in English already are in a form that also parses as a verb or an adjective? English is a
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by rags2riches 1y ago
"Food spoilage" is putting it mildly. Mice have short generations. A single mouse can have up to ten litters in one year. If unchecked, a mouse population will quickly turn all your stored food into mice.
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by rags2riches 2y ago
I think some of the harm of wearing gloves is in the loss of sense. Fingertips are very sensitive, which must be helpful when handling something delicate. They mention tearing in the link. I guess they just found you're more likely to
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by rags2riches 2y ago
A society that regulates child birth is very different from one that regulates immigration.
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by rags2riches 2y ago
Prompted by this incident, here's a description of how to drop an anchor on a ship like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrT1Pl3pR6Y&t=268s Earlier in the video is a quote from Finnish authorities calling the
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by rags2riches 2y ago
In some sense, it doesn't matter at all if the tax is paid on the employer or employee side. But in reality, it matters a lot when the tax burden is raised or lowered. Either the employer or the employee will be paying more or less.
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by rags2riches 2y ago
I was talking to my ten-year-old about some recent event and came to ask him how he'd learned about it. "Oh, I often check the news in school at the the beginning of class". I hadn't realized just how far the use of lapt
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by rags2riches 2y ago
Brewing, like baking, was a regular occurrence in a household. It was done in the same place, with the same equipment, as last time. The yeast culture from the previous batch was likely a given ingredient.
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by rags2riches 2y ago
Similar jokes were made when the outlook for a Swedish NATO ascension was bad. The much more cool-headed and diplomatically grounded Finns were set to join NATO without trouble. So the solution was obvious: Sweden should join Finland inste
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by rags2riches 2y ago
You have probably never even considered writing a function that calls another, not yet defined function, and just moving on because your trail of thought is headed elsewhere at that very moment. Fifteen minutes later you are testing your ne
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by rags2riches 3y ago
The actual acts performed in the protest may very well be the goal for some of the protesters. The stated goals are in that case only rationalizations.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Diocletian's Palace, presently the Old Town of Split, Croatia, was decorated with Egyptian sphinxes because the romans also liked ancient artefacts.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
People are ruled by the numbers on the clock, so we should shift the daylight hours during those hours people are awake to match the natural needs of the people. But from where did the habits tied to the numbers come? Were they formed witho
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Folk racing has an interesting rule: > Anyone can place a fixed-price bid on any car, and the buyer is then chosen by draw. The fixed price in Finland is €2,000 (≈US$1,650) or 8,000 SEK (≈US$1,000) in Sweden. Refusing to sell is grounds
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by rags2riches 3y ago
In which period did the slaughtering take place? Mistreatment of Sami since the middle ages happened in many ways, like taxation, forced labour, relocations, forced cultural assimilation, discrimination. Most Sami living in Scandinavia toda
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Please save the acronyms for repeated uses of a long name. It helps the rest if us to understand what the hell you're talking about.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Many nations are older than the idea of a nation. They were created much more gradually.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Yet the consequences of "if only my side would lay down their arms" are are radically different.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Right. That still takes as many man-hours as the opening hours of the store. Which is much different from the jobs where time isn't part of the output. Which is the whole point I'm making. Picking all the oranges from a grove take
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by rags2riches 3y ago
My understanding is the violation happens when you share the binary without the license and sources, or information on how to request the sources.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
No. Neither can two clerks keep a store open for eight hours in six hours. Much like nine women can't give birth to a baby in one month.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
I'm pretty certain a bus driver couldn't do eight hours worth of driving in six hours.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
To be more precise it means "copy" in the noun sense, not the verb. It's a distinction that a lot of bad translations from English fail to make, like when X changed "tweet" to "post".
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Dub music and Indian influences are brought together beautifully in the Lee Perry song Bird in Hand, based on a song from an Indian movie. https://youtu.be/7IY0O0SxepY?si=6MXMimfJBieWcZPv
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Ever since the Kalmar Union, Denmark has had the Swedish national emblem the Three Crowns as part of their Royal Coat of Arms. The union ended in 1523.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
Though Gibbons' famous work comes in six volumes and covers more than a millenium of history, the rise of the Roman Empire was outside its scope. It was titled The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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by rags2riches 3y ago
> Notoriously Expensive Lego Prices Scale Linearly, Remain Constant Over Time > If there’s one big gripe common among brickheads, it’s that the prices of LEGO sets are quite lofty (plus maybe not enough spaceships). But two disparate
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by rags2riches 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam

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