rags2riches

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by rags2riches 4y ago
I used to think continents and seabed were the same. If you were to add more sea there would be more seabed, less continents. Remove the water and all that's left is a single continent. But that's not even close. For starters, th
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by rags2riches 4y ago
"Pirate terms" because science hijacked perfectly good words and changed their meanings?
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by rags2riches 4y ago
This use case led me to Sumatra as well. Haven't used another pdf reader on Windows since.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
I liked Cities in Motion. But like many other games like it, the joy dies when the UI can't keep up with the growing complexity as I build. Things that were easy in the beginning become a chore later on. That's when I give up and
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by rags2riches 4y ago
I think Iceland has a big (big for Iceland, at least) aluminium smelting industry. They don't have the ore, but plenty of cheap hydro and geothermal energy.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
"I wanted you to know I apply a 50 per cent After the Fact discount to all my meals. The details are on my homepage."
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by rags2riches 4y ago
> Some drivers in the back had no ability to see the pileup ahead and had cars stop in front of them (from dissipating their energy in a collision) in less distance than they could brake. In other words, these drivers did not leave enoug
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by rags2riches 4y ago
> The car departed the lane next to them, dove in front of them, and stopped That explains a two-car collision. The following pileup is explained by drivers not leaving enough space to react and brake.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Russia is the second most powerful military in Ukraine as the joke goes.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Arabic numerals are little endian when writing right-to-left. Like Arabic is written.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Please say wheelchair-stairs. They are real stairs too.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Fifteen noun cases. Fifteen!
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Come for the free money. Stay for the life lessons!
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by rags2riches 4y ago
"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?" Written by Axel Oxenstierna, Lord High Chancellor of Sweden, to his son, a delegate to the negotiations that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia, who
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by rags2riches 4y ago
My life as a dog https://youtu.be/xsIef9QqE30?t=2m00s
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Gustav was known as "Gustav Eriksson" in his day, "Eriksson" being a patronym. Family names wasn't really a thing at the time, as coat of arms were. The form "Gustav Eriksson Vasa" first appears in the 17t
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Other names of Royal ships in the same style were The Crown, The Key, The Sceptre and The Sword. Like The Apple, they are all regalia.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Transmission capacity from the northern hydro to the southern nuclear regions has decreased due to the closing of reactors in the south. Power transmission is more complex than just building a fatter pipe to pour more water through. Having
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by rags2riches 4y ago
The Wagner PMC is recruiting cannon fodder for the war in Ukraine in Russian prisons. The Russian incarceration numbers may be improving drastically as we speak!
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by rags2riches 4y ago
What would happen if you tried discussing something outside of the allowed narrative?
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by rags2riches 4y ago
We used to end our days at sunset, because that's an observable event. Now we don't. That's why we have things like Christmas eve one date and Christmas day the next, when they really should be on the same date.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
I write the @next comment not as a proper comment, but as straight up text, guaranteed to give me a syntax error the next time I compile. No need to remember to search for anything!
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by rags2riches 4y ago
The Ukranians are free to surrender to Russia should they want to. But the decision is theirs. As long as they want our support I say we are obligated to provide it. I'd also recommend you to be careful with predictions on the outcome
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Millions of Europeans in nations bordering Russia disagrees. This conflict is all about us. We'll take the economic troubles and the cold winters as they come. We can still see clearly that we're not freezing in a bomb shelter or
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Spoken as if you were somehow owed something else than what is.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Isn't simple curiosity enough of an impetus? Wanting to now the etymology, alternative or similar words or phrases? I also think there is a shared sense of how fancy, big or difficult a word or phrase is considered. Look up the fancier
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by rags2riches 4y ago
It's not exactly right to say that a/å/ä and o/ö have absolutely no relation in Swedish. There are plenty of language cases where they act more like umlauts, such as stor/större (large/larger) or få/färre
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Looking up words is not stupid. Misusing words because you assume you know what they mean, that is stupid.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
I would think being born in Antarctica is notable in itself! All the entries hear appear to be errors though.
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by rags2riches 4y ago
Amundsen famously used his sled dogs to feed both the other sled dogs and the men of his expedition.

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