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by retrac 1y ago
"Tylenol" is also a contraction of ace tyl aminoph enol .
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by retrac 1y ago
I'd say the family resemblance is the other way around. F# was influenced by Haskell, both in syntax and semantics. Just as Haskell was influenced by early ML. Haskell and ML make up one of the major language families. They are more
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by retrac 1y ago
You mention pensions already. In my country the profoundly disabled are also provided payments and housing. (Not much and not enough but it's there.) Your argument applies equally to that. We're promising to support them for t
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by retrac 1y ago
I'm deaf. Something close to standard Canadian English is my native language. Most native English speakers claim my speech is unmarked but I think they're being polite; it's slightly marked as unusual and some with a good e
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I also think the public generally doesn't understand much of cryptography. It's thought of as some sort of dark art. And to be reliant on computers. But some dice and basic arithmetic will suffice -- though you still shouldn&#x
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by retrac 1y ago
I have often thought about the timing of HIV's emergence. Retroviruses were discovered only a few years before the first AIDS cases. The molecular amplification technologies that form the basis of HIV testing were only developed in th
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by retrac 1y ago
I volunteer at a non-profit employment agency. I don't work with the clients directly. But I have observed that ChatGPT is very popular. Over the last year it has become ubiquitous. Like they use it for every email. And every re
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by retrac 1y ago
Numbers may be older than letters. With Sumerian cuneiform, some of the earliest examples appear to be inventories and maybe contracts and exchange records. For example this [1] appears to be a food ration token of some kind: Mouth bowl ba
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by retrac 1y ago
There's a classic experiment of which variations have been done for almost a century now. Put on goggles that use mirrors to flip vision upside down. People adjust much faster than one might think. Minutes to hours. Those who have
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by retrac 1y ago
I'm not sure if this is "human nature" or if it's a specific cultural problem in the modern west. It's certainly true here in Canada too -- everyone uses terms that are really quite heavy duty to describe quite min
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by retrac 1y ago
That museum looks exciting! > Pre-WW2 televisions seem to be quite rare Pre-war television was rare. Electronic television came to maturity during the Great Depression. Early TVs were horribly expensive and given the economic situatio
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by retrac 1y ago
I think some younger people might have never really seen a CRT. And they're positively rare now. I encountered a CRT TV in the hospital waiting room recently and was a bit startled to see one. So for those only passingly familiar, if
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by retrac 1y ago
Elizabeth II was at war with herself, briefly. Jamaica has the monarchy. Jamaican forces were part of the US-led coalition that invaded Grenada in 1983, after the communists seized power. The communists found it politically expedient to
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by retrac 1y ago
> I believe attitudes toward air-conditioning are class markers in many European countries. Air-conditioning is seen as prototypically American Anecdotally, from the Europeans I know, this is true. When the topic comes up, I will mentio
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by retrac 1y ago
There's a lot of cool radio-related things our smartphones could do but probably never will for regulatory/political/commercial reasons like you note. My pet idea is to make some use of longwave! You know those time signal
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by retrac 1y ago
They do work that way. Lots of studies show gains in muscle mass even with no excercise when people are on steroids. Consider average men who never excercise vs average women who never excercise. The men will have more muscle. That's
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by retrac 1y ago
> rising faster than inflation for several years Over here in Canada healthcare spending has been rising faster than general inflation more or less continuously since the 1960s. Seems to be generally true of many wealthy countries. Mor
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> To spot Venus in the Himawari data, the team used the precise imaging schedule and position of the satellites. "Because we know almost exactly when and where Himawari is looking," Nishiyama said, "we can roughly predict
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by retrac 1y ago
What we think of as schizophrenia today is almost certainly multiple underlying disorders. Historically autism was lumped under schizophrenia and before that they were both lumped under dementia. Symptomatically similar with insufficient d
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by retrac 1y ago
I'm no copyright lawyer. But quoting short passages from multiple translations for comparative literary purposes, is probably fair dealing/fair use.
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by retrac 1y ago
The technical term is sortition. And it is my pet unorthodox political position. The legislature should be replaced with an assembly of citizens picked by lottery.
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by retrac 1y ago
CRTs are still slightly magical to me. The image doesn't really exist. It's an illusion. If your eyes operated at electronic speeds, you would see a single incredibly bright dot-point drawing the raster pattern over and over.
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by retrac 1y ago
Hydroelectric was historically even more dominant in Canada than today. In places that aren't majority hydro now, they were in the past, like in Ontario and Alberta. The name of the utility companies in most provinces was probably an
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So about 2x as big as a normal North American beaver. They're remarkable animals. The scale of impact of their dam-building on ecosystems is only just starting to be appreciated.
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As the quote says, you only really need two components: an induction coil and a Crookes tube. If connecting the two counts as building their own machine, then yes many early doctors did build their own. An induction coil was an off-the-sh
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Different history of colonization policy in Quebec and Ontario. Colonization in Ontario was shut down in the 1930s during the Great Depression. In Quebec, formal colonization was more tightly integrated with the Church, had more instituti
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The low population density of central Canada is not because it's not fertile. A few hundred kilometres south of the area in the article, is a vast clay belt of about half a million square kilometres. It's fertile. You can grow p
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Around 10% of the electricity in New York and Boston comes from the James Bay Project; the power is transferred over 1000 miles.
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That happens naturally, due to the language barrier. I'd suggest a definition of "culturally deaf" as having sign language as your native language.
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by retrac 1y ago
I said "not disabling", not that deafness is not a disability. Those two things mean different things to me. Obviously deaf people cannot hear. Not able. Dis-able. Deafness is a disability. But not all disabilities are general

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