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rovolo
4y ago
> The problem is that's not going to be an easy thing to remember. 'G' for "Go to folder". cmd-G is standardized as "Find Next" across apps, so you add "shift" to do an app-specific behavior.
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5y ago
A difference is that Assange/Manning had to be spreading something true to be charged, whereas this targets anything "false".
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5y ago
JFYI, please at least mention the stated purpose of the cards before dismissing them. > A tendency to see size over everything else may lead providers to misdiagnose patients in larger bodies and misattribute symptoms to size instead of
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5y ago
The scots over 70 are 100% 2+ doses. There is no unvaccinated comparison group in Scotland for people over 70. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/phs.covid.19/viz/COVI...
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5y ago
You're taking 14 vs 10 from table 15 on page 50 on the report. Page 51 says: > The rates in Table 15 should not be used as a measures of vaccine effectiveness due to unaccounted for biases and risk factors. The age-standardized mora
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5y ago
Tripled sounds like a lot, so I trawled through some old pictures of the BK menu. I think the NJ price from 2011 is probably the closest to Seattle (price varies by location), so the whopper meal price is ~1.66x. Inflation is ~1.27x Infla
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5y ago
I'm using the data at https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data . It shows the inversion you've mentioned. - Cases: vaccinated = 100/100k, unvaccinated = 80/100k Vaccinations reduce the severity of the disease. I
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5y ago
To be pedantic, "each nonzero quaternion has a multiplicative inverse"
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5y ago
> even in the olden days of pseudoscience on race, obviously people didn't believe that races couldn't interbreed, as they observed such themselves. They did however believe that there were "purebreeds" of races; that
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5y ago
Just curious, what is the difference is between "Border" and "Edge" to you? To me, they are nearly synonyms. Apple's Dictionary (Oxford?) > 2 the edge or boundary of something, or the part near it: the northern b
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5y ago
They probably mean a Pyramid scheme. In regular use, Ponzi and Pyramid schemes are interchangeable terms because you need new money to stay afloat. Legally they're different because a Ponzi scheme requires lying about where the returns
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5y ago
The difficult part is deciding on the definition of the concept, not picking the name of the concept. There are lots of different terms and concepts you could be using to categorize types of science, but most of them probably don't mat
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5y ago
You can also define a memory leak as retaining memory outside of the scope its needed. The program lifespan is one of those scopes, but there are also smaller scopes you can leak memory to. An example is the per-request scope on a server. &
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5y ago
> These are obvious differences in even my one year old noticed. My friend who worked in elementary schools (I think they were a substitute teacher, but maybe they were an assistant for after-school) would be asked "are you a boy or
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5y ago
> (but modern Karens sometimes use "round" for the earth and moon instead) 1. Isn't the full moon visibly a circle? What made it flat? 2. There are many concepts for "earth". Are you referring to soil, the ground
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5y ago
There isn't 1 kind of economic crisis. Monetary expansion works well when you're dealing with a credit crunch, but it doesn't work great when your issue is lack of supply.
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5y ago
Your social security benefits are calculated based on your 35 highest income years; which includes 0 income years. The guy quit in 2001 in his 40s-50s, so he may only have 20 years of income for SSA benefits. That said, the formula is a pol
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5y ago
The sibling comments are good descriptions, but here are example interfaces: - Normal parser https://www.javadoc.io/static/com.google.code.gson/gson/2.8.... - Streaming parser https://www.javadoc.i
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5y ago
> People with intellectual disabilities aren't inherently bad, or morally bad, or necessarily worse that any person without a diagnosable disorder ... all else being equal, nobody should want it. When you call someone r-, you are sa
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5y ago
> But I think collateral damage may be unavoidable no matter which word you use for this ... they might be reminded of their own limitation and feel ashamed or inadequate because of it. This issue is that when people use "retarded&q
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5y ago
> People are ashamed to be stupid because it’s a shortcoming. So you are saying that people should be ashamed to be "special-needs" or "retarded"? "Retarded" is not the same thing as stupid. You are using a
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> popular neutral terms for negative things Why is being medically "retarded" a negative thing? Should you be ashamed to be "retarded"? This is the same argument against using "gay" and "faggot" as
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5y ago
I agree that it's an insult. Some people's actions deserve to be insulted. I'm saying that you may be insulting other people who are not your target.
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I'd like to disagree with the idea of a "treadmill" because it implies that changing language doesn't anything and leaves us where we started. The wikipedia entry mentions "moron", "imbecile", and &qu
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5y ago
I think you're making the following claims: 1) What's the point of discussing ethical matters if they're not objective? 2) We can objectively discover what's morally "good". 3) We lose legitimacy making ethical
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5y ago
There's a difference between "inherently difficult" and "difficult to update this software package". My reading of this thread is that the MS devs are saying this will take them a lot of effort to implement in this
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5y ago
Just to clarify this point, the income tax is progressive and affects the rich more than the poor on income . A software developer making $150k will pay 24% on additional income while someone making $30k will pay 12% on additional income.
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5y ago
How can you distinguish identity-based from topic-based social media? Doesn't your identity influence which topics you're interested in, and don't the topics which interest you form your identity? This forum says in the guide
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5y ago
Thanks for replying even after a few days. It took me some time to think through your responses as well, so I hope you forgive my own delay. > I was trying to explain why many humans are not at all comforted by this "choose your own
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5y ago
The main advantage is that Optional is inconvenient and forces you to consider the null case. It's easy to forget that values can be null and assume they're not, e.g. auto-unboxing Long getSomeValue(); int max = Math.ma
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