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thefringthing
8y ago
If this happened in France (or many other places) there would be strikes, barricades, burning towers of tires, the whole works. American workers are incredibly timid.
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8y ago
My reaction Gettier cases as a philosophy minor was that J is the only philosophically interesting part of JTB.
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thefringthing
8y ago
Would you prefer the Singaporean norm (clearly posted prices) to the Canadian/European one (free at the point of use)?
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thefringthing
8y ago
My university had a PS3-based computing cluster. I'm not sure if they still do.
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thefringthing
8y ago
"Pepsi Presents The Federal Republic of the Democratic United States of America"
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thefringthing
8y ago
Doesn't he subscribe to the conspiracy theory that popular in Russia about how the years AD 614–911 never occurred?
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8y ago
You don't seem to be addressing the criticism of your argument, which is that urban speed limits are determined by likelihood of collision with another car, a bicycle, or a pedestrian in the event of an unexpected need to brake hard. T
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thefringthing
8y ago
You should be careful about the term "imperial". US customary units do not always match the old British "imperial" units. A US fluid pint is significantly smaller than an Imperial pint, for example.
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8y ago
While it's true that 100C doesn't have any weather meaning, 0F being "very cold" isn't particularly objective. I just looked it up, and apparently 0F is only about -18C. Whether -18C is "very, very cold" d
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8y ago
No love for Bondy & Murty?
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9y ago
The two bowls thing is a notorious hoax. No one has ever gotten it to work.
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9y ago
Pasting the feed URL into the search box works 100% of the time.
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9y ago
Wiktionary gives the etymology of "bó" as coming straight from Proto-Celtic and Proto-Indo-European. In any case, sometimes Irish has both a word of Celtic origin and a loanword for animals. "Chicken" is "cearc"