toupeetape

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by toupeetape 7y ago
The number of records being broken has not gone down if you include parts of the world that are not the USA (they exist!) The record was broken in 20 of the 50 countries in Europe in the last 10 years alone. Only 12 still have records stand
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by toupeetape 7y ago
> Please let me know what the downvote is for It's for not knowing what the word "globally" means. That is a pretty big hole in your own data. Look at the equivalent data where it exists for South America, Europe, Africa o
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by toupeetape 8y ago
If we are going down this road, Microsoft copied HTC, who not only had a product called "One" but also ones called "One S" and "One X" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_One_S https:/
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by toupeetape 8y ago
It is offered by a British university. Undergrad degrees are more specialized here than in the US, a BSc in Computer Science is a completely normal thing and is what the majority of British CompSci grads would have.
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by toupeetape 10y ago
The association between same-sex marriage legalization and reduction in suicide attempts was also significant for teens who identified as sexual minorities. For this subgroup, there was a 14-percent relative reduction in suicide attempts a
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by toupeetape 11y ago
It is unused outside of the UK and Ireland where it is still the most commonly used unit for measuring the weight of a person.
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by toupeetape 11y ago
"It kind of sucks, but what would actually be a better system? That people get assigned places to live by lottery, so if you happen to live in a cool place on the cheap, you were simply lucky? It sounds good on the surface because you
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by toupeetape 11y ago
> But as we all know getting bureaucracies to implement something like this will cost hundreds of millions, and will it be beneficial in the short term? Probably not. But we should start looking at long-term solutions. Penalizing people
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by toupeetape 11y ago
Learning another language as I learned my first would mean hiring two native speakers to act as my parents, some more native/fluent speakers to act as my primary school teachers and a bunch of non-natives learning the language at the s
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by toupeetape 12y ago
http://www.verdantlabs.com/blog/2014/05/23/nametrix-2/ There they list the actual top 5 for some professions. Having read that, I am inclined to agree with you here. The top 6 for car salesmen in th
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by toupeetape 12y ago
In some of those cases, it could also partly be people adapting their names after those legends. For example, a budding guitarist called Michael who loves Mick Jagger choosing to go by the name of Mick. As Michael is a far more common name
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by toupeetape 12y ago
That is interesting and I am sure there is a good point there but meteorologist is also a profession requiring a high education level. Yet the meteorologist list (Bill, Joe, Jim, Jeff, Mike, Scott) is way more similar to the football coach