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Re:How many of the 170k English words do you know? on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:06AM (#48608318)
Yes. One would want to avoid false positives for the accurate evaluation of one's vocabulary.
Re:A Bacterial Culprit for Rheumatoid Arthritis on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:03PM (#35779111)
There are some who propound a more nuanced approach:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35704698

Re:Mozilla Rally on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:47AM (#30068586)
And for us power-users, please implement the hiding of all the bars (tab bar, location bar etc), so we can save some screen real estate on our tiny laptop screens, when using the browser with other windows side-by-side.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447

Re:“Open source” is broken on Saturday December 11, 2021 @07:41PM (#29525858)
Off-topic but very important: The widespread misuse of the word 'dependency' is very very icky, linguistically speaking. This word originally meant: 'in a state of being dependent'. Usage: "Ronny hated his dependency on the kindness of strangers.". But it's being used to refer to the 'dependent', as well as the 'dependee', which is very poor form:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25575/what-is-th...

https://wikidiff.com/dependee/dependent

Re:FAQs: Why we don’t have them (2013) on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:50AM (#29519762)
A friend, tried to apply for a heavy goods vehicles driver visa; but he couldn't find a simple how-to, unfortunately.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58670792

Apart from the humanitarian catastrophe, does anyone else feel vexed, at the enormous resources and man-hours lost because of the bombing campaigns in conflicts? One could argue, that efforts towards achieving inter-national harmony is also vital in reducing humanity's carbon footprint.
It is a reminder that a civilization not only needs to flourish from within, but be able to protect itself from without.
Re:My name causes an issue with any booking on Saturday November 09, 2019 @09:05AM (#21491604)
I have a family member with just one name, officially. We usually don't use surnames in our community.

He has had problems registering his bike in India, with his name.

Re:Calculus Made Easy (1910) on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:07AM (#18255774)
And in chapter 2:

>Now if, for such a purpose, we regard 1/1,000,000 (or one millionth) as a small quantity, then 1/1,000,000 of 1/1,000,000, that is 1/1,000,000,000,000 (or one billionth) ..

1/1,000,000,000,000 is actually one trillionth

Re:Calculus Made Easy (1910) on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:07AM (#18254964)
In chapter 2:

> Let us think of x as a quantity that can grow by a small amount so as to become x+dx, where dx is the small increment added by growth. The square of this is x2+2x⋅dx+(dx)^2. The second term is not negligible because it is a first-order quantity; while the third term is of the second order of smallness, being a bit of, a bit of x^2.

It seems to me that the third term is actually a bit of a bit of x, rather than of x^2.

This is what I do in Firefox: In the current page press Ctrl+k, type the search phrase, press Alt+Enter, to open the search page in a new tab.
It will put strong pressure to align the law with implementation. If the implementation treads into injustice, it (the law) is explicitly designed to be against those who can shrug it off, rather than drown.
For me it is Lojban. But I haven't gotten around to learning it.
Could you please explain what is "isotopic composition" and "isotopic profile"? Or give some links to read up on?
Are there other programs that offer this same function?
Why do registrars charge more per year if I try to register a domain for more than one year?
I'm glad someone's using 'libre'; glad that i can easily refer to liberated open-source software without ambiguity.
Re:Day of the Tentacle Remastered on Sunday March 27, 2016 @06:29PM (#11371816)
I've been searching for this game on and off for years and could never find it! I've always been searching it as DOT or D.O.T. !!
Re:Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units on Monday February 01, 2016 @06:00PM (#11016337)
There is a movie dialogue where a man from the future tells his friend in the past:"I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember that?" It ends up making his friend rich in the future. The movie is Frequency(2000)
UBI will likely encourage unsustainable population growth. So, population growth dis-incentives need to be part of the package.
Re:American Trailer Parks: The owners are getting rich on Sunday May 24, 2015 @07:41AM (#9595962)
Less desirable jobs would offer higher pay, and the offered pay would keep increasing until the demand for clean airport toilets are met.
Re:WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @01:24AM (#8622652)
And lets a lot of others in on the joke...
Re:Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @03:24PM (#7675709)
We may eventually need to have a compulsory hospital stay (or something else) for antibiotic treatment so that a patient treated with an antibiotic does not have any leftover resistant pathogens to transfer to the public.

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