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by MLR 5mo ago
From glancing at the numbers it looks pretty similar, but there's been a huge drop in births in California in the last 10-20 years so it's probably the last few years where that will be true. Peak birth year was 1990 after booming
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by MLR 7mo ago
It's an odd thing, brutalism is almost universally hated by the general public but there's a seemingly endless stream of people who are willing to wax lyrical about why stained concrete blocks are actually the pinnacle of architec
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by MLR 10mo ago
By the by, one of the people specifically pointed out in this article was apparently paying a total tax bill of 17 million dollars against a net worth of 2 billion, and whatever tiny increase in taxes he would've ended up paying was en
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by MLR 11mo ago
It's a very common thing, it's called gubbing in the circles I know it from. There are services called betting exchanges that essentially facilitate peer-to-peer gambling, they make money from commission so they don't care at
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by MLR 11mo ago
That's not the basis the award is decided on, I presume it may have been in the early years of the award, but generally it's given as a lifetime achievement kind of thing - the recipients are often decades removed from their most
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by MLR 1y ago
Not who you were replying to, but I think I understand where you're coming from so I just wanted to contribute my point of view. I think it's becoming more and more clear that the thing we talk about as Autism doesn't exist a
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by MLR 1y ago
If it's actually only a 2.7% decline in employment relative to baseline then the increase in total wages paid would have to be very small to make this a bad policy. I agree that a lost job should carry some kind of premium compared to
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by MLR 1y ago
Winged and legged are still pronounced like that too, at least by some. Interestingly, as an addition to the parent comment, there's a certain point in time where a lot of -ed words are often spelt -'d, which presumably is from th
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by MLR 2y ago
The study in Wales and a second study in the US were about herpes zoster (shingles), they both seem to support a link to Alzheimer's and, from what I read, the second study mentions other dementias. https://alz-journals.onli
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by MLR 2y ago
Do you know if there have been any of these kinds of recreations done on contemporary languages/dialects/accents, or I guess even created ones, to test the accuracy of these methods? It sounds like something that should obviously
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by MLR 2y ago
Regular rail is ruinously expensive in this country too, East West Rail, which is an unelectrified <100mph railway, is probably going to end up costing in the region of £10bn and take twenty years to build. Even local tram projects with
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by MLR 4y ago
Even from that point of view this isn't as simple an equation as you might think, old people dying is probably a positive for the economy (not an economist, don't quote me on that), and less people being born may be a net positive
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by MLR 4y ago
It seems a bit of a weird political move for Ukraine to draw attention to dubious post Second World War territorial annexations, a large amount of the territory of the country was acquired after what was basically a war of aggression agains
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by MLR 4y ago
This seems to be pseudo-history at best, the saying is centuries old in some form or another - Wiktionary has "it never rains, but it pours" at 1772, and even then it was being given as a trite saying. Maybe it popularised the mod
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by MLR 4y ago
As far as I'm aware Japanese immigration policy for skilled workers is relatively lenient, it's just not generally considered an attractive place to migrate to from places that generate a lot of migrants.
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by MLR 6y ago
The UK and Ireland impose passport controls on the EU (Common Travel Area) which won't change, with regards to customs checks we're engaging in a bit of legal theatre to claim that NI is remaining inside the UK customs area but de
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by MLR 6y ago
The plan in the UK IIRC is to mix hydrogen (10-20% I think) into the existing mains gas supply to lower the carbon intensity somewhat, in the long term though we're trying to replace boilers with heat pumps for domestic housing.
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by MLR 6y ago
Something like 60% of the UK rail network is unelectrified and recent electrification projects have been ruinously expensive, we need something to fill in the gaps and hydrogen definitely has potential.
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by MLR 6y ago
That's basically the plan for the UK network going forward, electrification has been ludicrously expensive so most of our rail network (in miles) is serviced by diesel trains, even some of the major lines have had full electrification
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by MLR 6y ago
Old English had a letter called thorn that would eventually be replaced with the modern th or a y (ye olde is just said the old). The y^e form was apparently used for the King James Bible in 1611 so it's plausible it might still have b
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by MLR 6y ago
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-pooling-fca-avoids-co2-fines...
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by MLR 6y ago
That was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and during a time when the UK also had direct and indirect control of exploitable colonies, I don't think the debt to GDP figures of the time are particularly relevant to modern nation
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by MLR 7y ago
Hardcore History covers some important bits of the Roman Republic, including Caesar's conquest of Gaul, that episode is currently free too - https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-hol... Punic Nightma
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by MLR 7y ago
They were independent in the interwar period, technically lots of the Western USSR/former Russian Empire formed independent states after the First World War but only the Baltic states are usually considered to have been occupied by the
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by MLR 7y ago
The most likely scenario is that their predictions at the time have been surprisingly neatly counterbalanced by what actually happened, some big factors off the top of my head: 1. The industrial/economic/demographic collapse in th
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Liquid air could help keep the lights on(bbc.co.uk)
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by MLR 8y ago
IIRC oil comes in many different grades, I believe North Sea Oil is a higher grade/more expensive than general US oil (West Texas Intermediate I think it's called), so we export North Sea Oil and then buy cheaper oil for our own n
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by MLR 8y ago
I imagine that if one is being as technical as possible then sex is pretty unambiguous, i.e. egg/female sex cell producing -> female, sperm/male sex cell producing -> male. Of course that leads to complications when you have
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by MLR 8y ago
The budget cuts and (resulting?) move to "clickbait" articles and reporting has started to show pretty badly in the last year or two, the amount of basic errors and typos they let through is definitely far higher than it used to b
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by MLR 8y ago
I'd imagine that prohibitions against homosexuality existed in (at least) the pre-British Muslim dynasties, no?

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