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chimeracoder
2y ago
> Also, just to twist the knife further, old reddit users can't open full resolution images hosted on reddit anymore. Click a link and you get thrown to this url: Do you use RES? If so, try updating it to the latest version and see
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> That was in Sweden, which has naming laws. The US does not have similar laws. The US doesn't have the same sort of naming laws that are common in European countries, but there are state-specific limits around what you can have in
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> 30 is also divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. 30 is not divisible by 4.
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Base 60 (like the Babylonians and Sumerians) is actually a terrific base for daily use. Base 12 is similarly good, and more functional. 60 and 12 are both divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, which are some of the most common divisions that people
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> Do you actually do that? No, nobody does this. GP is engaging in an exercise in pedantry, under the guise that it serves some pedagogical purpose. Personally, I don't think it's particularly useful to teach people about how t
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> Not necessarily: The increased and stacking vulnerability to brain damage after concussions might not go away ever. I don't think this has been researched. There are some permanent cumulative effects of concussions, though it'
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> or try to record your snack purchase in real accounts and see which side of the balance sheet this account end up in (hint: inventories, assets). Yeah, and as I said, this makes sense for a company for which food is a relevant part of
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> Of course it would be, asset is anything of value, you're confusing with subtypes of assets. Just mujhe liability is anything you owe regardless of for how long If an office buys snacks on Monday for the office party on Friday, t
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> I must have only ever encountered it in "bookkeeper mode". That abstraction is likely what threw me off! I personally find the bookkeeper mode very confusing, and having observed others (non-accountants) using it to manage s
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> And how about food? I can understand a book having a resale value I keep in my books, but once I've eaten the hot-dog I bought it is gone forever. Perishable and consumable food wouldn't be counted as an asset in the first p
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> Unfortunately, QuickBooks won't help you understand accounting. It's not a true double-entry accounting system, at least it wasn't the last time I touched it. QuickBooks absolutely is a double-entry accounting system. Th
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> Weather nerds will get very confused by ‘a cold hurricane’ since hurricanes are tropical cyclones and tropical cyclones have a warm core by definition. Well, it's literally true: a hurricane is a tropical cyclone, and a nor'
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> What is a Nor'easter? Literally: a cold hurricane. Some people misuse the term to mean "a blizzard affecting New England and/or the Northeast", but it actually specifically refers to a storm that's been pushed
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Also, earthquakes on the east coast travel further, and are more likely to damage structures than earthquakes of the same magnitude on the west coast[0]. That's due to underlying geological differences. The magnitude is one immediately
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> I think I was yeah, the article I saw was just 3 short paragraphs. It's common for articles on breaking events (such as celebrity deaths) to begin with a short stub, and then be expanded with a full version later. Yesterday I act
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> If I am John Barth and I find out my NYTimes obituary is 242 words long Are you looking at an earlier version? The one I'm looking at is about 1800 words.
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> If the voters passed a measure, that caused substantial negative perception before it was fully implemented, then who's to blame? > Maybe the voters should have been clearer on the implementation sequencing. This is, again, beg
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2y ago
> However, criminalization may be a less worse way to mitigate the impacts of the problem. There's no data to support this claim, and copious evidence against it. > This feels like "no true Scotsman" at policy-scale: it
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> I think your point is well made. Unfortunately, there are a substantial number of drug users in Oregon (and Portland in particular) who do not have a private place to do drugs. They live in tents on the sidewalk[1]. You see people smo
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> Is it criminalization that is better for non-users or did they just do decriminalization incorrectly? They didn't even really do the decriminalization. The full law never came into effect, and the most of the treatment programs
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> It's also showing various sleep stages whens he knows she's been awake, trying to sleep. To be fair, people actually aren't that great at detecting when they (or others) are really sleeping. Especially for one's sel
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> Not sure about Germany The title of this post is " Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany".
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> Unless you drive a car or own a gun in the US, then if you do get a bad drug test result you can easily get charged with a crime. The likelihood of getting charged with a drug-related crime for testing positive for drugs on an employe
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> Nearly any amount of intoxication is vaguely illegal under disorderly conduct. It’s a catch all they can apply whenever. Fighting it and winning still costs time and money. This is a weak argument. Almost nobody is getting prosecuted f
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> This tiny detail makes the difference why employer-mandated drug tests are not a thing in Germany like it is in the US. It doesn't explain the difference, no, since the same is true about the US. In most states, consumption of m
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> I'm coming from a 4k screen, so that does play into it, but i honestly just could not read the article without changing the text properties here. It's not just using a 4K monitor. It's very difficult to read on mobile as
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> TLDR, maternal morbidity in US sources often widens the net to include things like drug overdoses. The article doesn't mention drug overdoses specifically, though it does mention cancer as a common cause not related to pregnancy t
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> > while Black women had the highest, 23.8 per 100,000 live births in 2018-2021 > So more than double the national average. For what it's worth, the current-official CDC figures also state that Black maternal mortality rate i
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> I should clarify by what I obviously meant that doctors would not recommend that as a DAILY dose - daily implying long-term use is okay. Yes, and I'm saying that this does in fact happen.
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> Yea, the dosage and labeling for sure needs work. I see 2000 IU doses regularly sold in stores and the bottle says you can take 2/day. Obviously no doctor would recommend that for anyone not sick. That is simply not true. Doctors
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