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> So you could, even knowing only "phobia" and being able to guess "hippo", have a good basis for your choice. Except "hippo-" is from Greek and means "horse".

How do they know they're your first pick? Unless things have changed, you don't provide a ranking until the universities have made their offers.

It's like Boost Lambda2 or Boost HOF. Boost Hana also has a similar feature. This seems to be more fully featured than all of those though. Maybe some could be ported over to Lambd…

The Eurostat style guide puts the Euro sign in front of the numbers for English text: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... I think the general rule is th…

There was no monthly fee.

At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.

They do, albeit without a heart rate monitor. https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.ABL-100WE-1A/ With a heart rate monitor it's considerably more expensive.

Nokia decided to use the LGPL and the KDE Free Qt agreement was then updated to specify LGPL.

You don't have to use all the fuel produced. Presumably some could be used to make plastics and everything else we make from oil. You could also bury some.

> For instance we don't install backup engines on the off chance that all 2 engines fail. We used to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

This isn't a case of slot machines where they got the logic for the house edge wrong. This is a case of double redeeming winnings because the machine would give you your winnings b…

That technique is something you get pretty much automatically if you use an electric toothbrush.

You need a lot more infrastructure for trains, and more people to maintain everything.

There's also a prescription charge, so it's not completely free.

Visa and Mastercard (and American Express) are international networks. How could any individual central bank provide that?

There was until Google and Mozilla decided W3C wasn't moving fast enough and introduced WHATWG.

Target is a bad example, because they don't charge you the same no matter how you pay. If you use a Target red card you get a 5% discount.

Mathematics isn't a humanity but it isn't a science either. It's purer than a science, demanding logical proof, not just evidence.

P = (v^2)/R. It's R that stays constant, not P.

A heating element is basically just a resistor, right? Which means if you run one on half the design voltage it'll draw half the current it's meant to and produce ¼ the power.

In English, if the names are separated by a comma it generally indicates that they're in surname, given names order. I think this is to make sorting easier, since names are sorted …

They don't pay corporation tax on your salary. They do pay employer's NI, though.

Why not just show your subscription feed instead?

The Open Source Definition is effectively identical to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Given that the FSF plays games to pretend the GFDL is a Free license when it really shou…

T + 1 millisecond seems impossible. Light can only travel a couple of hundred miles in a millisecond.