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> Is there any reason to believe so? Yes, specificially this article: http://haggardhawksblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/ampersand.html

Re "I doubt anybody has ever said I per se I" (in the context of alphabet recitation) may I draw your attention to this article[0]: > Up until as recently as the mid 1900s, it was …

You're missing that "& per se &" would still have been called that even if it wasn't the last item in the list. If the order was "...y, & and z" you'd pronounce it "why and per se …

No it isn't. The first "and" in "and per se and" isn't a conjunction. So you could actually say: I per se I, O per se O, and and per se and.

Don't confuse cookie laws with data laws

These two statements are not incompatible.

Taking the question at face value, the answer is: massive amounts of capital. And barriers to entry like that make the 'the free market will solve this' argument less convincing.

Do you think other cultures, who care less about work, care less about food and shelter? Or would you care to elaborate on why work is more necessary for food and shelter in Americ…

"Aquanauts". "Water sailors". Since the water is implied by the sailor bit (astronauts and aeronauts being effectively "sailors but in space"/"sailors but on the air"), couldn't we…

> Twofer Goofer HQ's adherence to strict "perfect" rhyme can be tricky for those slant rhyme-inclined. And yet one puzzle they hammer Bard for failing is "Cactus Practice". What ac…

(These rules apply to American English, not British English. I can't speak for other languages and variants.)

there's nothing "bad" about phrases like "impressively easy" or "significantly larger". OP just has a weird phobia of utterly reasonable adverbs.

Oh cool, so adverbs are banned now, are they?

Being blunt, it sounds to me like you're using wildly inaccurate personality stereotypes to generalise horribly about both software engineers and artists. A software dev who is inc…

No because: > for the optical illusion to work, you must place the virtual camera at the position of one of your eyes and close the other one.

Thanks! I'm never sure how the title guidelines (that prohibit editorializing) apply to tweets where there is no title.

If you spent 20 mins looking, it's not their recommendation system that's failing. It's that you don't like their content (or how their content is portrayed). The recommendation sy…

I love the idea that social media accounts, like wine, are more valuable if they're sufficiently aged.

I tried aabbccdd... to make a spiral and it broke at m.

It has been described as 'mansplaining as a service'