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Comment #38837264
It's been a while since I watch that video, but I'm pretty sure he mentioned the different team working on it reason as well, and the rest of the video was only explaining the inte…
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Comment #36474908
The article is talking about colorectal cancer and bladder cancer, y chromosome owners can get those cancers too whether or not they have female phenotype or not.
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Comment #36474679
Think of it as men = "people with y chromosome" varible setting, or a "People with y chromosome (hereinafter referred to as men)" in a contract. The scientifically accurate way to …
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Comment #36307939
Major charities does the same. I have heard anthropologists tell anecdotes about Red Cross refusing to help a village just a couple of hours drive away from their outposts because …
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Comment #34448618
Good to know he was professional people he work with - for what it is worth, I am not saying he is not good at what he does, and whatever personal shortcomings he might have, it's …
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Comment #34438294
And being a general pos, horrible husband/father amongst other things... I usually bit my tongue when westerners fanboy about him since I don't want to be the party pooper but yeah…
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Comment #34436478
FWIW, no one use his "real name" even here in HK. He has a chinese pseudonym that most people use, but even Jackie Chan is much more widely known/used than his actual legal name. T…
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Comment #33782492
Because people sending dick pics and spam had been a known issue for ages, yet this change came soon after China complaining about people sending protest flyers, rolled out in Chin…
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Comment #33431857
People who have not heard of King before Twitter and only hear of him from Twitter are not going to be the people buying his books. So even if there were significant amount of peop…
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Comment #32745888
Money order in post office / banks / WU. The place generating the order will usual check your ID but they do not require you to include that info on what's sent to the recipient.
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Comment #32149090
Netflix doesn't sell you movies, it sells you access to their services. If you look at their site now, it offers you to "create or restart your membership" to their "streaming serv…
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Comment #31833892
In my personal experience Airbnb is good when you are travelling with a large group of people (6+) and/or with children. You can get a house with 3-4 rooms, a few bathrooms, a func…
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Comment #31805932
> The survey did not ask women to explain the reasons for their regret. This seems a strange question to omit in the survey. There's a big difference between regretting because: - …
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Comment #31555214
Onyx Boox are basically android tablets with e-ink that you can enable Play store on. I tried a couple of display models in stores and it seems quite responsive. Couldn't justify t…
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Comment #31362289
It says he earned a few thousand pounds and recouped his cost upon his return. He would have earned a small amount of money and leveraged on that burst of fame and networking it br…
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Comment #29792486
English is not my first language so I wouldn't presume I know more than people at Merriam Webster - but that sounds iffy to me. Sure, I don't say deb-t, but isn't the b still there…
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Comment #29586463
Dogra Magra is a tough one, it is known to be hard to get through even for native speakers. From what I've heard (I have not attempted to read it), it's both dense in information, …
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Comment #29576672
First of all, few "literary great" are untranslated, the existing translations may not be perfect, as an amateur I would not presume that I can do any better. In addition, I think …
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Comment #29263313
Which honestly feels a bit silly to me, because the Chinese penjing community are also obsessed with the details of the craft - may be to a slightly less degree than their Japanese…
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Comment #29183994
Often time when I look up a pronunciation video, it's for a language I'm learning and I have a vague idea of how the word is supposed to sound, but not sure on things like tonality…
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Comment #28875583
It wouldn't be as bad as you might think without prediction - back in the days with "dumb" input method, the word choices would be listed by frequency of use, and you'd remember wh…
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Comment #28781634
I'm not in the US (HK) but me and a quite a few people I know have a dozen cards or more. I only regularly use 2-3 of them but the rest are useful for various occasions. eg, Card A…
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Comment #28780951
I've some sort of stock graphics library in my mind. For example, I cannot visualize the apple I have in my hand, even if I consciously study it for a few minutes and note out the …
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Comment #28780815
They also let you cancel on their app or talking to the counter. The only "catch" is you have to do it at least 4 days ahead of the next payment or it will still go through one mor…
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Comment #27970729
I'm from HK, the sounds in my name only really make sense in Cantonese - it is difficult to pronounce in most Chinese dialect, even I get stuck trying to say it in Mandarin myself.…