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Yeah, I'm aware. Happens to all my comments. And as the other poster correctly guesses, this was a sarcastic reference to covid.

If only we had some sort of massive example that had killed literally a million Americans. Then maybe we'd learn. Oh well. Maybe when that happens.

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Stanford represents the intersection of the personal arrogance of Silicon Valley and the class arrogance of wealth and power. I'm not sure it's actually more evil than any other up…

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The idea here is not what words a language has names for, but what words a language considers "primary". "Azure" is an English color-word, but an English speaker recognizes "azure"…

Roughly, (t)see-ma-nay or chi-ma-nay. The first sound is an affricate consonant, similar to the sounds spelled ch or j in English (e.g. the final sound of "catch" in General Americ…

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Former teacher turned tech worker here. Same opinion.

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Pure sugar may have peaked, but total calorie intake is still much higher than it was in 1970. Pew[1] has it 23% higher, which corresponds reasonably well to the rate at which weig…

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Most calculus students don't need the full formal power of rigorous analysis. Calculus, taken alone and with the elementary properties of the real numbers assumed and a few element…

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