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That "repurposing" is more morphology than grammar. You also frequently find in Indo-European languages multiple cases having overlapping morphology, but that doesn't necessarily c…

Or learn Hittite. It's got the oldest corpus in the Indo-European language family. You've got your standard assortment of Indo-European cases. Grammatical gender is animate/inanima…

There's a lot of disagreement about Sumerian grammar. If you like to argue, that might be a bonus.

There's quite a bit more negligence going on here than a typical murder—unless you've got some information that the cops were out to intentionally harm the victim. The public would…

This guy needs to be compensated for his pain and suffering, his economic losses due to his disability, and for the care he'll need for the rest of his life. Jailing the people who…

The big exception to this I've seen: The functioning bit of software was written in an oddball language that was already niche decades ago and the pool of developers who are compet…

> You do not print a lower receiver compatible with standard parts. I've personally seen 3d-printed polymer Glock frames and AR-15 lowers. I've personally seen them stand up to sus…

Correct. Other countries regulate the pressure-bearing parts instead. It probably started off with a safety rationale (those parts are generally proof tested), but those parts ALSO…

There are plenty of 3D printed guns that are good for more than one shot. The classic examples are 3D printed Glock-style frames and AR-15 lower receivers. As far as US gun laws ar…

There's a lot of people out there who blame their epidurals for lower back pain and the like, but the evidence for causality is not there.

If it were as simple as waving a magic wand and fixing the epidural or bringing on the anesthetic gas, we wouldn't have this problem. The consensus seems to be shifting more toward…

It's not as if people are pushing random drugs into epidurals. There's a small number of drugs that are commonly used and the differences come down to selecting the classes of drug…

The problem that The Retrievals deals with is epidurals failing during cesarians, which, they're quick to emphasize, is painful, open abdominal surgery. The not-so-simple solution …

There's selection bias. High risk deliveries tend to start at or convert to cesarian at the first sign of trouble.

You can pay half that on eBay at the moment.

I downvoted the original comment because grammar pedantry adds nothing here. But if you're going to correct a pedant, you've got to be right. You're applying a test you don't under…

Even those annual blood tests can be problematic. When I first started getting annual blood tests there were two values in particular that were consistently elevated. A bunch more …

I did an undergraduate electrical engineering degree some years ago. Building a CPU much like this one was the final project in our second digital design class. The difference here…

I wasn’t talking about military parades.

In my experience as an American, most of the parades I'm personally familiar with are organized by local groups rather than the government. Maybe you can read some ideology into th…

> We're not anti-gun. Just anti the "only used explicitly for killing people" kind of gun. That doesn't square with Canadian classifying tasers (purely defensive, non-lethal) and a…

With very few exceptions, you can’t acquire handguns in Canada anymore. They’ve also banned most semiautomatic rifles. Maybe Canadian public opinion isn’t anti-gun, but the current…

There's this notion from the Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States (1915) that accepting a pardon is an implicit admission of guilt. Therefore, a person can refuse a pardon. …

Clocking in and out serves little purpose if you're salaried.

I wear Lycra, ride a funny-looking carbon road bike, and average about 3,000 miles a year. In college, I rode a beater bike everywhere for transportation instead of owning a car. I…