> Among the first entries was a reference to an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology authored by Splatt and Weedon. I love it when we all acknowledge that everyone has an internal 4-year-old who finds this kind of thing very, very funny.
Nominative determinism in hospital medicine (2015)
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#52Gastroenterology 3 (1 in 338) 8 (1 in 127) Freshwater, Kitchen, Salmon
I mean, they're food related, but I wouldn't have said related to gastroenterology.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's almost certainly a simulation. If you live in apartments, how often have you seen your neighbors do laundry or bring home groceries? There's also this (short clip, start at 2:00). Note the reference to "The Big Lie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs6UcgiDwg0&t=120 A 1953 German book's leader of Mars is called the "Elon": https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/13441550614258237... I think Roko's Basilisk wi…
The groceries thing is funny, but it's really just "what's the likelihood that in X years of living in the same place, your random 5 minutes out of the week are the same as your neighbor's random 5 minutes of the week".
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#54Sadly it's on statistics, not concurrent programming.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's almost certainly a simulation. If you live in apartments, how often have you seen your neighbors do laundry or bring home groceries? There's also this (short clip, start at 2:00). Note the reference to "The Big Lie": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs6UcgiDwg0&t=120 A 1953 German book's leader of Mars is called the "Elon": https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/13441550614258237... I think Roko's Basilisk wi…
If you live in apartments, how often have you seen your neighbors do laundry or bring home groceries? Reminds me a real story where a guy found a USB stick nearby a city building. It contained a shivering warning about your neighbors. The stick owner lived in that building and some day asked himself this question and tried to watch what his neighbors do routinely. He followed some of them and found out that they simp…
"There was a family living in a house. There was a father, a mother, and a son. The family all looked tired. Nothing ever really happened. The father drove places and got lost and walked around the house. The mother mostly cleaned and worried. The son would stand and sit and stand."
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#56I once had my car towed by a person with the last name "Pullum". If the Universe really is some kind of Simulation, I suspect the QA's are getting lazy with the NPC names. Because that's EXACTLY how I name fake persons in unit tests. A police officer named Buddy Kopp, a traffic engineer named John Lane, a bbq pitmaster named Tray Burnham, etc.
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#57Sadly I do not know if said med student became a pathologist ...
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#58I once had my car towed by a person with the last name "Pullum". If the Universe really is some kind of Simulation, I suspect the QA's are getting lazy with the NPC names. Because that's EXACTLY how I name fake persons in unit tests. A police officer named Buddy Kopp, a traffic engineer named John Lane, a bbq pitmaster named Tray Burnham, etc.
Can't forget the president of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser. Bowser is the main antagonist of Nintendo's Mario franchise.
He was the lawyer who successfully defended Nintendo against Universal Studios over the copyright for Donkey Kong.
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#59I once had my car towed by a person with the last name "Pullum". If the Universe really is some kind of Simulation, I suspect the QA's are getting lazy with the NPC names. Because that's EXACTLY how I name fake persons in unit tests. A police officer named Buddy Kopp, a traffic engineer named John Lane, a bbq pitmaster named Tray Burnham, etc.
During the Euro crisis a decade ago, the central bank of Cyprus (which had to be bailed out along with Greece) was headed by a gentleman whose first name was Panicos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panicos_O._Demetriades