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Yes. One would want to avoid false positives for the accurate evaluation of one's vocabulary.

There are some who propound a more nuanced approach:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35704698

And for us power-users, please implement the hiding of all the bars (tab bar, location bar etc), so we can save some screen real estate on our tiny laptop screens, when using the browser with other windows side-by-side.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447

Off-topic but very important: The widespread misuse of the word 'dependency' is very very icky, linguistically speaking. This word originally meant: 'in a state of being dependent'. Usage: "Ronny hated his dependency on the kindness of strangers.". But it's being used to refer to the 'dependent', as well as the 'dependee', which is very poor form:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25575/what-is-th...

https://wikidiff.com/dependee/dependent

A friend, tried to apply for a heavy goods vehicles driver visa; but he couldn't find a simple how-to, unfortunately.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58670792

Apart from the humanitarian catastrophe, does anyone else feel vexed, at the enormous resources and man-hours lost because of the bombing campaigns in conflicts? One could argue, that efforts towards achieving inter-national harmony is also vital in reducing humanity's carbon footprint.

It is a reminder that a civilization not only needs to flourish from within, but be able to protect itself from without.

I have a family member with just one name, officially. We usually don't use surnames in our community.

He has had problems registering his bike in India, with his name.

And in chapter 2:

Now if, for such a purpose, we regard 1/1,000,000 (or one millionth) as a small quantity, then 1/1,000,000 of 1/1,000,000, that is 1/1,000,000,000,000 (or one billionth) ..

1/1,000,000,000,000 is actually one trillionth

In chapter 2:

Let us think of x as a quantity that can grow by a small amount so as to become x+dx, where dx is the small increment added by growth. The square of this is x2+2x⋅dx+(dx)^2. The second term is not negligible because it is a first-order quantity; while the third term is of the second order of smallness, being a bit of, a bit of x^2.

It seems to me that the third term is actually a bit of a bit of x, rather than of x^2.

This is what I do in Firefox: In the current page press Ctrl+k, type the search phrase, press Alt+Enter, to open the search page in a new tab.

It will put strong pressure to align the law with implementation. If the implementation treads into injustice, it (the law) is explicitly designed to be against those who can shrug it off, rather than drown.

For me it is Lojban. But I haven't gotten around to learning it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Prodigal_Son for those wondering.

Could you please explain what is "isotopic composition" and "isotopic profile"? Or give some links to read up on?

Are there other programs that offer this same function?

Why do registrars charge more per year if I try to register a domain for more than one year?

I'm glad someone's using 'libre'; glad that i can easily refer to liberated open-source software without ambiguity.

I've been searching for this game on and off for years and could never find it! I've always been searching it as DOT or D.O.T. !!

There is a movie dialogue where a man from the future tells his friend in the past:"I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember that?" It ends up making his friend rich in the future. The movie is Frequency(2000)

UBI will likely encourage unsustainable population growth. So, population growth dis-incentives need to be part of the package.

Less desirable jobs would offer higher pay, and the offered pay would keep increasing until the demand for clean airport toilets are met.

And lets a lot of others in on the joke...

We may eventually need to have a compulsory hospital stay (or something else) for antibiotic treatment so that a patient treated with an antibiotic does not have any leftover resistant pathogens to transfer to the public.

I saw a documentary in which it was said that another disincentive to antibiotic research is that its very use causes its effectiveness (for the general population) to reduce, due to antibiotic resistance. So that it would eventually stop selling.

It is not so in the case of medicines for BP, diabetes etc.

We may eventually need to have a compulsory hospital stay (or something else) for antibiotic treatment so that a patient treated with an antibiotic does not have any leftover resistant pathogens to transfer to the public.

If you mention what your system is, then it could help others in making buying decisions. This would then send a message to hardware vendors that linux support gives them visibility and appreciation.

Credit cards are more secure than Debit cards, but they lack one important feature: protection from overdrawing more than the amount in the account (overspending). Why don't banks offer this type of credit cards?

It is ISRO: Indian Space Research Organisation

There are various indoor plants that are said to help with indoor pollution.

When local governments didn't have such capabilities, most people ignored these regulations because those had a practically insignificant effect on their lives. But when the local governments get this capability, all those ignored regulations will suddenly become significant. And also, all new subsequent regulations will have strong public focus.

While people ignore regulations which have very little practical harm in being ignored, they also ignore some which later turn out to be very harmful. See near the end of: http://dohanews.co/post/53425474389/five-villaggio-trial-def...