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It looks like the percentile rank is the percentage of values that are below a score (so, just a number), while the percentile is the group of all of the values that are below a given percentile rank. If your mass is at the 89th percentile (89% of the population has less mass than you), then the per...

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They're all in pot p_ω, the one after all of the finitely-labelled pots.

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A theory I seen kicking around reddit: White's Pearl's gem is on her stomach, our Pearl's gem is on her forehead, Pink's gem is on her stomach, and White's gem is on her forehead. This suggests that White's Pearl used to be Pink's pearl, and vice versa. This ends up being...

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So hey, a new episode happened two days ago.

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I don't get the appeal of this meme. Origin of it aside, I think what makes it appealing is how easy it is to encode the reference in other forms. Since all you need is the four-panel format of one thing, two things, two things, and two things with one of them sideways, it's easy to hide in otherwi...

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Tactics is thinking about how a move impacts the next turn. Strategy is thinking about how it impacts the next 1000 turns.

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That the vast majority of the symbiotes apparently die seem of no concern to the Goa'uld, so I would say that they are not there just to serve as incubators. So the Goa'uld in power are exploiting what is basically child labor for their species in order to have strong, dependent armies to maintain ...

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So you have a modular PSU, with detachable cables? If so, the ports on the back aren't necessarily the same pinout as PCIe power connectors.

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Speculation on the god-like nature of the diamonds: Yellow and Blue both seemed to be more aware of the dreamworld than the others (which also fits with Steven being able to go into people's dreams), though Garnet also kind of knew what was going on. Pink saw herself as bringing the gif...

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gmalivuk wrote:https://t.co/cMg1ixK24B [pdf - my phone just downloads it and closes the browser so I can't get the non-Twitterfied url]

Here you go https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/fil ... of-NTA.pdf

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New episodes dropping this week.

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My guess is

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It almost looks like some sort of mold growth.

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CorruptUser wrote:But I also have the same thinking about what the ideal US would look like for the Democrats, and frankly I find that world to be downright terrifying...

I'm curious what you think that would be.

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The problem is that I am not connected to the internet so it wont let me register until it sends an email. I just want to download the software from the CD and be done, but it wants to register with my email first. Ah, I interpreted [I] don't care about this computer being hooked up to the internet...

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Create a throwaway email account?

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pseudoidiot wrote:That must be from the Australia MMO

Pretty close, it's actually the New Zealand MMO.

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How are you figuring that (x+1)/(x^2-x-6) doesn't have an asymptote at 0?

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Do you have a citation for that? You mean of my last post? It's my take on: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/981859214380462081 (Had to go hunting for it. It had fallen off the 'headlines', from my lurk-without-login glance at twitter, but still glad I'm not adding to all that weird stuff...

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The robot uprising has begun. SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in Tempe, Ariz., has died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on a public road. The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human ...

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flicky1991 wrote:Why is the formatting at the bottom of this page broken?

Drunkenness?

Freezeblade's and Ginger's posts have mismatched quote/spoiler tags.

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So then "gone" would be pronounced like "gon" (as in polygon) for you?

For me, "gone" rhymes with "lawn".

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360 degrees x 4 x 1/2 Radian = Surface Area of Sphere 41,252 degrees square 41,252 divided by 4 = Area of a Circle in degrees square 10,313.24031 41,252 multipied by 1/3 Radian = Volume of a Sphere in Cubic Degrees 787,873.524 Area typically has dimensions of length squared, and volume is length cu...

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Question about the end of movie:

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Patents can't really be shortened without losing their usefulness, though. At least for mechanical devices, the time from patent application to market can be measured in decades in some industries. Unless you want all large industrial companies to stop disclosing any inventions, I wouldn't shorten ...

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Have you tried sprinkling in some print statements to verify which array indices are actually being assigned?

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Sableagle wrote:... and then nobody will be able to read The Lord of the Rings except one old professor of literature who still has a rare fifth edition locked away somewhere.

They just added elf and wizard emoji in Unicode 10, so a translation is theoretically possible.

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Thesh wrote:Twitter.

I hear they've finally started to make money.

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The biggest downside being that many devices haven't been as secure as they should be, leading to them getting hacked and e.g. used for botnets.

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So an odd update to the situation. For reference, here's how everything is connected electrically: Keyboard/Mouse -> Motherboard USB -> Power Supply -> UPS -> Wall outlet Grounding wire -> Power strip socket ground -> Wall outlet on a adjacent wall Grounding myself on the wire often causes the speak...

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I would say though that there is another factor as well as the voting system that keeps the system two-party: The length and expense of your campaigns. If we contrast with the UK which also has a pretty strong fptp system, the UK has five mainstream parties - and more if you count Northern Ireland:...

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Here's my thought:

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Something hit the sun, causing a large splash of plasma on one side visible from Earth. Panic ensued as the sun seemed to be getting farther and farther away, as if the Earth was knocked out of orbit. The last thing I remember before waking up is what looked like black tentacles encroaching the sun ...

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Vsauce did a real life trolley problem experiment for their Youtube Red series, observing how people actually react in a (simulated) situation where they have to choose between doing nothing and switching the train to the track with one person instead of five. The video is free to watch, here.

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The new YouTube UI has been hella buggy for me, especially for comments. If I watch two videos consecutively and scroll through the comments on the second, I occasionally see the text of comments from the first video in completely unrelated comments.

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If she's in a one-party consent state, she could record inappropriate calls without having to tell the other person.

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I started playing at midnight on Christmas eve, and called it quits 2 hours later when You have to choose between telling Sayori "I love you" or "I'll be your friend forever". I ended up not being able to fall asleep after that, due to thinking about what would be the right c...

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Chen wrote:...there's a scene with the Emperor and Vader talking where the Emperor says "I have no doubt this boy is the offspring of Anakin Skywalker".

I'm pretty sure that wasn't in the theatrical release.

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My interpretation is not that Pfhorrest was saying that you sound like a man per se . I took his statement as a caution that all splitting , regardless of the source, starts to sounds alike, and that you might not realize when your own defensive mechanism mirrors the intolerance of your enemies--su...

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natraj wrote:til that the person who voiced tony the tiger also sang "you're a mean one mr. grinch" which disproportionately delights me

He's also the voice of Kirby the vacuum from The Brave Little Toaster. Also, "Thurl Ravenscroft" is a pretty epic-sounding name.

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