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A Halloween Carol

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[after a minute] "Okay, I think I've got it, thanks. Can I--" "oOOOooOOooo!"
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Cthulhux
196 days ago
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This is the funniest xkcd there will ever be. Sorry, future xkcd.
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deebee
195 days ago
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“Do you know the Bodega, in the next street but one, at the corner?” Scrooge inquired.

“I should hope I did,” replied the lad.

“An intelligent boy!” said Scrooge. “A remarkable boy! Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize bag of Fun Size Butterfingers?—Not the little Sharing Size Box of Minis: the big one?”
America City, America
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196 days ago
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[after a minute] "Okay, I think I've got it, thanks. Can I--" "oOOOooOOooo!"

Precision vs Accuracy

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'Barack Obama is much less likely than the average cat to jump in and out of cardboard boxes for fun' is low precision, but I'm not sure about the accuracy.
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Cthulhux
523 days ago
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jlvanderzwan
523 days ago
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Me being from a country where , and . in numbers mean the opposite thing: "Obama weighs how much exactly?!"
jakar
523 days ago
About seventeen catmasses
group7
523 days ago
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Good!
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523 days ago
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'Barack Obama is much less likely than the average cat to jump in and out of cardboard boxes for fun' is low precision, but I'm not sure about the accuracy.

Sicherheit im Internet - worauf beim Datenschutz geachtet werden sollte!

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Jede Handlung im Internet hinterlässt beabsichtigt oder unbeabsichtigt Spuren. Dabei wird der Datenschutz häufig vernachlässigt, indem leichtfertig persönliche Informationen preisgegeben werden. Weiterlesen »

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Cthulhux
1176 days ago
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Das ist witzig, weil das Blog Disqus einsetzt.
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If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

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If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.
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Low-Background Metal

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The only effect on the history books were a few confusing accounts of something called 'Greek fire.'
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Cthulhux
1396 days ago
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Low-Background Heavy Metal, anyone?
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fxer
1396 days ago
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I’ve heard of low background steel, which is a great story of cutting up scuttled WWI battleships
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

I didn’t know about the Roman lead used for shielding
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100415/full/news.2010.186.html

But now I are gotta find out why freshly mined lead has radioactive lead-210 in it but in old mined lead it has already decayed, since the lead atoms themselves all being the same age. Must have to do with trace elements decaying into lead-210
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zwol
1366 days ago
Yeah. Lead-210 has a half-life of about 20 years, but it’s part of the decay chain for uranium-238, and there’s enough of that in lead _ore_ that basically all freshly mined lead has some lead-210 in it. Along with a bunch of other radioisotopes, but those are different chemical elements so they are separated out by smelting.
webscraping
1396 days ago
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great explanation with just some pictures. I loved it much.
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rickhensley
1398 days ago
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I mean, that is *one* solution to the problem...
Ohio
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1398 days ago
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The only effect on the history books were a few confusing accounts of something called 'Greek fire.'

Turtle Sandwich Standard Model

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It's possible the bread and shell can be split into a top and bottom flavor, and some models additionally suggest Strange Bread and Charm Shells.
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Cthulhux
1444 days ago
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I find it confusing how Randall misunderstands that the turtle is actually its own shell.
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DragonJTS
1444 days ago
Beep boop what is humour?
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1443 days ago
Also the sandwich is actually its own bread.
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It's possible the bread and shell can be split into a top and bottom flavor, and some models additionally suggest Strange Bread and Charm Shells.
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