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Diabetic Man with Gene-Edited Cells Makes Insulin–No Transplant Drugs Required

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Simplistic 'Fight or Flight' Idea Undervalues the Brain's Predictive Powers

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The battle for America's last Live Nation-free city

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Ruby 3.3

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dduugg
·2 года назад·discuss
https://archive.is/fY0jZ
dduugg
·2 года назад·discuss
> "Dissociation from Birth" section sounds interesting until you learn that all alphabetic systems arose from a similar process, e.g. aleph was a drawing of an ox's head, etc.

My understanding of Korean (Hangul) is that the alphabet design is based on the shape of mouth in articulation, sonics, category, etc. of the letters themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#Letter_design

This is known generally as "featural writing system": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featural_writing_system
dduugg
·2 года назад·discuss
Doesn't it seem like a reasonable answer in this age could be to do away with the time function of a microwave altogether?
dduugg
·2 года назад·discuss
https://archive.is/m7Ewi
dduugg
·2 года назад·discuss
TIL. I thought this would be related to King Biscuit Time, "the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history", but apparently it's just a coincidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Biscuit_Time
dduugg
·2 года назад·discuss
https://archive.is/0Dh2I
dduugg
·3 года назад·discuss
> Now we just need an agency to safeguard us against misusing "less" when "fewer" would be correct

Genuinely curious, is this for pedantry, or does the word choice matter? Since the opposite of both is "more", why is there a need for a distinction in one direction and not the other?