ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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4mo ago
what percentage of slot machines are in casinos
The actual metric is "Slot/video games legal outside casinos & tracks? (=1 if yes, =0.25 if in strictly limited locations with half of revenue going to charity, =0 if no)".
what percentage of marriages are gay
The actual metric is "Same-sex civil union, marriage, or extensive domestic partnership=1, limited domestic partnership=0.5, no same-sex unions=0, super-doma=-1". (And all the states score the same on that metric anyway due to the federal Supreme Court's decision.)
The entire thing is full of really dumb metrics that are unrelated to any reasonable definition of freedom.
If you disagree with the authors' weights, you can modify them yourself.
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5mo ago
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5mo ago
Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2 may qualify. This page describes the game's logistics system.
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
It occurs to me that it might be useful for moderators to have a moderator-specific badge, so that you can tell whether a user is a moderator without having to (1) see him make a moderation action or (2) go to the separate page that lists all the moderators. I think that, currently, the only badge is for having verified your email address.
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
I don't need a ton of horsepower (I'm basically looking at stuff between 200-300)
That sounds like a contradiction.
I could talk myself into a manual, but I'm fine with a conventional auto, CVT I'm iffy on.
I've seen people on 4chan's /o/ board say several times that, though CVTs often have reliability problems when they're attached to too-powerful engines (such as in Nissan cars), this is not a problem with the 76-horsepower Mitsubishi Mirage.
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8mo ago
This argument has exhausted my reserve of charity, so I will not participate further in it.
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8mo ago
We're talking about "exhorting", not "exhorted".
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8mo ago
You seem to be saying that, if a participle is active, then it must be treated exclusively as a verb, with no trace of adjective nature. I reject that assertion.
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8mo ago
As I said previously, "exhorting" is simultaneously an adjective and a verb. In its capacity as an adjective, it modifies "Akpu"; and, in its capacity as a verb, it takes "Akpu" as a subject.
Again, I am not a linguist, but that's how I model this situation.
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8mo ago
Adjectives modify nouns. Adverbs modify verbs and adjectives.
Here, "exhorting" modifies "Akpu".
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8mo ago
That's a different construction with a different meaning.
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"I saw Akpu exhorting Babulal": "exhorting" is unambiguously an adjective(+verb).
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"I saw [that] Akpu was exhorting Babulal": I'm not a linguist, but I would still call "exhorting" an adjective+verb here (acting alongside the verb "was"), even though it also can be considered part of the "was exhorting" verb construction. But that may be breaking things down too far.
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8mo ago
It's being used as a verb in your first example
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8mo ago
Sufficient Velocity
All the cool kids are on Questionable Questing.
I may be wrong, but I think that such a scheme might fall afoul of the same onerous regulations on the sale of securities that cryptocurrency has been encountering recently.
Edit: Apparently, the SEC has instituted a separate, less stringent set of rules for crowdfunding of this kind.
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9mo ago
Under the International Zoning Code, that would be 6,000 square feet (0.14 acre, 560 square meters; a 78-foot (24-meter) square).
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9mo ago
To be clear, I provided the first link only because I couldn't remember what the real-life version was called. I'll remove it now. Just ignore it and focus on the second link.
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9mo ago
An income-share agreement (or ISA) is a financial structure in which an individual or organization provides something of value (often a fixed amount of money) to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay back a percentage of his income for a fixed number of years.
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7hr ago
Gamblers allegedly think that the chance of a third-party victory is a whopping 2.5 percent. Note, however, that this single number is an aggregation of multiple betting services, whose underlying numbers (available by tapping on or hovering over the Dem. and Rep. party symbols) seem to be all over the place.
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7d ago
See Distributed Proofreaders and the Text Encoding Initiative for examples of people who do stuff of this kind collaboratively, as a volunteering project. I just do it for fun.
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8d ago
As a person who regularly calls other people "murder victims" as a muttered insult despite not being particularly homicidal, I would lean toward option 1.
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10d ago
*base 6
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