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notacanuckskibum t1_jadtxcg wrote
Reply to At a certain point in the future, prosthetics will be considered an unfair advantage in sports, rather than a handicap. by Reapers-Shotguns
They already are in some cases. What was that South African runners name? Pstorias? Something like that.
notacanuckskibum t1_ja6wppn wrote
Reply to comment by Chaosfox_Firemaker in It's impossible to have more descendants than your ancestors. by Ok-Acanthisitta-6997
Ah, i get it now. I misread it.
notacanuckskibum t1_ja4s27d wrote
Reply to comment by Chaosfox_Firemaker in It's impossible to have more descendants than your ancestors. by Ok-Acanthisitta-6997
Yes. But that doesn’t make them your ancestors
notacanuckskibum t1_j6pcfsq wrote
Reply to comment by Viv3210 in Eli5: when will oceans actually start rising? by Just_a_happy_artist
Check out what has been happening with high tides in Venice.
notacanuckskibum t1_j51408a wrote
Reply to comment by _Z_E_R_O in TIL The song 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton is rooted to the 9to5 movement in which secretaries and working women stood up for their rights to be treated equal in the workplace by Minnesotan-Gaming
The term "spinster" for an unmarried woman derives from their most common occupation, Spinning yarn.
notacanuckskibum t1_j1sangs wrote
Reply to comment by NorthImpossible8906 in [OC] North American cities by number of major sports championships (Updated December 2022) by twintig5
Geolocation on a map would be good. Does hockey skew north? Does soccer skew coastal? I suspect so, but it would be easier to see.
notacanuckskibum t1_j1rb7ib wrote
Reply to [OC] Women face greater Imposter Syndrome than Men, when starting Software Engineering Degrees, despite having similar high school averages by GeorgeDaGreat123
We need a control group, maybe students in another discipline. We can't tell if this effect is specific to software engineer, or whether teenage boys are just more self confident in general.
notacanuckskibum t1_iyoqsgq wrote
Reply to comment by factorialfun in [OC] Birth months of FIFA World Cup players. The top three are January, February and March, possibly due to the "Relative age effect" by desfirsit
And also by country
notacanuckskibum t1_ixdswr4 wrote
Reply to 2021 vs 2022 Market cap change in the Tech Industry (Top 10 tech stocks by market cap as of 21 Nov 2022) [OC] by Savoy_Cabbage
Ugly presentation in IMHO.
It would be better if the 2022 drop started from the top of the 2021 rise, so we could see the net change.
It would also be better if the Y axis was % of Jan 2021 value rather than absolute dollars. For stockholders a $10 drop on a $20 stock is a much bigger issue that a $20 drop of a $400 stock.
notacanuckskibum t1_iudqkz3 wrote
Reply to comment by Disconn3cted in [OC] How employable different languages are in Singapore by hannigong4dmi
If your first language isn't English/Mandarin/Malay/something Indian, why are you living in Singapore? Probably because you were invited there to do a specific job.
notacanuckskibum t1_iu7adhd wrote
Reply to comment by npdewey83 in TIL: Bill Medley is one of the original members of The Righteous Brothers (famous for their definitive 1965 cover of "Unchained Melody"), but he also sang on the duet "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", from the 1987 sound track of Dirty Dancing. by tapdown
Yeah. You’ve lost that loving feeling was much more a Medley song
notacanuckskibum t1_iu71gfe wrote
Reply to comment by TheWausauDude in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
Yes. More a luggable than a laptop. But we were heading into rural Norway with Land Rovers and stuff. The ability to bring a computer of any type along was mind blowing at the time.
notacanuckskibum t1_iu6xe11 wrote
Reply to comment by ItDoesntMatter59 in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
Things were changing so fast it’s hard to remember exactly where we were in which year. 1989 would have been about Windows 1.0.
notacanuckskibum t1_iu6x2qv wrote
Reply to comment by TheWausauDude in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
The one where the keyboard acts as a lid, with a 3” screen and twin 5” floppy drives? I remember working on one of those. Geophysics and charting.
notacanuckskibum t1_itl8q3f wrote
Reply to comment by YeahIGotNuthin in Bananarama may not have been one of the most successful bands of the 1980s, but it certainly was one of the most 80s bands of the 1980s. by L0st_in_the_Stars
bop, bop, do be do wah.
notacanuckskibum t1_jeal6ez wrote
Reply to comment by KingOfTheHlll in The reason we scream when were scared is to try and scare off animals attacking us. by Razur_1
This. One human could fall prey to an animal, but bunches of humans are a super predator. Working in teams is our super power.