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Edited by MacronNotes on Apr 13th 2023 at 3:16:47 PM
Formerly G.G.
Are there jobs where you can work at home under legitimate company like Amazon?
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That's not nearly sufficient enough. I waa talking about armaments and tools for self-protection and security as well as safety and nonviolence for the society at-large. Martial arts, like guns, are only one form of the broader picture for which these concepts apply.
Have any threads reached the legendary spontaneity of Who Are You People What Is This and ITT: Snail is Stupid?
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I have heard of neither of those
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Who Are You People What Is This was notable enough to get a wiki page.
edited 11th Mar '18 10:13:29 AM by TParadox
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Alas the thread is no more
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Formerly G.G.
Do you know where I can find a work at home job? I want to try find legitimate employment under a company like Amazon.
"Thanos is a happy guy! Just look at the smile in his face!"
Is there a thread on TV Tropes for talking about alternate history scenarios?
Parallel universes get brought up a lot in fiction. Does anyone know if the phrase perpendicular universes has ever been used to describe a pair of universes?
If two brothers marry two sisters respectively, how closely related would the children be to one another compared to normal cousins?
Braids From S286 Not Included
They'd be double cousins, with exactly two sets of grandparents.
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To clarify, normal cousins share 12.5% of their genes on average. Double cousins share 25%, making them as closely-related as half-siblings.
A great Mascot Mook.
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Does anyone know what "Unobtainium-12" and "Expensium-6" in this entry from Unobtainium's real life folder refer to?
- In the late 70's Silicon Valley, there were two popular materials for solving otherwise intractable engineering problems, very specifically: Unobtainium-12 and Expensium-6. Neither was in the Grainger's or Thomas catalog.
It probably just sounded cooler than Idontknowium and Panaceaium.
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Your answer is found in the first line of the article:
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
The numbers tacked on to the names imply that they are referring to specific things. Like, if there's Unobtainium-12, then logic dictates that Unobtainium 1 through 11 exist.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
That's in the style of an atomic weight, which is roughly the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus. Any change in the number of protons and it's a different element, so not all of 1-11 are implied.
But here it's being specific for verisimilitude. Would've seemed more realistic if it was a three digit number.
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Okay, this is so stupidly specific that I doubt I'll get an answer, but I figured I'd ask anyway: Does anyone know where I can find (or how I could make) a number generator that spits out six prime numbers adding up to a specified total?
So you want to give it a number and have it find six primes that add up to exactly that? That's not going to work for very many numbers.
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Technically there are infinitely many that would work since there are infinitely many primes.
If you include subtraction as an operator, you could do it. You can't add negative numbers, because they aren't prime (factor to -1 x the prime), but you can subtract.
You'd have to have some really huge inputs to be able to guarantee there are six primes that sum to that input.
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Genetics question: If one and two blond-haired parents have child, what are the chances for each of also having blond hair?
I think hair color is more complicated than the classic two-gene Punnet Square, so it wouldn't necessarily be twice as likely with two blond parents as with one.
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The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
NVM. Posted in the wrong thread.
edited 27th May '18 5:09:47 PM by MarqFJA
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There's a martial arts thread somewhere
That's pretty close
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