howrar

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It is wrong because the highlighted portion of the excerpt is supposed to directly answer the question. This one doesn't.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Or animal manure, or pesticides

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There's been two cases of this happening very recently that's been making the rounds on Lemmy. Two dudes on death row, new evidence comes up that puts their guilty judgement into question and their execution proceeds anyway.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

At what point would you consider it to be sufficiently brain so that its activity is brainwave activity?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'm surprised to hear German has a word for this, considering that stats I've previously seen show Germany as having the highest proportion of male sitting pee-ers.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

So the characters are still words, right?

Most likely yes. All characters in Chinese are defined jointly by the way it's written, the pronunciation, and meaning. You can't invent new characters like you would a new English word and have something that can be read out loud because there's no system for deriving pronunciation from the written character itself.

I say most likely because there are still some characters that are phonetic in that their meaning is just the sound, but these don't cover the whole spectrum of possible sounds in the language as far as I know. They also wouldn't look as nice in tattoo form since they all use the same radical.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The game trying to force that plot twist felt very jarring and pulled me out of the immersion right from the start. My guy, you have no idea how long you've been in there. Why are you asking around for a child?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago

They do not have sales data, so they use two different proxies: number of reviews, and number of active players.

I don't see mention of how they get the number of active players. I'm assuming it's through stats in Steam or something similar. If that's the case, then their assumption of this number being biased towards being larger than the true number would be wrong. If you choose to both pirate and buy the game, chances are good that you'll be playing the pirated version, and therefore would not get counted towards active players.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Same here. That's why I try to stock up on more than I think I'll need when things go on sale.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I would caution against using these numbers for any Calorie-in/out calculations. Even if they were 100% accurate, it still doesn't take into account anything that happens outside of that machine.

Example: There's something we call "non-exercise activity thermogenesis" (NEAT). This includes lots of things you do without thinking about it, like fidgeting, tapping your feet while sitting, or pacing around the room. In some people, NEAT can decrease significantly after exercise, which then negates much of the Calories burned.

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