NinjaViking

It can also mean that the people who were at the highest risk didn't live for a year, so the statistical risk is reduced for the remaining population.

COBOL was supposed to be just that. It is not considered a nice or beautiful language generally.

Not necessarily! You can get plenty of nerd mileage out of Orient, Seiko and Vostok automatic/mechanical watches for a reasonable amount of money.

I've given up, I just use open tabs as ephemeral bookmarks.

And they're less likely to leak in rain when installed that way.

That would be a desperate attempt to reverse a runaway process, if it turns out to be too successful.

That's the American/Irish spelling. If it's a Scotch it's whisky.

On the other hand, discouraging people who own guns from seeking help for mental health issues is not ideal either.

Some of her claims are objectively verifiable - e.g. women dropping from 25% to 3% of the SRE teams. That sounds like a serious, systematic problem - not a coincidence.

In my non-scientific experience native speakers are more likely to make homophone errors.

Because cigarettes deliver nicotine very, very fast, giving an instant and pleasant rush. After an hour or so the nicotine level in your blood has fallen quite a lot and you'll be craving another one.

E-cig nicotine delivery happens slower and you avoid both the highs and the crashing lows. That makes it a lot easier to cut down to insignificant amounts of nicotine over a few months.

The socioeconomic divide in the Nordic countries is mostly between the property-owning elite and working people, not between different working classes.

And do you think that somebody who packs his drone with C4 and aims it at passenger aircraft is going to care if he is violating a flightpath? Forbidden is not the same as impossible.