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kurtisc commented on My name causes an issue with any booking   travel.stackexchange.com/... · Posted by u/signa11
GaelFG · 6 years ago
What about doubling the 'mr' in the end of your name ? It should be (I say that without any serious confidence) possible to explain the probleme in case of someone wanting to know why you ticket name is'nt exactly matching your id document.
kurtisc · 6 years ago
Since it sometimes comes through as 'Amrmr', I guess some agents are trying that but for their system it isn't stripped.
kurtisc commented on Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists   economist.com/europe/2019... · Posted by u/pionerkotik
mellosouls · 6 years ago
Yeah that's the problem with the overuse of speed cameras.

No decent policing of the roads - as there are hardly any police doing it - focusing entirely on speeding instead of unsafe or poor driving.

kurtisc · 6 years ago
Exactly. Sometimes there's someone else on the road driving so badly that the safest thing to do is get away from them. It's much more difficult if you're on a road with lots of speed cameras and no cruise-control because then you have to stare at your speedometer.
kurtisc commented on My name causes an issue with any booking   travel.stackexchange.com/... · Posted by u/signa11
progval · 6 years ago
> the internet is going to wipe out apostrophes from people’s actual names

Also seeing that with accentuated uppercase letters in French, even in nouns, because it's hard to type them on Windows.

People still use accents in lowercase of course, but think that it's incorrect to use accents for uppercase letters, even when handwriting.

kurtisc · 6 years ago
I only learned they do have the accents from your post. I was taught to omit them about a decade ago (as a second language).
kurtisc commented on Estonia has a new way to stop speeding motorists   economist.com/europe/2019... · Posted by u/pionerkotik
kurtisc · 6 years ago
Cool idea but they'd never do it here (UK) because they couldn't spare the police time.
kurtisc commented on Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time   nist.gov/pml/time-and-fre... · Posted by u/susam
organsnyder · 6 years ago
Either one works, as long as the T is at the end. They both feel equally natural to me.
kurtisc · 6 years ago
I disagree. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adj...

With this the type (?) (universal) comes before the the purpose (co-ordination)

Despite the URL I don't believe this adjective order rule is limited to British English.

kurtisc commented on “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”   blogs.scientificamerican.... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
dekhn · 6 years ago
I don't understand why people are downvoting me when I'm literally quoting the stats from the agency that defines this. If you're downvoting, can you at least reply to provide some technical signal so I can update my knowledge?

EDIT: I misread the original message and thought it was referring to just obesity, not obesity/overweight.

kurtisc · 6 years ago
The original post included 'overweight'
kurtisc commented on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World   theringer.com/2019/10/4/2... · Posted by u/indigodaddy
skrebbel · 6 years ago
That's the same kind of reasoning that sent a mom of whose babies died to prison for decades. (I can't remember her name so can't link, sorry - it's a well known story of a mother getting convicted for double child murder because a doctor did some shitty statistics in court).

Sure, the chance is high. But if there is no conclusive evidence, then there's no conclusive evidence.

That might be enough for angry Twitter mobs, but I sure hope that it's not enough for court.

kurtisc · 6 years ago
It is enough for civil court.
kurtisc commented on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains   asiatimes.com/2019/10/art... · Posted by u/yskchu
usaar333 · 6 years ago
Cities are dense, unlike American ones
kurtisc · 6 years ago
I'm not aware of any city-local maglev trains. American cities are still spread out from one-another.
kurtisc commented on When Dickens Met Dostoevsky (2013)   the-tls.co.uk/articles/pu... · Posted by u/lermontov
B1FF_PSUVM · 6 years ago
> “that the letter isn’t genuine, which is rather sad, because the idea of the two men meeting is so wonderful.”

I may be biased, but to me Dickens looks like a bit of a hack publishing serials in newspapers, and Dostoevsky one of those serious writers dropping deep books once in a while.

kurtisc · 6 years ago
When I read Crime and Punishment, I realised many of what I saw as flaws could be explained by the fact that it was published as a serial. You can't retcon what's already released.
kurtisc commented on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains   asiatimes.com/2019/10/art... · Posted by u/yskchu
qwerty456127 · 6 years ago
Why? Why would anybody build trains like that instead of adopting the hyperloop technology which is faster, much more cheap and more safe?
kurtisc · 6 years ago
These are maglev trains in vacuum tubes. What's the difference?

u/kurtisc

KarmaCake day890April 14, 2017View Original