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"Polce toay say they are nvestgatng a strng of I.D. thefts."

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Nauruan navigational system

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The Nauruan navigational system is a way of expressing direction, similar to North, South, East and West, but limitations in the system mean that it is unable to be used outside of Nauru. The four main directions are pago, poe, pawa and pwiju (pwijiuw). Other directions include Gankoro and Arijeijen. == References... ==

> The average body weight among Nauruans is estimated to be approximately 100 kilograms.

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@CowperKettle . . . OwwwwwwK.

And I have a very hard radiology exam tomorrow

Loong

@It'sOver What is the scope? Only X-ray and medical radiology?

@Loong It covers a broad variety of topics, since it's probably everything a pharmacist would ever need to know about methods of diagnosis

X-ray, nuclear medicine, ECG, EEG, EMG, a bit about lasers, ultrasound, CT scans, MRI, God knows what else

Loong

I see.

It's really disheveled is the problem

All over the place

I find the cutting edge (?) stuff really interesting though

Like biostimulating neurons into becoming "younger" with lasers

Loong

Do you have to estimate radiation doses?

6:46 PM

A bit, but only the simpler calculations

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9:29 PM

I am wondering if problems and shortcomings are interchangeable ...

Lambie

What an odd question....:)

Thanks, Lambie. I was already having a bad day.

Lambie

Well, something can have shortcomings but not necessarily be a problem. I believe that without context, one can only use a dictionary. What else is there?

I wonder if fish and squid are interchangeable.

If something is attributable to marine life, then they sorta are.

@It'sOver quora.com/Are-squid-fish-And-if-they-aren%E2%80%99t-why-is-that

9:43 PM

I was making a point.

Sorry, missed it. What is it?

Read that with a John Malkovich voice

Wait, I don't know who that is.

My point is you're asking about two different things that overlap in a lot of contexts

And I'm back to studying physics

Lambie

9:59 PM

Fish is not to squid as problems are to shortcomings. Squid are a subset of marine life but neither problems or shortcomings are subsets of one another.

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10:23 PM

@Lambie Someone's shortcoming(s) can represent a problem for that person. However, squid aren't fish, and no fish is a squid, so it's some sort of false equivalence fallacy nonetheless.

@It'sOver is a squid, though.

(That's not a shortcoming. In fact, that was long coming.)

@userr2684291 Why is that not universal though? I think shortcomings of a person, system, program, institution, and government are essentially their problems. I am having difficulty finding an example where a shortcoming is not a problem.

userr2684291

Maybe it hasn't manifested itself as such.

I think it's not wrong to say that an algorithm has its shortcomings, but at some particular juncture they don't represent a problem. Maybe it's just good enough.

(I think it's not wrong to say should be I don't think it's wrong to say. I fiddled with the double negative and forgot about the beginning of the sentence.)