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English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…

Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by Englis...

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Jun 10, 2013 07:54

@O0oO0oOO0ooO It is related to the English language.

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Jun 10, 2013 07:52

Q: Searching for "import" shows results for "important"

I searched for [git] import, but the top results only contain the word "important", rather than the expected results about importing data into a Git repository: It looks like Stack Exchange's search is overzealously stemming the search query, since "importance" is a legitimate (but literary, a...

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Jun 10, 2013 07:52

I found a Stack Exchange bug related to English:

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Jun 2, 2013 08:57

@O0oO0oOO0ooO What specification?

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Jun 2, 2013 06:13

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 He's back?

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Jun 2, 2013 06:07

@DavidWallace pay it themselves

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Jun 2, 2013 06:02

@DavidWallace fund them more

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Jun 2, 2013 05:03

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 If you were told of it, it probably will be relevant.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:55

Jobbik

Jobbik, The Movement for a Better Hungary (), commonly known as Jobbik (), is a Hungarian radical nationalist Jobbik has been described by scholars, different press outlets and its political opponents as fascist, neo-fascist, Neo-Nazi, racist, anti-Semitic, [[anti-Rom

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Jun 2, 2013 04:46

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Χρυσή Αυγή

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Jun 2, 2013 04:31

@Cerberus Just make being named Louis a condition for election to the presidency.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:27

@Cerberus They telecommute.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:25

@Cerberus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Grandes_Portugueses en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Piores_Portugueses

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Jun 2, 2013 04:24

@Cerberus Twice an empire.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:23

António de Oliveira Salazar

António de Oliveira Salazar, GColIH, GColTE, GColSE (; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese professor and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. He also served as acting President of the Republic briefly in 1951. He founded and led the Estado Novo (New State), the authoritarian, right-wing government that presided over and controlled Portugal from 1932 to 1974. In 1940, Life Magazine called Salazar "the greatest Portuguese since Prince Henry the Navigator". Opposed to communism, socialism, anarchism and liberalism, Salazar's rule was corpor...

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Jun 2, 2013 04:22

@Cerberus Anyway, Canadian nationality is no requirement for the job.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:21

@Cerberus Wouldn't the o then have an accent?

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Jun 2, 2013 04:20

@Cerberus pun intended

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Jun 2, 2013 04:20

@Cerberus Hail Luiz Antonio, the new King of Canada!

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Jun 2, 2013 04:18

Party for Animals (PvdD) / Votes (2012): 182,162 / HoR seats: 2 / Senate seats: 1. Interesting.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:08

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Which country?

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Jun 2, 2013 04:06

@Cerberus A 2-party system doesn't mean the legislature is unrepresentative of popular opinion.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:04

@DavidWallace Who are the center lunatics? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_First?

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Jun 2, 2013 04:02

@Cerberus European parliamentary systems generally have strong party loyalty in parliament. The U.S. doesn't; lawmakers regularly vote against their party on important legislation when they disagree.

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Jun 2, 2013 03:59

@Cerberus Correction: It doesn't matter who people vote for, nor does it matter (much) who gets elected. It matters what policies they enact.

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Jun 2, 2013 03:56

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Jun 2, 2013 03:56

Interesting plot: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dutchparlseats2.png

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Jun 2, 2013 03:55

@Cerberus What coalitions?

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Jun 2, 2013 03:54

@Cerberus It doesn't matter who people vote for; it matters who gets elected.

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Jun 2, 2013 03:52

@Cerberus What is this No! party?

$Mathematics$ Mathematics

Associated with Math.SE; for both general discussion & math qu...

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Jun 6, 2013 00:30

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Jun 6, 2013 00:30

@robjohn Nonsense! That triangle has two acute angles. This is a triangle with just right angles.

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Jun 6, 2013 00:14

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Jun 6, 2013 00:11

I remember now; it was the Black-Scholes price of a call option.

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Jun 6, 2013 00:07

@anon There's a common one I remember seeing somewhere.

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Jun 6, 2013 00:05

Like a squashed rotated hyperbola.

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Jun 6, 2013 00:05

What's a curve that asymptotes to the line $y=-x$ on the left and zero on the right?

lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks

General discussion for linguistics.stackexchange.com

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Jun 2, 2013 06:02

var panoid = "opNhMgHudMIq72i_UyJk0g"; // copied panoid
new google.maps.StreetViewService().getPanoramaById(panoid, function(data){console.log(data.location.latLng.toString())});

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Jun 2, 2013 06:01

goo.gl/G37FT

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Jun 2, 2013 06:00

@Cerberus Firebug is great

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Jun 2, 2013 05:59

@Cerberus You won the challenge with 32385 points against 8851.

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Jun 2, 2013 04:37

@Cerberus "está"

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Jun 2, 2013 04:36

@Cerberus Brazilian. Word-final [s], realization of /ʀ/ as [x] in morrem.

The Bridge

General Arqade Chat. We tried to leave once, but the door lock...

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Jun 2, 2013 04:44

Ask Ubuntu General Room

Normally: General discussion around Ask Ubuntu, Ubuntu & offic...

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May 31, 2013 12:45

@Seth cat "$(which cowsay)" | cowsay

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May 31, 2013 10:54

WHY

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May 31, 2013 10:53

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Q: Chrome Running in root problem

I installed google chrome but I want to run it as a root so i did it using the comment number 3(by haqking)following link Ubuntuforum Now the Google chrome is working fine but I am not able to lock it in side launcher as its not showing up there and once i minimize it there is no way to get it b...