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KWillets t1_j2wj66y wrote
Reply to Withings' $500 toilet computer wants to be WebMD for your pee | The hardware sits in your toilet, analyzing what's poured forth into it by chrisdh79
I used it, and it ordered $52 of groceries.
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Reply to comment by Akagiyama in Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology by AutoModerator
Yes, second language learning difficulty is measured relative to the first language.
The US DLI and state department difficulty rankings are based on the number of hours for an English speaker to learn the target language; it's different for speakers of other languages. For instance Korean speakers have little trouble with Japanese, despite these being category IV (hardest) on the DLI scale.
Factors that make languages easy or hard are vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing system, and cultural cues (and a few others that I can't recall at the moment). Category IV languages have differences from English in all of these categories.
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Reply to comment by Marchello_E in 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers by ThisIsNotCorn
50% have below average statistical knowledge.
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Reply to comment by Brett707 in How fast does the galactic center spin? by syynnnxxz
Mass, Spin, and Charge are the three parameters which define a Kerr black hole.