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katspike t1_iz4lw31 wrote

It's a pity this wasn't arranged more consistently to identify trends, i.e. title at the top followed by one column with sponsors grouped in sub-columns by sector, eg. alcohol & tobacco | confectionary & fast food | energy & automotive | electronics | cosmetic & other

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You_Stole_My_Hot_Dog t1_iz4lemo wrote

Idk, you get to point where you literally don’t even think about it. I was never as good as OP (more in the 20-30s range), but even then there were algorithms that I can done so many thousands of times that I barely even needed to register that there was a pattern. Muscle memory kicks in and just takes care of it.

I haven’t been into it for the past few years, but once I stopped practicing daily, I’d do periodic “check-ins” to see if I still remembered how to solve it. At one point I had gone like 6 months without touching the cube, and was still able to easily solve it. I didn’t even quite remember what the algorithms were or what I was looking for, but muscle memory seems to remember for a lot longer lol. So it doesn’t surprise me that it doesn’t phase him much. Not unless he was really hammered.

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Nathan-Stubblefield t1_iz4ko5v wrote

Do the math. Calculate the correlation, (r) and see if it is statistically significant. There is a confound between practice ir fatigue and the independent variable, so as another commenter says, repeat with shots of water instead of alcohol. And it still wouldn’t prove much, because it would be easy to influence the results one way or the other.

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robzillerrrsss t1_iz4kjr3 wrote

Fun fact, they could have very easily filtered out most of the sound of the vuvuzelas but choose not to. It's just one note so it was super easy. I was in college at the time and I made a simple filter that decreased its level significantly. I believe it was a bflat5 an its harmonics that needed to be filtered out. Never understood why they had it so loud in the broadcast.

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robzillerrrsss t1_iz4k8t3 wrote

Because they still compete with other brands. They want to be the first thing you think of when you get thirsty. When I pitched advertising for small businesses I was in and they were skeptical of the added expense, I would say "if coke and McDonald's need to advertise, So do we"

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aruexperienced t1_iz4jggy wrote

If you speak one language you’re normal. Two you are bi-lingual. 5 you are polyliguist.

You don’t have to speak every one of the 7000 languages there are said to be just to be one. One guy (Mesic) apparently reported to understand 73. And another guy (Fazah) claimed 53.

Knowledge is a vast, vast domain and some people become competent or masters of one domain in a matter of several years.

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fiddlers_Gr33n t1_iz4hzd6 wrote

I'm planning to move to Europe in a few years, so that problem will be solved!

I'll definitely checkout the S.F Masterworks!

Ps. congrats on reading twice as many books in French as you set out to read. I know what an accomplishment that is in a language you're still working to nail down!

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