Anechoic

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by Anechoic 11y ago
Molly McHugh and Wired need to reach out to this woman and ask a few questions. Erica has explicitly written that she's not interested in speaking to reporters about the story: https://twitter.com/ericajoy/status
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You know a $40 billion company wouldn't be a scam. Bernie Madoff's investors would disagree.
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Google result from a search of "Man killed by car": http://imgur.com/ngs1Cwb
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FWIW, IMAX has apologized: https://twitter.com/IMAX/status/611953957578018816
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One thing the DoT could do to assuage our negative feelings is put the methodology out in the public after it's implemented. It likely is public - there may be an environmental assessment (EA), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or
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by Anechoic 11y ago
but a history of arrests, drug possession, and domestic violence tell me that the person is probably a criminal Reading more about Robert McDaniel, he apparently made the list because one of his childhood friends was shot and killed: htt
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Why can't people use the expression "ni[g]ger" in context? People can use the expression in context and many do. Speaking as a black guy (but not representative of all blacks), I have a visceral reaction to the word[0] so w
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For anyone reluctant to click on a shortened URL, the full URL is https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BwS8oOqrxSQ/VUgoAVekqjI/A...
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Too much wear and tear on the brush , it would last about 100 yards before you had to replace it.
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After the grand jury declined to indict Wilson, activists claimed that this probably happened because McCulloch convinced the grand jury not to indict Another interesting result from this is that one of the grand jurors is suing to lift t
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Hard surfaces everywhere. The acoustical consultant in me takes one look at those pictures and wants to start crying.
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And similarly Illinois passed an RFRA in 1998 with Barack Obama voting for it. However I think the White House spokesmen had a point in saying that "if you have to go back two decades to try to justify something that you’re doing today
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for example apps have been rejected for bearing news about U.S. drone strikes[1]. FWIW, the app was eventually approved, although under a different name: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026320/your-iphone-can-now-alert...
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None of the articles about how great this is for the nation mention the fact that it had to cost Kleiner Perkins at least $10 million in legal fees and distraction/time. That would have been enough to fully fund 100 women to get engin
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This material essentially only allows one-way propagation of sound waves. IOW, for your recording studio application, this material would have the same effect as your having carpet, namely eliminating elections, although your carpet probabl
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This is a very mission-specific technology. No, it's really not, there a ton of engineering and scientific uses where it may be useful to measure acoustic emissions off a vibrating surface, but it may be infusible or too resource int
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Just for full disclosure, I wasn't close to Fes-Mike, but we lived in the same dorm (New House, I was New House 3, he was Spanish House 2 floors above my room), but we crossed paths a number of times in the halls and he always made tim
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Pao and Nazre were dating and both married at the time. Implied in the Ars article, and stated directly in other articles [0,1,2], the affair happened in 2006, but according to Wiki [3] Pao wasn't married until 2007. [0] http:&#x2F
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This article perfectly summed up my experience at MIT. As the article hints, the competitive nature of the student body is a double-edged sword - it helps push you further than you think you're capable of, but it can also push you beyo
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The Prisoner's Solution(npr.org)
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Apologies, you're correct. What I was thinking about was dragging folders and files into Open/Save dialogs.
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Else, make it easy to copy the path You can drag the file or folder (from the title bar or file list) icon icon into a terminal window and the path of that file/folder will be written to the command line. Not quite the same, but very
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If you're interested in the context of this type of "strategic" bombing, and how it played into the U.S. decision to use the atomic bombs in WWII, listen to the "Logical Insanity" episode of Dan Carlin's Hardco
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If said Asian did it in an attempt specifically to bolster his/her admissions chances, I'll feel the same way I would feel if that applicant reported a fraudulent extracurricular activity on their application.
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Were they Black, Asian or White? Asian and white. Were they Black, Asian or White? All of the above.
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You're black -- and you got into MIT. You had the academic qualifications. Is there something you're debating that I missed or are we agreeing? I know of students with better grades and SAT results that were not admitted to MIT.
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you're not the example of watered down academic standards for admittance that I was talking about At tend to give as much credence to those "example[s] of watered down academic standards" at elite universities as I do to w
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We can only see the effect of race on admission at a very coarse resolution, because universities try their hardest to obscure it I agree, that we can only see the effects at a coarse resolution, but disagree that universities try to &quo
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I can't see how a black person with any dignity would feel pride about being "accepted" into Harvard with less qualifications than his peers of the last 100 years. As a black person who was accepted to (and graduated from)
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Only the legacy consideration is recent, everything else (including racial consideration) has been happening for at least 20 years. But I was responding to the quote that Caltech selects "purely" for academics. They don't, th

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