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by RK 17y ago
A few months after a Chinese friend of mine came to the US in 2004 I asked him about some things like Taiwan, voting in China, and the free movement of people within China. The answers he gave me sounded like straight up propaganda (e.g. Ta
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by RK 17y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by RK 17y ago
So what is the money paying for if 0% of it is being used for overhead/administration costs? Or rather, who pays for this organization to operate? I support this idea, but that just seems like a strange claim when trying to contrast yoursel
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by RK 17y ago
Ignoring the technical issues, Google doesn't want your free Gmail encrypted end-to-end because they rely on searching your email to serve you targeted ads (and deal with spam).
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by RK 17y ago
After college I worked as a network administrator for a doctors office that dealt with pain medications. We constantly had problems with work mail going to the spam folder when it actually concerned drugs like Vicodin.
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by RK 17y ago
Would it be possible to streamline taxes in USA? Would it not be interpreted as "making it easier to collect even more taxes"? It depends. If you reduce the complexity of the tax system, thus reducing the required size of the tax agency,
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by RK 17y ago
One of the guys I went to grad school with a was just an obsessive worker. He was the kind of person who could not sleep if a problem was left unsolved. I remember thinking that it would take more effort for him to work as (relatively) litt
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by RK 17y ago
Maybe there needs to be an eHarmony.com for finding co-founders.
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by RK 17y ago
This is an example of quantum simulation, which is considered significantly easier to achieve than general quantum computing. Several quantum systems can be modeled with other, unrelated quantum systems, to solve the dynamics of those syste
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by RK 17y ago
All I can say is that whatever the medical school admissions system (in the US) is trying to do, the result is producing premeds, and that is a side effect that is very hard to swallow :) The worst part is that, once those premeds get to me
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by RK 17y ago
My EeePc 701 from Nov. 2007 has been rock solid after daily use. I'm now putting it into service as a server. I only stopped using it when someone gave me a 9" Asus for free. Of course this is just two data points...
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by RK 17y ago
BTW I don't know why you are being downvoted, since I fully agree with you. Maybe just because my comment was off topic. I was pretty sure that the site was yours (the OP), so I thought I'd give you some feedback. Good luck.
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by RK 17y ago
OT: For a site called Style Guidance, it's pretty hard on the eyes. Maybe softer colors would be better.
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by RK 17y ago
I wonder if anyone will use this data to help decide what part of a city they want to reside in...
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by RK 17y ago
Shoebot looks pretty interesting. It's pure Python. http://tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/Main/HomePage
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by RK 17y ago
I don't know if ordering online is necessarily safer. The first time I ordered something from Zappos, I heard the doorbell, but I wasn't dressed, so I just saw the delivery guy drop off the box through the blinds. I went to put clothes on a
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by RK 17y ago
You may get a better deal if you buy unsubsidized but stay with your current plan. You may need to first change some of the options on your plan. For example, I currently have a "feature phone" with $6/month 3G "T-mobile web" access. As far
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by RK 17y ago
When I was in physics grad school we used the Force Concept Inventory for assessing the intro level physics classes. It was always very interesting and showed that they were able to greatly increase understanding over the course of a few ye
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by RK 17y ago
A friend of mine once conned an online degree peddler from Israel into sending him a diploma for a BS in Business Ethics. I think he threatened him with reporting him to the relevant authorities or something. The irony of the whole thing wa
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by RK 17y ago
I currently have $6/month 3G internet from T-mobile (continued service from a couple years ago), so I will definitely be buying this at $530.
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by RK 17y ago
I keep getting this error when trying to add a poll: The change you wanted was rejected. Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to.
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by RK 17y ago
DOD branches fund lots of "basic applied science" research.
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by RK 17y ago
The rumors are saying Jan. 5th.
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by RK 17y ago
Also see this submission of the Wired article about using social networking to facilitate SETI@home style computing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746147
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by RK 17y ago
“We are the second or the third best design house in the world when it comes to mobile phones,” says Horace Luke, chief innovation officer at HTC. HTC has also imbibed one of the greatest ideas of American business: It’s okay to fail. HT
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by RK 17y ago
> I'm not accustomed to seeing police carrying anything more than a holstered service pistol. More to the point, you've been trained think that is normal, in countries where guns aren't legal, the very sight of a gun would strike fea
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by RK 17y ago
I know a number of foreign students who came to the US as undergrads and essentially threw a dart at a map of the US. For some reason I have met a number of Japanese students that spent 4 years at schools I had never heard of (like X+State+
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by RK 17y ago
I think Schroedinger's dissertation was only 7 pages total. http://www.lynge.com/item.php?bookid=38111
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by RK 17y ago
Something like this happened/is happening to a professor that I worked for in grad school. He has retracted several papers and will probably be retracting at least one more from top journals (Nature, Science, etc). Fortunately for me I was

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