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by RK 15y ago
Probably half of my friends earning physics graduate degrees are not continuing in academic physics, with most of them going into something like quant finance or quant insurance. The reason for this is primarily that there are simply not en
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by RK 15y ago
What are the advantages of NFC stickers over QR code stickers? (I sure you've gotten this question 1M times...)
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by RK 15y ago
The book mentioned by the OP discusses the "virus theory" of cancer, which was very popular for a while. What people eventually realized was that cancer is the result of genetic mutations and there are many potential causes of the mutations
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by RK 15y ago
Includes Southwest Airlines flights!
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Buy food with Bitcoins(bitmunchies.com)
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by RK 15y ago
at the top places, two-thirds of the students come from the top quartile and only 5 percent come from the bottom quartile Whenever I see a statistic like that, the first question I want answered is: what is the trend over time? Maybe this
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by RK 15y ago
Has anyone (successfully) attempted a full paperless solution like this with Ubuntu (or other Linux)?
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by RK 15y ago
In contrast, the US federal government observes 10 holidays, and most businesses probably only close for 5 - 7 of those. http://www.opm.gov/operating_status_schedules/fedhol/2011.as... When you're an American in Europe for an extended per
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by RK 15y ago
This is essentially a variation on the "post-rapture post office service", like this one, also run by a non-believer: http://www.postrapturepost.com/about.html There are several others.
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by RK 15y ago
There is at least one person selling gift cards for bitcoins, including Walmart and Amazon giftcards. Also there is at least one site selling food directly ( http://www.bitmunchies.com ). So you wouldn't strictly starve...
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by RK 15y ago
Theocracy?
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by RK 15y ago
Dropbox should just make a "Lockbox" folder feature that is fully encrypted. Many people happy (nice new feature), maybe fewer complaints.
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BitBills - physical Bitcoins(bitbills.com)
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by RK 15y ago
Direct link: http://szamitogepesnyelveszet.blogspot.com/2011/04/on-nltk-a...
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by RK 15y ago
Which country is this? Surely not the US.
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by RK 15y ago
When languages are as close as Ruby and Python (or C# and Java), frameworks/ecosystem/community matters a ton more. This is exactly why I use Python over Ruby: scipy, numpy, matplotlib, etc. The right language + ecosystem will obviously b
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by RK 15y ago
Does this service still incur normal SMS fees from your carrier?
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by RK 15y ago
I think this shows the promise of fully automated shops (the honor system + technology?).
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by RK 15y ago
I'm surprised that something titled "Information Physics" was not submitted to quant-ph, which is where all of the quantum information papers go. The arXiv is strongly based on the category a paper is placed in. (Tons of controversy when su
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by RK 15y ago
Seems that the majority of people I follow do not list their location, so view these lists with that in mind.
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by RK 15y ago
My dad had a similar experience. His very obscure, self-published, out-of-print book was showing up for something like $1000, while at the same time he was mailing out free copies to people who emailed (plus shipping), just to make more roo
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by RK 15y ago
Probably not enough cobalt-60 to do that on the necessary scale and accelerators probably can't give you the dose rates necessary for 10kGy x-ray irradiation.
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by RK 15y ago
Maybe I should send an unsolicited job application to Dropbox for a (sexy) data scientist position. 25 million users is pretty crazy.
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by RK 15y ago
I think the problem with trying to determine radiation fluence is that a lot of the dots appearing are likely due to damage to the detector elements, rather than instantaneous detections. I've seen CCTV used to monitor high radiation areas
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by RK 15y ago
The (American) meaning I associate with "punting" is to defer the responsibility to someone else.
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by RK 15y ago
As a Linux user I have to cringe at the thought of Apple buying Dropbox. My favorite candidate for acquiring Dropbox would probably be Amazon, assuming they just let them do their own thing.
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by RK 15y ago
Wouldn't suspension lead to failing as well? (assuming you're not allowed to withdraw from your courses) I believe where I did my bachelor's, the standard punishment for willful cheating was failing the course, one semester's suspension, an
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by RK 15y ago
or phone.
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by RK 15y ago
I was recently came across a list of the salaries of everyone employed by my university, including students. It was an interesting read. I seems I make just about the average for graduate research assistants in science/engineering, though I
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by RK 16y ago
The advice I always see online about handling zoanthids is "always wear gloves". I've always done so, but seen plenty of people who don't. On the other hand, there are plenty of other (often hidden) things in your average reef aquarium that

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