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by RK 16y ago
My personal experience is that plants die when I try to keep them. But I can't decide if that's me beating them or them beating me...
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by RK 16y ago
Bone marrow is generally harvested from living people. Some links here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow#Harvesting
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by RK 16y ago
Unrelated, but I've been noticing that sites like whitepages.com and LookupAnyone.com seem to be showing up higher in Google and many have people's home addresses displayed for free. I saw one that seemed to list almost all of the 12 or so
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by RK 16y ago
This sounds a lot more like a chemist than an engineer. (OK, maybe a chemical engineer.)
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by RK 16y ago
While it is somewhat descriptive, I'm not a fan of the name.
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by RK 16y ago
It should also be kept in mind that the sievert is a radiation dose unit used for a variety of arbitrarily defined dose quantities. Grays and sieverts are both J/kg, but you get sieverts by using weighting factors depending on the radiation
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by RK 16y ago
Data roaming in Europe is truly painful. As far as covering a large geographic area, the US carriers sell plans that are convenient to use within the US. Yes, I can get another SIM, but then I have to tell everyone who may call me that I h
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by RK 16y ago
I've heard a similar story. The story was about a safety inspection at a nuclear power plant where they opened some large blast doors and the radiation alarms went off. After a while they realized that the radiation monitors were responding
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by RK 16y ago
I use Ubuntu on all of my machines (netbook, desktops, servers, EC2). One thing that drives me nuts every time I have to deal with it is the print to file dialog. Why can't it just act like a normal save file dialog? I hate having to (usual
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by RK 16y ago
Never tried myself, but some people run Reaper under Linux with Wine.
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by RK 16y ago
this released steam is irradiated Just as a pedantic point, irradiated steam would not be hazardous. Steam with radioactive particles mixed in, on the other hand, would be.
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by RK 16y ago
Whenever possible, pass off laziness as efficiency. Don't be afraid to take your own path. When I decided to switch research topics during grad school, no one was actually doing what I wanted to do, but I was able to convince a couple profs
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by RK 16y ago
Similar story, except it was mixed showering after martial arts practice in Germany. It wasn't especially uncomfortable, but I was thinking, "my friends back home are never going to believe this!"
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by RK 16y ago
Oops. That's called confirmation bias. Not to say that you've simply 'confirmed' your suspicion of confirmation bias, but it could just be sloppy reporting.
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by RK 16y ago
By the time you hit residency, you are so far into debt that not having a job that pays $100k+ (eventually) is suicidal. That being said, some people do drop out. I know one person who dropped out, but was at married to another resident, so
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by RK 16y ago
I liked 10.04 better than 10.10. The new side menu doesn't really do it for me. I ended up switching to standard Gnome on 10.04, whereas UNR was fine previously.
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by RK 16y ago
I agree with this (expect that USMLE is not a board exam). My SO is a medical resident. They really are placed in unstable situations (to use a math/physics term). They are required to work 80 hr/week. If they report working more than 80 hr
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by RK 16y ago
Ubuntu on desktops (home and office), netbook, and servers.
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by RK 16y ago
Any plans for an android version?
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by RK 16y ago
One data point: I've had the same fake account with a laughably fake name for more than 2 years and only one friend.
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by RK 16y ago
Credit is given in decreasing author order as customary. I think customary is quite variable. I would put weight on the first author and maybe last, but beyond that the order is usually meaningless. Some groups where I am will even go wit
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by RK 16y ago
Plots would really help that table. Edit: OK, I messed around with matplotlib and made a couple plots. This kind of data is not my specialty. The bottom plot groups the different Democratic and Republican categories into just Democratic and
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by RK 16y ago
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from 6.1 billion km away at the request of Carl Sagan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
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by RK 16y ago
A few doctors are starting to use the term orthorexia to describe the obsession some people have with "eating right". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa These questions unfortunately remind me of a few people I know: * Does t
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by RK 16y ago
From the cbp.gov website: "While CBP recommends that you apply at least 72 hours before travel, you may apply anytime prior to boarding. In most cases, a response is received within seconds of submitting an application." You have to leave
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by RK 16y ago
Where are the 1.3 billion people?
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by RK 16y ago
Called me old fashioned, or lazy, but I hate reaching into my pocket just to check the time. A Casio watch fits the bill perfectly.
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by RK 16y ago
I've done it both ways and had different experiences depending on the job. Right now I work about 85% from home. I enjoy going to my (shared) office, but I tend to spend way to much time helping my officemates on their problems when I'm the
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by RK 16y ago
My lazy way to do something similar with Gnome Terminal is to make an "SSH profile" with a different background color. This helps reduce my mistakes. Usually I'll just do things like df on the wrong machine and wonder what's going on with m
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by RK 16y ago
Infrequently

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