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by SiVal 10y ago
With paper you can't erase obviously I can, and do, quite easily. I have a twist-out eraser on the end of my pencil plus an artists' eraser in each pen/pencil bag, so I can make pretty quick work of some portion of a page,
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by SiVal 10y ago
"Hygienic idempotency and creative reverie: Yet another male privilege?" is going to be my Gender Studies dissertation.
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm not being glib here, but after experimenting with many such solutions over the years, I've found that the best solution for me is to always carry a cheap, paper notebook--like one of those black/white-spotted composition
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by SiVal 10y ago
My Facebook account is so barren that it has never existed, but if I'm ever forced to create an account to deal with websites that assume everyone has a FB acct and can't deal with you otherwise, it will be as sterile as I can mak
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by SiVal 10y ago
If small businesses were limited to buying from "big names", then, yes, not having the money to buy would be the end of the discussion. But, tech is available from many sources with various combinations of off-the-shelf and custom
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by SiVal 10y ago
Well, paper, yes, but usually not pen. These days, it's better to use printers to put more substantial and important information on paper. That way, we get the digital benefits of searching, organizing, mass storage in tiny space, unli
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by SiVal 10y ago
Those people didn't die in a flood - instead, over thousands of years, they relocated Yes, that's exactly what I said. They walked away from the coast as sea levels rose, taking their DNA with them.
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by SiVal 10y ago
People can usually walk away faster than sea level can rise, so even if many of the piles of bones and pottery are now under water, the DNA of the inhabitants might not be. I'm hoping we'll soon be able to recover more of the earl
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by SiVal 10y ago
Own or control? The difference is just money, and if all you care about is the control part, the Chinese state controls all the Chinese social networks. You can see what state control does to a social network: Say what you want as long as i
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by SiVal 10y ago
It's more like me being sad that many people don't want to integrate human-level experiences into science. No, no, many scientists do, but quantum mechanics is not "human level". Its weirdness at the fine-grained level
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by SiVal 10y ago
You're welcome. It's interesting that 1) insists you didn't claim anything, then 2) insists that you stand by your claim. ;-) Well, fine, it's not a courtroom, it's a conversation, and I'll try to be useful. 1)
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by SiVal 10y ago
So again, why should we leave the quantum mechanics out of the spiritual/meditative/what-you-wanna-call-it experiences, exactly? I think you're asking a reasonable question if you genuinely don't know. It should be ans
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by SiVal 10y ago
The jamming would not be routine--not a substitute for keeping a channel clear--but would be available as an emergency measure if for some reason it became necessary. Depending on how much of the spectrum is jammed, the pilots might have to
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by SiVal 10y ago
Flight crews should have an onboard device--I'll call it a tricorder --that constantly scans the electromagnetic spectrum onboard watching for certain things. "Please turn off all whatevers" should not be left to the honor s
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by SiVal 10y ago
They are banned on all US flights, so they're undoubtedly banned in many other countries as well. You are not simply asked to turn them off.
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You'll have to wait for the Singularity when they go on sale.
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by SiVal 10y ago
Yeah, sure. I worked with Jobs (not for him) when he was at NeXT and I was at a closely affiliated company. I asked Jobs once in a meeting if he would ever consider moving the NeXT software onto non-NeXT hardware to give it more reach. He e
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm hoping to one day be able to use my phone as this device.
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by SiVal 10y ago
"Fundamentals" does not mean "the newest thing that has come through". It means almost the opposite. It's your site, but if I meant fundamentals, I would call it fundamentals and start with fundamentals: HTML and CS
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by SiVal 10y ago
The big theoretical challenge is "restoring" me to a state that has never existed. I want my brain's atoms restored to a young arrangement of atoms in terms of health but while retaining its old arrangement of atoms in terms
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by SiVal 10y ago
Would such a technique be effective in reverse: causing a specific malformation? If so, could this be used to design "magic bullet" antibiotics for antibiotic-resistant pathogens?
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by SiVal 10y ago
The med school and law school knowledge is equally applicable to any med or law career, because you are studying for a certification exam that is independent of employer. Even if you choose to employ yourself (private practice), you'll
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by SiVal 10y ago
The existence of segregation is repeatedly cited as PROOF of racist oppression and anyone who says otherwise denounced as racist. The fact that segregation can easily emerge even with no oppression at all means that segregation alone is not
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by SiVal 10y ago
I love this thing you've made. I've been exploring the world with radio since long before the WWW was invented. I used to carry a shortwave radio with me wherever I traveled back in the 1970s and 80s. I would lie there in the dark
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by SiVal 10y ago
You can move the jobs without moving all the people. There are a lot of people outside of the DC Metro area who have the necessary qualifications for most federal jobs. When I was a kid, my father worked for a federal agency in an office th
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by SiVal 10y ago
I have no idea whether this will help at all, but after staring at it for a while, I decided I had to try. I think it's VERY likely that a craving for a chemical such as alcohol or various drugs is learned by the brain and shares a pro
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by SiVal 10y ago
The incremental criminalization of speech that people in power want to silence should offend everyone. Almost by definition progress requires challenging an idea that has been generally accepted by those in power with a new idea that is ini
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by SiVal 10y ago
Replace your first word with "Reward" and re-read it. My own observation is that both of these claims are partly true but that there is some effect that remains even when they think they are not observed. Parents often see what ki
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by SiVal 10y ago
Punishment might make you feel better, but it won’t change the kid’s behavior. This claim (from the article) is nonsense. I've changed the behavior of my kids countless times with punishment. I realize that the attitude I am supposed
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by SiVal 10y ago
Yes, and here's another d'oh: I learned long ago, years before The Simpson's show existed, that there was a Springfield in every state. The show's creators may have heard the same urban legend back in those days before w

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