SlowOnTheUptake

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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
The US Air Force was established in 1947.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
Evidently it worked for the author. He got you to buy his book.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
Suppose that there was a world where the "Many Worlds Law" was true and another world where it wasn't.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
At the beginning of the clip, they mention that this farm is situated on 350 acres of land but I didn't hear how many people they expected to sustain with that. Will it all be self contained? Also, how many people outside of this pre-ind
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
It looks like inflation was around 8 - 10% during '07 through '08 per http://www.latin-focus.com/latinfocus/countries/argentina/ar... . BTW, what is a "gringo apartment" and how does it differ from an apartment that a local would live in?
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
If the sperm are to be activated by the higher temperature inside the female body then they would have to be cooler initially. They evolved to be triggered into action by the normal internal body temperature.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
What isn't clear to me is, do safer cars translate into fewer traffic injuries and deaths? I recall reading an economics paper that indicated that safer cars encouraged more reckless driving and the two competing factors canceled each other
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
No apologies necessary. After all of Ireland's contributions of culture, music, brewing and -- in my opinion at least -- some of the prettiest girls in the world, you are entitled to the occasional lapse.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
I haven't tried either of those things and frankly I don't think it's likely that either would be effective, at least based on the explanations I've seen for them. They seem to be based on fixing problems (e.g. misalignment of bones and ner
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
According to their site, they claim to be treating "temporary tinnitus" of the kind that is brought on by exposure to loud sounds. Being a "temporary" symptom, I'm assuming that they are claiming to relieve it sooner than it would otherwis
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
Somehow this story reminded me of the well know known quote about regular expressions: "... Now you have two problems."
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Paul Graham interview on Econtalk - Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity(econtalk.org)
126 points by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago|21 comments
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by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago
It's unlikely that even positive "customer feedback" can overcome the laws of physics.
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Please help support MIT OpenCourseWare
4 points by SlowOnTheUptake 17y ago|0 comments
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
Any less likely than satellites colliding?
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
He's the new US Secretary of the Treasury. Under the circumstances, if I were he, I'd be a little nervous too.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
The date at the top of the page is: 2004-11-10 , so that would make it about 4.2 years old.
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
I'm a little unclear on one point: knowing that 3ms * 186000 miles/sec is roughly 550 miles, wouldn't the radius be ~275 miles? (Round trip travel time before timeout) That is assuming that packets could actually travel that fast through a
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
FTA: "Although one can never be sure of what will happen at some future time, there is strong historical precedent for presuming that the present Gregorian calendar will still be in effect by the year 2000. Since we also hope that VMS w
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
BSoD
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by SlowOnTheUptake 18y ago
It reminded me of: http://xkcd.com/327/