Xlp-Thlplylp

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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
The good news is that you'll never get over it. In my youth I developed severe, disfiguring calcifications of the scalp, which required surgery. The result was suboptimal, I still have numerous lesions left, and I face a scalp resection to
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
Many happy carriage returns!
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
I had vague thoughts of using XMPP for grid computing--but I suppose this is obvious.
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
The historical evidence contradicts Matt Maroon's assertion, conventionally held by corporate intellectual monopolists, that copyrights "incent" [sic] creativity. See Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine's Against Intellectual Monopoly for a
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
Can you learn an industry without working in it? My boy, that, or rather the converse: that you can work in and manage an industry without learning it, is the great promise that MBA programs make to their students. The idea that there are a
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
I have chronic insomnia. Now that I'm walking home from work (about 35 blocks), I feel even better, and my insomnia is worse. I tried resetting my circadian rhythm by not eating 16 hours before going to bed: even worse insomnia. Anything I
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
Credit for this is optional. Another way to see obtain a partition of G is to observe that the relation x ~ y if and only if x = y or x = y^{-1} is an equivalence relation on G. The equivalence classes induce the partition above. The point
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
Note on the problem that a group G of even order contains an element of order 2. Partition G into classes {{x,x^{-1}|x\in G}. This is a partition since inverses are unique. For x\in G, call {x, x^{-1}} the class of x. At least one other ele
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
Gee, I routinely ignore queries from Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
No word about Vista's DRM and the difficulty this is causing many multimedia content providers and others. Economist David K. Levine called Vista "one of the colossal business blunders of all time" in the following article in the Against Mo
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
"I don't know about unparalleled." That means, "compared with CUNY."
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
As I recall, the Oakland Science Museum is focused on technology. The American Museum of Natural History is a better museum in many ways, but its focus is entirely different. The Hall of Science seems like a leftover from the World's Fair--
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
Since we're on the subject of the politeness of New Yorker's and the attitude that everything has its price, in New York, a simple "thank you" might be considered a costly acknowledgment. Here's a dismal example by hacking standards, but i
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by Xlp-Thlplylp 18y ago
The values of New York come from Wall Street, which sets the tone for the rest of industry there. The attitude that everything has its price is responsible for the bad reputation that New York and New Yorkers have in the rest of the country