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by dalke 12y ago
"mine is one of them." No, it isn't. Prove me otherwise. According to your definition, anyone who has sex other than in a long-term monogamous relationship is promiscuous. Quote where the WP page says something similar. &quot
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by dalke 12y ago
Your definition is quite different than the usual definition of promiscuous. For example, it means that everyone who has had sex for the first time, and who hasn't yet decided if this partner is permanent, is promiscuous. Thus, your de
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by dalke 12y ago
You are veering into tone troll territory. To get back on track, please define what you mean by "promiscuous", as the article makes no mention of that and there are multiple possible interpretations. The median number of sexual pa
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by dalke 12y ago
That paper is from 2004. The right-hand side links to a paper from 2013 at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23175457 , which says "The efficiency of hepatitis C virus (HCV) transmission by sexual activity remain
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by dalke 12y ago
Your context has little bearing on the article, so no, I don't see the context. It starts off with STD viruses as a whole, then narrows that down to the most life-threatening viruses; HIV and hep B and hep C. It talks about sex as one
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by dalke 12y ago
The statement "if you are not promiscuous then your chances of getting an STD virus are near zero" is wrong. It is wrong because 1) even if you only have sex with one other person, that other person might have one or more STDs, 2)
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by dalke 12y ago
You know the facts but are still willing to say wrong things? That doesn't speak well of your commenting style. The immediately preceding line was "Yet most people don't know about how common viral STDs actually are". No
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by dalke 12y ago
STDs don't all require sex in order to transmit. Consider Human cytomegalovirus, in the herpes family. http://www.cdc.gov/cmv/overview.html says that "Among every 100 adults in the United States, 50–80 are in
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by dalke 12y ago
"When’s the last time you saw any consumer electronics product — much less a cutting-edge one — go two-and-a-half years without a significant hardware refresh?" The TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus calculators. See for example http:&#x2
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by dalke 12y ago
IQ measures how well you do on IQ tests. Math is many things. Math is arithmetic. Math is geometry. Math is algebra. Math is topology. Math research is proofs. Math calculation is quite different. Physics uses math, but physics has is own s
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by dalke 12y ago
Using "Firefox 32.0 on OS X 10.7" for the sin/cos test I get Native functions = 1.5M/sec while SMath = 35K/sec. Is it just the case that Chrome's native math function calls are slow?
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by dalke 12y ago
This is called "Day-age creationism". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-age_creationism , which also includes the history behind that specific interpretation. Quoting from a creationist site ( http:/&
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by dalke 12y ago
I don't see any evidence that India's pharmacetical industry is finding more drug than the US one. According to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15115225 , "most new drugs [in the Indian pharmaceutical
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by dalke 12y ago
I get redirected to a web hosting company - a different company depending on the country I connect from. The article appears to be from "Scientific American", volume 252, issue 2, February 1985, pp. 18-21, about Rog-o-Matic ( htt
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by dalke 12y ago
The second and third (FAQ and defining the customer experience) are aspects of what McConnell describes as creating a minimal specification. McConnell lists: a short paper spec, point-of-departure spec, user manual as spec, user-interface p
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by dalke 12y ago
It's important to know that this essay uses "Agile" in an overly broad term that diminishes the importance of other methodologies by denying their existence. Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft
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by dalke 12y ago
To provide only a small detail, the character's in Project Gutenberg's version of Hamlet are: \n\r !&'(),-.1:;?ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVWYZ[]abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz "J", "U", and "X" a
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by dalke 12y ago
My conference presentations became much better once I learned to practice them a few times. That takes well more than an hour. The presentation takes about a week to put together. The research behind it can take months. So ... yes, I need m
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by dalke 12y ago
You wrote "But the good thing about an Amazon warehouse, is you're not standing next to a heat-treating oven, sweating your bag off." Quoting from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393303,00.asp : &g
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by dalke 12y ago
What does it mean that the click-wheel has an arrow from RRE, CERN? I first heard about that sort of control mechanism from Cooper Interaction Design's work with the Sony Passport entertainment system. See http://archive.vis
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by dalke 12y ago
He also described it as a hierarchical system: Set your terminal to "research." Punch parameters in succession "North American culture," "English-speaking," "mid-twentieth century," "comedians,&q
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by dalke 12y ago
It's a paternoster! Only with magnets instead of cables.
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by dalke 12y ago
So if I have an idea that might be patentable, the journal will handle all the costs for me? Including maintenance fees and the cost of appeals if the patent is rejected? Sweet! Someone else takes the brunt of the $10,000+ in patent filing
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by dalke 12y ago
"it" == "unhex", not "int"
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by dalke 12y ago
To include history, philosophy, musicology and other academic fields? I don't see how that's better.
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by dalke 12y ago
That is an excellent point! Based on my reading, there's nothing magic. The context is: elif i+2 < n and ishex(line[i+1:i+2]) and ishex(line[i+2:i+3]): new = new + bytes((unhex(line[i+1:i+3]),)); i = i+3 I tweaked i
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by dalke 12y ago
I use "for c in s", to read characters in a string, pretty often. Here's an example from Python3.2's quopri.py: def unhex(s): """Get the integer value of a hexadecimal number.""&quo
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by dalke 12y ago
I'll modify the example slightly to something which doesn't have a type error: [1,2,'q',[1,('a',2)]] * 4 With element-by-element operations, that would be [1 * 4,2 * 4,'q' * 4,[1,(&#x27
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by dalke 12y ago
You went from "not what you want for numerical work" to "generalizing that concept comes back to bite you". I don't think you can make that step. I do non-numeric scientific computing. (Meaning, I touch numpy about
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by dalke 12y ago
Quoting from http://www.lib.uni-bonn.de/PhiMSAMP/Data/Book/PhiMSAMP-bk_Ge... : > Mathematicians disagree about the amount of detail checking that has to be done by the referees. While some (few) mathematic

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