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by gaur 10y ago
That also happens with the official chargers if you use the two-prong plug.
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by gaur 10y ago
What are people doing to their Apple chargers to make them fray? I've had the same Apple charger for several years, packing and unpacking it daily in my backpack, and it shows no sign of fraying.
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by gaur 10y ago
As the sister comment says, it's because your comment doesn't make sense. What does "test????/photo????" mean?
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by gaur 10y ago
Autoclaving is said to be the best of disinfectants; warrantless wiretapping the most efficient policeman.
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by gaur 10y ago
> even God can’t read them How do I find out which data erasure tools are deity-proof? More seriously, does it perturb anyone else that Gowdy is invoking fictional characters to assess the behavior of other politicians?
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by gaur 10y ago
I have long fantasized about writing a virus that forces Excel to quit if it detects the user is attempting to use Excel to do scientific research.
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by gaur 10y ago
> a tool used by statistically illiterate administrative types to judge the quality of research Pfft, I bet you only say that because you have a low h -index.
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by gaur 10y ago
> This means that by studying the different system (eg. the wormhole in the lab), the physicists are probing the mathematical structure of the theory of the original system I just don't buy that argument, because it is essentially t
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by gaur 10y ago
"As soon as it was brought to our attention" is probably code for "as soon as we received certified mail from an attorney intending to sue". In other words, the DMV will sit on its ass and let low-level workers discrimin
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by gaur 10y ago
> her application had been denied because the plate "may carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency," Who determines what "connotations" a particular plate has? Some random religious person in the DMV? Thi
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by gaur 10y ago
> I wish they didn't use the word wormhole. Taking a hot physics buzz-phrase (wormhole, black hole, Hawking radiation, etc.) and applying it to a mathematically analogous (but physically unrelated) system is currently fashionable in
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by gaur 10y ago
> borrowed especially in British English as Great Britain was occupied by Latin speakers for nearly 400 years -- 43 CE through 410 CE. Can you explain how Latin loanwords were loaned into English during this period? In your explanation,
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by gaur 10y ago
> I'd argue "per annum" or p.a. isn't a foreign term and just standard English. Did you notice that a fluent English speaker had to ask what "p.a." meant? Do you think that would have happened if it had been
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by gaur 10y ago
Why do people replace transparent English phrases with opaque foreign abbreviations? We're not writing with quills on vellum anymore. Even "$500k/yr" is an improvement on "$500k p.a.".
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by gaur 10y ago
> If the goal is for politicians to sound tough and maintain a never ending drug war so they can keep sounding tough, then it’s a success. Part of their goal is also to provide their cronies in the prison-industrial complex with a steady
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by gaur 10y ago
> The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need To Know To Start Doing Physics. Terrible typesetting, by the way. I have no idea what imbecile thought it was a good idea to use a version of Garamond where the italic letters don't even have
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by gaur 10y ago
What's the rationale behind 100 as the thinning factor? Just a conservative number based on the autocorrelation length?
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by gaur 10y ago
Jacques Derrida is the Picasso of bullshit artistry.
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by gaur 10y ago
> The vision of social relations that sustains transgenderism is the so-called postgenderism: a social, political and cultural movement whose adherents advocate a voluntary abolition of gender, rendered possible by recent scientific prog
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by gaur 10y ago
> It has constantly puzzled my why people are sleep deprived. I doubt that. You must be at least partially aware that people often have long commutes and/or expectations of long work weeks. Puzzle solved.
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by gaur 10y ago
That's like saying "people can see monochromatic light". The correct analogue for sound would be "people can hear single phonons".
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by gaur 10y ago
At one point, the headline was changed to read "Syrian migrant 'behind German blast'". But at that point, the fact that there was a German blast was widely known; the unconfirmed portion was that a Syrian migrant was beh
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by gaur 10y ago
Maybe someone could remove those 'distracting, unnecessary quotation marks' as well. I think the BBC somehow thinks they're being ultraprecise by putting quotation marks around certain words, but it's just obnoxious.
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by gaur 10y ago
Without modern medical intervention, the carb-rich diet most humans have been eating for the past 12 millennia causes health problems such as tooth decay. So "we've been doing it for thousands of years and it hasn't made us e
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by gaur 10y ago
Every time I look at the US food pyramid I'm blown away by what an obvious unhealthy scam it is. 6 to 11 servings per day from processed grain products? I don't think so. The agriculture department should not be in charge of US nu
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by gaur 10y ago
I did not make that claim.
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by gaur 10y ago
> The reason they had to be "controlling and litigious" is so that their licensing terms were respected and they received the attribution they deserved You are free to harass people about licensing if you want, but you don&#x27
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by gaur 10y ago
If you actually wanted people to use your work freely, you'd release it into the public domain. This incident shows that CC evangelists can be just as controlling and litigious as the conventional copyright holders they inveigh against
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by gaur 10y ago
> Thats your decision to put this costly housing in your basket. That's true for a lot of people, so redefining "quality of life" to exclude housing and then claiming that everyone's quality of life is going up seems
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by gaur 10y ago
> I think housing costs and quality of living per Dollar are two different things. Well, I don't. I consider living in a place I don't like or a property I don't like to contribute to poor quality of life, and I'm def

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