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by gaur 11y ago
> DST is actually more comfortable to live with by allowing for more daylight after work hours. It would be better to just switch to DST permanently and avoid the constant frustrating changes. Is adding a permanent 1-hour offset to all o
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by gaur 11y ago
> I don't want to get up totally in the night in the winter. Since DST is not in effect during the winter, it's hard to see how this proposal will help or hurt you here.
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by gaur 11y ago
In the 1600s, the mayor of Magdeburg [0] stuck a narwhal horn on the skull of a wooly rhino, and thereby convinced Leibniz that unicorns existed. The same mayor also invented the first vacuum pump. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by gaur 11y ago
> If so, how is that working out for you? Randomly.
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by gaur 11y ago
> - exit: out - go - prospect: forward - look - decide: down - cut - alarm: to the weapons I have no idea how to parse this.
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by gaur 11y ago
> You may be able to use "greening" here In fact, you are able to use "greening" here. A google search for "greening" returns a great number of websites and articles about "greening" in exactly the
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by gaur 11y ago
English has plenty of these kinds of compound words: "shoebox", "lapdog", "underworld", "housewife", "footstool", "raincoat", etc. Other compounds like "thoughtexperiment&quot
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by gaur 11y ago
Maybe we can get some of those people to work on LaTeX. For example, why should the commands for upright Greek letters be different for different fonts? \upalpha for one font, \alphaup for another, and \otheralpha for another -- it's a
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by gaur 11y ago
> Posing a direct question does the person a favor by pulling him back while sending a clear message. The technique works like a charm. For one, the unexpected question elicits an entertaining reaction — sort of like what happens when yo
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by gaur 11y ago
NIMBYs opposing high-density development during a housing shortage is a bad thing. NIMBYs opposing illegal hotels that exacerbate a housing shortage is a good thing.
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by gaur 11y ago
Wow. I always figured (naively) that dsubs were available with whatever (odd) number of pins you wanted.
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by gaur 11y ago
Is there some kind of rule that every startup name has to be of the form NounNoun or VerbNoun?
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by gaur 11y ago
Note also the strange spacing and boxing of "side", apparently for no reason. Also: "there is no hazard-if both risers are still attached". What's a "hazard-if"? Or do they mean to use a dash here instead
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by gaur 11y ago
The academic equivalent of the dreaded "resume.pdf".
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by gaur 11y ago
Firing someone for taking three days off to handle a family emergency is not reasonable. Your opinion of whether the emergency was caused by risky behavior is irrelevant.
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by gaur 11y ago
> in accordance with mandatory "retirement" at age fifty. I've never understood the obsession that a lot of mathematicians seem to have with age restrictions (e.g., the Fields medal).
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by gaur 11y ago
Maybe I'm exposing my ignorance here: why is using HTTPS not enough to prevent getting "hacked" in this case?
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by gaur 11y ago
Yeah, certainly orcas can make some pretty high-pitched squeaks. But I'm guessing they can't interbreed with blue whales. I guess I find the blue whale + fin whale hypothesis a little odd (why would the hybrid have a call that&#x2
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by gaur 11y ago
I meant what I said. http://www.ultimateungulate.com/cetartiodactyla.html
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by gaur 11y ago
> scientists in general are not trustworthy You don't know that.
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by gaur 11y ago
> They speculate that it could be malformed, or a hybrid of a blue whale and another species. Are there whale species that have calls significantly higher than 50 Hz? Any ungulate experts here who can comment?
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by gaur 11y ago
> Would you have preferred Latin or German? I could get by with German, but that's beside the point: the essay is written for an English-speaking audience, so it's stupid to insert extended passages of foreign text without prov
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by gaur 11y ago
What's the point of inserting untranslated French text into an English article? Is it supposed to just be window-dressing? Is it supposed to promote the (outdated and highly dubious) notion that all educated people speak French? Is it
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by gaur 11y ago
More than symbol names, I can never remember details about package options. To set uniform margins with the geometry package, is the keyword "margin" or "margins"? If I want to scale tgschola, is the keyword "scale&
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by gaur 11y ago
> These are some of the lowest-quality and most frustrating pieces of software I have ever had to put up with I'm a strong advocate for migrating research code to FOSS wherever possible, but even I don't agree with this stateme
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by gaur 11y ago
You haven't read enough Shakespeare, I see. Merchant of Venice , Act III, Scene 2: "all debts are cleared between you and I".
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by gaur 11y ago
The scaling with meteor size is impressive. A 100 m object will flatten some trees in Siberia. A 10 000 m object will kill 75% percent of all species on the planet (the KT event).
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by gaur 11y ago
Back in my day, they called this the Slashdot effect.
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by gaur 11y ago
> I wonder why BBC is running a story about this again? The BBC's science reporting is just shitty. They will repeat essentially any claim that is told to them. Off the top of my head, I can recall: * They ran an article about a &qu
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by gaur 11y ago
I saw that part. I guess to this journalist, "weeks" really means "four months".

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