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by impendia 4y ago
If you are in the US, here is the CFPB's advice on how to handle the situation. In short, contact your bank if the nonprofit refuses to help. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-stop-autom...
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by impendia 5y ago
I would agree with your argument, if I accepted your hypothetical that the vaccine doesn't prevent spread. However, the vaccine does prevent spread. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/sci
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by impendia 5y ago
I live in South Carolina, where the pandemic is especially bad now, and where vaccine uptake has been low. A friend told me that ambulances were being turned away at the front door of a local hospital. It is true that there are many possibl
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by impendia 5y ago
In your example, I would say that it's addition that's failing. Addition is defined as an operation with two inputs. You can't add more than two things, unless there is some particular rule that lets you. If you have finite
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by impendia 5y ago
You can set "Do Not Disturb" hours for notifications -- e.g. from 4:00 AM to 3:59 AM.
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by impendia 5y ago
As a math professor, I agree with this. I'd also say, if you choose to get a PhD, then commit fully to it. In particular don't spend a lot of time on side gigs unless you must. There are more PhD recipients than there are research
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by impendia 5y ago
> I have a robust constitution and am in an age group where the risk of death is, in my eyes, low. Please keep in mind that you can spread Covid to others without being infected. Your claim that the virus is "not particularly danger
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by impendia 5y ago
Yes, I got the vaccine, as soon as I could. All reports are that it is safe and effective. You mention blood clots -- remember that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine was paused after six reported cases of blood clotting. Six . Compare this t
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by impendia 5y ago
Some of the captcha photos remind me of Studio Ghibli's animation films, in a positive way. The films linger on random objects in landscapes, from a variety of perspectives, for longer than feels "natural". Something about th
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by impendia 5y ago
What is your criticism of LaTeX? I am a research mathematician, and I and essentially all my colleagues are LaTeX users. To me it feels like the correct tool for the job; the only widespread criticism I've heard is that it doesn't
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by impendia 5y ago
My university's IT staff is surprisingly good. But they seem to be hamstrung by questionable decisions being made over their head.
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by impendia 5y ago
I'm an academic. Since the pandemic began I've used Discord on multiple occasions for work -- for example, if someone runs an online conference it's common to create a Discord and encourage chat among the conference participa
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by impendia 5y ago
Stuart and Sons, a boutique piano manufacturer in Australia, made a piano with 108 keys: https://www.stuartandsons.com/108keys.html They have an elaborate explanation of why they did it, and they are a commercial outfit, bu
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by impendia 5y ago
I'll bite. Where I live and where I shop, I can understand. But how does my cell phone know how much money I make?
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by impendia 5y ago
Bzzzt. :) Yeah, that's the only one whose meaning you can't guess if you don't read Latin. Inventiones, as it turns out.
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Not to my knowledge, no.
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by impendia 5y ago
> a journal called Vaccines I'm an academic mathematician. Your pointing out the name of the journal is an interesting point. Pop quiz: out of the journals Aequationes mathematicae , Indagationes mathematicae , Inventiones math
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by impendia 5y ago
> Do you think I am missing out on anything by not taking Harvard? Sure. Conversely, if you'd gone to Harvard, you would have missed out on all that Stanford has to offer. Sometimes you get multiple options and have to turn down all
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by impendia 5y ago
> part time jobs open to software engineers Not sure -- but unfortunately I'd guess that arrangements like this would be uncommon at best. That said, different research areas can be very different; maybe in fields swimming with NS
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by impendia 5y ago
(I'm a university professor) What kind of "program" exactly are you looking for? I'd expect that most good state schools admit non-degree students. Mine (the University of South Carolina) does. I've had some in my c
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by impendia 5y ago
When Microsoft updates Windows 10, they try to get you to sign in to a Microsoft account and present the options "Continue" and "Remind me in 3 days". No, Microsoft, how about "no"? Or "fuck off"?
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by impendia 5y ago
You don't need the first roll either. At the very beginning of the game, offer your opponent $1,600 in return for a 50% stake in all the rents they collect for the rest of the game. Your opponent accepts, and you can't pay. Game o
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by impendia 5y ago
One thing I have found invigorating when feeling down is showing up to something. Anything : tech meetups, hobby groups, group exercise classes... any event hosted in someone else's space, ideally at least somewhat unfamiliar to you.
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by impendia 5y ago
I'm a professor. My university bought a big piece of enterprise software, designed precisely to track and boost student success in various ways. The software sent me an email asking me to do something, ostensibly from someone in our ad
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by impendia 5y ago
I am an academic researcher (math). Unfortunately, prestige hits the mark. Whenever I am being compared with my peers -- for raises, for possible grant funding, if I apply for a job at another university -- people will look at publication l
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by impendia 6y ago
> What does “beyond a reasonable doubt” mean in probability terms? When serving as a juror in a criminal trial, I asked precisely this question of the judge. Her response was that the law does not prescribe a percentage.
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by impendia 6y ago
Yes, this exactly. My health is nobody's business but mine and my doctor's. I'll make a partial exception for the ongoing pandemic, but that's because the disease can be spread to others by close contact. Insomnia, altho
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by impendia 6y ago
An interesting point, but I would argue that I was following your dictum and playing within the boundaries. I wasn't angry at my friend, and I wasn't personally seeking revenge. I was role-playing my cat army, which suddenly had
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by impendia 6y ago
I agree, but I wouldn't always characterize this as a problem. I remember playing a 3-player game of Root (which I highly recommend!) Player A ambushed me and managed to burn down my headquarters. At that point I realized I couldn&#x27
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by impendia 6y ago
Interesting. Sounds like I should find some people to play a game of Monopoly with! The game seems to have earned a bad reputation, the prototype for the sort of game you shouldn't play anymore because everything from the last 25 years

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