jrkatz

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by jrkatz 10y ago
> "Am I being selfish?" > I pulled my blankie tighter around my shoulders, making a mental note the owner would require more bitcoin this month as I'd gone over my allotted 36 hours of blankie time. > "No, it&#x
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by jrkatz 11y ago
I interviewed there when I was almost out of college and during the lunch interview, I asked, "So, what's the work life balance look like around here? I have hobbies I'd like to keep". The guy answered, "Well, I usu
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by jrkatz 11y ago
Unfortunately there are a lot of places in the states where that's not practical. Many, many students from my high school tried this route. The local CC has an arrangement with UCLA, so if the student gets good grades in a specific cur
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by jrkatz 11y ago
It's surprising to read an article that touches on the old Boston hardcore scene without any mention of FSU. For anyone interested in more stories of Boston hardcore and crime, take a glance at http://www.rollingstone.com&#x
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by jrkatz 12y ago
If we understand a 'Feminist person' to be a person who is a feminist, it follows a 'Feminist hacker' is a hacker who is a feminist.
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by jrkatz 12y ago
My understanding has always been that since the dead virus works by triggering an immune response, 'symptoms' (that are actually part of the immune response, e.g. fever, soreness) can still occur, though they end quickly, as the b
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by jrkatz 12y ago
The decibel scale uses a log_10, not log_2.
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by jrkatz 12y ago
jhancock was referring to cooperation between telecoms, not cooperation between telecoms and the government.
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by jrkatz 12y ago
I live on the first floor of a house in Boston, and this summer made it through without AC. By keeping heavy curtains drawn and closing both layers of the double windows during the day, then opening windows at night and using fans to draw c
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by jrkatz 12y ago
From your sources [0] and [1], I am inclined to believe that if such a program were in effect it could influence ozone depletion, but there is no indication this is happening, let alone that it has been since the '90s. If I find a pape
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by jrkatz 12y ago
In dismissing his friends' taste he is guilty of the same. It's never fun to be the only person in a group who likes some music, but it happens and it doesn't make the minority any better or more open than the majority. It&#x
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by jrkatz 13y ago
If you are concerned about the security and don't want to deal with putty (I can commiserate), there's always the secure shell chrome/chromium extension. If you haven't seen it already you might want to give it a look.
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by jrkatz 13y ago
First they came for the dives, and then they took the basement venues away too, just to spite me.
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by jrkatz 13y ago
Morality is the right word, though; this is not ethics. It is unethical no matter what for psychologists to date their patients. It is not unethical for you to date one of their patients. Maybe a given psychologist is definitely not abusing
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by jrkatz 13y ago
I purchased and sent in my kit before they removed medical information from their website. However, it hasn't processed yet. I expected that medical information (even though I knew not to trust it). What an awkward position.
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by jrkatz 13y ago
I can't answer for everyone, but I can tell you why I have a cron job dropping my cache every several minutes: The application I develop consumes most of the ram on my machine when running, and takes several minutes to rebuild and star
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by jrkatz 13y ago
To construct a trivial example, say we give every citizen $2000 a month in post-tax basic income. Of course, most citizens have jobs and other sources of income. To make math easier, assume this government has a flat income tax of 20% If yo
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by jrkatz 13y ago
Regarding your edit, at no point is it said Japan has low incidence of depression; the claim made is that they have few diagnoses of depression. The article takes care to point this out. I would take these numbers to mean that Japanese peop
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by jrkatz 13y ago
Babies grow fast, so there can be a fairly large difference between twelve months and fourteen months, or fourteen months and eighteen months. You can't express those values well in decimal format, so you can't discuss milestones
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by jrkatz 13y ago
Heads up everyone using "him" or "him (her)" (and permutations thereof), the correct terminology is just "her", because she is a woman. This isn't rocket science.
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by jrkatz 13y ago
Right, but that's not natural selection, that's mutation. Natural selection can pick up on the changes after they've taken place. e.g., There's presumably a gene out there that makes humans twice as intelligent at absolu
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by jrkatz 13y ago
I'm sure Russia is a fine place if you're not a journalist, particularly invested in the democratic process, gay or in any other LGBTQ group. Why, it's all worth it for smoking in pubs!