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by kaitai 11y ago
As I understand it, * no maintenance for inside * don't use steel wool. With a stubborn stain I use a little baking soda, which some folks say is ok and others forbid. I use metal utensils despite being told not to. I use them gently a
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by kaitai 11y ago
You might have a house with a kitchen next to the living room and no door in between, and if you've got everything closed up in winter you can kill a bird in a nearby room with Teflon toxicity. Overheating oil will not kill a small bir
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by kaitai 11y ago
If you're doing wok cooking, you can get to 900 degrees, although most of us who did not have the gas company adjust the stove for optimal Chinese cooking don't get quite that high. 600 F isn't crazy in wok cooking on a stove
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by kaitai 11y ago
As a prof, pre-recording video lectures doesn't save time -- it's a lot of work. And then you can't see the faces of students and react to their current state of understanding. Students "slowing down the class" are
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by kaitai 11y ago
I think it's the implicit judgment that is more powerful. If you were to declare, "I'm a summer; I can't ever wear yellow!" no one would care. When you refuse someone's bread, though, that's a different qu
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by kaitai 11y ago
tptacek has a very efficient guide to bees posted. Another nice national one that is very comprehensive is the USDA's guide at http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb530646... . Scroll to page
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by kaitai 11y ago
Wild honey bees in the US have always been descended from escaped domesticated bees. Native wild bees in North America don't seem to make honey. The population of feral honey bees has certainly collapsed, but it's not zero (in par
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by kaitai 11y ago
It's dodgy because [1] the author is claiming that the number of colonies of domesticated bees is higher (not the number of bees), [2] the author ignores non-domesticated bees and thus misses a significant economic contributor that m
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by kaitai 11y ago
Moreover, the article entirely ignores wild bees. That's somewhat understandable as they're not as well studied, but they're a significant pollination force nevertheless -- according to this White House fact sheet [1], wild b
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I have tried this and it was very useful as well.
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I used this pretty heavily in May for a recent data-science project and it really saved my butt. Easy to use, speeded things up a lot. Choked on only one pdf. Looking forward to seeing the progress made.
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If applications were blind they wouldn't have gender & race/ethnicity. That's the point of blind orchestra auditions.
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It's serving a specific market. Is it discriminatory that Maybelline, the makeup company, doesn't...embrace...men? or that there are specific makeup lines for people with dark skin? or light skin? Is it discriminatory that there e
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by kaitai 11y ago
Just for fun, check out http://everysinglewordspoken.tumblr.com/ It takes a movie and cuts together every single word & sentence spoken by an actor of color. Often the intro music is longer than the compiled lines. Moon
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by kaitai 11y ago
Interesting litmus test indeed! Some were boring to me, some really interesting -- Monet's painting of a winter day on that page arrested me (and I didn't even identify it as Monet right away) because the way the light came down a
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by kaitai 11y ago
Another great read is Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine. http://www.amazon.com/Delusions-Gender-Society-Neurosexism-D...
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Our social constructions heavily influence how "Men and women, on average, differ significantly on career choice, likes, dislikes, and motivation," (from grandparent comment). In Spain and Italy and Portugal, math occupies a very
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I don't think it's related to "traditional marriage systems," but instead to social nets and expectations about who will do the caring. For instance, in Scandinavia marriage rates have simply plunged over the last few de
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Utah, apparently. https://medium.com/culture-club/a-black-man-walks-into-silic...
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by kaitai 11y ago
This sentence: "Crucially, though, for these gatekeepers, fit was not about a match with organizational values. It was about personal fit." For all of you defending hiring on fit, which fit are you thinking about?
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And sometimes ideas start organically at the same time: I pitched an idea at Startup Weekend and we got a prototype going that we didn't pursue, and then a few months later a group in Scotland started a business around the same idea --
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by kaitai 11y ago
I didn't downvote and it's not gray now. But I want to chime in that you aren't the only one with this fear, and it doesn't help that I know a 2-year-old who died in a canoeing accident, wearing a life-vest and with resp
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by kaitai 11y ago
Students actually study that much these days?! I don't see it! Not being facetious or judgmental either. And there's strong pressure for calc profs these days to not assign more than 30 problems a week. Sensitivity about workload
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Women have been disposable throughout history too. Even in societies that respected women, maternal mortality (death during childbirth) was pretty common (and still is in the US). In societies that didn't like having so many women, abo
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Most American women won't call themselves feminists because it has a bad image. Where do you get your idea of "cool"? I am curious!
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This is a great comment and I hope that people think carefully about what you are saying. One problem with discussing our biases is that sexism and racism are considered moral failings in many places, and so a discussion of possible sexist
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Somehow we've gotten to a point in society where it is relatively accepted that me saying to a student, "Come to my office for a... personal meeting..." or "I'd like to have beers with you after class alone -- i
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That's right -- the article is saying that white guys (especially tall and handsome ones -- remember that short guys oh wait you already know) have less difficulty than many other people in the funding game. But in this discussion, the
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It's even capitalized.
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With all due respect to Dijkstra, this is so narrow-minded. I love intuition in mathematics, primarily coming from spatial or geometric reasoning. Then it's time to put it into algebraic or symbolic terms, but that's pinning a but

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