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by kghose 12y ago
Finally, some one with additional details I was waiting to hear. If they hauled everyone learning Arabic off the false positive rate should be sky high. I wonder, just wonder, if this person was an "activist". You know, someone wh
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by kghose 12y ago
The houses I like the most in Germany are the Fachwerkhäuser which have lasted a while and are made of wood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_framing#German_tradition...
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by kghose 12y ago
This is interesting. Do you have a reference for this? It seems logical because humans give off moisture a lot and if the air is not exchanged it will accumulate.
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by kghose 12y ago
There are many old wood houses around Boston built in the 1900s. When maintained (The roof and siding are renewed to prevent water damage and termite prevention) their frames seem to hold up well. Is your 50 years a guesstimate or do you ha
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by kghose 12y ago
A few decades ago there were papers and popular reports like that. They were fashionable then. This is what is fashionable now. It will change back. Then back again.
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by kghose 12y ago
Ah this is interesting for a teetotaler! I did not know it was desirable to keep the whiskey warm. I thought, like soft drinks, the idea was to keep it as chilled as possible. So the optimum temp is just a little below room?
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by kghose 12y ago
I don't know about the rest, but the physics behind the ice ball does not seem right to me. The ice absorbs heat from the drink and cools it. The ice melts at a rate governed by how fast it absorbs the heat. If the ice melts more slowl
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by kghose 12y ago
But net immigration into the US, so the population is actually increasing.
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by kghose 12y ago
I kept saying "RGB, RGB" and got to level 4 before I was bored. I'm also color blind, so I was thinking I'm gonna fail here, but it wasn't that bad, probably because I wasn't distinguishing shades and such
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by kghose 12y ago
To put that into further perspective, it costs us about $20000/year for day care for our baby. This is near Boston.
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by kghose 12y ago
I am sympathetic to your argument, but I would say that the quality dimension is also heavily corrupted, especially in basic science where people rarely retrace experiments, and there is no requirement for a "working product". The
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by kghose 12y ago
And the OPs point is that we should not stop there either, because it is an arbitrary point in history. Also, as the number of immigrants increase in US schools, White guilt and other forms of self flagellation lessens. If you are not Europ
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by kghose 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle I can find nothing unnatural about the existence of a single universe with particular constants that give rise to life that then studies the universe. There is nothing
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by kghose 12y ago
No. They meant the fading of the sound and mixed it up.
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by kghose 12y ago
This is a very nice tutorial. One small point. Coordinates are expressed in a "X/Y" format which was very confusing to me because I was thinking of them as ratios. It might be better to print them the commonly used tuple conv
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by kghose 12y ago
For the person who has no time to put the cork back in the bottle ...
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by kghose 12y ago
I've never used it, but our CEO swears by "Yik-Yak" (I wrote "Whisper" which was wrong)
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by kghose 12y ago
I think you meant "elusive". Illusive is a tad pessimistic :)
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by kghose 12y ago
Does not rule out shared cause. You observe X and Y and find a correlation. You still have to consider that X and Y are caused by Z. Noise in Z will have echoes in both X and Y.
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by kghose 12y ago
The writing reminded me of Roald Dahl's "The Ratcatcher."
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by kghose 12y ago
I have nothing to add to this but to say $#%@! It's been NINE YEARS already? I recall being so excited when New Horizons was being launched, and thinking, that's almost a decade away, I wonder what I'll be doing, that's
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by kghose 12y ago
A line manager for academics. We're not in Kansas anymore.
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by kghose 12y ago
When the train is placed completely within the copper coil, the circuit is closed. A current flows from the +ve end of the battery, round the local part of the coil, back into the -ve end of the battery (the magnets are conducting). This ci
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by kghose 12y ago
Because the only de facto monopolies allowed in the EU are european, like Airbus.
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by kghose 12y ago
I was surprised that India leads green card applications by such a huge margin. China and India should be about level since they both send about the same number of students to higher ed in the US and in similar specialties. Though I do see
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by kghose 12y ago
I have worked in three research institutions in the US - At the University of Maryland, at Harvard University and at Mass General Hospital. While there were cultural differences as well as individual differences, my main observation was tha
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by kghose 12y ago
This is an interesting question. We have evolved, but evolution is so slow that we do not notice that our children are actually inching away from us genetically (hopefully for the "better"). However, if we inject large artificial
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by kghose 12y ago
This is awesome! But I got on a horse, flew to the edge and now I'm falling for ever.
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by kghose 12y ago
Sartre, for writing with such unnecessary length.
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by kghose 12y ago
Pompous.

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