madcaptenor

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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   You could even get rid of "On". Most people probably think Darwin's magnum opus is titled "The Origin of Species" anyway.
2. 1202.▲
   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   The "multiply by 2pi" version of this problem is the one where you have to lift the rope by a cat's height all around the entire earth. So if you have an army of southern-hemisphere cats and they need to get to the northern
3. 1203.▲
   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   From John Cowan's list of "Essentialist Explanations", credited to Kapitano Eglefino ( http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/essential.html#Esperanto ): "Esperanto is essentially English, French, German, Sp
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   That's not exactly correct - part of my basement is heated/cooled but I'm pretty sure that doesn't count towards square footage (at least, the appraisal didn't count it). Are you somewhere where people don't ha
5. 1205.▲
   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   Well, a sum is just an average multiplied by a constant.
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   There are words for numbers in Latin. From Wiktionary ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Latin_cardinal_numer... ): unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque, sex... Just like an English speaker sees "1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
7. 1207.▲
   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   Where are you? I tried this from work (physically in Georgia, but through a Texas VPN) and they were all in Texas; then I tried it from home (in Georgia) and they were in Georgia.
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   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   Try again.
9. 1209.▲
   by madcaptenor 9y ago

   I think most people probably start by looking up rude ones, then feel a bit embarrassed and move on to non-rude.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Anecdotally that seems very common in the suburbs of Atlanta. We're lazy about our street names here. I live at X Road and X Court (for some value of X) and that's not the only intersection like that in my subdivision. If I had
11. 1211.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    That's what I thought! But I don't know any of those intersections personally.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I can't tell if there's an intersection of Church and State. All the top results at https://www.crossing.us/intersections/church/state (for me) have Church Street/Road intersecting with State Highw
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I was expecting these to be in horrible suburban office parks.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    A politically relevant one: https://www.crossing.us/intersections/donald/moscow (It's actually the intersection of "Don" and "Moscow". But judging from the other street names here, "D
15. 1215.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I'm not even going to ask what a nut hatch is.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    So what do you call the cube root?
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    The paper "The Proof of Innocence" linked to there has a wonderful sentence in the abstract ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.0162 ): "The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Out of curiosity, I checked our policy. The people who can get monetary awards at my company are: - active employees, and - retired employees who retire with eligibility for retiree health benefits (my understanding is that this is, approx
19. 1219.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    That's up to your company's policy. My company has a similar policy with a two-stage award, and you're not entitled to the award for approval if it's approved after you leave. Do you have any former colleagues/frien
20. 1220.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    If a person from New York is a New Yorker, then shouldn't someone from the original York be a Yorker?
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    There are a lot! What kind of math or science do you like? Any books you've liked before, so you're looking for "more like this"?
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    The QuikTrip chain in the South has signs that say they have "guaranteed gasoline". Apparently this means it won't hurt your engine: https://www.quiktrip.com/gasoline - but I like to think it means that they&
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Turkish also has good food.
24. 1224.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    I flew a round-trip on Turkish (Atlanta-Istanbul-Vienna, then Budapest-Istanbul-Atlanta) while the ban was in effect. The ban was only in effect on the Istanbul to Atlanta flight. I believe I could have carried a laptop on the Budapest-Is
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    This is a technical definition in terms of "elasticity of demand": see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_elasticity_of_demand . Unfortunately it doesn't agree with what normal people hear when they h
26. 1226.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Also, Millennials go up to 40?
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    As a somewhat frequent Airbnb guest (about ten times in the last five years), I can second that getting check-in right is key. I've had a couple places I've stayed at where I had to pick up the key from a different location (once
28. 1228.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    This sounds a lot like jury duty. I'm not sure what to make of that similarity.
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    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    Publix has had them for a while, too, which means that in the Publix/Kroger borderlands of Atlanta (where I live) there are two supermarket meal kit choices.
30. 1230.▲
    by madcaptenor 9y ago

    But your plan will fail and seat you between me and my wife, since we don't have the same last name.