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by nagrom 15y ago
I am someone doing post-doctoral research, looking for an academic position and working in a university environment. I've seen students come in to the university at undergraduate level, students come into the post-graduate program and leave
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by nagrom 15y ago
I don't think that, even in US prisons (which are rather inhumane compared to European standards, I think), prisoners are delighted when a companion dies because the extra food ration they get for burying the body allows them to keep starva
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by nagrom 15y ago
Well, he does imply that it was a mistake. The impression for me was that he regrets the time spent there.
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by nagrom 15y ago
The recent update that Google made to their ranking policy that was supposed to dis-incentivize link farms, auto-generated and content-free sites and search engine spammers.
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by nagrom 15y ago
Tragically, I'm from Liverpool. He'd more than likely suspect me of pinching his hubcaps.
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by nagrom 15y ago
So for those of us who didn't go to oxbridge and didn't acquire this valuable skill, how do we acquire it as adults?
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by nagrom 15y ago
I cannot help but think that you are willfully misinterpreting my comment. Substitute 'account' for 'phone' if you like. They can obviously break it down by SIM because otherwise they couldn't figure that this woman 'caused' these charges,
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by nagrom 15y ago
The real trick would be obtaining the 15% student discount with a BMW. If I could figure that out, I'd have a beemer in a flash.
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by nagrom 15y ago
And what you are saying is that there is no possibility that such a feature network-wide (Email to main account holder: "Your phone bill has risen above $1,000 this month. Please make sure that this is not accidental.") would be useful to a
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by nagrom 15y ago
The cost of data on cell-phone plans has most certainly been an issue in the past. There are simply too many cases to cite. My service provider in the UK limits my data to £40/month and texts me to let me know that it is is over £20 when ab
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by nagrom 15y ago
So, why don't they internally cap the data available to a card of that type? This is a technical solution that would take what, 10 minutes? 20 minutes? Rather than allowing someone to run up $193k of overage charges (all the while cackling
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by nagrom 15y ago
I very much enjoy this form of mathematics trivia and similarly interesting toy maths problems. They're often posted at http://www.futilitycloset.com - not just interesting numbers, but interesting geometric proofs and so on.
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by nagrom 16y ago
I absolutely agree. Although the comments on engadget suggest buying the cheap version and reflashing it with vanilla firmware which could be a nice thing to do.
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by nagrom 16y ago
Fair enough, although in that case I would wear linen trousers and a short-sleeved linen shirt. That combo works in Spain, Italy and North Africa in summer. Short-sleeved linen shirts feel really cool in hot weather, really nice. You absolu
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by nagrom 16y ago
"Looks? Probably. Feels? That's absolutely subjective." Fair enough. Generally, though, you only get t-shirts in cotton. It's nice to wear linen, or the nicer cottons that you typically get with formal shirts. "Why do you think I'm dressing
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by nagrom 16y ago
I work in a university with a bunch of late-20s, early-30s. All of my group wear, unfailingly, collared shirts and sweaters or sports coats or suits. We wear those because we like looking, and feeling, like independent adults - we're not te
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by nagrom 16y ago
I'm from Liverpool, but now live in Glasgow.
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by nagrom 16y ago
My favourite line in the whole article was about the way he alerted the lottery board: "The package was sent at 10 am. Two hours later, he received a call from Zufelt. Srivastava had correctly predicted 19 out of the 20 tickets. The next da
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by nagrom 16y ago
There's a similar phrase that doesn't occur in your set of translations but accurately conveys the meaning: "Pay it forward".
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by nagrom 16y ago
Spoken by someone who doesn't know the British legal system well at all. The lack of sanity in the system is breathtakingly clear. We recently convicted someone for making a joke via Twitter, and he didn't have the resources of a government
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by nagrom 16y ago
If someone offers you a sandwich then you take a bite. If you are particularly enthusiastic or quick to react, you take a really big bite and bite their hand off. It signals extreme enthusiasm and keenness. I hear it all the time (UK).
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by nagrom 16y ago
His behaviour is atrocious. I cannot imagine that I would be very happy about him doing this to someone for whom I cared. If his location is easily findable, I am amazed that no-one has enthusiastically gone to address his behaviour in pers
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by nagrom 16y ago
And, just like the case of ebooks, few people think that it's worth buying the images. Instead they torrent them. The market is broken.
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by nagrom 16y ago
Th JPG analogy does hold water - for a perfect ebook reproduction of the text, use a TIFF or bitmap or similar. However, often an ebook is a lossy reproduction - look at the reviews for Surface Detail on Amazon. The quality of the text is
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by nagrom 16y ago
Absolutely. Furthermore - if you have the upper hand and can get away, then you are most likely committing a criminal offence by not doing so. The law doesn't recognise the idea that you have the right to lay into someone for being an assho
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by nagrom 16y ago
I was with you until A). Don't hit someone first. If you do, that's assault. It's only self-defense if they try to hit you first. Don't hit someone on the jaw. You'll hurt your hand and stun him very temporarily, if you don't just glance of
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by nagrom 16y ago
If I'd paid $2.99, I simply would not pay for anything else from Alphonso Labs. I'd just wait until they gave it away free - that is a shame, because that way any app is unlikely to be successful enough to be given away free. If they give i
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by nagrom 16y ago
I wonder: can I claim to be gay and would therefore prefer to be patted down by a woman? Can we make this a standard thing to claim? I would imagine that if they did not adhere to this request, then they would be guilty of sexual discrimina
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by nagrom 16y ago
Good math jokes split into two groups: either they're funny, or they make you feel clever for understanding them, I think. The latter are more fun. Simple Level: What's special about plants in the maths common room? They have square roots.
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by nagrom 16y ago
It must depend upon your subject and university in the UK. As a physicist, I have never known a student to obtain a PhD in less than 3 years. My students have taken 3.5 years minimum. There's one guy in our department who should get his PhD

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