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by nagrom 16y ago
The key phrase is "American innovation". A lot (most?) of your examples come from outside of America, I think. I know a lot of medical imaging and vaccine research gets done in Europe, there's a lot of Nuclear design in the UK and Russia, a
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by nagrom 16y ago
Bleurgh. I rewrote that sentence a few times and ended up posting a mish-mash. s/earnest/jest/ :o)
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by nagrom 16y ago
This reminds me of E. B. White's quote: "Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White It's also re
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by nagrom 17y ago
Or, they're people who are really busy, aren't looking for a job right now but are open to new offers. Maybe people like myself who work in related disciplines and are considering a career change. The iPad is just a way of gaining publicity
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by nagrom 17y ago
I'm a physicist, I'm thinking of applying. I am not currently looking for a job, but the positions they are looking to fill seem like a good fit, and I have been considering a career change for a while now. Without the news-worthiness of th
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by nagrom 17y ago
"Well statistically half your employees by definition are sub-par." Not at all. First of all, 'par' doesn't mean the average of the skill levels of your employees. 'Par' could be 'satisfactory' or 'the average skill level of the market as a
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by nagrom 17y ago
Sadly, in this case, I am not Spartacus. That would require a mind so cunning that it makes mine hurt just to think of it ;-)
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by nagrom 17y ago
Simple psychology would lead me to guess that it is you Jacques. If I wanted to tell how easy it was to identify an anonymous comment, then I'd make one. I'd then publicise it, and challenge other people to crack it. Maybe I'm being too cle
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by nagrom 17y ago
I seem to remember that beer everywhere in France is comparatively expensive to Germany or the UK, for example. I also seem to remember that really good wine is surprisingly affordable - certainly in France I would always drink wine and not
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by nagrom 17y ago
In the article, Moscow's drop in price is attributed to the drop in the Rouble against the Dollar...this feels right to me also since Russia has been less openly aggressive recently, which would lead to a cheaper cost of living I guess.
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by nagrom 17y ago
Frankfurt is a financial center and has a huge airport hub. Since these rankings are based around 'executive-level' compensation, these things make a major difference.
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by nagrom 17y ago
I think this is fairly common. I've had two people agree to give me a recommendation on the basis that I write it for them, allow them to see it and change anything that they don't like, and then sign it. As I see it, if you're willing to h
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by nagrom 17y ago
"Ending sentences with a preposition is something with which I will not put" is a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, but is probably incorrect: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill It's one of my favourite examples of
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by nagrom 17y ago
Yes, it is bad. The distinction between less and fewer can aid interpretation of a sentence, especially in spoken language. Consider: "I have less chocolate" vs "I have fewer chocolates" In the first case, even if you don't hear the correct
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by nagrom 17y ago
I can really see this in myself. I have a deal with my father: I fix his computers and he fixes my car. He's scared that he could break his computer, and lose his data. I'm scared that I'll fuck up something on my car, and need to have it f
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by nagrom 17y ago
This came up recently in a discussion on Charlie Stross' blog. He lives in a seemingly large city-center apartment in Edinburgh. Although Edinburgh is not London City or Manhattan, it's a pretty expensive place to live. Part of his justific
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by nagrom 17y ago
I think that your point about taking serious damage from a knife fight is wrong. A very quic search throws up this page: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/archive/knives/msg0... with this quote: "Gun and knife robberies are equally
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by nagrom 17y ago
I disagree that you cannot put intelligence (which in this context means mathematics and language skills, hence 'IQ') aside and practice other skills. Developing a sense of empathy and charm can have almost nothing to do with how intelligen
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by nagrom 17y ago
That point only applies if you think of Google as a 'search' company. I would argue that Google is an internet services company (that is funded by advertising rather than subscriptions) that 'owns' search. Arguments can be made on whose off
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by nagrom 17y ago
It's a snowquote - the original was Yogi Berra talking about a restaurant: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
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by nagrom 17y ago
It's a commonly-received truth that children are not sufficiently developed to make potentially abusive deals. This is why we have laws against sex with children, why children cannot legally gamble or take out loans and why children have sp
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by nagrom 17y ago
''Because your point on "consistent and clear" is based completely on a made up discussion between what sounds like 3rd graders (or politicians)'' Unfortunately, it's the politicians that are making the decisions - and a lot of the interest
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by nagrom 17y ago
Why would this cause you any more pain than normal? You can just remove that chain with rm -r, surely?
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by nagrom 17y ago
I don't believe that Maths or Physics can really be taught using the traditional lecture format. The lecture may suffice to run through the techniques of various proofs, or tell the student what he/she needs to learn. The only way really t
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by nagrom 17y ago
Hm. Without rich-media advertisements, maybe web content producers would not make as much money from their sites and have less motivation (and capital!) to create great content? If there were no such thing as Flash, then the web would be di
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by nagrom 17y ago
The way it works is that one is a member of a collaboration. That collaboration publishes a paper, with 200 people on the author's list - technically, all the member of the collab. have been working at the experiment at some point. Of cours
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by nagrom 17y ago
Absolutely!!! What's more, in the past 15 years or so, it has become more and more essential for a research scientist to have an excellent publication record in order to have any chance of a permanent job. This has had the pernicious effect
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by nagrom 17y ago
"The author doesn't. The author says that there will be more middle class women with jobs, but fewer poor women with jobs. He/she wants to help the poor ones." What about helping men achieve equality with women in the desirable job sector
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by nagrom 17y ago
I think what is meant is that the artist cannot really define what he does as an art. There must be popular appreciation of the art to allow it to be defined as art, i.e. you cannot really have an artform until people who do not practice it
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by nagrom 17y ago
The email thing that infuriates me is when people send something to a mailing list that I am on, that they think that I should read and copy the mail to me as well . At work, we have people sending the same mail to three mailing lists and

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