ninguem2

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by ninguem2 11y ago
I have no intention of defending the NY Times or the person you are replying to. I have a general question. Why is it necessarily good that the country is kept together? Would India be better off if, e.g., partition had not happened?
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by ninguem2 11y ago
How would one decide who gets tenure, promotion and raises if all papers are anonymous? Once universal basic income is implemented, maybe. Meanwhile, no.
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by ninguem2 11y ago
What is this thing #.jgiw2z:ikKk in the URL?
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by ninguem2 11y ago
There seems to be a lot of CS papers on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/corr/home
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Don't you post your papers on the arxiv? That's basically the same thing. You put the paper in the UC eScholarship repository in addition to publishing it as you normally would. If the publisher complains, then there will be a pro
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Your general statements are correct but your example of Wiles is quite wrong. Wiles ideas and their developments in the general area of "modularity of Galois representations" (which this comment box is too small to explain) led to
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Very few diesel cars in the US but an unhealthy amount of diesel pick-up trucks used as commuter vehicles.
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Spotted the Bayesian.
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Maybe the guy who found the bug won't get $1000, according to your rules, but he definitely deserves a cookie.
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by ninguem2 11y ago
I think the majority of the population (of the US) lives in urban areas. http://www.citylab.com/housing/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...
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by ninguem2 11y ago
It's Colombia, please.
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by ninguem2 11y ago
"Y U Block ads"? I have adblock on by default and I planned to spend a couple of minutes on the page just to see what it was like. I am not going to land on a random page with adblock turned off. If it bothers you so much, find a
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by ninguem2 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cstross
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by ninguem2 11y ago
I agree that Santos Dumont is great and a wonderful role model but the way this story is (was?) taught in school in Brazil is misleading. I never even heard of the Wright brothers until I went to live abroad as an adult and was caught compl
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Yet, when WWII came around... (see my other reply on this thread)
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by ninguem2 11y ago
>emphasising understanding those losses should help prevent them occurring again Here is something that always puzzled me. In WWII they sent almost all their troops to fight again in Europe (and North Africa) for a Britain led by Churchi
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by ninguem2 11y ago
Much as Marx, whose contributions are controversial, the work of Peter Singer has also (to a lesser extent) changed the world.
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by ninguem2 11y ago
But how do you view Philosophy of Science, which discusses how one should acquire scientific knowledge and what does it mean? It is still a relevant discussion, as witnessed in the endless debates about String Theory.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
I thought that was weird too. He won't be making the college's (American) football team if he was fat at 185lb.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
"Head of lab" is not appropriate. The Cavendish Laboratory (which Bragg indeed headed) is/was the equivalent of a whole department or institute (of experimental physics, chemistry and biology). The head of the actual lab that
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by ninguem2 12y ago
Since most cattle in California is dairy, not beef, your numbers don't disprove his statement.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
You could still do it in the 19th century you didn't have a problem with killing the natives.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
Charming gentleman...
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by ninguem2 12y ago
I don't think servants were just status symbols. Cooking, cleaning and laundry without appliances was a very time consuming job which probably occupied the days of the wife and daughters of a family with no servants. Add to that inconv
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by ninguem2 12y ago
I was lost here for a minute until I finally realized that IL was Israel not Illinois.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
Actuaries seem to have managed to separate education and certification.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
How do the size of these bacteria compare with that of viruses?
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by ninguem2 12y ago
Your definition of smart must be very different from mine. And of good as well, but never mind that.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
Be very careful. Usually low T has no discernible cause but sometimes it is caused by a (treatable but potentially very serious) cancer of the pituitary called a prolactinoma. Testosterone treatment can mask the symptoms until is too late.
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by ninguem2 12y ago
If one's goal in learning Arabic were to become an intelligence agent at the NSA, CIA,... (which are probably the largest employers of Arabic translators in the US) wouldn't this be the natural choice of vocabulary to be studying?

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