noilly

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by noilly 16y ago
"I picked strawberries, and though I can't recall what I got per crate for picking, I remember that after working hard all one day, I wound up with about a dollar, which was a whole lot of money in those times. I was so hungry, I didn't kno
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by noilly 16y ago
straight from horse's mouth http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-28-2010/appholes starts in earnest around ~2:00; probably region locked
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by noilly 16y ago
Yes- larger crystals + expansion --> puncture and break cell walls --> not good when you're defrosted. Tangentially, this is why ice cream cooled with liquid nitrogen is so smooth
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by noilly 16y ago
iirc, even in the good old days, GM was more profitable as a car financing company than a car manufacturing company... profits which were then transferred to employee benefits rather than reinvested in the company
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by noilly 16y ago
This only looks bad in hindsight... I cannot speak for GS et al., but it seems like most of the commentary attributes the banks with prescience (and therefore malice).
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by noilly 16y ago
thought: if apple files a lawsuit, does it mean this was not a plant?
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by noilly 16y ago
thanks a lot!
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by noilly 16y ago
I bolded the top row if you don't mind... sans serif font + italics = no go
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by noilly 17y ago
Perhaps a large metabolic cost for larger animals- hard to maintain that energy cost when you've just had your limb cut off + trying to fight off infection, run away from predators, etc.
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by noilly 17y ago
London to Beijing takes about 9-10 days as of right now. You could easily get that to 5-7 days if you cut out stops (especially between Moscow and Beijing) and if you tripled the average speed of the trains from ~30-40 mph to 90-120 mph...
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by noilly 17y ago
a more salient consideration is the already existing tension between China and India over their border. You cannot currently get between India and China directly by train.
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by noilly 17y ago
"In Andy Warhol's "Diaries", he describes being at a Thanksgiving 1983 dinner party at Yoko Ono's apartment. Bowie and Madonna are also there. Warhol wanders to a bunch of people in Sean's room, where "some kid is setting up one of those Ap
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by noilly 17y ago
if the world ends, don't eat carnivore livers
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by noilly 17y ago
the current steam beta ui has been ported from ie to webkit (which was a hint that they were going to introduce mac support)
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by noilly 17y ago
the video shows it used while propped against crossed legs or on your lap with both feet raised on an object (or sitting on the floor with knees up). I wonder how it feels otherwise?
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by noilly 17y ago
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-5-2010/even-be...
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by noilly 17y ago
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." Warren Buffett
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by noilly 17y ago
I go to stanford, and intro CS is required or strongly recommended in most majors (all engineering, hard science, and even social sciences)... so a pretty large fraction of the student body goes through the class- most prospective cs majors
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by noilly 17y ago
Nicholas Stern (of the stern review) is asking for 2% global gdp (!) based on findings of the IPCC report
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by noilly 17y ago
Hi I'm a Junior at Stanford in Biogeochemistry and Economics. I'm looking for a do-anything, put-on-different-hats ('cept coding as I've only taken intro CS) internship anywhere in the world (Bay Area, NYC, Mongolia, etc) for the summer- pa
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by noilly 17y ago
e.g. Malcolm Gladwell
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by noilly 17y ago
the film studios only see part of (I've heard ~50%) gross box office when taking theater operator's share out (+ cost to manufacture and distribute film reels, etc). Plus Avatar cost >300 million to produce + >100 million marketing
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by noilly 17y ago
I like that playing dungeons and dragons "foster[s] hostility, violence and escape behavior" and "'could make it more difficult to rehabilitate prisoners and could endanger public safety'" ironically, they cite a lifer as an example (rehabi