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by quotient 12y ago
Despite the colossal popularity of yoga pants and gym memberships, that does indeed sound wrong, especially considering that "the global fitness and health club industry generates more than 75 billion U.S. dollars in revenue according
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by quotient 12y ago
I'm getting so tired of every city claiming a Tech Boom, headlines like "[City X] is the next Silicon Valley", etc. All these articles are isomorphic ("here, check out this bunch of hip, trendy developers with an app tha
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by quotient 12y ago
Yeah. I don't see why city officials don't just do a dig and follow Bob Diamond's research to settle the issue once-and-for-all. All they would have to do is drill through the wall in the tunnel. It wouldn't be a signif
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by quotient 12y ago
Wow. This is outstanding. Amazon is solidly developing a one-stop centralized base of entertainment. Even more enticing is that it's free with prime, and even if you don't have prime, it's worth getting prime for: a small f
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by quotient 12y ago
Yes. This article is just as much about a ridiculous misstep by the Taxi & Limousine Commission as it is about racism.
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by quotient 12y ago
Probably not directly, but via the police. Remember that the article indicates that some sort of legal kerfuffle took place, and it may be reasonable to assume that at some point the police got involved. This makes sense as the man was susp
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by quotient 12y ago
I am in fact a statistician. I work in statistics, mathematics, and computer science. I am often severely frustrated by the oversimplifying and misleading natures of conventional charts. I have seen good charts. Yes, they exist, and I actua
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by quotient 12y ago
Yeah, that's a fair point. These charts are misleading. Then again, if you generally trust charts for an easy interpretation of data, you're probably going to be misled anyway. Perhaps I express an unpopular opinion, but the only
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by quotient 12y ago
Very interesting. This is just speculation on my part --- but perhaps a reason why the fruit fly and the nematode worm only have one TNF is precisely because they are small organisms that frequently come into contact with other organisms. I
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by quotient 12y ago
I'm annoyed by the headline. I know it's meant to grab attention by seeming counter-intuitive, but as it is, the headline is simply wrong. This medical procedure does not involve "killing" the patient. It involves coolin
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by quotient 12y ago
I don't understand why Chromium isn't a more popular alternative to Google Chrome. It's the open-source basis of Google Chrome. It runs noticeably faster than Firefox, while being similarly trustworthy. It's a great brow
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by quotient 12y ago
I think this little toy could benefit from Wikipedia links. Take http://instanerd.me/v/17 , for example. Wouldn't you want to know what this Dinosaur was actually called? A Wikipedia link would be helpful. This see
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by quotient 12y ago
I hate to nitpick an otherwise well-intentioned and decent article, but on the point with regard to melatonin, the author makes the following suggestion: "[If you cannot resist checking your device before bed, then] hold it at least 14
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by quotient 12y ago
Your use of the fact that "almost all Linux software is readily available on 64 bit" (to imply that Windows developers are doing a bad job of porting software to 64bit) is misleading: there is far, far more software for Windows th
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by quotient 12y ago
I agree. Smaller cars are not only more affordable (both in terms of original price and fuel efficiency) than normal-sized, let alone 'big' cars, but they're also significantly more practical in crowded conditions, with regar
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by quotient 12y ago
I agree that taking notes by hand allows me to focus better on the lecture, improves recall, and is generally more engaging. Yet I still choose to take notes on my laptop. Why? I first note that there are, in my opinion, two major types of
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by quotient 12y ago
This seems a little sensationalist. No, the memory role of sleep was not "discovered": a paper proposing a credible theory was published, based on experiments performed on mice. Moreover, the proposition that is being advanced by
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by quotient 12y ago
I agree. That single sentence irritated me immensely. It was a ham-fisted and misguided attempt to emphasize the 'exoticness' of the Yanomami.
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by quotient 12y ago
Yes, but it's not about going unnoticed by most people . For a thing like that to stay quiet, it would have to be unnoticed by all people involved. This seems probabilistically very unlikely to me as the number of people involved in
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by quotient 12y ago
Backdoors being engineered into stock hardware is unlikely. A large number of people would have to be involved in this engineering process, and all of them would have to stay quiet about it. This does not seem realistically feasible to me.
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by quotient 12y ago
There's nothing bad about the phrase "it was a dark and stormy night" per se. However, that's not the full opening line. What follows is the most abysmally convoluted sentence imaginable: "It was a dark and stormy n
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by quotient 12y ago
Yes. This is not only a trivial, inconsequential point to raise, but your arithmetic is also off ($48.5/19 \approx 2.55$).
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by quotient 12y ago
Yup, same here. Upvoted.
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by quotient 12y ago
We should note that this is for the worst kind of pedant only: the wrong kind. It's also important to note that the most correct of all forms (though also more archaic) is octopodes .
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by quotient 12y ago
Practical Thinker --- Engineer or Technologist. That's pretty appropriate. I've been told I would be an engineer since age two or so. For a while, I thought I was going to go into the humanities/arts. I'm now an entrepre
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by quotient 12y ago
It's not unrealistic --- keep in mind that the collective earnings of an orchestra are not large to begin with. There are great operational expenses, and once those have been taken care of, the remaining money is divided among the mem
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by quotient 12y ago
This is awesome. They've managed to identify many little utilities that users need occasionally. Google has a similar set of utilities, but it is only accessible through the search-bar, and you need to know what you're looking for
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by quotient 12y ago
I'm a mathematician, and I actually hadn't seen the proof that $A = \pi r^2$ via showing that the shape formed by that particular arrangement of the slices of the circle becomes a square as the number of slices is taken to infinit
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by quotient 12y ago
I think "board game to teach kids programming" is a misdescription. This is a board game that teaches kids to think like programmers --- it teaches elementary logic skills and makes them familiar with programming concepts. It does
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by quotient 12y ago
I'm amused by the fact that your drop-down menu doesn't include Amazon's original market: books.

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