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by tashi 7y ago
It might be helpful to put in some sample questions so people can try it out without having to enter their own data.
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by tashi 7y ago
McDonald's fries are a special case, because, as some vegetarians discovered after years of being misled by their "cooked in 100% vegetable oil" claims, they're already flavored with beef tallow.
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by tashi 7y ago
"Washington Bullets" isn't about Washington state either, which seems like a thing he'd be likely to know, so maybe he wasn't trying to be that strict.
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by tashi 7y ago
Yes, from the pictures it looks like the light diffracts off the glass and fills the cockpit. The plane moves fast but it's also far away, so the angle it changes by relative to the guy with the pointer is small. To follow it, you woul
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by tashi 7y ago
I don't think that's true. People who are mentally ill commit violent crimes at about the same rates as their neighbors. Also, crime rates are lower now than when Reagan took office. My theory is that what really changed our level
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by tashi 7y ago
I know that doesn't feel like optimism to you, but in my experience whenever people decide to let things get so bad that there has to be a revolution, bad just becomes the new normal. The only advancements I've seen in politics, i
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by tashi 7y ago
"Queer" is the word that springs to mind immediately because it seems like the project to reclaim it has had almost total success. Many other examples here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation
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by tashi 7y ago
It's not inherently a side project, it only has to be one because his department doesn't view this work as a contribution to pure mathematics. Seems shortsighted for a field where progress is often measured in centuries.
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by tashi 8y ago
It is fascinating and a little bit scary to learn that adding antibiotics to livestock's feed makes it possible to fatten up animals with less food! Biology is full of surprises.
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by tashi 8y ago
I don't think I forgot to mention that, I used a hyperlink to point to it instead. As a guy who loves chess and has studied it off and on over the years, I doubt I'll ever win a game against a grandmaster under any circumstances,
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by tashi 8y ago
Well, he may not have an official rating, but Strogatz did once beat a grandmaster at chess. http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2006/05/checkmate-professor-... I've been pretty impressed with him as a sort
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by tashi 8y ago
Oh. No, he didn't get caught because he failed at acting, he got caught because he forgot to keep the act up while he was drunk.
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by tashi 8y ago
No luck figuring out what reason you have in mind. Want to explain?
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by tashi 8y ago
History shows that you'd only need to be as good an actor as Mel Gibson.
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by tashi 8y ago
The central story is about how a conservative author was publicly shamed by her conservative ex-boyfriend, so I'm not sure how illuminating your link will be.
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by tashi 8y ago
That's an interesting prediction to make of a guy who became famous because his personal sense of ethics overpowered every other concern in his life. It's hard to imagine him trying to cash in on that fame.
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by tashi 8y ago
Some candidates, depending on their backgrounds, may be wary of being thought of as complainers or being "difficult." Something to look out for.
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by tashi 8y ago
Does destroying houses and food supply so that civilians starve or freeze to death count? If so, yes. See the Sullivan Expedition.
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by tashi 9y ago
Well, if you're going to take the high road and give him the benefit of the doubt, I won't argue further. Maybe I'm just being cynical. But in the review he wasn't just talking about "people who make maths the prima
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by tashi 9y ago
I'm familiar with the expression. Its use here indicates that the reviewer believes the world is divided into those who are smart enough to follow the book and those who are wastes of time. If it's not obvious why that sucks, imag
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by tashi 9y ago
Holy cow, check out that review: don't waste your time trying to teach this to an average undergraduate math major because it "would largely amount to swine facing pearls not meant for them."
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by tashi 9y ago
Well, that's documentation for PeopleSoft, so it's Oracle the company, but not necessarily backed by Oracle the database. And to paraphrase the old quote, if you're having a problem sending messages between two systems, and y
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by tashi 9y ago
At this point a mathematician might step in and say that you all need to define your terms. You're basing your arguments on two subtly different definitions of the word "intuition."
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by tashi 9y ago
I'm not sure that "writer," or even "fiction writer," the job title shared by James Joyce and Stan Lee and William S. Burroughs and J.K. Rowling and Dr. Seuss and Toni Morrison and The Coen Brothers, is especially d
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by tashi 9y ago
I was just looking at a list of Maine's governors, and something stands out: your state really is ideologically diverse! You only care about picking the right man for the job.
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by tashi 9y ago
The Times describes some founders who put up with unwanted sexual advances because they were desperate to raise money for their startups. There’s an old-fashioned word for what these ladies are doing that I shan’t repeat here. So
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by tashi 9y ago
That's an interesting theory, but the Flynn effect raised IQ scores way more over the same time period. But if it makes you feel better, I still see a lot of people smoking on construction sites, so builders may be keeping the flame al
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by tashi 9y ago
Is that what you believe the author is doing? Because he's put a lot of hours into writing about specific works of music and even more into making his own.
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by tashi 10y ago
Thank you! My math brain says I can define (I think) a pathological system that is both "patterned" and "non-patterned," and a bunch that are non-patterned but still result in equality given the right initial conditions,
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by tashi 10y ago
This is an argument I haven't seen before, and I've been trying to follow the tree of wikipedia links, but I'm not understanding terminology like "patterned principle." Is it a fixed distribution of wealth, or oppor

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