throwawaybookst

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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
The choice between "dense urban core" and "suburb" is distinctly American. Especially in Europe, city (in the sense of "not suburb or rural" != center of a large (1M+) population. In America, any region with a
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
The fact that burbs are the most desirable places to live in STL is pretty much the reason I'll never move back. It's an incredibly depressing metro area.
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
> PS. Interestingly, Google doesn’t seem to care. That's not fair. They state it's a problem that is inherent to browsers, not that they don't care about the issue. Also be mindful of Google's warning regarding the
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
Out of curiosity, have you spent time in academia? > The rationale behind publishing in long-form journal articles is not really valid in our century. No, it's perfectly valid. Some ideas can't be expressed in short form. A 5
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
Don't people in CS just ignore that crap and post free PDFs of "preprints" (taken the second before submission of camera ready) on personal websites? IME the publishers fuck up the formatting anyways.
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
And also all the other resources the university library offers. Especially in summer months, uni libraries are amazing and massively under-used resources. Working/learning is a public library is usually a drag, but uni libraries are aw
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
Teen pregnancy rates will be higher than teen birth rates in jurisdictions that are not hostile to abortion. But teen birth rate is probably a far easier statistic to gather.
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
As of this post, three of the 20 comments on this story conjecture that obesity plays some role, and a full half of the comments are on subthreads discussing this hypothesis. Interesting because I've never heard this hypothesis befor
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by throwawaybookst 10y ago
The library at the university I attended as an undergraduate threw out (3 or 4?) volumes of TAOCP but kept "the magna guide to SQL" or some crap like this. Their justification was that TAOCP had never been checked out. Which is fu