I just found this in my spam folder...fffffuuuuuuu

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My friend and his brother desperately wanted an SNES when it first came out. That Christmas, their parents sat them down, worked through all the regular small presents. When that was all done, they told them, "One last big present for you guys!"..... Obviously they were off their rockers with excitement as their parents whipped out... a LOG

Yeah, he still resents his mom for that one...

jamesshuang

Perhaps as much as building a floating church?

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The explanation I've heard was that in large banquets back in medieval times, the tables were very small and did not allow enough room for elbows.

Even now, cramped tables make elbows uncomfortable, so it's still somewhat logical, although not at a large open table

jamesshuang

My perfect pitch friend has trouble hearing chords / intervals. She can handily identify one note, but play two together and she's lost. On the other hand, most people are great with telling the type of chord, most intervals. Kind of a sad tradeoff...

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It just wouldn't be the same without the massive currents from the degausser, the physical WHUMP you get out of the monitor from the electricity hitting the coils...

I guess the vibration motor on a phone would suffice

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You should get him to do an AMA...

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N1 owner -- 2.2 does include tethering. It's awesome! Saved my hide a few times already...

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I'm bilingual english/chinese. There's an odd mental "switch" I have to flip in order to change languages. The switch changes the language I think in as well, and if I can't make the switch, it's really hard to speak the target language. Granted, english is by far my primary language, so switching into english is trivial, and out of it is challenging. Also, any words I don't know in chinese pops out as english in my head.

This of course discounts when I start programming, and I "think" in the target language there... Especially on easier bits of code and nice languages like python, I can basically type out code as if it were english.

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Dude just go to vallejo... its not that far

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Omaha Nebraska, where most people in the area are probably employed in agriculture, and there is no turnover in people. As hard as SF tries, I don't think they can give everyone a job farming pot...

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This man did it all by himself...

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Removing electroencephalographic artifacts by blind source separation? Is that a common vein of research in Russia?!

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Stated in another way -- perhaps something was actively inhibiting the ROI?

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Hmmm... I'm probably going to get destroyed for this, but... Did you guys even read the article? He's graduated at 24 because of a masters degree. I wasted no time between undergrad and a PhD program, and just now at 24, I'd have a masters.

Second of all, he turned down the 40k job because it was a dead end job with no prospect of promotion. Yeah, it was probably fairly entitled and egotistical of him, but hey, if he wants to avoid bringing people coffee (which does nothing to advance his career), more power to him.

Third, he does do odd minimum-wage jobs (lawn mowing), and is about to start bartending, just like you described.

You have to realize that this is NYT after all. The people who get the NYT delivered to their doors are probably so out of touch with reality already that 40k sounds like pocket change to them. I found this article to be great because for once, it actually puts a spotlight on us. Perhaps it will be a reality check for the rich bastards plundering our country right now (probably not, those greedy pricks).

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As far as I know, memory requires conscious attention. Granted, neuroscientists and psychologists have been arguing about what exactly is "memory" for decades now, so who knows. However, sensory buffers do exist, but they are very short. Photoreceptor afterimages last up to tens of seconds, depending on the type of stimuli. An auditory loop can carry on for just about as long as you continue to rehearse (granted, that's mostly under conscious attention).

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Sounds like the life of a grad student...

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http://bleach7.com/?page=member/music

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I actually tried this today... It... sorta worked, even on my first try. It took over 20 minutes though, haha

The chicken itself actually came out ok. The loins were completely destroyed -- not sure how he managed to just PEEL them out so cleanly with only his fingers. The tying technique he showed... complete failure there. My chicken ended up spewing its stuffing everywhere. Overall success though! The lollipop chicken wings is AWESOME btw... I'm almost tempted to buy a massive package of wings and doing only that! Screw the rest of the chicken!

jamesshuang

Haha, I think that's a lot to ask for from your fellow man :)

The problem with the whole "help your fellow man" idea is that we are very short sighted. We can't really tell what happens past a few layers of abstraction. Labor unions seem like they only protect the incompetent, but their global effect is imperceptible to us. Without them, our factories would look more like Foxconn factories in China (not that we have factories anymore, but that's a different matter).

As for the morality test -- who will write it? What makes their morality more right than others? For example, the libertarian ideals seem logical on the surface, but in practice it rarely works. Same can be said about communism. Or any political system for that matter.

jamesshuang

That requires a certain level of EMPATHY, something that rich people clearly lack. Intelligence does not imply empathy...

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The problem is that that WOULD discriminate against minorities, but indirectly. Lower socioeconomic groups tend to have poor education, if only because their schools suck. Since the poor are overwhelmingly minority, excluding the poor would only make their plight worse, as further policy will no longer take them into account (since they do not vote).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride

More oxidizing than oxygen. Translation: sets oxides on fire. Oxides... like brick and sand

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My bike came very close to being stolen... thank god for careful locking! I parked it outside the subway station (I know, really dumb) from about 8 pm to 2 am. By the time I got back to it, it was clear someone tried to car-jack the lock. They had lifted the entire bike up and over the rail, in attempt to make enough room to jam in a car jack. I've noticed that if I position my pedal just right, I can fit my u-lock through the crankshaft, the frame, and the rear wheel. This leaves minimal room for car-jacking

Unfortunately, the bastards still stole my (empty) seat bag, and all my lights... I had to bike home at 2 am without a scrap of lighting :-/ Moral of the story: lock your bike carefully, each and every time!

jamesshuang

I am unreasonably tempted to go to this event on my bike... Granted, I will be coming from Berkeley if I do... blergh :-p

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