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by avani 5mo ago
Given its lower melt point and ductility, silver is actually much much better to make jewelry with than stainless steel. Especially if you are also trying to include gold in your piece!
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by avani 5mo ago
Hi! Author of the blogpost here. Happy to chat with anyone who wants to follow up/know more.
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by avani 1y ago
Are you familiar with Tapia: https://tapiaconference.cmd-it.org/ ? It is a reasonable place to grow your network and find leads. Also, it helps, in my experience, to be incredibly up front. "This is my diagnosis. Th
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by avani 3y ago
To the majority of humans (women), he was distinctly not all around friendly and approachable. That is the point.
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by avani 3y ago
One of their parents' social circle. The other is too busy feeding them and making sure they don't run into traffic or disappear somewhere to play video games. So you've suddenly halved the number of people who can get rea
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by avani 4y ago
I am not speaking on behalf of the company, but if someone involved with EasyList can contact me (avani@cloudflare.com), I'll see if there is a way to help out.
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by avani 4y ago
My husband and I have always had a deal where we live off the higher salary, and the lower is allocated as our "fun money" (dinners out, travel, etc.). We've swapped back and forth over 20 years, but it worked well for me ps
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by avani 4y ago
I'd love to hear more about your contact and process for this.
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by avani 4y ago
Cloudflare Research | Research Engineer | Remote US/Canada, Several offices in major cities https://research.cloudflare.com/ We are a tiny, growing team of researchers who are heavily involved in both academic and stan
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by avani 5y ago
There is an argument that without Pitts, you'd never have seen a Von Neumann architecture. Not nothing.
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by avani 6y ago
The metro stations are not accessible, though. Getting around Paris without a bike or metro is tricky without a car.
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by avani 6y ago
Canada manages pretty well with a "porous southern land border with a country that has a major outbreak". I wonder what the difference is. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/i-c
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by avani 6y ago
I know you've almost certainly heard this, but USPS does not receive any taxpayer funding: https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/
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by avani 6y ago
> completely inaccessible to the mobility-disabled? >>Completely inaccessible to a mobility-disabled person without help. Same thing.
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by avani 6y ago
"qualify" is nebulous. When professors accept PhDs, they are looking for people who they want working in their specific labs. It is much more like applying to a job than applying to undergrad. I have pulled candidates from the
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by avani 6y ago
I think you may be referring to Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by avani 6y ago
In a similar vein, Cantor's original diagonalization proof of uncountability is one of the most satisfying results in real analysis. From https://www.cs.virginia.edu/luther/blog/posts/124.html : "An
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by avani 6y ago
If Tech CS students and faculty revolt, we'll welcome them with open arms at Emory, where the entire CS department is teaching online this fall.
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by avani 6y ago
This actually happens. Ask your flight attendant friends about “miracle cures” walking off their flights after using wheelchairs to board.
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by avani 7y ago
Um.. I think most luxury goods stores are in inner cities.
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by avani 7y ago
It is a perfect device for those of us who spend a lot of our days reading and annotating scientific papers. The refresh rate on the screen is not relevant at (at least my) paper reading speed, and I can email marked up documents to collab
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by avani 7y ago
You need to read Clifford Simak's "The Way Station"
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by avani 7y ago
I was too. Not having used ed by necessity since a hilariously bad upgrade from Solaris 7 to 9 left me without a compiler in ... 2001?, I'd argue that line editing is most definitely a lost art.
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by avani 7y ago
It's not quite _discovering_ a target from NGS, but lots of existing cancer drugs are targeted based on genotyping tumours. Breast cancer is the classic one, where, say, if you can quickly determine if your sample is Her2+ your treatm
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by avani 7y ago
There is also a large difference between disciplines. Professors in professional schools such as law, medicine, or business tend to make significantly more than professors in the liberal arts (note: this includes math, engineering, and CS
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by avani 7y ago
Expect about 30%, most of it in smaller system files and libraries. Block-level dedup is great for pretty much anything where you have a consistent workflow.
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by avani 8y ago
I don't know about op, but airbnb is crap for accessibility so I've learned my lesson and always choose hotels.
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by avani 8y ago
Student reviews are also ridiculously sexist in the average case. In a recent study, the students rated identical teachers differently enough by gender that actual teaching performance was lost in the noise: https://academic.
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by avani 8y ago
Ostensibly this is what tenure is for.
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by avani 9y ago
My best strategy for this is to push for more acceptance of pass/fail courses. The main downside is that I find myself having to take better notes for future recommendation letters.

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