epaladin

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by epaladin 12y ago
I tested myself to see if I fit the stereotype by trying to explain this joke to a Japanese friend, in Japanese. After a collective effort which determined that there isn't a concise noun phrase in Japanese that's equivalent to &q
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by epaladin 12y ago
Another RITer- one of my friends is quoted in the article- I don't think I ever knew Mike's name but we were definitely in the same place at the same time quite frequently. Definitely sad.
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by epaladin 12y ago
I've wondered about the effect that environmental factors might have on Japan's current predicament- something in the water? did processing of soy products change at some point such that levels of the estrogen analogs ended up bei
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by epaladin 12y ago
Same age... this thread is really making me feel old. Generally I still feel like I'm just getting out here and just getting started still in terms of career, life, etc. I really hope it's not all downhill from 30! Related to the
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by epaladin 12y ago
Well, they're at AT&T stores, many of which are in mall, and it doesn't look like it's helped any.
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by epaladin 12y ago
Much of the time it's the parents doing the pushing, and the kids in tow for the "do it for the children" factor. The kids probably don't really know what's going on, and don't have to take direct responsibilit
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by epaladin 12y ago
It's also kind of vital for the balance of the planet's ecosystems, as we're slowly finding out. If we melt it to get materials under there, there's a sizable chance of long term regret. Whereas Mars doesn't have an
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by epaladin 12y ago
I was lucky enough to find a copy of the 2nd ed. in the closet of an apartment I moved into during college. I really need to actually read it sometime!
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by epaladin 12y ago
I've been intrigued as to why Mormons have such an seemingly disproportionate "success" rate, and ended up doing a bit of research on the matter. It really seems like it comes down to facing failure repeatedly. And most of th
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by epaladin 12y ago
Rude service in a taxi in Japan would be somewhat shocking, but they're also comparatively more expensive than most other places. One time I couldn't find a hotel in Tokyo, so I took a taxi- it turned out to be just around the blo
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by epaladin 12y ago
Maybe we can make a simple gateway page that lists all the pages that would actually render properly in Mosaic?
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by epaladin 12y ago
Probably about six months.
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by epaladin 12y ago
I believe that's why car rental places exist. Unless you seriously need to have the same car at all of the locations you travel to, which is not rational.
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by epaladin 12y ago
Guess I'll check mine later also...
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by epaladin 12y ago
Lack of unions might have something to do with it. Was in Copenhagen recently and was surprised that even as a PhD student, your salary is negotiated based on your experience- and the negotiation is done by the union representative. When un
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by epaladin 12y ago
I only recently learned about the Post-Bac program, and I wish I had known about it when I was just out of school- I went to a university that wasn't research oriented, and such a program would have been fantastic for picking up the re
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by epaladin 12y ago
Which just made me wonder if it's possible to train a hidden markov model for detecting that. Trigger a flag that says "wowzers, now you're in unhealthy state territory". Otherwise it's real hard to tell if occasion
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by epaladin 12y ago
I've never understood why Red Delicious were so popular. Now that I've been living down the street from an orchard in upstate NY, I understand even less. Orchards really seem to push Fuji around here- they seem to grow more of the
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by epaladin 12y ago
My interest in longevity is closely tied to my interest in space. From my perspective, significant extension of lifespan (& healthspan) helps solve some inefficiencies we currently have in propagation and persistence of knowledge, which
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by epaladin 12y ago
Out of genuine curiosity, what do you use the watch for that you would associate with time savings? I've been curious about these things, but haven't been sure as to if they're a product in search of a problem for the current
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by epaladin 12y ago
Maybe some kind of AR workspace setup based on the new Samsung Gear VR would be feasible? Would look pretty crazy, and still might be a bit of a safety hazard, but it might work. I love standing desks but the closest I've been to a wal
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by epaladin 12y ago
Thanks for all the lugables. I have a Kaypro IIx somewhere in my collection, although I think I'm still missing software/bootdisks for it. I tried getting a boot disk on eBay a few years ago but I think something happened and the
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by epaladin 12y ago
It's more like the plural of 'deer' being 'deer'. I don't think I've ever heard anyone attach an 's' to 'kanji' for pluralization when speaking English. Like how it might be odd to say
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by epaladin 12y ago
Curious- what country? I didn't think there was anywhere that would actually make that illegal. Does that hold true everywhere, such as in industrial/manufacturing complexes, etc?
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by epaladin 12y ago
All over Rochester NY. I think the coffee is better in Canada though- based on my single experience trying it on the Canadian side of Niagara falls.
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by epaladin 12y ago
That's actually an interesting question- were you to theoretically be able to initial effect of Ebola infection, would the immune system eventually be able to create effective antibodies for it? I don't know if it would work the s
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by epaladin 12y ago
Perhaps also highly correlated with anxiety disorders?
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by epaladin 12y ago
I've found the dark/quiet room to be useful for brainstorming in general. I've only actively utilized that tactic a couple of times though, I should try it more often. On those occasions I found that coming up with decent ide
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by epaladin 12y ago
I think there's also a lot of recruitment of foreign experts for academically-oriented institutions. I've been seeing a lot more biomedical science papers from Chinese universities with non-Chinese names of faculty.
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by epaladin 12y ago
Vitamin C is in so many things now that it seems unlikely that the additional vitamin c in strawberries would have much of an effect. There's a lot of positive benefit of long-term consistent consumption of various fruits (such as the

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